Guam -- A 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck Wednesday off the northwest coast of Guam, causing power outages throughout the U.S. island territory but little damage.
The quake, which happened at about 2:15 a.m. ET, 4:15 p.m. local time, was about seven times stronger than the 6.0 magnitude tremor that hit Aug. 24 in Napa Valley, Calif. That earthquake injured 120 and killed one.
"By all accounts, Guam was not affected in a major way by this strong earthquake," according to a news release from the federal Department of Homeland Security's Joint Information Center on Guam. No injuries or damage to roads and bridges were reported although a landslide occurred in East Aga'a, a suburb of the capital of Hag'a.
No tsumani warning was issued for the earthquake whose epicenter was 28 miles northwest of Piti Village, Guam, at a depth of almost 85 miles. Initially, the quake was reported as having a 7.1 magnitude. Hey Joseph Mendiola you and yours OK ?
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The evil bush/haliburton fracking in Oklahoma caused it! You heard it first here!
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Yes, I'm fine, in fact I was sitting inside the local Agana Shopping Center-Mall when it struck. The quake just kept intensifying + intensifying.
Even when it began to decline it was in weaker + weaker "ripples".
I must have detected it very early on because it took awhile for other customers to realize it was a quake. I had to loudly shout "earthquake" several times before anyone noticed.
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why am I not surprised that Joe M was prematurely and preternaturally aware of the earth's shaking as long as Madonna and OWG exist in our Earth?
Quippe
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God likes Madonna - OTOH, OWG-NWO includ Globalism is a wholly Man-made choice albeit not entirely unforeseen as 1960-1970's Guam Taotamonas + Nostradamus can attest.
* FYI TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > [post-Moud President of Iran] ROUHANI: ISIS WANTS TO "KILL HUMANITY".
Another reason for 1960's-70's = 2014 Movie "INTERSTELLAR" here].
[Dhaka Tribune] It was a calm morning in Antarctica's remote Ross Sea, during the season when the sun never sets, when Capt. John Bennett and his crew hauled up a creature with tentacles like fire hoses and eyes like dinner plates from a mile below the surface.
A colossal squid: 350 kilograms (770 pounds), as long as a minibus and one of the sea's most elusive species. Datsa lotta calamari.
It had been frozen for eight months until Tuesday, when scientists in New Zealand got a long-anticipated chance to thaw out the animal and inspect it -- once they used a forklift to maneuver it into a tank.
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"Lets Get <----> Kraken!"
too late....
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While swimming through salt-water bracken,
Your face-mask may suddenly blacken;
A beak begins smackin'
That's keen to be snackin' --
Must you see to believe in the kraken?
[AnNahar] China will send more medics to Ebola-hit Sierra Leone to help boost laboratory testing for the virus, raising the total number of Chinese medical experts there to 174, the UN said Tuesday.
"The most urgent immediate need in the Ebola response is for more medical staff," World Health Organization chief Margaret Chan said in a statement, hailing the Chinese commitment.
China has said it will dispatch a mobile laboratory team to Sierra Leone, where more than 500 people have died so far from Ebola.
It will send a 59-person team from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control, including epidemiologists, clinicians and nurses, WHO said.
"The newly announced team will join 115 Chinese medical staff on the ground in Sierra Leone virtually since the beginning," Chan said, stressing that the new commitment was "a huge boost, morally and operationally."
The Chinese contribution comes in response to WHO's urgent appeal to countries around the globe to step up their assistance to help bring the raging epidemic under control.
The International Federation of Red Thingy and Red Islamic Thingy Societies (IFRC) meanwhile announced late Monday that it had opened its first Ebola treatment center in Kenema, one of the districts of Sierra Leone worst affected by the deadly outbreak.
The center, which is staffed with 19 international workers and 80 national employees, will have room for 60 patients, IFRC said.
The first patients, including an 11-year-old girl from Freetown, were already being treated there, it added.
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] President Barack Obama Jedi mind meld... declared Tuesday that the Ebola epidemic in West Africa could threaten security around the world, and he ordered 3,000 U.S. military personnel to the region in emergency aid muscle for a crisis spiraling out of control.
The question was whether the aid would be enough and was coming in time. An ominous World Health Organization forecast said that with so many people now spreading the virus, the number of Ebola cases could start doubling every three weeks.
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Like all things he has done....
No and only enough to make him look ok in the press.
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Guess the potential epidemics coming from unfettered and illegal immigration over the southern border weren't infecting and killing ordinary Americans fast enough for Champ and his pals.
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No, it is not enough. Obama is pissing into the wind. And that piss spraying back upon us will be infectious.
We know there are about a thousand new cases a week at this point and the epidemic is doubling every couple weeks. So today we need a thousand beds, and next month 4,000, and next month 16,000.
If the military is able to bring in the promised 1,700 beds in a couple months, it will be a miracle of logistics. And almost one tenth of the needed amount.
This thing has already blown through the barricades and become a real problem. Pretty much half the people in Liberia are going to get this disease.
Fortunately, about a million people will survive and be immune from future exposure. We need to start a program now to educate those survivors to become the first responders for the next outbreak.
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AFAIC EBOLA = ISIS CALIPHATE + FUTURE ISLAMIC MAHDI/HIDDEN IMAM; 1917 SPANISH FLU WORLDWIDE EPIDEMIC = RISE OF STALIN + ADOLF HITLER = TIME TO STOP THE FUTURE IS N-O-W.
To paraph the "THE SEARCHERS" LATE GREAT WARD BOND = "NOW, NOW, SPELLED K-N-O-W-E - NOW""!
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Dunno how long immunity will last. We need to be reaching those people now, not later.
I'm visualizing a team trying to put up the tents with a large crowd of the desperately sick and their families pushing to get in. None of the outcomes of that scenario are good.
And who staffs the tents?
Has somebody thought this through?
It may be that there are enough volunteers to staff everything. I would not be surprised. But if ∅ said the sun comes up the east I'd double check.
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James,
There will neither be enough facilities or staff in third-world countries to manage this catastrophe. Given the current situation probably only a million people will die, if post-infection immunity is strong, if not, well then it will be worse. And only God can help us if this thing mutates in a way that increases the transmission factor of an infection from 2 to 4. Which by the way is the favored mutation game-theoretic strategy for the evolution of a virus with lots of potential victims as yet uninfected.
In order to have an effect on this we would need to increase our intervention by a factor of at least 20, and something like a thousand times more would be necessary to ensure success.
At this point it is nature that will determine the outcome, not our current puny human planning.
[Business Recorder] DARWENDALE Zim: Mired in a conflict in Ukraine and isolated by the West, Russia sought to woo African allies on Tuesday, with foreign minister Sergei Lavrov hailing the continent's role in a new world order.
"Africa is one of the pillars of the evolving world system," Lavrov said during a visit to Zimbabwe, where he signed co-operation deals and won diplomatic backing for the fight against Western sanctions. Is it just me, or is there anyone else out there who views this an extreme case of desperation.
Zimbabwe seems an awfully hollow pillar, the kind that would make anyone look like Samson.
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Everyone wants to trade with Russia can do so by way of Zimbabwae. Zimbabwae gets a cut for their efforts. If it works out I expect a small crowd of countries offering to be middle-men.
Lavrov is just engaging in a little magician's patter. Soothing and distracting. What he means is "Gentlemen, there is money to be made!"
Africa will, no doubt, continue to be Africa for some time. This is just the Russians playing 2 moves ahead while everyone has their panties in a twist with the ME and Ukraine.
[Dhaka Tribune] As the media reports go, at least eight persons have been killed in "encounters" between law enforcers and "criminals" across the country over the last 45 days.
Statistics provided by the Ain O Salish Kendra says a total of 88 people have been killed in "encounters" in the last seven months of this year.
Since February? What an odd time to start counting.
Of them, 27 were killed in shootout with the Rapid Action Battalion, 43 with police, one jointly with RAB and police, five with DB police, two with RAB and BGB, three with coastguards and seven with the joint force.
The collections in the evidence rooms being duly polished by the newest recruits between usages, one hopes. Though discipline is not what it used to be, in this degenerate age.
Such killings first surfaced in 2004 soon after the formation of the elite crime-busting force RAB. In 2005 and 2006, at least 739 people were killed in such incidents.
Those were the days. Rounds of bullet were so brightly polished the sun's reflection alone could be sued to start fires, and the RAB men were busily responding to Mahmoud the Weasel's nightly phone calls. How the little Weasels thrived in those days -- piano lessons and dowries for the girls, education and apprenticeships for the little lads... good times, those were.
At that time the then major opposition Awami League slammed the BNP-Jamaat government for extra-judicial killings and asserted that they would stop "crossfire" if voted to power.
When it came to power such killings did not seize to stop; rather 229 more people became victims of "crossfires" in 2009 alone.
Quite a fall from the ~370 of the previous years, it must be admitted.
In most of the cases, family members of victims termed the shootouts drama.
In a "shootout" with the Detective Branch (DB) of police a youth from the capital's Mugda area Mesbah Uddin Tarek alias Masud, 25, was killed last Sunday.
DB police, however, claimed that the victim was an illegal arms trader of Kadamtoli and Matuail areas of the capital. But there had been no case or general diary filed against Masud.
Even local people of Mugda area and family members are clueless as to why DB police picked him as he was known as a gentleman.
Abu Jafor Shikdar, the victim's father, told the Dhaka Tribune that a team of DB police picked up Masud on Saturday night around 3.00pm.
"When we contacted DB police they told us to go to police. As we went to police they asked us to go to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital. We finally found Masud's dead body at the DMCH"
"He's dead, Jim."
Monirul Islam, the DB joint commissioner, without giving any direct answer said they would be able to know what really happened after the investigation.
Just a day after the shootout, Moghbazar triple murder prime suspect Kailla Babu was killed in another "shootout."
On August 8, a youth named Rajib Hossain was killed in crossfire with DB police in the capital's Hatirjheel area. Police, soon after the incident, claimed that Rajib was prime suspect in the retired police official Fazlul Karim murder -- a claim which the family denied.
In defence of such incidents the Joint commissioner said police fired shots in self defence. "Even police personnel get injured in such shootouts."
Mostly stubbed toes and splinters, it must be admitted, but there is the occasional bitten tongue.
Police chief Hassan Mahmood Khandker said if any allegation of extra-judicial killing is proved based on evidence then action would be taken against those involved in the incident.
The incidents of extra-judicial killings were on the decline after 2006 and it came down to 91 in 2012. According to Ain O Shalish Kendra, 210 people were killed in 2004; 377 in 2005; 362 in 2006, 180 in 2007, 175 in 2008, 133 in 2010, 100 in 2011. In 2013 "crossfire" was coined as "shootout" when around 208 people were killed.
Dr Mizanur Rahman, chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, said extra judicial killing goes against the rule of law and democracy and it is in no way acceptable.
"Those responsible for such criminal acts must be given capital punishment to stop such practice," he said.
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Quite a fall from the ~370 of the previous years, it must be admitted.
Shutter Gun must be in for repairs or something.
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Let human rights do-gooders babble;
The RAB won't permit them to dabble.
In their doo-rags and shades
On midnight escapades,
Each day's Training Day with the RABble!
A signed protocol declaring a new separatist army command which appeared on the internet in the last 24 hours may be a forgery.
The document which declares a unitary army command for Donetsk and Lugansk, both breakaway republics now in a civil war with Ukraina, contains a declaration that army commands in both republics should now be merged into one unitary command.
One of the problems with the document is that three of the five signatories say they have never heard of the general said to be in command of the new army structure. The rest have yet to comment.
Another problem is that the document goes against the principles of confederation that both republics have declared. The original of the document has not been found. Three of the signatures appear to be by the same man, as with the other two.
According to a news report which appeared in an online edition of RIA Novosti, speaker of Donetsk Parliament speaker, Oleg Tsarev said the protocol was "wrong in terms of timing and in terms of destination," he said, according to a quote printed in the new outlet. Donetsk is not party to the agreement.
"We should not take certain decisions contrary to the opinion of their peers and colleagues," said Tsarev.
Apparently the mystery man surrounding the controversy, Lieutenant-General Ivan Korsun Anatolevicha, despite his mid flag rank is unknown to anyone in either republic.
Former Donetsk Minister of Defense GRU Colonel Igor Strelkov has protested the document saying he did not know General Korsun. Strelkov also suggested on his B Kontacte (Russian Facebook) page that the document may be the work of local warlords.
The Russian military blogger Colonel Cassad said Tuesday that only two generals in both republics exist, generals Strelkov Petrovkii and Bezler. Bezler commands forces now engaged in fighting northeast of Donetsk.
Another separatist field commander, who is supposed to have signed the document, Alexander Sergeevich Khodakovsky, said he did not know Lt. General Korsun.
Another Donetsk field commander, Alexei Brain issued a statement
published in Russkaya Vesna Russian language news outlet, warning about decisions taken without leaving the comfort of the office to consult with constituents.
Despite that, English language reports have already emerged which say the general wants to "impose a harsh Soviet style system" in both republics.
Donetsk is no stranger to political intrigue. During the negotiations for the ceasefire in southeastern Ukraina, a top official attempted a coup over the officers in Minsk.
Vladimir Akinfeev was quickly detained and is presumably facing trial.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
[AnNahar] Fighting in Ukraine has driven nearly 370,000 people to flee to neighboring countries, most of them to Russia, the U.N. said Tuesday.
"Some 366,866 people have fled to neighboring countries, the vast majority to Russia," Jens Laerke, front man for the U.N.'s humanitarian agency, told news hounds in Geneva.
Nearly 326,000 of them have fled to Russia, the agency said, adding that another 263,000 people had been displaced inside Ukraine.
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[AnNahar] The Russian ruble fell on Monday to a historic low against the dollar after the West imposed fresh sanctions over Ukraine.
The ruble slumped to 38.04 to the dollar shortly after Moscow markets opened, at 0619 GMT. It was the first time that the ruble had weakened beyond the rate of 38 to the dollar.
The euro also rose against the ruble upon the opening of the markets to 49.25 rubles, still less than its rate in March when it climbed to be worth more than 50 rubles in reaction to Russia's annexation of Crimea.
Washington and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... on Friday imposed tough new sanctions targeting banks and major energy and defense firms including Russia's energy giant Gazprom, while promising to scale back or cancel the measures if Russia sticks by the ceasefire in east Ukraine.
[DAWN] The capital police faced another embarrassment when two persons charged with attacking PTV building were identified as employees of the state-run TV channel.
Earlier on Saturday, the Margalla police nominated PTI leader Fouzia Kasuri in an FIR along with Azam Khan Swati, Faraz Khan Shibli, Syed Raza Ali Shah, Ali Awan and Nafeesa Khattak for allegedly attacking police vehicles in F-8 sector in a bid to set free the incarcerated You have the right to remain silent... party workers.
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[DAWN] A court on Tuesday postponed for almost a month the hanging of a murderer in what would have been the country's first civilian execution for six years, lawyers said.
Shoaib Sarwar, who was convicted in 1998, was set to be hanged in Rawalpindi's Adiyala jail on Thursday following orders issued by another court last week, despite outrage among rights groups.
Pakistain has had a de facto moratorium on civilian hangings since 2008.
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[NY Times] Flight delays are nothing unusual at Pakistain's ailing state carrier, Pakistain International Airlines, long hobbled by political interference, a bloated staff and epic financial losses. But the delayed departure of one flight on Monday caused several enraged passengers to mount a virtual mutiny and eject one politician and block another from the plane before it could take off.
The incident occurred at the Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... Continued on Page 49
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There used to be 58 places in the United States where the local roads were built up to handle the landing of anything from fighters to heavy bombers. I don't know if any still exist or not. The European military also had dozens of such runways, from Finland and Sweden to Italy and Spain. Again, I haven't seen anything that would indicate those are still in use.
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OP: I heard that was in conjunction with the Interstate Highway Act 91956). The research I was able to turn up dispelled that, but that doesn't mean it wasn't done.
#5
There's been more MSM-Net Artics lately about inter-Korean reunification, which again again IMO China is unlikely to allow unless it de facto gets back TAIWAN.
Once its new artificial "dual-use" islands in the SCS are complete, Taiwan will be all but flanked, while any US intervening forces from EASTPAC-West Coat will face PLA forces right offshore. THIS WILL ALLOW CHINA + PLA TO MILITARILY CONCENTRATE OR FOCUS ON ITS CAMPAIGN FOR TAIWAN AS WELL AS JAPAN, I.E. TO SETTLE ONCE-N-FOREVER WHOM WILL BE EAST ASIA'S #1 [OWG East Asia/Asia Union, ASEAN, etc].
* TOPIX > [Washington Times] WHERE HAVE ALL THE [US] ALLIES GONE?
Once again, people, iff Globalist, Mighty-Red-Line-Defender Obama can watch from the sidelines as US Overseas Allies-Neutrals forcibly lose sovereign territory, THE LATTER CAN DO THE SAME THING IFF AMERICA = AMERIKA GETS IN TROUBLE FROM THE HARD BOYZ ANDOR NON-MUSLIM MILITANTS.
* ["INTERSTELLAR" MOVIE TRAILER = "ITS MURPHY'S LAW"}.
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StrategyPage Artic was quoted as saying that a Chinese Nuclear Strike agz Guam is a very real or pragmatic possibility.
AFAIK the "VALIANT SHIELD" COMEX/COMILEX is taking place EAST of GUAM, NOT WEST OF GUAM, which tells me that the US = USDOD preparing for the day when Guam-CNMI-Palaus + Bonins, + possibly CENTPAC, M-A-Y be militarily contested one day, perhaps even lost to the US.
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) Los Angeles Unified School District police officials are considering whether they need the armored vehicle and grenade launchers they received from the U.S. military.
The military hardware at the disposal of LAUSD police officers includes a 20-foot-long, 14-ton armored transport vehicles, much like the ones used to move Marines in Iraq combat zones. The armored vehicle is worth $733,000, and the school district's police force got it from the government for free.
How would LAUSD use such a vehicle?
"For us? That vehicle would be used for extraordinary circumstances," LAUSD police Chief Steve Zipperman said.
The armored vehicle, which is stored at a secret location, has been in the department's possession since July.
"It's something that we believe is a life-saving vehicle," Zipperman said. "And certainly we realize we need to take a look, is this the best alternative right now for us until we find something else that is more conducive to a police-type of rescue."
The district is also in possession of grenade launchers, which it received for free from the military after 9/11. Neither the armored vehicle nor the grenade launchers have ever been used. But the district doesn't plan on keeping them.
"It's apiece of equipment that's not essential for our mission, so we will be disposing of those," Zipperman said.
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"How would LAUSD use such a vehicle?"
You have to ask a question like that with Cinco De Mayo coming up? They decorate it like a piñata and use in the parade. They can probably get $100K funding just for that.
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The grenade launchers are for parents that send their kids to school with brownies.
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Two months ago I was very much against the militarization and federalization of any police. However since Obama has virtually invited ISIS into the United States maybe some armor may be needed by local law enforcement for immediate deployment but the Federal hand in their department is wrong and needs to go. I would suggest all of this armor and firepower needs to be given to the various States Nation Guard units and kept at their armories including the thousands of M-16 rifles that the police don't seem to be able to keep track of and keep losing. The police who want to use these weapons of war then need to enlist in the National Guard (reserves)and if an insurgency becomes reality they can use these vehicles and other weapons under their governor's control not the feds.
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Why does a school district have its own police department? Wouldn't response times be quicker if that responsibility were handed over to the community police?
#9
Yes TW but from what I hear, they do not always get the right culprit.
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), The FBI, and the CIA are all trying to prove that they are the best at apprehending criminals. The President decides to give them a test. He releases a rabbit into a forest and each of them has to catch it.
The CIA goes in.
They place animal informants throughout the forest.
They question all plant and mineral witnesses.
After three months of extensive investigations they conclude that rabbits do not exist.
The FBI goes in.
After two weeks with no leads they burn the forest, killing everything in it, including the rabbit, and they make no apologies.
The rabbit had it coming.
The LAPD goes in.
They come out two hours later with a badly beaten bear.
The bear is yelling: "Okay! Okay! I'm a rabbit! I'm a rabbit!"
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Guam -- A 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck Wednesday off the northwest coast of Guam, causing power outages throughout the U.S. island territory but little damage.
[Dhaka Tribune] It was a calm morning in Antarctica's remote Ross Sea, during the season when the sun never sets, when Capt. John Bennett and his crew hauled up a creature with tentacles like fire hoses and eyes like dinner plates from a mile below the surface.
[AnNahar] China will send more medics to Ebola-hit Sierra Leone to help boost laboratory testing for the virus, raising the total number of Chinese medical experts there to 174, the UN said Tuesday.
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] President 
[Business Recorder] DARWENDALE Zim: Mired in a conflict in Ukraine and isolated by the West, Russia sought to woo African allies on Tuesday, with foreign minister Sergei Lavrov hailing the continent's role in a new world order.
[AnNahar] Fighting in Ukraine has driven nearly 370,000 people to flee to neighboring countries, most of them to Russia, the U.N. said Tuesday.
[DAWN] The capital police faced another embarrassment when two persons charged with attacking PTV building were identified as employees of the state-run TV channel.
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) Los Angeles Unified School District police officials are considering whether they need the armored vehicle and grenade launchers they received from the U.S. military.
