A very deep and powerful 8.2M Earthquake has struck the Fiji Region. Stay tuned to my twitter for more updates. You can also find more info at the link below.
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The Doubs river flows normally in Franche-Comté, France. But since about a week or so, the river has totally dried up over a length of more than 1 km, between Pontarlier and Morteau, although precipitation has been abundant this winter and spring. The river has disappeared, and with it, the fauna and flora. Everything is dead. Two weeks ago, 13km of the Risle River in Normandy also disappeared underground in a large crater. According to geologists, this unprecedented event is due to large cracks and craters in the riverbed.
Cyber criminals are planning a highly-coordinated attack on cash machines around the world that could see millions of dollars withdrawn from customer bank accounts, the FBI has warned.
A confidential alert sent to banks stated that the scheme, known as an “ATM cashout”, could take place in the space of just a few hours, most likely on a weekend after banks have closed. The scheme involves cloned cards, together with a hack on a bank or payment processor in order to facilitate the fraudulent withdrawal of funds by gangs of cyber criminals.
Yellowstone National Park is home to thousands of hot springs and geysers spewing clouds of mostly harmless, rotten-smelling gases. But in the deeper parts of the Yellowstone wilderness where tourists are told not to stray, toxic fumes of lethal gas are powerful enough to kill.
A tsunami alert has been canceled off the Island of Bima in Indonesia after a strong 6.5M Earthquake hit the region.
The swarming continues to die down in Alaska, with small activity in Hawaii, Southern California and the Yellowstone Areas.
Florida’s governor has declared a state of emergency along the Sunshine State’s southern Gulf Coast in response to a pernicious red tide bloom that has lasted longer than any other in the past decade.
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Vessels sailing in the vicinity of Trinidad and Tobago are now under threat of being the victims of piracy for the first since the 1700s. According to a report from the Washington Post, in the wake of Venezuela’s economic and societal collapse, criminals desperate to earn a living have taken up the centuries-old crime and are attacking yachts and fishing vessels along the coast of South America.
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High school-age children in the United States are set to receive “life-saving trauma training” funded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in an effort to prepare them for “mass casualty events”.
The DHS has issued a $1.8 million grant to create the program, according to federal procurement documents obtained by The Young Turks (TYT) news organization.
The ‘School-Age Trauma Training’ program aims to provide “the knowledge necessary to stabilize the injured and control severe bleeding until first responders arrive on the scene”.
The FBI has fired Agent Peter Strzok, who helped lead the bureau’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election until officials discovered he had been sending anti-Trump texts.
Aitan Goelman, Strzok’s lawyer, said FBI Deputy Director David L. Bowdich ordered the firing on Friday — even though the director of the FBI office that normally handles employee discipline had decided Strzok should face only a demotion and 60-day suspension. Goelman said the move undercuts the FBI’s repeated assurances that Strzok would be afforded the normal disciplinary process.
“This isn’t the normal process in any way more than name,” Goelman said.
The FBI declined to comment.
The termination marks a remarkable downfall for Strzok, a 22-year veteran of the bureau who investigated Russian spies, defense officials accused of selling secrets to China and myriad other important cases. In the twilight of his career, Strzok was integral to two of the bureau’s most high-profile investigations: the Russia case, and the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state.
But when a Justice Department inspector general investigation uncovered politically charged messages that Strzok had exchanged with another FBI official, he was relegated to a position in human resources. Conservatives soon made Strzok the face of their attacks against the special counsel investigation into the president’s campaign, and the FBI took steps to remove him from its ranks.
[FBI agent Peter Strzok feuds with GOP critics at hearing]
Strzok’s position in the bureau had been precarious since last summer, when Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz told Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III that the lead agent on his team had been exchanging anti-Trump messages with an FBI lawyer. The next day, Mueller expelled Strzok from the group.
The lawyer, Lisa Page, had also been a part of Mueller’s team, though she left a few weeks earlier and no longer works for the FBI. She and Strzok were having an affair.
President Trump has derided the pair as “FBI lovers,” and he and his conservative allies have pointed to their conduct in an attempt to discredit the Mueller probe. As recently as Saturday, Trump tweeted an attack on Strzok, Page and former FBI director James B. Comey and deputy director Andrew McCabe.
“Will the FBI ever recover it’s once stellar reputation, so badly damaged by Comey, McCabe, Peter S and his lover, the lovely Lisa Page, and other top officials now dismissed or fired?” Trump wrote. “So many of the great men and women of the FBI have been hurt by these clowns and losers!”
Horowitz concluded that Strzok showed a “willingness to take official action” to hurt Trump’s electoral prospects, particularly in a text he sent telling Page “we’ll stop” Trump from being president.
Strzok, who was a deputy assistant director for counterintelligence at the bureau, has apologized for sending the messages and said they reflected personal views that did not affect his work. His lawyer has said that had Strzok wanted to prevent Trump’s election, he could have leaked that Trump’s campaign was under investigation for possibly coordinating with Russia — a revelation that might have upended his bid to become president.
At a Congressional hearing earlier this month, Strzok sparred with Republican lawmakers who raised questions about his character and even his marriage. He asserted there was “no evidence of bias in my professional actions” and that his having to testify was “just another victory notch in [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s belt and another milestone in our enemies’ campaign to tear America apart.”
Strzok was escorted out of the FBI building in June and effectively relieved of work responsibilities, though he technically remained an FBI employee as he and his attorney challenged the effort to dismiss him. On July 24, they made a final pitch to Candice M. Will, who leads the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility.
California Gov. Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency for areas impacted by an aggressive wildfire burning south of Los Angeles.
The emergency declaration was issued Thursday for Orange and Riverside counties because of the so-called Holy Fire, burning in the Cleveland National Forest. The inferno has chased some 20,000 residents from their homes, and others were urged, though not required, to evacuate.
Much of Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park has been closed for three months due to hazards caused by frequent earthquakes triggered by collapse events at the summit of Kīlauea Volcano. Although seismicity decreased over the weekend, the temblors – more than 18,000 in the last 30 days – have wreaked havoc throughout the park. Those magnitude 5.0 and higher riddle Highway 11, other park roads, overlooks and trails with dangerous sinkholes and cracks. Jaggar Museum and the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory buildings are damaged and stand empty.
It has been reported that the US Department of Energy is planning a hands-on test of the grid’s ability to recover from a hacker-induced blackout. This is according to E&E News.
The report states that the ‘Liberty Eclipse’ exercise will simulate “re-energising the power grid while squaring off against a simultaneous cyber attack on electric, oil and natural gas infrastructure.”
Taking place in November, the aim of the stress test is to “gain insights into how industry, with DOE support, would execute [a] response to a significant cyber incident,” according to planning documents obtained by E&E News.
According to Energy Secretary, Rick Perry, digital threats are of “vital importance” and will allow the new Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response to show what it can do.
Speaking at a security event last week, Perry said: “It’s in our national security interest to continue to protect these sources of energy and to deliver them around the world. Taking care of that infrastructure, from the standpoint of protecting it from cyberattacks — I don’t think it’s ever been more important than it is today.”
It is believed that the Liberty Eclipse exercise may highlight the grid’s reliance on natural gas, a vulnerability which DoE officials worry may be exploited. Earlier this year they warned that the US natural gas pipeline network is “difficult to protect” from physical or cyber disruption.
Others, however, believe that it is hard to pinpoint specific types of generation as being at greater risk.
“I don’t know that we’ve been able to make that judgment — remember that we don’t have perfect visibility,” Jeanette Manfra, assistant secretary for DHS’s Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, told reporters. “They’re definitely a target, [but] the electric sector has a lot of resilience built into it.”
There will be a two-day tabletop exercise ahead of the operational drill on 1 November. The operational phase will focus on ‘black start’ recovery before syncing generation with the wider grid.
During Liberty Eclipse, the DoE will incorporate simulated cranking paths provided by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, in the hopes of speeding up grid restoration following a major cyberattack.
The exercise will include replicas of substation equipment so the utility industry can rehearse how it would handle a crippling cyberattack aimed at blocking participants from restoring power.
There is yet another massive anomaly caught on MIMIC Map. This time the wave pattern targets an area of high cyclone activity in the Pacific Ocean. It falls between Hurricane Hector and Hurricane John. It also goes directly over another cyclone system.
This raises the same question that we have asked many times before. Are These wave patterns directly connected to weather?
While hundreds of thousands of aquatic animals are being killed by a devastating and unprecedented red tide in Florida, other parts in the world have also recorded many unusual animal mass die-offs these days. Here a long list of frightening examples:
An Egyptian infrastructure project has been halted after construction workers found a sphinx-like statue during roadworks between the ancient temples of Karnak and Luxor.
Following weeks of below-average tropical activity in the eastern Pacific Ocean basin, Mother Nature has decided to add several tropical cyclones into the mix.
Hurricane Hector, the first to form, is expected to pass south of Hawaii Wednesday.
Over 1,400 miles east of Hector was Kristy, which had strengthened quickly into a tropical storm by Tuesday morning.
About 1,000 miles east of Kristy and closer to Mexico’s Pacific Coast early Tuesday morning were Hurricane John and Tropical Storm Ileana.
Ileana didn’t stick around long, dissipating late Tuesday morning after John’s nearby dominant and larger circulation caused it to fall apart. The remnants of Ileana are forecast to pivot north and northwest around John and become less defined.
You can see all four of these tropical cyclones lined up in this satellite image from Tuesday morning.
We have two new anomalies on MIMIC Map.
The first one stretches from the Western Pacific down to Antarctica. The second stretches from the Mystery base location to up toward Italy and Greece.
This comes at a time where we are seeing extreme weather patterns worldwide. Raising the question, are we witnessing manipulation here on the Map?
Something truly dramatic appears to be happening to the globe, and it isn’t just because the amount of carbon dioxide in the air suddenly reached some sort of magical “tipping point”. But without a doubt, temperatures are getting warmer. In July, Death Valley experienced “the hottest month ever recorded on the planet”. Over in Europe, Saturday was being billed as Europe’s “hottest day ever”, and temperatures in Lisbon, Portugal were expected to top 107 degrees both Saturday and Sunday. On the other side of the planet, the crippling drought in Australia is devastating farms..
With the hours ticking by ahead of Washington’s re-imposition of a slew of economic sanctions on Iran, President Trump has just released a statement confirming the narrative he would prefer Americans believe.
Large sections of Yosemite National Park will be closed “indefinitely” because of the ongoing wildfires raging throughout the region which have filled the iconic valley with hazardous smoke.
