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New Jersey National Guard saving pets in Qatar!

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A struggling pet shelter in Doha, Qatar, has only three full-time staff members and more than 130 dogs and cats! It’s looks more like a farm.

Staff Sergeant Lia Carter, New Jersey National Guard.

“We started out just wanting to find the animals in Doha, Qatar’s capital, and see what was going on with rescues.”-Staff Sergeant Lia Cater, New Jersey National Guard, who helps rescue strays in her hometown of Queens, New York

“We took 100 pounds of dog food and 50 pounds of cat food. The shelter’s staff was overwhelmed to see us. They had never had such a large group come out all at once and volunteer.”-Staff Sergeant Lia Cater, New Jersey National Guard, who helps rescue strays in her hometown of Queens, New York

“They primarily need people to come out and walk dogs, help the dogs exercise, and give the animals some personal attention.”-Staff Sergeant Lia Cater, New Jersey National Guard, who helps rescue strays in her hometown of Queens, New York

“This program gives something for everyone to look forward to. It is also good for relations between the U.S. and Qatar.”-Sergeant Jimmy Simmeron, New Jersey National Guard

“We are going to have to stop being the policemen of the world.”-Donald Trump, August 2015 interview with Hugh Hewitt

OPERATION APPALACHIAN CARE; PROOF OBAMACARE FAILED, AND OBAMA KNEW IT DID!

GREAT RENEGER: GUARD DEPLOYMENTS SO COMMON EVEN BEERS ARE NAMED AFTER THEM

Kit Bashing, Technology

Soviet Great Patriotic War ‘Bat’ to be resurrected from the dead!

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“For the first time in the world, a Tu-2 bomber will be reconstructed to its operational condition on the premises of the Novosibirsk State Technical University. The reconstruction work will be carried out by Aviarestavratsiya. This work will take three years.”-Science and Higher Education Ministry

The Tupolev 2 bomber of World War Two fame is being brought back to life in Russia.

A Tupolev TU 2 WWII Soviet front line bomber (NATO reporting name Bat) on static display at Monino Museum, Russia. TASS photo by Marina Lystseva.

According to TASS, the resurrection was supposed to start on 21AUG2019. The specific plane to be restored to flying condition had a long history, first flying with the Soviet forces during World War Two, then flying with Chinese forces until the 1980s(!), and then ending up in the United States in the hands of the War Eagles Air Museum in New Mexico (read a description of the plane and how the Chinese used it, here).

War Eagles Air Museum, before restoration. Photo via David and Paula Barnett.

War Eagles Air Museum, after restoration.

The U.S. museum restored the Tu-2 to the point it could be used as a static display. In 2019, the Russia based Aviarestavratsiya (air restoration)/Winged Victory Memorial supposedly acquired the plane and will bring it back to Russia: “This is not a plane that was shot down or was broken. We have not yet studied its series numbers and have not yet tracked its exact history. The plane will be studied and analyzed in detail. Each element will be reconstructed or restored.”-Boris Osyatinsky, Aviarestavratsiya/Winged Victory Memorial

However, as of 2022 the War Eagles Air Museum in New Mexico still lists the Bat as part of their displays.

By the way, China still has several Tu-2 bombers on display:

Photo via Military Museum of the Chinese People’s Revolution.

For kit builders there are several brands to choose from:

The ‘Bat’ served with many countries in many wars.

The old East German VEB-Plastikart (now known as adp Master Modelle) kit.

More info: https://alchetron.com/Tupolev-Tu-2

Tupolev TU-2 – Photos & Video

VEHICLE I-D: RF-84F THUNDERFLASH & YRF-84F, AN APPEAL TO MONOGRAM!

Kit Bashing

How to build a 1/1 scale Tiger-1 tank

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The Tiger-1 in these pics is not a real Tiger-1 tank (Panzerkampfwagen-6E), it’s a 1:1 scale model weighing 2.7 metric tons.

It was built by Tarnen and Täuschen for the Munster Tank Museum. The museum was losing the real Tiger tank that had been on temporary loan since 2013, but proved to be such an attraction that museum officials knew they had to have a Tiger on permanent display.

A computer was used to create 800-thousand ‘symbols’ to help create the giant model kit’s instructions for construction.

Main-gun barrel attached to steel frame-work of tank body.

Apparently there are only six real Tiger-1s left in the world. The 1:1 scale model is made from steel, wood, resin, fiberglass, and of course plastic. Tarnen and Täuschen’s regular job is making life size models of weapons for use in training of German military personnel.

Mario Gurek prepares the fiberglass mold for the main-gun’s muzzle brake.

Transporting the nearly complete tank to its new home.

REPAIRING 1/1 SCALE T-38 TALON AND A REDUCED SCALE B-2 BOMBER

U.S.

human trafficking horror show: Immigrant Invasion U.S.A., July 2019

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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, July 2019.

The Guatemalan City Fueling the Migrant Exodus to America

French state-run news media reports Mexico deports 33% more migrants after deal with U.S.

Mexico’s newly created National Guard preventing illegal immigrants from crossing into United States. Is the new National Guard the result of the massive 5-hundred arrests of corrupt Mexican immigration agents?

British news media reveal that millions in state government retirement funds are being invested into privately run immigrant prisons, and big leftist liberal ‘pro-immigrant’ states like New York, California and Oregon are doing the investing!

“We anticipate more than 700,000 migrants will successfully enter the country, increasing the unauthorized Hispanic population by nearly 10%.”–Princeton Policy Advisors

Majority of Hispanic voters approve of citizenship question on U.S. census

NFL player Colin Kaepernick complained that the 1776 U.S. flag was “offensive”, ball-less Nike caves and recalls its U.S. flag shoes

34 immigrants arrested in Colorado, Wyoming will be deported

List of States Offering Driver’s Licenses to Immigrants

Ironically the majority of taxpayer funded ICE contractors are in pro-immigrant states, and despite the article blaming the use of contractors on Trump, it also reveals that the increased use of contractors began with the Obama regime

ALABAMA: Mexican official tells Toyota in Alabama tariffs are ‘off the table’

ARIZONA: Governor halts state taxpayer subsidies for Nike after Nike banned its own 1776 U.S. flag shoes!

State transportation officials say they are not sharing immigrant data with ICE

Jury Unable To Convict Aid Volunteer On Charges Of Harboring Migrants

Biological Resource Center was ‘Frankenstein’ human trafficking horror show: “A cooler filled with male genitalia bucket of heads, arms and legs, infected heads… ….A small woman’s head sewn onto a large male torso like Frankenstein and hung up on the wall.”

CALIFORNIA: B order Patrol agents sickened by toxic raw sewage flowing in from Mexico

On 25JUL2019, Camp Pendleton’s 1st Marine Division (my paternal grand father’s alma mater) issued a press release revealing that 16 U.S. Marines were arrested, while in formation, for human smuggling operations (among other crimes), another eight Marines were detained for questioning. This does not count the two U.S. Marines arrested by Border Patrol on 03JUL2019!

Civil War? A federal judge in California on Wednesday blocked the U.S. President from imposing restrictions on individuals seeking asylum in the United States, just hours after a judge in Washington had decided to let the rule stand

Ninth Circuit Rules for U.S. President in Sanctuary Cities Case

“There are other issues that need to be talked about besides protecting illegal immigrants from being deported. We need our constitutional rights protected also!”-Jeff Williams, mayor of California’s first ‘gun sanctuary city’

A math teacher, who is also the president of the Los Angeles-based American Freedom Alliance, says she has lost her job at a private school in Southern California for speaking out in defense of Western Civilization — even though she made her comments outside the classroom.

Los Angeles mayor, and the police chief, tell illegals “Your city is on your side.”

MS-13 gang members indicted after ‘medieval-style’ killing spree in Los Angeles

Yet more inspections of border wall construction, this time on 09JUL2019 by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in the San Diego sector.

During the weekend of 07JUL2019, more than 30 illegal immigrants, wanted for committing crimes, were captured in the San Francisco area.

In this telling pic you can see that a double wall system is being built. The snaking wall on the left is where Border Patrol vehicles can drive, to see if anybody came through the straight wall.

Ever hear of the Border Patrol Explorers (aka CPB Explorer Program)? It’s a joint venture between Boy Scouts of America and U.S. Customs and Border Patrol. On 01JUL2019, nine Border Patrol Explores got a taxpayer funded trip to the Presidio, including the Department of Defense Language Institute.

COLORADO: Protesters Tear Down American Flag From ICE Facility, Replace It With Mexican Flag

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Denver District will no longer allow people to schedule appointments in person.

CONNECTICUT: Church Vandalized With ‘Abolish ICE’ Graffiti

Eight from human traffickers from Mexico arrested

FLORIDA: arrests of undocumented immigrants without prior convictions are seven times higher than they were under Obama

Jackson Memorial hospital falsely charged taxpayers $436-million for care for undocumented immigrants and prisoners!

GEORGIA: Four Immigrants Have Died at Stewart ICE Jail

GUAM: A former Guam resident, born in Mexico, but adopted as a toddler by a prominent island doctor and his wife, faces deportation in what federal judges call an immigration case “filled with grave inequities”

IDAHO: push to ban so-called Dreamers from taxpayer funded Idaho Opportunity Scholarship

El Tour de Idaho de Los Inquietos canceled due to ICE fears

28 legislators sign letter criticizing Boise State University’s diversity programs

ILLINOIS: To offset the exodus of citizens, the city of Chicago is dedicating an additional 20% of its taxpayer funded Legal Protection Fund to illegals, and the governor of the state has ordered taxpayer funded universities to make it easier for illegals to attend college. A state senator revealed the true reason for that by saying “…we don’t want to lose them to other states.” (implying that even the illegals are getting the hell outta Illinois)

The mayor of Chicago banned the police department from cooperating with ICE

More evidence illegal immigration could be an Operation Jupiter as many of the immigrant children sent to a ‘nonprofit’ care center in Illinois are sick with fever, chicken pox, and even tuberculosis.

Hundreds of Jewish activists and allies took to the streets in Chicago and surrounded a local ICE office

INDIANA: Threats if ICE raids reveal just how addicted to illegals the entire business spectrum (not just farmers) of Indiana is: “…a bunch of people tell me like, ‘Hey, like half of my workers didn’t show up today. I don’t know what to do, I don’t know how to run this restaurant, I don’t know how to finish this project that we’re building.’”-Jordan Rodriguez, Indianapolis Mayor’s Office of International and Latino Affairs

IOWA: Illegal from Honduras (who was apparently operating a safe house for illegals) on trial for killing recently arrived illegal family from Honduras

Politician tells constituents “Your vote as a citizen is diluted by illegal aliens”

KANSAS: Two churches say they’ll protect undocumented immigrants, even if it means arrest

KENTUCKY: Mayor of Lexington says ICE needs a warrant to get help from the city

Despite the mayor’s pro-immigrant stance, the Lexington Fraternal Order of Police want state lawmakers to ban ‘sanctuary cities’ for illegals

LOUISIANA: Illegal from France was charged on 25JUL2019 by a Grand Jury in the Eastern District of Louisiana with Bank Fraud and making False Statements to obtain a government insured loan.

ACCUSED CHILD RAPIST ARRESTED, IDENTIFIED AS ILLEGAL ALIEN FROM EL SALVADOR, KNOWN TO POLICE SINCE 2007

MAINE: Eight people charged with federal immigration violations after an undocumented Mexican immigrant allegedly helped smuggle seven others over the Canadian border in a remote area of Maine

Maine Secretary of State refuses to allow federal investigators wholesale access to the state’s driver’s license database

Schizophrenic ‘elected’ officials of Portland waffling back-n-forth between creating more housing for illegals to now offering illegals incentives to leave!

MARYLAND: “We’re Not Going To Cooperate” says Baltimore’s mayor

It was revealed that a refugee, who joined the U.S. Navy Reserve, was making homemade AR-15s and AK-47s in his Maryland home

MASSACHUSETTS: On 05JUL2019, in Boston 25 people, including a U.S. Navy Sailor, became U.S. citizens the LEGAL WAY!

MICHIGAN: Police arrest pro-illegals demonstrators blocking Detroit-Windsor tunnel

Anti-immigrant leader dies

City of Kalamazoo wants to give illegals driver’s licenses

MINNESOTA: Students at charter school prep for immigration raids

Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar wants illegal immigrants to have taxpayer-funded abortions. (maybe that’s a good thing)

Investigations by leftist-liberal news media into claims that immigrant politician Ilhan Omar married her brother were inconclusive and resulted in more confusion

State Attorney General promise to protect illegals

ICE breaks into car to arrest illegal who has prior conviction for prostitution, was deported, and snuck back in, news media gets upset

MISSISSIPPI: ICE detainees reportedly on hunger strike

2nd Mississippi prison now holding immigrants for ICE

MISSOURI: ICE arrests illegal who repeatedly gets deported and yet repeatedly returns, video of arrest has news media upset

Immigrant, who works at Syracuse University, says needlessly complicated work visa rules will force her to leave, local news media upset

NEVADA: Nearly 200 repeat felons in Nevada prisons are undocumented immigrants

Children evicted following their mother’s ICE detention

NEW JERSEY: Two county sheriffs outsmarted a state order designed to prevent local law enforcement officers from helping ICE

Main stream TV news ignores the fact that Immigrant Families Separated by Obama/Biden regime are Demanding an Apology: “We cannot sit back and allow Biden to defend the three million deportations and the unprecedented expansion of detention that happened under his watch. We need more from the party that claims to support us.”-Cosecha Movement

NEW MEXICO: Once again corrupt Albuquerque officials screwing over residents, this time the city has failed to spend any of the $250-thousand in taxes on helping illegals, as promised three months ago.

NEW YORK: On the brink of being homeless in a ‘sanctuary city’

Dozens arrested after ICE protests block traffic

NORTH CAROLINA: Illegals still eligible for free tuition at Haywood Community College

home to 65,400 Obama era ‘Dreamers’

OHIO: ICE releases Mauritanian man after 11 months

Cincinnati officials create taxpayer funded Rapid Response Network to help illegals fight ICE

OKLAHOMA: Illegals Increasingly Face Deportation

Claims that a teenager was shooting illegals with a BB gun

Oklahoma Suspends Plans to Jail 1,600 Migrant Children at Fort Sill

OREGON: ICE arrests at least six

Pro-immigrant Oregon invests government workers’ money into for-profit private-run immigrant prisons

PUERTO RICO: Government corruption and Medicaid funding cuts could cause mass migration from Puerto Rico

The U.S. Coast Guard, working alongside Dominican Republic ‘interceptors’, capture a human smuggling boat 22 miles northwest of Puerto Rico, 13JUL2019.

PENNSYLVANIA: Partially taxpayer funded new legal program will help defend illegals against ICE

University law professor states the country “better off with more whites and fewer nonwhites”

TENNESSEE: Residents block ICE from capturing illegal

The business owner who kicked off the largest immigration raid in recent Tennessee history will serve a year-and-a-half in federal prison.

TEXAS: More proof of an Operation Jupiter as more migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border are getting sick

Presidential candidate Senator Cory Booker escorted 5 migrants across the border and into El Paso

“I really do need a contact here in FW who should be actively investigating & removing illegals that are in the public school system.”-High school teacher’s social media pleas for help to President Trump gets her fired

37 illegals from Cambodia were deported on 01JUL2019. 35 of them have criminal convictions including murder, rape, aggravated assault, sexual assault, attempted murder, burglary, child abuse, lewd act on a minor, driving under the influence, larceny, stolen property, weapon offenses, traffic offense, forgery, robbery, resisting arrest, auto theft, and drug convictions!

UTAH: undocumented immigrants live with fear in Utah

Mormon pioneers were Utah’s first undocumented immigrants

VERMONT: 19 arrested as hundreds protest ICE

Revealed, state facial recognition data handed over to ICE

WASHINGTON: Man armed with rifle and incendiary bombs attacks ICE prison, shot and killed

Washington DC: Supreme Court rules President can use military funds for border wall

President signs order to make American-made goods more American

‘Elected’ Congressional representative caught sending operatives into Mexico to help migrants: “What we believe is happening is Veronica Escobar’s office is going … to basically second-guess and obstruct work already done by the Border Patrol.”-unnamed Border Patrol rep to Washington Examiner reporter

ICE Just Quietly Opened Three New Detention Centers, Flouting Congress’ Limits

Acting ICE director blames hotel industry for forcing ICE to break-up families by refusing to allow the families to stay at their hotels: “If hotels or other places do not want to allow us to utilize that, they’re almost forcing us into a situation where we’re going to have to take one of the parents and put them in custody and separate them from the rest of their families.”-Matthew Albence

WEST VIRGINIA: “…agents working near Hidalgo, Texas, arrested 25 undocumented immigrants, consisting of family units….. …a Guatemalan national, traveling with his child…. ….previous arrest and conviction in West Virginia for sexual abuse in the third degree.”

WISCONSIN: Child slave labor on local farms revealed when Immigrant farm worker runs over and kills his own eight years old son while both were working a farm in Dane County. It was initially reported that the child laborer was killed by a cow!

U.S. immigrant invasion, June 2019: HUMAN TRAFFICKING ISRAELIS CAUGHT SCAMMING U.S. TAXPAYERS!

Operation Jupiter, April 2019: Measles pandemic spread by illegal immigrants

International

“lost in time”: Pacific Ring of Fire, July 2019

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Incomplete list of seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, July 2019. Not only is quake and volcano activity ramping up around the Pacific Ring of Fire, it’s ramping up around the planet.

A new business report says seismic surveys “can grow into the most important market in the world that has played an important role in making progressive impacts on the global economy.”

Predicting earthquake hazards from wastewater injection (fracking)

Mystery of Sea of Galilee quakes solved; caused by Israel pumping out excessive amounts of water

Mars-quakes suggest Mars is less Earth-like than we thought

More proof it’s not humans causing ice melt as Lake of Bubbling Lava Discovered on Remote Antarctic Island

AUSTRALIA: Seismic air guns used by oil industry are literally knocking sealife off balance

Earthquake near Broome may have released ‘100 times more energy’ than Newcastle tremor

Experts ‘Can’t Explain’ Cluster Of Earthquakes

CANADA: British Columbia’s largest underwater volcano reveals lifeforms “lost in time”

6.3 quake hits offshore BC, 13 hours before twin big quakes hit California

CHILE: According to the Ministry of Interior (Homeland), 43% of all natural disasters recorded in Chile since 1960 happened between 2014 and 2017.

Nevados de Chillán eruption spews incandescent material

CHINA: More proof you can’t blame humans for climate change; Study suggests volcanoes do more damage to the ozone layer than anything humans have done.

Wandan mud volcano erupted again

Man arrested, because only in China is it a crime to make fun of deadly earthquakes

COLOMBIA: And for more proof you can’t blame humans for climate change, anybody remember the TV show Space 1999? Turns out the Moon is being pushed from the Earth right, although slowly and not by nuclear waste explosion, but the catastrophic climate change results are the same as in Space 1999: “Earth’s tidal strength is gradually pushing the moon away from us at a rate of about 3 centimeters a year. Therefore, the moon is indeed a potential ploonet once it reaches an unstable orbit.”-Mario Sucerquia, University of Antioquia

The U.S. Navy conducted ‘subject matter expert exchanges’ with Colombian counterparts, including a FEMA Disaster Training course. The object is to unify disaster response techniques: “It’s cool to see the differences in how we perform similar treatments. We are picking up different ideas from each other, which will improve our abilities, and this training will allow us to integrate easily when we operate jointly.”-Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Dennis Hueston

COSTA RICA: averages 350 earthquakes each month, or about 12 each day

5.5 Quake Shakes Guanacaste

For some reason a first ever National Earthquake Simulation will be conducted.

EL SALVADOR: 5.7 quake, 31JUL2019

4.3 quake, 28JUL2019

4.8 quake, 10JUL2019

FIJI: 5.0 quake, 30JUL2019

4.8 quake, 25JUL2019

5.7 earthquake day before big quakes in California

GUATEMALA: Santiaguito volcano has been fairly calm for the last couple of years, with 10-15 daily explosions. At the beginning of the month a new episode of higher activity began with stronger and more frequent (35-40 daily) explosions and more lava extrusion- blocks have been seen rolling off the Caliente dome.

After a 2012 earthquake, requiring the rebuilding of hospitals, long term investigations revealed that the taxpayer funded socialized healthcare system was making rich politicians even richer!

HONDURAS: U.S. Marines and U.S. Army personnel are on standby in Honduras, at Soto Cano Air Base, to provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief in the event of emergencies in the region.

INDONESIA: Teenagers steal earthquake detector, sell it on Facebook

Tangkuban Perahu blows up

villagers near active volcano refuse to relocate

5.0 quake, 28JUL2019

4.6 quake, 28JUL2019

Tsunami warning issued after 7.1 magnitude earthquake

JAPAN: Earthquake of 6.0 magnitude rocks Pacific Ocean south of Tokyo

volcanic eruption observed on Aso-san

6.1 quake near Amami

Fukushima fishing port hit by 2011 tsunami reopens 8 years later

Study says rare oarfish sightings do not mean an earthquake is about to happen

U.S. Army Garrison Japan (Camp Zama) announced preparations for an ‘all hands’ Emergency Evacuation Program for military personnel and their families, to be held in May: “Everyone who would potentially be an evacuee has to process through. Either their sponsor has to go through or one member of the family has to go through.”-Will Luna, garrison emergency manager

KOREA: 2.1 quake near Goseong

3.9 quake near Sangju

Quake east of Donghae

MEXICO: 4.0 offshore Oaxaca, 31JUL2019

4.0 offshore Oaxaca, 30JUL2019

Mount Popo erupts, yet again, watch ash cloud rise towards the satellite

Series of small quakes hit Mexico City

4.7 in Acapulco

NEW CALEDONIA: 4.9 southeast of Loyalty Islands

NEW ZEALAND: Two 5.0 quakes, 30JUL2019

4.2 quake, 29JUL2019

Shallow earthquake felt widely in Christchurch

PANAMA: 5.0 quake, 29JUL2019

4.1 quake, 26JUL2019

4.2 quake, 22JUL2019

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: 6.2 quake

Volcano – Emergency Plan of Action

6.4 hits north of Kandrian, New Britain

PERU: 5.1 quake, 23JUL2019

Volcano Erupts in Stunning Images Captured by Russian Satellite

State of emergency declared in 12 districts due to volcanic activity

West Virginia National Guard instructed Peruvian military on medevac (medical evacuation) ops: “The training they received will help them be better prepared to provide advanced emergency medical treatment to their countrymen and women during times of disaster….”-Master Sergeant Evan McDonough

PHILIPPINES: 2-hundred aftershocks in Batanes province, after at least eight people were killed

Hawaii National Guard met with their Filipino counter parts to conduct an Incident Awareness and Assessment (IAA) Subject Matter Expert Exchange (SMEE) conference “… to develop standard operating procedures to use during Humanitarian and Disaster Response (HADR) operations”, according to Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Captain Rene Datugan.

RUSSIA: 4.8 quake eastern Siberia, 31JUL2019

5.0 quake Kuril Islands, 18JUL2019

4.7 quake Kamchatka, 18JUL2019

5.0 quake Kuril Islands, 10JUL2019

TONGA: 4.8 quake, 31JUL2019

5.1 quake, 25JUL2019

5.0 quake, 12JUL2019

5.0 quake, 09JUL2019

UNITED STATES:

Alaska; Earthquake Repairs at Anchorage Schools Could Top $150M

4.1 quake hits central Alaska

Major earthquake reveals Port of Alaska money troubles, could result in another taxpayer funded ‘bridge to nowhere’

mysterious geologic event that is emitting fire, steam and a sulfur smell baffles residents and officials

California; Everything you thought you knew about earthquake insurance is wrong

Watch 30 Years Of Earthquakes Rock California In This Remarkable Animation

Earthquake Hit Exceedingly Rare 1-inch Pupfish With 10-Foot Waves

Upcoming Latino online news format mitú admitted that many Californians don’t speak English and that disaster response announcements failed to consider that, they also made fun of the stupid ‘white’ people’s reaction to the big quakes: “Some Latinos questioned the dramatic reactions of others, since Latin America knows earthquakes all too well.” (I’m not Latino, but having lived through many big quakes in Iran in the early 1970s and in California in the early 1990s, I agree with mitú’s assessment)

How Two Big Earthquakes Triggered 16,000 More

DID U.S. Air Force KNOW CALIFORNIA WAS ABOUT TO BE HIT? Conducts base quake drill one month prior.

U.S. NAVY & AIR FORCE BASES HIT BY CALIFORNIA QUAKES!

Because of the secret nature of China Lake Naval Air Station (NAS), the California Seismic Safety Commission has been unable to go in and check out what is happening

25JUL2019, 4.7 quake epicenter directly under China Lake NAS

Colorado; Super-volcano near the town of Creede

USGS National Earthquake Information Center

Hawaii; Now home to the world’s largest volcano

protesters fighting new telescope on sacred volcano

On Oahu, military personnel from Indonesia, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Philippines, as well as Hawaii and Oregon National Guard units, converged for CBRNE (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, explosive) training, focusing on rescuing civilians from their homes, or places of employment.

Georgia National Guard serve meals from a Disaster Relief Mobile Kitchen Trailer during Innovative Readiness Training at Camp Paumalu Girl Scout Camp, 15JUL2019. Pennsylvania Guard units, as well as Air Force Reserve unites from California, also took part in the ‘real-world construction mission’.

Idaho; Super-volcano near Island Park, known as Huckleberry Ridge or First Phase Yellowstone.

At the end of July, California Air National Guard’s 129th Rescue Squadron conducted training at Idaho’s Gowen Field.

Montana; Check out Earthquake Lake

Nevada; California quakes kill man in Nevada?

Nevada politicians demanding federal government re-evaluate nuke waste storage system after California quakes

Oregon; Crater Lake first volcano measured by NASA’s Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System

A tectonic plate is dying under Oregon. Here’s why that matters

Politicians renege on funding for quake warning system

5.4 quake

new tsunami zone building law puts Oregonians in danger

Oregon coast will be ‘toast’ when Big One hits; politicians will make devastation even worse

Washington; Quake pushes Seattle closer to Canada

More tsunami evacuation towers planned

how a 9.0 earthquake would affect Washington

U.S. Coast Guard conducted rescue training with dogs, in Warrenton, 17JUL2019.

Wyoming; Earthquakes, not Yellowstone volcano, biggest threat

Yellowstone’s Steamboat Geyser approaching record number of eruptions

VANUATU: 5.0 quake, 31JUL2019

Staring into the evil eye of Mount Yasur

5.6 quake, 06JUL2019

PACIFIC RING OF FIRE, June 2019: “UN DESPICHE TOTAL”

National Guard deployed, 7.7 New Madrid quake!

Idaho

Idaho’s Bridge to Nowhere?

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“…already aware that our property taxes are among the highest in Idaho, I am increasingly wary of the wisdom of Northgate.”

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Bannock County-City of Chubbuck-City of Pocatello, Idaho, are home to numerous taxpayer sapping ‘white elephant’ projects, from Hoku to the latest Siphon Road-Interstate 15 connector (bridge to nowhere)/Northgate District.

Realize that Siphon Road only exists in Chubbuck, and doesn’t extend to Interstate 15, which means Chubbuck tax-fee payers are paying for the road’s extension to I-15. (Massive taxpayer funded development in Chubbuck involves construction of up to 1,200 homes)

(Chubbuck plans to create an additional three taxpayer funded parks)

The tax-fee payers of Pocatello are paying for the annexation of farmland to the north of the northeast side of the city, and will also be paying for the creation of a Northgate District, as well as a road that will connect to the Pocatello side of I-15. (Pocatello imposes Northgate Tax Incremental Financing district on cash strapped residents)

(Pocatello taxpayers extorted for $750-thousand for Northgate roads project)

(Pocatello councilman partnering with developer to build Northgate retirement community)

State tax-fee payers are funding the I-15 to Siphon Road connection bridge (to nowhere?).

(State investigators says Pocatello’s water plan for Northgate falls short)

The following pics were taken 14JUL2019:

“Hoku and now Northgate are ample evidence for the proposition that few elected local officials have any facility for investigation, professional planning or even seeing the future for what it is.”

Storm clouds forming over yet another White Elephant for taxpayers?

All that farmland going to be torn up to build homes for…nobody?

Looking south along I-15, from the Pocatello side of where the Siphon Road-I-15 connector bridge is being built.

Looking towards Chubbuck, the Sun is already setting on the Bridge to Nowhere.

Chubbuck spent tax dollars putting in an intersection where Siphon Road ended, it’s now overgrown with weeds and you can hear the pedestrian crossing signals beeping in the wind.

This is the new part of Siphon Road, in Chubbuck, which still doesn’t go anywhere. The Road Closed sign has been run-over numerous times.

“He’s as blind as he can be
Just sees what he wants to see….

…….Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody”-The Beatles, Nowhere Man

Bannock County scams: 609 hearings later, Bannock County is left with 2,188 unheard property assessment appeals on morning of deadline

State Attorney General’s Office investigating work of former Bannock County contracted property appraiser

Local appraiser files breach of contract lawsuit against Bannock County

Water-gate, 2019: The city of Pocatello has reached a $4.5 million settlement to a class-action lawsuit for assessing illegal fees on its water, sewer and sanitation services from 2005 into Fiscal Year 2014.

Chubbuck 2017: NO MORE XMAS LIGHTS? THE TRUTH ABOUT GENTRIFICATION

Bannock County, Chubbuck & Pocatello shenanigans, June 2016: Governor declares economy has “RISEN FROM THE ASHES”

School District 25 also screws over local taxpayers: Pocatello High renovations Raises Questions About Public Input from taxpayers

yet again school district embroiled in a controversy involving a hungry student seeking food

school cafeteria worker who says she was fired for giving a hungry student a free lunch was previously convicted of theft charges in 2013.

In March of 1969 Chris Murphy was called to the office of Mr. Evans, the vice-principal of Highland High School in Pocatello, and told to get his hair cut; Murphy refused and was suspended. The district was sued.

PaveGate 2015: POCATELLO TAXPAYERS ASKED TO CLEAN UP THEIR OWN STREETS, WHILE PAYING MORE TAXES!

Promises of jobs, July 2015: Pocatello administrators have revealed their hyped up deal to bring a major employer to Pocatello Regional Airport is dead.

Main stream news reports on the never ending taxpayer sucking White Elephant called Hoku;

East Idaho News, 2018: “There was no action taken on the Hoku property. They entered into an executive session where they discussed a number of different things and unfortunately as much as I wish I could, I cannot speak about or respond to anything, disclose anything that happened in the executive session.”-Pocatello Mayor Brian Blad

Idaho State Journal, 2018: Two years later, lease with Indian company amounts to nothing for abandoned Hoku

New York Times, 2013: “So what if the company wanted breaks and concessions? The decision by the city [Pocatello] to buy the land and lease it back almost free seemed like a bargain at $1.4 million…”

Read the history of the Hoku saga starting with this report (the Blind Bat News reports go back to 2010):

IDAHO’S FAILED HOKU LEADS TO 1ST CHINESE COMPANY TO DEFAULT ON LOAN PAYMENTS

In this report, which chronicles the destruction of iconic Green T, the mayor of Chubbuck boasts it’s “…the beginning of some real good things coming in.”: POPEYES QUIETLY SHUTS DOWN FOUR IDAHO RESTAURANTS!

IDAHO’S DOCUMENTED ECONOMIC DESTRUCTION FOR 2017: “CLOSED INDEFINITELY”

Hoku-Gate, PaveGate now Amy’s-Gate! It’s been revealed that Bannock County administrators were under investigation by the Idaho Tax Commission over massive local tax breaks given to California based frozen veggie food maker Amy’s Kitchen.

MORE ECONOMIC DECLINE: EAST IDAHOANS OBLIVIOUS TO SHUTDOWN OF THEIR ONLY POSTAL PROCESSING CENTER!

MORE ECONOMIC DECLINE: IDAHO POLITICIANS GIVE AWAY MORE THAN $1-MILLION IN IDAHO TAXES, TO FRANCE!

EXCEPTIONAL FAILED STATE: IDAHO POLITICIANS GIVE AWAY TENS OF MILLIONS TO COMPANIES THAT SHUT DOWN!

Kit Bashing

Retired USN craftsman recalls days of being paid to build giant model planes!

Image July 25, 2019 Hutchins AAron

Visitors to the Hampton Roads Naval Museum might not realize what looks like giant almost six feet long plastic-looking models of an A-6 Intruder and an F-14 Tomcat, are made out of Sugar-Pine wood (with a fiberglass coating), like the old fashioned way model kits used to be made.

This will end up being an A-6 Intruder.

The man who made them, not so way back in 1993, is William Corbell.

This will end up being an F-14 Tomcat.

Corbell was lucky enough to go to work at the the now decommissioned Naval Aviation Depot Norfolk (NADEP), as a wood crafter in 1980. He was commissioned to build the model A-6 and F-14, but continued helping to repair real aircraft at the same time: “Basically, if it was something that couldn’t be fixed at the squadron; they sent it to us.”

Told you!

When Corbell visited his models in January 2019, he revealed he had placed a time capsule inside the F-14. It contains a leave request that he hopes someone in the distant future would humorously approve. The models were transferred to different locations before finally finding a home at the Naval Museum in 2008.

The photos come from William Corbell’s collection.

MODEL KIT EC-130J GETS SPECIAL HANDLING BY NATIONAL GUARD!

Idaho, Technology

Idaho Wild Fires 2019: MD-87 water bomber, new King Air FAC

Image July 24, 2019 Hutchins AAron

23 July 2019-23:43 UTC-07 Tango 06 (02 Mordad 1398/21 Dhu l-Qa’da 1440/22 Xin-Wei 4717)

The fires keep burning in eastern Idaho. Things got so hot today that evacuations of ‘non-essential personnel’ were ordered near the Idaho National Laboratory’s nuclear jet engine and EBR-1 nuclear-disaster-reactor, due to the rapid expansion of the ‘Sheep Fire’ (about 85-thousand acres, 34398 hectares).

MD-87 (foreground) and DC-10 (background) tankers rolling in from their latest east Idaho mission. Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

The Sheep Fire is just one of dozens of wild fires in Idaho right now so, once again, the little used Pocatello Airport was put to good use by water bombers from 10 Tanker Air Carrier and Erickson Aero Tanker.

Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

A little bird water bomber heads out. Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

A new U.S. Forest Service King Air 250 FAC (Forward Air Controller) taking off. Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

King Air ‘FAC’: Forest Service buys its first lead plane in almost 40 years

The King Air passes by the incoming DC-10. Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

A familiar sight ever since the big fires of 2012. Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

Home for the night. Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

WILD FIRES 2019: DC-10, IDAHO’S 911

Kit Bashing, U.S.

B-29 navigator: “Would I even be alive to eat the sandwich I saved?”

Image July 22, 2019 Hutchins AAron

“We lost so many good men, I don’t have many fond memories. My crew almost perished during a mission over the city of Gifu, where we were shot up so badly, bailing out of the plane seemed like the only option. Why we did not die that day, I will never know.”-Rowland Ball

In 2016, Rowland Ball made a trip to Guam. It had been 71 years since the last time he was there. During World War Two he was a navigator on the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber Weddin’ Belle (back when the U.S. Air Force was called the U.S. Army Air Force).

The B-29 missions were long, 18 hours. Ball told a captive audience of Air Force personnel “The cooks would give us three sandwiches for an 18-hour mission. I had to decide how I would eat them. Should I eat two before a bomb run or after? Would I even be alive to eat the sandwich I saved? One time, ice cream was included in our meal. Now why would they give us ice cream of all things? So, during that mission, we decided to fly at a higher altitude than normal, to keep it frozen. Unfortunately, by the time we completed our mission, the ice cream was unsalvageable.”

Rowland Ball checks out the assortment of kool models at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam.

Ball was impressed with the latest USAF technology for navigation: “It’s mind-boggling the type of equipment we have now. The technical advantages have come a long way since my time. I remember having to look up at the stars to navigate, but now there is this amazing equipment that makes navigating much easier and efficient. It’s a different world altogether.”

MODEL KIT EC-130J GETS SPECIAL HANDLING BY NATIONAL GUARD!

Kit Bashing

D-Day F-15E Strike Eagle

Image July 21, 2019 Hutchins AAron

“This heritage project is about the 48th Fighter Wing legacy, and more specifically the wing’s support to the D-Day invasion during World War Two.”-Colonel Will Marshall, 48th Fighter Wing commander

In January 2019, the 48th Fighter Wing unveiled their new D-Day invasion stripe paint job on their F-15E Strike Eagles.