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“better off not being a citizen”: Immigrant Invasion, 12-18 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, third week of Gregorian January 2020.

Mexican authorities closed a border entry point after thousands of Central American migrants tried to push their way across a bridge.

Guatemalan police accompanied by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents swept up the majority of a group of about 3-hundred migrants Thursday, loaded them on buses and took them back to the Honduran border.

Pro-illegal immigrants groups in the U.S. are going to Mexico to provide captured illegals with free legal help

Ripped-Off U.S. citizens Sue Mexican Monex for stealing Millions

ALASKA: Cops capture immigrant drug dealer

ARIZONA:  Woman goes to prison for impersonating immigration attorney and ICE agent

124 illegals were flown from Tucson to Guadalajara, Mexico, as part of the Interior Repatriation Initiative (IRI).  The first such IRI deportation for 2020.

10 years after SB1070 what happened to Arizona’s illegals?

CALIFORNIA:  “The day will come in California where you may be better off not being a citizen or having legal status to be here as well as not having a job.”-Manteca/Ripon Bulletin

 Governor plans even larger expansion of taxpayer funded healthcare for illegals, could cost more than U.S.$3.4-billion per year!

San Diego bakery shuts down after ICE audit 

City of Adelanto, already home to a GEO run massive fortress-like immigrant prison called Adelanto Dentention Facility West, will see ICE processing center expanded

Next door to Adelanto is Victorville, with its massive fortress-like federal prison called FCI Victorville Medium 1 

COLORADO: Denver officials won’t hand over information sought by ICE

 ICE subpoenas Denver law enforcement

CONNECTICUT: City of Middletown considered to have mostly illegals as residents?

FLORIDA:  Venezuelan attorney and businessman added to ICE Most Wanted List

illegal immigrant gets prison time for forcing 12 years old boy into slavery on a Florida farm

E-Verify Divides Florida Republican Leaders

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GEORGIA: Taxpayer funded public schools pushing illegal families to take part in federal Census (it’s all about getting as much federal money as possible)

HAWAII: Organization pushing illegals from Philippines to take part in federal Census (turns out Filipinos are considered a ‘majority ethnic’ group in Hawaii)

IDAHO:  Group says human trafficking is alive and well in The Gem State

Proposed bill to sell drivers’ licenses to illegals is ‘shelved’, for now

ILLINOIS:  Chicago cops to double as ‘customs agents’

Why is the state Pumping Millions in state taxes Into the Federal Census?

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IOWA:  ‘Dreamers’ Protest Against Joe Biden

LOUISIANA: Hunger Striker Nearing Death in ICE Custody

MARYLAND: Adult illegal immigrant arrested for sex with child

MASSACHUSETTS: Automatic voter registration may lead to unintended consequences

MICHIGAN: man who challenged deportation can stay, seek citizenship

MINNESOTA:   Representative Ilhan Omar under federal investigation?

‘Teacher of the Year’ kneels during anthem

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NEW JERSEY: Hoboken to  become the 1st city in the state to mandate Reunification of Migrant Families

NEW MEXICO: Cops release transgender illegal immigrant with chronic illness, ICE arrests the immigrant several weeks later 

NEW YORK:  ICE issues detainer for illegal immigrant accused of murdering 92-year-old woman

Law college refuses aid for DACA students

NORTH CAROLINA:  Whole Foods continues buying food from farm known to use slave labor!

OHIO:  Franklin County Sheriff’s Office accused of releasing 29 illegals

  ICE agents have visited courthouse looking for illegals

ICE shames county for releasing convicted sex offender, dozens of other criminal aliens

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PENNSYLVANIA: Migrant worker population increases exponentially!

It’s been revealed that a man accused of killing a woman is an illegal immigrant who has been deported in the past

TEXAS:  Federal politicians sneak chronically sick girl into U.S. for medical care

Border Wall work south of Weslaco, 13JAN2020.

UTAH:  Immigration judges in Utah made a record number of asylum decisions, mostly denials

VERMONT: Migrant Justice settles with DMV to halt information sharing with ICE

VIRGINIA: “We wouldn’t have a tobacco industry if it wasn’t for migrant labor.”-Bob Harris, Pittsylvania County farmer

WASHINGTON: Immigrants Afraid To Show Up In Court

Seattle fires cop who was openly anti-illegal immigrant

WISCONSIN: Border Patrol releases illegal immigrant for asylum hearing 

IMMIGRANT INVASION U.S.A., 06-11 JANUARY 2020: SLAVE HOUSES?

Kit Bashing

A flying M48A1? Or, how to paint your 1:1 scale M48A1.

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U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Anri Baril, 19DEC2019.

In December 2019, a serviced and freshly painted M48 Patton was returned to the U.S. Army Central HQ on Shaw Air Force Base, in South Carolina.

Arrival at the Fort Knox paint shop. USA photo by Bianka Lathan, 13NOV2019.

USA photo by Bianka Lathan, 13NOV2019.

The M48 spent about two months at Fort Knox, Kentucky, getting a make-over at the Logistics Readiness Center.

USA photo by Bianka Lathan, 13NOV2019.

USA photo by Bianka Lathan, 13NOV2019.

From this view of the engine deck you can see it’s a M48A1 Patton.

USA photo by Bianka Lathan, 03DEC2019.

USA photo by Bianka Lathan, 03DEC2019.

USA photo by Staff Sergeant Anri Baril, 26SEP2019.

In September 2019, the faded gate guard was taken away from its post in front of Patton Hall on Shaw Air Force Base.

USA photo by Staff Sergeant Anri Baril, 26SEP2019.

USA photo by Staff Sergeant Anri Baril, 26SEP2019.

USA photo by Staff Sergeant Anri Baril, 26SEP2019.

USA photo by Sergeant Victor Everhart, 13MAR2015.

It’s been guarding Patton Hall since the building’s dedication in 2011.

New clothes for the old tank. USA photo by Staff Sergeant Anri Baril, 16DEC2019.

The Minnesota Military Museum’s M48. Minnesota National Guard photo, 05FEB2013.

M48A2C ‘gate guard’ on display in Republic of Korea (South Korea). USA photo by Private First Class SeoWon Lee, 05MAR2015.

VEHICLE I-D: ZOMBIE TANK T-55, THEY’RE EVERYWHERE!

VEHICLE I-D: GIANT R-C TANKS SEEN TEARING-UP WASHINGTON STATE!

VEHICLE I-D: M4 SHERMAN

VEHICLE I-D: Idaho’s 1-148 FIELD ARTILLERY GATE GUARDS

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Puerto Rico Militia creates tent cities for thousands of survivors!

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17 January 2020 (02:32 UTC-07 Tango 06) 27 Dey 1398/21 Jumada l-Ula 1441/23 Yi-Chou 4717

Puerto Rico has deployed more than 650 of its own National Guard personnel, in response to the ongoing earthquakes, building tent cities that can house thousands of survivors.

Tent cities have been established in the municipalities of Yauco, Ponce, Peñuelas, Guanica and Guayanilla.  Each can provide shelter for up to 1-thousand-5-hundred people, with showers, toilets and laundry facilities.

FAILED STATE: OHIO JOINS NEW YORK IN DEPLOYING MILITIA TO PUERTO RICO

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Failed state: New York deploys its militia to save Puerto Rico!

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15 January 2020 (11:55 UTC-07 Tango 06) 25 Dey 1398/19 Jumada l-Ula 1441/21 Yi-Chou 4717

The state of New York activated it’s National Guard, not in response to natural disasters in The Empire State, but to response to the recent earthquakes in Puerto Rico.

New York’s 105th Airlift Wing preps pallets of equipment for flight to Puerto Rico, 13JAN2020.

There are a lot of political reasons for this, like the fact that most Puerto Ricans escaping their natural disaster ravaged island end up in New York (more than one million so far).  Another reason is that apparently New York’s governor sees an opportunity to advance his political career (President of the U.S.?).  Governor Andrew Cuomo is in Pureto Rico right now, his seventh public relations trip since Hurricane Maria in 2017, you’d think he was the governor of Puerto Rico!

Cuomo ordered 115 of New York’s National Guard personnel to deploy to Puerto Rico for three months, despite that fact that New York’s National Guard is also deploying to the Middle East!

Cuomo, April 2018, one of his many taxpayer funded trips to a place he supposedly doesn’t govern.

It should be noted that at the end of 2018, Syracuse.com reported that for some reason Cuomo’s own staff have no idea how much New York state taxpayers are being forced to spend helping Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria!

12JAN2020, New York’s 105th Airlift Wing personnel hitch a large generator to a dump-truck, to be flown to Puerto Rico.

According to Stars and Stripes, Puerto Rico has 650 of its own National Guard personnel working full time building tent cities for now homeless Puerto Ricans.  As of 13JAN2020, they’ve distributed more than 72-thousand bottles of water and 30-thousand meals.

It should be a sign of failed state-ism when the governor of a state can spend his constituent’s state tax-dollars helping an area of the country that the national government should be dealing with.

Failed State: A state/country whose political/economic system has become so weak that the government is no longer in control.

ARMY RESERVE DEPLOYS FOR PUERTO RICO QUAKE RECOVERY

OBAMA LEGACY: ILLINOIS NOW AN “EXCEPTIONAL” FAILED STATE, BLAME OBAMACARE!

UNITED FAILED STATES: ILLEGALS GIVE BIRTH TO 275,000 BABIES IN 2014!

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Army Reserve deploys for Puerto Rico quake recovery

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“Yesterday, we conducted an initial assessment of the areas we could potentially serve. Today, we are loading all the equipment and getting ready to roll. This action will allow us to have a faster response, once we get the mission assignment.”-First Sergeant Walberto Torres, 12JAN2020

The 430th Quartermaster Company, U.S. Army Reserve Multifunctional Geographic Command for the Caribbean (newly created in 2018, apparently as a result of past hurricane response problems) are deploying for earthquake recovery efforts in Puerto Rico.

Don’t accuse President Trump of being slow with military help, Title 10 USC Section 12304a authorizes the Army Reserve to provide disaster assistance to a major natural disaster or emergency in the United States only at the request of the governor.  In other words the federal military can’t do anything to help if the governor doesn’t ask.  This also brings up a point that is confusing to many silly-villians; the Reserve forces are in the realm of the federal government, National Guard forces are official state government militias.

Potable hand washing stations, water used is not for consumption (non-potable, which means it cannot be used in a pot for cooking).

“If the local authorities need federal military assistance, there is no need to wait for resources to arrive from outside Puerto Rico. Our command is already here on the island, prepositioned and ready to assist immediately.”-Brigadier General Jeffrey W. Jurasek

Maria:  CBP’S BLACK HELICOPTERS DEPLOY TO PUERTO RICO, QUICK MINICRAFT REVIEW

MARIA: ARMY RESERVE RESPONDE AL LLAMADO DE AYUDA EN PUERTO RICO!

GREAT RENEGER: PUERTO RICO STATE MILITIA TO DEPLOY TO AFGHANISTAN

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Slave Houses?: Immigrant Invasion U.S.A., 06-11 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, second week of Gregorian January 2020.

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Illegal immigrant appointing U.S. citizens as guardians for their children

Actress appearing in new Disney owned Freeform TV show came to the U.S. as a tourist a decade ago 

PBS Newshour Weekend: Yielding to U.S. pressure, Mexico clamps down on migrants from Africa

ARIZONA: I learned I was undocumented at 18, after trying to join the Marines. Now, I’m the subject of a musical

Business owner arrested for being an illegal from Canada

ARKANSAS:  Adoption scammers used climate change to scare people off Marshal Islands and into a human trafficking operation.

CALIFORNIA:  76-thousand children crossed into the U.S. by themselves!   California politician wants to stop a housing project for them, not because he’s against housing the child immigrants but because the tax-sucking contractor has a reputation of evil!

Meet an illegal, illegal immigrant attorney

68 percent of undocumented Los Angeles County residents have lived in US for more than a decade

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Wildfires Expose Gaps in Disaster Relief for illegal immigrants

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More illegal students to get more taxpayer funded assistance under new law

Arrogant spoiled students at UC San Diego says California taxpayers aren’t doing enough for illegals!

1-thousand-6-hundred illegals in Fresno County now qualify for free (taxpayer funded) healthcare

COLORADO:  More rural DMVs issuing drivers’ licenses to illegals

CONNECTICUT: Welcoming Hartford Ordinance could block police from working with ICE 

IDAHO:  State politician is pro-drivers’ licenses for illegals

ILLINOIS:  New state law favors transgender and undocumented college students 

KENTUCKY: State Attorney General supports making Kentucky an anti-sanctuary state

MINNESOTA:  Illegal woman pleads guilty to scamming both illegals and citizens 

NEW YORK:  Unexpected result of giving drivers’ licenses to illegals, state taxpayers forced to hire 3-hundred new DMV workers!

Three weeks after ‘Green Light Law’ took effect, undocumented immigrants continue lining up each morning for drivers’ licenses 
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Illegal man held in New York jail for seven months, at taxpayer expense, still no court date

OHIO:  Illegal arrested for domestic disturbance

SOUTH CAROLINA: Illegal arrested for raping six years old girl

TEXAS:  Tye City PD and U.S. Border Patrol detain undocumented smuggler, he was attempting to bring in eight illegals 

More proof undocumented immigration isn’t about giving immigrants a better life; Webb County deputies rescue illegals from slave house, vicitms said the smugglers took their money (in the thousands) and demanded even more money

U.S. Border Patrol reports discovering numerous slave/stash houses near the border, most filled with people from Central America

Woman to be sentenced for operating stash/slave houses

The U.S. Coast Guard got a new boat, a cutter called Daniel Tarr.  It’s mission is to patrol the Gulf of Mexico from Florida to Texas.

Washington DC: Border apprehensions drop again in December

Immigrant Invasion U.S.A., 01-05 January 2020: HAPPY NEW YEAR!

International

Zombie Whales!: Pacific Ring of Fire, 01-05 January 2020

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Incomplete list of links to seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, days 01 to 05 of Gregorian January 2020.

AUSTRALIA:  If you look at my past Pacific Ring of Fire postings you’ll realize that the U.S. and Aussie militaries conduct disaster training operations through out the year.  The question I have is why does the deployment of the Aussie military, during these unprecedented fires, seem so ineffective?

Here’s an economic reality check to Australia’s disaster preparedness: 70-thousand Aussie firefighters are not paid, not even for food or fuel!!!

Apparently humans should be blamed for the unprecedented fires because they were operating under the same bogus ‘save the forest’ mentality as the U.S.; don’t touch anything and let everything grow unchecked (the natives in the U.S. didn’t do that, that’s why the landscape seemed so pristine to the invading Europeans): There’s only one way to make bushfires less powerful: take out the stuff that burns

Aussie PM defends response to fires

U.S. TAXPAYERS SEND AUSSIE PRIME MINISTER A MODEL BOAT!

CANADA: Abbotsford’s airport a potential staging area in case of ‘catastrophic’ earthquake

At the end of December 2019, Canadian biologists used a new phrase to describe what was causing a whale extinction event; “Zombie Whales” (eaten alive by parasites, or perhaps a radical change in their food source?).

CHINA: Hong Kong rattled by 3.4 quake

ECUADOR:  5.0 quake

Three earthquakes shake Ecuador on the first day of 2020

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EL SALVADOR:  4.6 quake – 71km SSW of Intipuca

FIJI: 5.0 quake

INDONESIA:  5.1 quake Java

5.0 quake Sumatra

JAPAN:  Fukushima unveils plans to become renewable energy hub

Is Japan Becoming Distracted When it Comes to the ‘Big One?’

 

5.9 quake off Chiba Prefecture 

Shinmoe-dake waking up

MEXICO: 5.8-magnitude earthquake hits Oaxaca

Mexico City apologized after the earthquake alarm was accidentally activated
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NEW ZEALAND: More than 1000 North Islanders rattled by 5.5-quake

Quake measuring instruments vanish off east coast

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NICARAGUA: 5.5 quake

PHILIPPINES: 5.4 quake

RUSSIA:  Magnitude 4.0 Earthquake Registered Near Sakhalin Island

UNITED STATES:

Alaska; 

 Shisaldin volcano, largest in Aleutians, briefly erupts

4.2 earthquake rumbles Southeast Alaska

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California; 3.0 quake centered in Brea

Magnitude 4 earthquake near Oxnard shakes up L.A. and Ventura counties

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4.0 QUAKE FELT IN LOS ANGELES, OTHER CALIFORNIA AREAS

3.4 quake registered near King City

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Colorado; Rumbles On The Colorado/Utah Border Spark New Water Plan

Hawaii;  Scientists look to Hawaiian chants for mention of past crater lakes

Wyoming; Team Rubicon recruits volunteers for disaster relief

Pacific Ring of Fire, December 2019: XMAS BELLS ARE RINGING!

Climate Change, 01-05 January 2020: NO MORE GOATS?

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No more goats?: Climate Change, 01-05 January 2020

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Incomplete list of news articles concerning climate change events during the first week of the Gregorian month of January 2020.

Ireland to reduce taxpayer funding to departments that fail to meet climate goals

U.S. Democrat fooled by Russian prankster posing as Greta Thunberg in phone call
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Explained: What carbon numbers mean for climate target

 

Reality check:  “…only 100 investor and state-owned fossil fuel companies are responsible for around 70 percent of the world’s historical GHG emissions.”

Ventura County, California, considers climate change sales tax

California Eyes taxpayer funded Climate Bond to Prepare for Disasters
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New taxes, bans and climate rules: 46 new laws across Canada in 2020
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Why the Irish digital data center boom is complicating climate efforts
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Bellingham, Washington, wants to ban your furnace!

Norway Beats Winter Blues With Record High Temperatures
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Russia unveils plan to ‘use the advantages’ of climate change

Melting Arctic ice will boost Russia’s economy!

 

Year of record temperatures in U.K.
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Was the assassination of an Iranian general actually meant to help save a dying U.S. oil industry?  “The industry has been teetering on the verge of mass hysteria for much of 2019 as a record number of energy companies folded.”  

Movement aims to tackle climate change – by reintroducing bears, wolves and eagles into Britain

Amazon “Threatens To Fire” Employees Who Spoke Out On Climate Change

The Pashmina goat herders in a struggle against climate change

2019: IDAHO, KANSAS, UTAH HOME BASES FOR NASA’S FIREX-AQ!

NASA ‘CLIMATE SPY PLANE’ PROVES CALIFORNIA’S STRICT ANTI-POLLUTION LAWS ARE A JOKE!

2018:  VOLCANOES JUST DESTROYED ALL HUMAN ATTEMPTS TO STOP CLIMATE CHANGE!

AIRBORNE CHEMICAL WEAPONS DEPLOYED OVER UTAH!

‘MICROWAVE’ BEAM WEAPON AIMING TO HEAT YOU UP!

USAF DECLARES CLIMATE-CHANGE-WAR ON YOUR LAWN!

HUMAN BONES: MORE PROOF CLIMATE CHANGE IS OUTTA OUR HANDS!

2017: CLIMATE CHANGE? THE NOSE KNOWS!

USAF SPEEDS UP WEATHER COURSE, BLAME CLIMATE CHANGE?

HI-TECH FAIL: CLIMATE CHANGE is the BIGGEST THREAT TO BILLION DOLLAR WEAPON SYSTEMS!

2012: RED HORSE, LEVIATHAN & WORLD WAR 3: THE REAL REASON FOR WAR WITH IRAN IS THE HUGE OIL/GAS RESERVES FOUND IN THE MEDITERRANEAN!

International

Politicians spend tax money on Baka Helmets, for themselves!: Pacific Ring of Fire, November 2019

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Incomplete list of links to seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, November 2019.

Any body remember the Gilligan’s Island episode where the underwater telecom line washes ashore?  New study says old underwater phone lines make great earthquake detectors

AUSTRALIA:  71% increase in drowning deaths in Victoria

4.8 quake Queensland, 29NOV2019

CANADA:  South Okanagan quake

Trio of quakes hit Haida Gwaii

Vancouver’s food and water supply vulnerable

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CHILE: 4.0 quake, 30NOV2019

4.4 quake, 30NOV2019

4.7 quake, 29NOV2019

5.1 quake border with Bolivia, 29NOV2019

CHINA:  1 killed, 4 injured as strong earthquake hits

Xiaomi is adding early earthquake warnings to MIUI phones 

COLOMBIA: Sisters split-up after Nevado de Ruiz volcano disaster reunited decades later

COSTA RICA: 5.4 quake 24NOV2019

EL SALVADOR:  U.S. military issues tidal wave warning, which turned out to be false because nothing had happened to cause a tsunami

FIJI:  5.5 quake

GUATEMALA:  4.6 quake, 30NOV2019

5.5 quake, 13NOV2019

6.3 quake strikes Puerto San Jose 

Stunning image captures rare moment ‘upward lightning’ shoots out of a volcano

INDONESIA:  4.8 quake Christmas Island

Small tsunamis detected after 7.1-magnitude quake in North Sulawesi, North Maluku

volcano sends ash up to 1,000 meters (3,200 feet) into the air
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The 2018 tsunami was as high as 492 feet (150 meters)

early warning signals of Anak Krakatau volcano collapse

JAPAN: 

Baka politicians try on their new idiotic plastic Earthquake Helmets in the Diet (I calls it a Baka Helmet)

Sakurajima volcano increasing activity

Volcano erupts on Satsumaio Island

Japan’s disaster warning system is confusing foreign residents and tourists

LAOS: 6.1 quake hits near border with Thailand

MEXICO: Volcano forces Dutch flight of horses back to Europe

  M4.1 earthquake, 22NOV2019, Off Coast Of Oaxaca

Earthquake of magnitude 6.3 strikes off Chiapas
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  Slow recovery in Mexico City after deadly 2017 quake

NEW ZEALAND: 5.3 quake off shore

5.9 quake rattles Bay of Plenty

Poorly understood fault could produce magnitude 9 or greater quakes

Insurance disputes from the 2018 earthquake halted due to statute of limitations (meaning the insurance industry could get away with not properly compensating customers)

NICARAGUA: 4.0 quake, 30NOV2019

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: 5.4 quake off coast

PERU: 5.1 quake near Lampa

Sabancaya volcano moderate explosions
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PHILIPPINES:  Philippine private sector responds to Mindanao earthquakes 

 Filipino soldiers donate the equivalent of two meals each (in cash) to help build 1-hundred temporary homes for Mindanao quake victims

4.3 hits Bukidnon Province

3rd strong quake this month kills 5
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RUSSIA: 4.3 earthquake – Northwest Of Kuril Islands

6.0 earthquake – Sea of Okhotsk

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 Satellite Shows Ash Plume From Volcano Streaking Across the Pacific

SAMOA, Independent State of:  Magnitude 5.9 quake off Apia

TONGA: Tonga gets BIGGER: Underwater volcanic eruption which lasted 18 days creates new 1300 feet island

UNITED STATES:  Alaska;

4.1 quake, 22NOV2019 

  6.3 quake near Adak

One year after 7.1 quake, neighborhoods still not recovered 

 Railroad finally begins repairs to earthquake damaged bluff (just in time for winter)

Repairing earthquake damage to city schools will cost local taxpayers U.S.$82-million

California; MYSTERIOUS TECTONIC FAULT ZONE FOUND

 Humans are an unknown in state’s new earthquake warning system

 Second Day Of Quake Swarm Rattles Ventura With 70 Estimated Earthquake Events

Biggest earthquake in two decades ruptured at least 24 faults
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Third quake in a week hits Kincade fire region
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Guam;

FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) orders Hawaii National Guard to conduct Vigilant Guard disaster training with the Guam National Guard.  The training includes everything from responding to a natural disaster to responding to a weapon of mass destruction event.

Hawaii; man dies after falling down lava tube under his garden

On 18-19 November, the People’s Liberation Army of China traveled to Hawaii to take part in disaster response training with the U.S. Army.  According to military sources, this is the 15th time such ‘disaster management’ training between China and the U.S. took place.

01NOV2019, United Nations Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination Course training for Asia and the Pacific was conducted at the Navy Lodge, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.

4.9 quake reported near Waimea

What Kilauea Crater Lake Water Chemistry Tells Us
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Nevada; Quake near Indian Hills

Oregon; Portland to pay $350K linked to earthquake warning sign lawsuit

In a possible round-a-bout way of training for the Cascadia Event, personnel with the state Army National Guard were deployed to Bangladesh to take part in a five days Disaster Response Exercise and Exchange (DREE).  The international training for a catastrophic earthquake is considered to be the biggest yet: “There are 20 different countries at this DREE which is great and that means just over 100 individual actual foreign participants which makes up more than 650 participants on opening day. It’s a long way from where we started and you can see the direct impact the DREE program has had over the years.”-Master Sergeant Robert Bentcliff, U.S. Army Pacific Command (USARPAC)

Utah; Earthquakes in Payson area

Washington; Grand Coulee Dam unaffected by ‘rare’ earthquake

July’s Monroe earthquake is informing plans for future danger

On 06NOV2019, U.S. Army and local EMTs conducted training in preparation for the catastrophic Cascadia Event.  The Puget Sound Federal Coordinating Center National Disaster Medical System exercise was held at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.  The training included loading mass-casualties onboard a USAF C-17 of the 446th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron (shows you how bad the military thinks it’ll be).

9 quakes hit Puget Sound region in less than a week

  3.2 earthquake hits near Snoqualmie, following a smaller quake

Seattle greyhound sensed approaching quake; Walnut Creek shih tzu snoozed
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Pacific Ring of Fire, October 2019: “NEW NORM”

Kit Bashing, Technology

Bare Metal: NASA’s MD-11 experimental, your taxes saving the ‘private sector’ airline industry

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Between August and November 1995, an experimental McDonnell Douglas MD-11 conducted landings under engine power only.

It happened at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California, and it was the first time a transport aircraft landed with normal controls switched off.

It was part of a NASA project to develop a computer-assisted engine control system that enables a pilot to land a plane safely when its normal control surfaces fail.

The Propulsion-Controlled Aircraft (PCA) system uses standard autopilot controls already present in the cockpit, together with the new programming in the aircraft’s flight control computers.

The first PCA tests by NASA were carried out with a modified twin-engine F-15 Eagle research aircraft.  The F-15A was the second U.S. Air Force Eagle (71-0281), sent to work with NASA in 1976.

04FEB1976

BARE METAL: C-17 STRIPPED (with video)

 C-130 PAINT PREP, OR THE EMPEROR GETS SOME NEW CLOTHES

 B-1B & B-52H