Tag: News Burst

News Burst 16 January 2020 ~ January 16, 2020


Editor’s Note: More extremes of all sorts listed below. Please read, know of changes triggered by extremes, and BE…

InJoy!

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News Burst 16 January 2020

  • On Wednesday, a day after India’s top court dismissed the mercy plea by two of the convicts in 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, Delhi prison authorities have told Delhi High Court that due to one of the four convicted in the case pending petition for mercy to the President of India, there would be no execution of the four convicts on 22 January.
  • Two Iranian missiles struck down a Ukrainian passenger jet, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, posting verified security camera footage showing double projectiles gliding through the sky before hitting their target. The missiles were fired 30 seconds apart and help explain a mystery as to why the plane’s transponder was not working – it was disabled by the first strike, before being hit by a second, the Times said.
  • Lawyers for Michael Flynn, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, on Tuesday said in a court filing that he would seek to withdraw his guilty plea in former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Flynn pleaded guilty in late 2017 to lying to the FBI about interactions with Russia’s ambassador to the United States in the weeks before Trump took office, but has since argued that prosecutors violated his rights and duped him into a plea agreement.
  • Sweden admits sending fake officer to NATO. The Swedish man had for many years worked with some of the nation’s top secrets. Not only did he make a career in the military intelligence service and work for the defence group Saab, he also held high military positions abroad – despite lacking a military education as such.
  • The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) network of sensors designed specifically to detect gravitational waves has already detected at least two collisions of ultra-dense neutron stars, but has never picked up a phenomenon known as burst gravitational waves, until now. The LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors reported an unanticipated “burst” of gravitational waves on January 14, possibly for the first time ever.
  • The Russian government has resigned, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced. The prime minister thinks it right that the current government should step down in the wake of the presidential proposals to amend the constitution, Medvedev told President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with the cabinet. “After those amendments are adopted — and it was said that this is likely to be done following discussion — there will be significant changes not only to a variety of constitution articles, but to the balance of power, namely to the executive, legislative and judicial branches of power,” the prime minister said.
  • Amazon and Walmart’s Flipkart have been hit with a barrage of criticism from India’s brick-and-mortar retailers who accuse the U.S. giants of violating Indian law with deep discounts and discriminating against small sellers by promoting select big ones.
  • Amazon said it will setup digital centers in 100 Indian cities and villages to help businesses get online to sell their goods and will offer support in marketing and logistics. The investment of $1 billion will help bring more than 10 million Indian businesses online and enable exports of India-made goods worth $10 billion by 2025, it added.
  • Amazon, which paid $0 in taxes, made more than $11 billion in profit in 2018—almost 16,000 times as much as the $690,000 donation for Australian bushfires recovery. Bezos himself could afford to contribute a great deal. By Business Insider’s calculations, Bezos’s income grew by $34 million per day in the past three months, meaning Bezos made approximately $690,000 every 30 minutes give or take.
  • Attorney Michael Avenatti was arrested by Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents Tuesday evening during a break in a disciplinary hearing in Los Angeles over allegations that the high-profile lawyer scammed a client out of $840,000.
  • The National Security Agency has discovered a major security flaw in Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system that could allow hackers to intercept seemingly secure communications, but rather than exploit the flaw for its own intelligence needs, the NSA tipped off Microsoft so that it can fix the system for everyone. In other words, somebody else had discovered it as well.
  • US Congressmen Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler are among the seven lawmakers to be named as House of Representatives impeachment managers in the Senate trial of US President Donald Trump, the Office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced in a statement on Wednesday.
  • Iranians called on social media on Wednesday (Jan 15) for fresh demonstrations a week after the shooting down of a passenger plane, seeking to turn the aftermath of the crash into a sustained campaign against Iran’s leadership. Protesters, with students at the forefront, have staged daily rallies in Tehran and other cities since Saturday.
  • The Pakistani army has been called-in to assist with relief efforts as many regions, particularly in the north of the country, continue to be ravaged by brutal, anomalous cold and snow. At least 100 people have died, with many more reported injured, as severe cold and heavy snowfall continued to lash parts of Pakistan on Wednesday, January 15. Northern parts have seen 62+ people die this week alone after avalanches buried some fifteen villages in Azad Jammu & Kashmir, according to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). In addition, over 50 house were destroyed in the region. Furthermore, at least 25 people were killed and around 40 houses flattened in the province of Balochistan during the last 24 hours.

Active Weather

  • Tropical Cyclone Claudia – 35-50 kts↓ 998 hPa↑- W of Australia Moving W 10 kts↓

Strongest EQ in Europe M3.8 Kosovo
Strongest EQ in US M3.2 Alaska
Strongest EQ on the Planet M5.5 Kupang, Indonesia
Deepest EQ M5.3 511 km South of Fiji Islands News Burst 16 January 2020

News Burst 15 January 2020 ~ January 15, 2020


News Burst 15 January 2020

  • According to Area 1, the Silicon Valley security firm that allegedly detected the hacking, Russian hackers from a military intelligence unit known formerly as the G.R.U., and to private researchers by the alias “Fancy Bear,” used so-called phishing emails that appear designed to steal usernames and passwords, to gain access to Burisma’s network. Burisma is the Ukrainian energy firm that VP Biden’s son was paid $50,000 per month as a board member.
  • Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party wrote to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to request a second independence referendum. Boris Johnson wrote back refusing her request.
  • Reacting swiftly to developments within the British royal family, several companies are looking to sell their merchandise while poking fun at the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Mere hours after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced their plans, Ikea Italy posted an advert for cardboard moving boxes on Instagram which said: “Meghan, Harry. We understand you, we are made to change”.
  • Taal volcano in the Philippines could spew lava and ash for weeks, authorities warned, leaving thousands in limbo after they fled their homes fearing a massive eruption. The crater of the volcano exploded to life with towering clouds of ash and jets of red-hot lava on Sunday, forcing those living around the mountain south of Manila to flee to safety.
  • Six people died, 15 were injured and another 10 remain missing after a large sinkhole swallowed a bus carrying pedestrians in northwestern China on Monday afternoon, according to China’s Xinhua News Agency.
  • India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed pleas for a review of the death sentence handed down to four men in the rape and murder of a young woman on a New Delhi bus, leaving an appeal to the president as their only possible recourse. The 2012 attack on the 23-year old physiotherapy student on the moving bus shocked India and led to tough new laws against sexual violence, including the death penalty for rape in some cases. Last week, a Delhi court said they would be hanged on Jan 22.
  • A Delta flight from Los Angeles International Airport to Shanghai made an emergency U-turn on Tuesday, dumping fuel on approximately 30 schoolchildren as it returned to LAX. Students at Park Avenue Elementary School were exposed to an unknown type of fuel [kerosene], and were evaluated by paramedics on scene.
  • Putin playfully urges Syria’s Assad to host Trump visit while touring biblical site.
  • A huge fire broke out at a chemical plant in Tarragona, Spain following an explosion at the site. One person is reported dead and another six injured. The blast was reported at around 6:40pm local time on Tuesday in the Catalonian port city which attracts tourists with its numerous Roman-era ruins.
  • Ukraine’s Supreme Anti-Corruption Court has obliged the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) to launch a probe into seizure of government power and corruption suspicions. The cases mention the names of the United States’ 44th president, Barack Obama, former Ukrainian president, Pyotr Poroshenko and ex-US vice-president, Joseph Biden, a member of the Ukrainian parliament from the Opposition Platform – For Life party, Renat Kuzmin, said on Tuesday.
  • Amazon’s founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos arrived in India Tuesday and was welcomed with a new antitrust case. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Monday ordered an investigation into alleged malpractices by Flipkart and Amazon India as far as the issue of deep discounting and practice of preferred sellers of mobile phones by both the retailers was concerned.

Active Weather

  • Tropical Cyclone Claudia – 50-70 kts↓ 989 hPa↑- W of Australia Moving W 11 kts

Strongest EQ in Europe M3.4 Greece
Strongest EQ in US M3.7 Alaska
Strongest EQ on the Planet M5.1 Argentina
Deepest EQ M4.2 256 km Argentina News Burst 15 January 2020

News Burst ~ January 14, 2020


News Burst 14 January 2020

  • Baltimore City Police responded to multiple shooting on Saturday that left five people dead. In total, 12 people were shot, and five died on Saturday. The shootings were widespread and weren’t concentrated in a single neighborhood.
  • Schools and businesses shut across the Philippine capital as a Taal volcano belched clouds of ash across the city and seismologists warned an eruption could happen at any time, potentially triggering a tsunami. Taal, one of the world’s smallest active volcanoes, spewed ash for a second day from its crater in the middle of a lake about 70km south of central Manila.
  • While banning pro-peace accounts, Twitter openly allows pedophiles to discuss raping children. Read more…
  • A former soldier has admitted to killing a Slovak journalist and his fiancée in a crime that had sparked mass protests across the country leading to the resignation of Prime Minister Robert Fico. In 2018 the murder of local journalist Jan Kuciak, who had been investigating the Italian mafia’s activities in Slovakia and its links to senior Slovak officials, sparked a crisis in the country, with almost 20 cities hosting rallies against graft and insufficient measures to deal with corruption.
  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has appeared in person in the Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London, where the hearing on his extradition to the United States has begun. The hearing was delayed for more than an hour, which, according to Assange’s lawyer, Gareth Peirce, was due to the fact that there were some complications at Belmarsh prison, where the WikiLeaks founder is being held. She also said that the defence still had limited opportunities to communicate with and transfer case materials to her client because of prison rules.
  • Earth’s magnetic field could feel a bump in pressure on January 14th and 15th when a complex stream of solar wind reaches our planet. While no geomagnetic storms are expected, Arctic sky watchers will likely be treated to an extra dose of green overhead this week, and perhaps a further burst of activity beneath their feet, too.
  • China’s subways track commuters as security takes on a silent hi-tech face. In November, Beijing’s metro joined about a dozen cities across China in testing facial recognition systems, which are already used in many commercial applications and by public security departments. A trial is under way at a checkpoint in a Beijing downtown station.
  • With Hong Kong’s anti-government movement rolling on for more than seven months, an estimated 200 protesters had fled to Taiwan island on extended tourist visas.
  • Despite an aggressive crackdown by the Iranian regime that reportedly included soldiers and riot police firing into crowds of civilians – in open defiance of President Trump’s warning to Tehran not to “kill your protesters” – anti-government protests over Iran’s mistaken shoot-down of UIA Flight 752 continued on Monday for a third straight day, following the regime’s admission of responsibility on Saturday. During the protests, which erupted out of anger over the regime’s initial lies about Flight 752 (it initially insisted that a “mechanical error” was responsible despite video evidence suggesting a missile strike), Iranian security forces fired both live ammunition and tear gas into crowds of angry demonstrators.

Active Weather

  • Severe Tropical Cyclone Claudia – 65-90 ↑ kts 979 hPa – NNW off coast of Australia – Moving WSW 11 kts ↓

Strongest EQ in Europe M4.2 Poland
Strongest EQ in US M4.2 Alaska
Strongest EQ on the Planet M5.1 Japan
Deepest EQ M4.8 552 km Fiji Islands News Burst 14 January 2020

News Burst ~ January 13, 2020


Editor’s Note: Wow…just wow. Please read below of all the chaos on Earth with people globally demanding change for governmental control. Think this is a coincidence? I say NOT, as humanity stirs from a long oppressive slumber.

NOW is the moment to reach for your own personal sovereignty, exist in Love, and BE…

InJoy!

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News Burst 13 January 2020

  • Mass protests have again broken out in Iran at the end of a chaotic week for the country, capped by the early Saturday admission and apology for the military accidentally shooting down a Ukrainian passenger plane, killing all 176 people on board. Additionally, it appears that the British ambassador in Tehran, Rob Macaire, was arrested shortly after photographing the protests. Iranian state sources are alleging he was helping to “organize” and incite the protests.
  • A Walmart Supercenter in Salem, New Hampshire, has been the first store to test a new kind of technology that will use robots to collect grocery items for online order fulfillment. Walmart is one of the largest companies in the world by revenue, with at least 2.3 million employees in the US, has seen rapid increases in labor costs that are forcing unwanted margin compression.
  • Massive crowds out on the streets of Paris demanding Macron’s resignation. International Mass Media nowhere to be seen.
  • Taiwanese re-elected President Tsai Ing-wen by a landslide on Saturday in a stern rebuke that could fuel further tension with China, which has tried military threats and economic inducements to get the island to accept its rule.
  • Anti-government unrest in Chinese-ruled Hong Kong took center stage during a campaign in which Tsai held up Taiwan as a beacon of hope for protesters in the former British colony and rejected Beijing’s offer of a “one country, two systems” model.
  • Hong Kong’s protesters and politicians have hailed a sweeping election win by Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen on Saturday as a fillip for their movement that puts further pressure on China.
  • Seven mortar bombs fell inside Iraq’s Balad air base on Sunday, which houses US forces, and four Iraqi soldiers were wounded in the attack. The attack came hours after United States President warned Iran not to kill the agitators protesting against the downing of Ukranian passenger airliner, that was shot down by Iranian armed forces.
  • Indian police baton-charged protesters Sunday (Jan 12) to stop them reaching Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cavalcade as nationwide protests against a bitterly disputed citizenship law entered a second month. Tens of thousands staged protests through the night in the eastern city of Kolkata to denounce Modi’s weekend visit to the capital of West Bengal state, whose local rulers have strongly opposed the legislation.
  • A high-level stratospheric eruption has just been recorded at Taal Volcano, the Philippines today, January 12 2020. A thick column of volcanic ash has been fired to an altitude of 55,000 ft (16.7 km) above sea level, according to data released by the Tokyo Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC). Particulates ejected to altitudes above 32,800 feet (10 km), and into the stratosphere, often linger, where they have a direct cooling effect on the planet.

Active Weather

  • Tropical Cyclone Claudia – 60 kts 979 hPa – NNW of Australia Moving WSW 14 kts

Strongest EQ in Europe M4.3 Greece
Strongest EQ in US M4.9 Sitkin Island, Alaska
Strongest EQ on the Planet M5.6 Bouvet Island
Deepest EQ M4.8 518 km Fiji Islands News Burst 13 January 2020

News Burst 12 January 2020 ~ January 12, 2020


News Burst 12 January 2020

  • Omani Sultan Qaboos bin Said al-Said passed away on Friday, leaving no apparent heir as the monarch had no children [……..] and never appointed a successor.
  • Iran’s Priests admit: B737 unintentionally shot down because of “human error”, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said on Saturday. The Iranian military also confirmed in a statement on state TV that the jet was brought down unintentionally as it flew close to a sensitive military installation. According to the statement, the parties responsible will be held accountable by the judiciary.
  • The Tor Missile System that downed the B737, (also called the SA-15 Gauntlet by NATO), is a short-range “point defense” system that integrates the missile launcher and radar into a single tracked vehicle—is designed to be mobile and lethal against targets at altitudes up to 6,000 meters (20,000 feet) and at ranges of 12 kilometers (7.5 miles).
  • Airports have flight paths in case of severe problems after takeoff that require immediate landing, these tracks avoid interfering with incoming traffic; someone might say the aircraft was turning back to land due to tech problem and was shooted because they tought it was an attack, very unlikely. Instead, the Clones in Iran did what they had to do, period.
  • Time to go for the Iranian Priests of the Inquisition, time to go back to the dark age where they belong and give back the Power to the People, Iran’s Patriots Unite!
  • Soft Disclosure: TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) discovered the first known Earth-sized planet in a zone where liquid water could exist on the surface of a terrestrial planet.
  • Millions of Taiwanese cast votes Saturday in a closely watched presidential and parliamentary election that has seen the island’s fraught relationship with China take centre stage.
  • Japanese authorities have requested the International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO) for an Interpol wanted notice for the wife of former Nissan Motor. They are stuck in Lebanon, the former Swiss of the Middle East.
  • David Drummond Chief Legal Officer of Alphabet Inc. resigned amid investigation into his relationships with several women at the company, including one who said he fathered a child with her and then neglected them.
  • Network Solutions (NS) took down 88 other domains belonging to Jim Watkins because they don’t like 8kun.top. The 88 were listed with NS but 8kun is not and thus will be much harder to take down.
  • Middle East expert Michael Doran slammed former Secretary of State John Kerry in a series of tweets exposing the Obama administration’s dealings with Iran. “I must become a whistleblower,” Doran tweeted Friday in response to a self-serving opinion piece by Kerry published by The New York Times. “I know for a fact that the Obama admin sent letters – plural – directly to Soleimani.”
  • Impeachment was becoming irrrelevant fast so Pelosi decided to end her self-imposed hold on the articles and turn them over.
  • New Tech Soft Disclosure: Army scientists have developed a radically new quantum device that can store many quantum excitation patterns at once, opening the door for the creation of a quantum network. A quantum network is the Holy Grail for scientists because it likely can never be wiretapped and it would offer extraordinarily powerful computing and sensing capabilities.
  • US President Donald Trump has appealed directly to the protesters in the streets of Iran. “To the brave, long-suffering people of Iran: I’ve stood with you since the beginning of my Presidency, and my Administration will continue to stand with you. We are following your protests closely, and are inspired by your courage,” Trump wrote both in English and Farsi, addressing the protesters in Iran.

Strongest EQ in Europe M4.9 Marmara SeaStrongest EQ in US M3.9 AlaskaStrongest EQ on the Planet M5.9 Puerto RicoDeepest EQ M4.8 518 km Fiji IslandsNews Burst 12 January 2020