Lake Worth officials say someone altered automated message.
The town of Lake Worth sent out an alert Sunday warning residents about power outages caused by “extreme zombie activity.”
South Florida was drenched by large amounts of rain Sunday, causing power outages in some areas. A storm, not the undead, was behind the power problems.
Four sinkholes have opened up in a fast-growing retirement community, The Villages, in Florida, including one in front of a home that was abandoned months ago because of an earlier sinkhole. The new sinkholes opened up Monday in The Villages following a week of nonstop rain in central Florida.
After Venezuela, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands prudently repatriated a substantial portion (if not all) of their physical gold held at the NY Fed or other western central banks in recent years, one month ago Turkey announced that it too has decided to repatriate its gold stored in the US Federal Reserve and deliver it to the Istanbul Stock Exchange, according to reports in Turkey’s Yeni Safak. As we reported at the time, it wouldn’t be the first time Turkey has asked the NY Fed to ship the country’s gold back: in recent years, Turkey repatriated 220 tons of gold from abroad, of which 28.7 tons was brought back from the US last year.
An armored box containing US Air Force grenade rounds is missing and could be lying idly somewhere in the countryside of North Dakota.
The explosive cache went missing on May 1 as the 91st Missile Wing Security Forces traveled from Minot Air Force Base. According to North Dakota’s Bismarck Tribune, the high-caliber explosive rounds are thought to have fallen off a vehicle somewhere west of the city of Parshall as the unit moved between bases.
In what looks to us like confirmation that the US has officially kicked the can down the road, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Sunday that China and the US were putting a trade war “on hold” as the two sides work to hammer out a comprehensive trade agreement that will be acceptable to both sides.
Residents on Hawaii’s Big Island are facing a new danger this week now that lava has entered the ocean–laze, a mix of hydrochloric acid, steam and fine glass particles.
In the past two weeks, nearly two dozen new fissures opened up and spewed lava and poisonous gas into residential areas on and surrounding the Kīlauea dome.
1) Atlantic Council to join Facebook
2) Google’s The Selfish Ledge
3) YouTube deleting certain type of videos
4) Lando Calrissian’s newfound ‘pansexuality’
5) Copyright extends to 144 years
6) Jim Carrey’s comeback movie scores 0%
1) Cicada 3301 maybe created QAnon?
2) ANTIFA high schooler
3) Trump has new CIA director
4) 34 Bishops resign in Chile
5) What its like to be Muslim in China
A US military helicopter dropped a whole box of ammunition on an elementary school in El Paso, Texas. It’s not the first time that a US army aircraft lost objects while flying over civilian buildings.
Donald Trump has threatened Kim Jong-un with the same fate as Muammar Gaddafi if the North Korean leader “doesn’t make a deal” on his nuclear weapons programme.
The US president issued the threat at the White House when he was asked about the recent suggestion by his national security adviser, John Bolton, that the “Libyan model” be a template for dealing with North Korea at a summit between Trump and Kim planned for 12 June in Singapore.
1) Ultrasonic Attacks can Trigger Alexa / Siri
2) Anthony Weiner’s “Alleged” Seizure warrent
3) Ebola outbreak in major Congo city
4) Medieval peasants had more days off
5) STEM prof experiment axed
The discovery of clay tablets in Iraqi Kurdistan has helped archaeologists unlock the mystery of an ancient lost city.
The 92 clay tablets were unearthed last summer by archaeologists from Germany’s University of Tübingen during an excavation in the village of Bassetki. Stored in a pottery vessel and wrapped with clay, experts believe that they may have been hidden away for posterity.
During the week, Tom Jenkins is a financial advisor, helping others invest for their retirement. On weekends, Jenkins sometimes packs a sack lunch and pruning saw and visits what he calls his “Walnut IRA.” His 20 acres of black walnut trees, originally planted in a 12 foot by 12 foot grid and gradually thinned to a wider spacing as the trees grew, will be ready for harvesting about the time Tom plans to retire. With the high price of black walnut logs, he figures his walnut acreage will be enough to make him a millionaire. Better yet, his property taxes for the walnut stand are almost zero, thanks to a special property tax rate to encourage timber production.
According to timber experts, black walnut trees, when planted to maximize tree growth, can grow as much as 3′ to 4′ per year in good soil, reaching a mature height of over 100′ and 30″ to 40″ in diameter, with 16″ diameter saw logs ready to harvest in 30 years.
Black walnut trees are native to the central and eastern U.S, but also do well in other parts of the country, and are grown for both nuts and timber. A walnut orchard can take a few years to come into full production, but then produces up to 6,000 pounds of nuts per acre. Black walnut logs bring premium prices, and have since the 1700s, with single trees bringing up to $20,000. Bruce Thompson, author of “Black Walnut For Profit,” estimates a mature stand of black walnut trees can bring about $100,000 per acre in timber value alone. The fine, straight-grained wood is used for furniture, veneer and gunstocks.
The powerful, steam-driven blast was expected to spew large amounts of volcanic ash and smoke from Kilauea’s crater on Hawaii’s Big Island. The eruption has destroyed 37 homes and other structures in a small southeast area of the island and forced around 2,000 people to evacuate their homes.
More than 1,000 people from federal, state, county and municipal agencies will be involved in the Dark Sky drills, with locations across in the Fox Valley and east-central Wisconsin.
In Fond du Lac, the mock disaster scene will unfold at Alliant Energy. Threatened with a terrorist takeover (portrayed by actors), National Guard will be called in to stop the attack, said Bobbi Hicken, the county’s director of emergency management.
“There is no real power outage and we will not be turning off the power as part of the exercise,” Hicken said. “But it is a good time for people to think about how prepared they are should an extended emergency arise.”
The United Nations’ International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) is finishing up their Global Week of Action Against Gun Violence. According to IANSA, the goal of the week-long meeting is “for us to advocate collectively for an end to illicit trade and misuse of small arms and light weapons.”
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2) Earth Magnetic field drifting
3) Students for a Democratic Society not “democratic”
4) Windows 10 spyware and Akamai
5) Memory transferred between snails
Ash and fiery projectiles exploding from the Kilauea volcano have forced Hawaii authorities to issue an aviation red alert warning pilots to steer clear of the erupting shield crater.
Scores of people living near the volcano’s Halemaumau summit crater have already been evacuated. Now increased volcanic activity and a rising wall of ash has compelled the US Geological Survey to issue an aviation alert in the area.
According to the agency, plumes of ash cloud as high as 12,000 feet are threatening visibility, with volatile wind conditions potentially bringing projectiles and volcanic fog in contact with aircraft.
Swarms of tiny robots that carry out time consuming tasks could soon become a common sight after scientists figured out how to attach a “brain” to the mini laser-powered machines.
The University of Washington research team that created the insect-inspired droids says they could be used for a range of jobs, including surveying crops and sniffing out gas leaks.
Recently Christine Assange, the mother of Julian Assange was banned on twitter. This was caught by Suzie Dawnson, who picked up the fact Christine Assange was shadow banned.
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2) Twitter hides content
3) California collecting DNA since 1983
4) Hepatitis B Vaccine
5) Battle tech changes game for SJWs