Jumping Jack Flash Hypothesis: It's A Gas Gas Gas: Event Update For 2021-04-17

Sunday, April 18, 2021

Event Update For 2021-04-17

http://jumpingjackflashhypothesis.blogspot.com/2012/02/jumping-jack-flash-hypothesis-its-gas.html

The seas, lakes and oceans are now pluming deadly hydrogen sulfide and suffocating methane. Hydrogen sulfide is a highly toxic water-soluble heavier-than-air gas and will accumulate in low-lying areas. Methane is slightly more buoyant than normal air and so will be all around, but will tend to contaminate our atmosphere from the top down. These gases are sickening and killing oxygen-using life all around the world, including human life, as our atmosphere is increasingly poisoned. Because both gases are highly flammable and because our entire civilization is built around fire and flammable fuels, this is leading to more fires and explosions. This is an extinction level event and will likely decimate both the biosphere and human population and it is debatable whether humankind can survive this event.

A. More fires and more explosions, especially along the coasts, but everywhere generally.
B. Many more animal die-offs, of all kinds, and especially oceanic species.
C. More multiples of people will be found dead in their homes, as if they'd dropped dead.
D. More corpses found in low-lying areas, all over the world.
E. More unusual vehicular accidents.
F. Improved unemployment numbers as people die off.

Category: Variety Pack

2021-04-17 - Car bursts into flames and burns 39-year-old man to death unsuspiciously in parking lot on Kilmuir Drive in Thornliebank, near coastal Glasgow (Scotland):
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scots-cops-say-death-man-23934867
http://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/19240441.kilmuir-drive-man-dies-car-fire-parking-lot/
http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/6981244/man-dead-glasgow-car-fire-explosion/
http://www.newsbreak.com/news/2207618192620/man-dies-after-car-fire-in-parking-lot-as-cops-launch-probe
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-56788888

Quote: "A man has died after a car burst into flames in Thornliebank this morning. Emergency services were called to Kilmuir Drive to reports of a car on fire. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service extinguished the fire, but a man who was inside the vehicle was pronounced dead at the scene."

Quote: "One onlooker said: 'There was a guy sitting in the estate car. It looked like he was rocking back and forth. It just burst into flames out of nowhere. Two boys ran over to try get him out. They put one of the windows in but they couldn’t get him out. They had to fall back when the flames got too intense. Then the car exploded. A girl was in the street crying. It’s absolutely horrific.'"

2021-04-17 - Recycling center hit by fire, 50 tons of pallets go up in flames, on Foster Street in coastal Hull (Britain):
http://humbersidefire.gov.uk/newsroom/incidents
http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/large-fire-foster-street-plumes-5312055
http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/foster-street-fire-aftermath-shown-5312576

Quote: "Foster Street, Hull. Sat 17 Apr 2021 17:58 (No:006715) Approximately 50 tonnes of wooden pallets on fire. Four main lines, two ground monitors, one hose reel, three standpipe keys and bars in use. On site personnel assisted with mechanical digger."

2021-04-17 - Recycling center fire breaks out in Corranure (Ireland):
http://www.anglocelt.ie/2021/04/18/fire-brought-under-control-at-recycling-centre/

2021-04-17 - Landfill fire breaks out near Dawson's Lane in Chorley (Britain):
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/19240788.fire-crews-tackle-huge-blaze-near-chorley-involving-seven-tonnes-plastic/

2021-04-17 - Brush fire breaks out in coastal Davie (Florida):
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/brush-fire-shuts-down-road-in-davie-police/2431077/

2021-04-17 - Woman, 31, disappears while scuba diving off coastal Pulau Satang (Malaysia):
http://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2021/04/683314/scuba-diver-goes-missing-pulau-satang
http://www.newsarawaktribune.com.my/woman-diver-feared-drowned-off-pulau-satang/

Quote: "A female scuba diver has gone missing while scuba diving in the waters of Pulau Satang here on Saturday afternoon. The disappearance of Chong Su Sian, 31, was noticed by her friends and younger sibling when she did not resurface after an hour and twenty minutes following a solo dive at 4pm."

2021-04-17 - Man, 44, found dead in jail cell in coastal North Myrtle Beach (South Carolina):
http://www.wbtw.com/news/sled-investigating-the-death-of-an-inmate-at-north-myrtle-beach-jail/

2021-04-17 - Woman, 56, found dead near Shockley Ferry Road in Anderson (South Carolina):
http://www.foxcarolina.com/investigations/deputies-deceased-body-found-in-field-near-shockley-ferry-road-in-anderson/article_a4ec6e06-9fb3-11eb-8332-3ff97375abed.html

2021-04-17 - Person found dead near Laude Drive near the Rock River in Rockford (Illinois):
http://wrex.com/2021/04/17/body-found-in-rockford-saturday-evening/
http://www.wifr.com/2021/04/18/dead-body-found-on-rockfords-southeast-side-saturday/

2021-04-17 - Person found dead along the Scioto River south of Columbus (Ohio):
http://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2021/04/17/body-covered-mud-found-along-scioto-river-south-columbus-autopsy-pending/7272705002/

2021-04-17 - Person found dead in the Eagle River near Edwards (Colorado):
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2021/04/17/human-remains-eagle-river-edwards/
http://news.yahoo.com/human-remains-found-eagle-river-155426557.html

2021-04-17 - Man found dead in parking garage in Bailey’s Crossroads (Virginia):
http://www.localdvm.com/news/virginia/body-found-in-fairfax-county-parking-garage-detectives-investigating/

2021-04-17 - Person found dead in coastal Wellington Harbour (New Zealand):
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/wellington/124874863/body-found-in-wellington-harbour-referred-to-coroner

2021-04-17 - Man, 53, found dead on beach on coastal Capones Island (Philippine Islands), woman missing:
http://manilastandard.net/news/national/352199/korean-found-dead-in-capones.html

2021-04-17 - Man, 31, dies in the water at beach in coastal Sosúa (Dominican Republic):
http://dominicantoday.com/dr/north-coast/2021/04/17/young-man-drowned-while-bathing-at-sosua-beach/

2021-04-17 - Man, 29, dies in the water at beach on Maracas Bay on the island of Trinidad:
http://newsday.co.tt/2021/04/17/body-of-maracas-bay-drowning-victim-recovered/

2021-04-17 - Political analyst, man, 69, found dead in apartment in New Delhi (India):
http://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/news/prof-tareque-found-dead-uttara-flat-2079125

2021-04-17 - Woman, 35, found dead in canal in Valeggio (Italy):
http://www.unionesarda.it/en/articolo/news/italia/2021/04/18/istruttrice-di-cani-esce-di-casa-e-sparisce-il-corpo-senza-vita-i-137-1139168.html

2021-04-17 - Man found dead near park in the Kenilworth suburb of coastal Cape Town (South Africa):
http://ewn.co.za/2021/04/17/police-investigate-body-found-in-kenilworth

2021-04-17 - Man, 27, found dead in coastal Bristol Harbour (Britain):
http://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2021-04-17/mans-body-found-in-bristol-harbour
http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/body-found-bristol-harbour-missing-5309989

2021-04-17 - Small plane crashes and burns outside Colville (Washington), 2 injured:
http://www.statesmanexaminer.com/content/light-plane-crashes-near-colville

2021-04-17 - Small plane crashes into pond at country club in coastal Venice (Florida), engine failure, 1 injured:
http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local-news/small-plane-crashes-in-sarasota-county
http://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/sarasotacounty/small-plane-makes-emergency-landing-crashes-into-pond-at-venice-country-club/67-74e84a79-4b0e-42ec-89f7-81093e3b7e4b

2021-04-17 - Small plane makes emergency landing in the ocean during air show in coastal Cocoa Beach (Florida):
http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/548845-wwii-plane-makes-emergency-landing-during-florida-airshow
http://www.fox35orlando.com/news/watch-plane-goes-down-during-cocoa-beach-air-show-lands-in-ocean
http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2021/04/17/air-show-plane-makes-soft-water-landing-near-patrick/7269612002/
http://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2021/04/17/mechanical-issue-forces-pilot-to-land-close-to-shore-at-cocoa-beach-air-show-organizers-say/
http://www.fox35orlando.com/video/923194

2021-04-17 - Box truck veers off road, crashes into pole, in Orange County (Florida), 1 killed:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/crime/os-ne-truck-driver-medical-episode-fhp-20210418-uoyv5ekpjfhlrm72hi4s326nw4-story.html
http://www.newsbreak.com/news/2207839605801/truck-driver-dies-after-suspected-medical-episode-fhp-says
http://news.yahoo.com/truck-driver-dies-suspected-medical-040100942.html

Quote: "The victim, whose name has not been released, 'may have suffered a medical episode prior to the crash,' the report said."

2021-04-17 - SUV veers off road just before 5:45 AM, crashes into tree, bursts into flame, in coastal Miami Beach (Florida), 2 killed, 2 injured:
http://wsvn.com/news/local/miami-dade/2-killed-2-hospitalized-after-suv-slams-into-tree-catches-fire-in-miami-beach/
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/2-killed-in-early-morning-crash-in-miami-beach/2431050/
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/deadly-miami-beach-car-crash-saturday/2430925/
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2021/04/17/1-dead-3-injured-in-single-vehicle-crash-in-miami-beach/

2021-04-17 - SUV veers off road, crashes into home, in coastal Port Charlotte (Florida), 1 injured:
http://www.yoursun.com/charlotte/suv-slams-into-port-charlotte-house/article_377304fa-9fd8-11eb-918f-077d95bd4657.html
http://www.winknews.com/2021/04/17/car-crashes-into-home-in-charlotte-county-leaves-man-pinned-under-fridge/

2021-04-17 - SUV veers off road, crashes into mobile home, on Pickwick Lane in Halfway (Maryland):
http://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/local/suv-crashes-through-mobile-home-misses-woman-by-2-feet/article_3b4a0284-f471-5ff8-b06a-3cf5b3c02562.html

2021-04-17 - Car veers off road at 12:16 AM, crashes into tree, in coastal Falmouth (Massachusetts), 1 injured:
http://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2021/04/17/man-injured-when-car-crashes-into-tree-brick-kiln-road-falmouth/7268677002/

2021-04-17 - Car veers off road, crashes into trees, bursts into flame, on Beaver Meadow Road in Haddam (Connecticut), 1 injured:
http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/one-transported-to-hospital-after-haddam-crash/2468876/

2021-04-17 - Car veers off road, crashes into pole, near Meadow Creek Drive in coastal Newport News (Virginia), 1 killed:
http://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/newport-news/29-year-old-driver-dies-after-vehicle-crashes-into-utility-pole-in-newport-news/

2021-04-17 - Super Typhoon Surigae brings intense wind and rain to the eastern Philippine Islands, winds peak at 190mph:
http://www.sott.net/article/451583-Super-Typhoon-Surigae-brings-intense-wind-rain-battering-eastern-Philippines-winds-peak-at-190mph
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lkQVXmw1js

8 comments:

TomApril 19, 2021 at 8:31 AM
Murder Monday Jonny, all.

Florida having some trouble with small planes on this day amid a wildfire and some bizarre accidents. PA joins in to boost numbers.
Coupla boats and two residential buildings blew up too.

[hey, how's that economic recovery going?]
Vast Stretches Of America Have Now Descended Into A State Of Deep Economic Hopelessness
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/vast-stretches-of-america-have-now-descended-into-a-state-of-deep-economic-hopelessness/

Even though the stock market has been booming and the corporate media is full of talk about “recovery”, there are many communities in the United States where a permanent atmosphere of despair seems to hang in the air. The federal government gives us doctored numbers that show that the national unemployment rate is low, but in small towns all across the country it seems like almost everyone is either unemployed or working extremely low paying jobs.

There is so much economic pain out there right now, and it is getting worse with each passing month.

Unfortunately, the housing crisis in this country is only going to get worse. As foreign governments, real estate investment companies and wealthy individuals gobble up properties at a feverish pace, millions upon millions of ordinary Americans are being priced out of the market.

This is particularly true for young adults. At this point more of them have moved back home with their parents than ever before.

And civil unrest continues to rage in many of our major cities on an almost nightly basis. [more]

Heaviest rainfall in 40 years triggers flash flooding in Singapore
https://watchers.news/2021/04/19/heaviest-rainfall-in-40-years-triggers-flash-flooding-in-singapore/

Heavy downpour caused flash flooding in Singapore on Saturday, April 17, 2021, with up to 161.4 mm (6.3 inches) of rain recorded in the western region from 04:25 to 07:25 UTC (12:25 to 15:25 LT). The amount was equivalent to 91 percent of the country's average April rain and is among the highest in 40 years. [more]

Wildfire damages structures at University of Cape Town in South Africa
https://wildfiretoday.com/2021/04/18/wildfire-damages-structures-at-university-of-cape-town-in-south-africa/

Two firefighters were seriously injured [more]

[2nd list below]

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TomApril 19, 2021 at 8:35 AM
[Remember 5G and how great it will make cell phone reception?]
SURVEY RESULTS
https://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Survey-Results.pdf

On Thursday, March 25, 2021, almost everyone I spoke with, both here in Santa Fe and elsewhere in the U.S. and Canada, said they were not feeling well and had not slept well the previous night. Since that was my experience as well, I began to ask for details and started taking notes. The stories were consistent and shocking.

I sent out a newsletter asking how widespread this was. I wrote only that I and others had not been feeling well for a couple of weeks and had gotten suddenly much sicker on Wednesday and Thursday, completely unable to sleep, hurting and itching all over. I gave no other details. The responses poured in, a thousand of them, from every continent. They came from people living in New York City, London, Paris and Madrid, and from people living in remote locations miles from the nearest cell tower. They came from people who call themselves electrosensitive and people who do not. They came from people who use no wireless technology at all and have shielded their homes, and from people who have smart meters on their homes and 5G antennas outside who emailed me from their cell phones. They came from people young and old. It did not matter, they all had similar experiences.

People commonly reported that not only they, but also their spouse, children, parents, neighbors, friends, coworkers, clients, and everyone else they knew were sick, exhausted and irritable on March 24 or 25 and had trouble sleeping. They sometimes reported that their pets or farm animals were sick at the same time -- cats, dogs, chickens, goats, cows. [more]

The Nation’s Corn Belt Has Lost a Third of Its Topsoil
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientists-say-nations-corn-belt-has-lost-third-its-topsoil-180977485/

Researchers used satellite imaging and surface soil color to find out how much of the nutrient-rich earth has eroded away [more]

[part 3 awaits]

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TomApril 19, 2021 at 8:36 AM
[how's the take-over of Ukraine by NATO coming along?]
Russia Captures CIA Assassination Team Plotting May 9th Color Revolution
https://seemorerocks.is/russia-captures-cia-assassination-team-plotting-may-9th-color-revolution/

A defiant Ukrainian reaction coming 48-hours after Supreme Socialist Leader Joe Biden abruptly ordered US Navy warships not to enter the Black Sea and threaten Russia—an abrupt turnabout preceded by President Putin accepting an unscheduled phone call from Biden—during this call saw President Putin not only warning Biden that any US warships entering the Black Sea would be in grave danger of being destroyed by Russian naval forces and should “stay away for their own good”—then saw President Putin further warning Biden to “tread carefully” as the FSB knew exactly what the CIA was plotting. [more]

After Assassination Disrupted, Belarus to Merge With Russia! Doubles Border area with NATO; Exposes ALL of Ukraine to Invasion
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/after-assassination-disrupted-belarus-to-merge-with-russia-doubles-border-area-with-nato-exposes-all-of-ukraine-to-invasion

Intelligence circuits are buzzing Sunday with news that the foiled assassination plot against Belarus President Lukashenko has convinced him that his country should MERGE with Russia for protection.

The alleged plot, which was reportedly foiled yesterday, was said to have been approved by the US C.I.A. because Lukashenko allowed Russian Army units to "share" Belarus military bases, as the troubles in Ukraine get worse.

This sharing agreement means that Ukraine is almost completely surrounded by Russia, or Russia-favorable countries, and if a fight erupts between Ukraine and Russia, it is now likely Ukraine will be "disintegrated" - won't exist as a country anymore!

If Russian troops have to enter Ukraine to protect Luhansk and Donetsk from Ukrainian Army attack, then those Russian troops will likely also take the states of Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhya, Kherson and Odessa. They __may__ even take Mykolayiv, which would totally cut the remaining "Ukraine" off from the Black Sea as shown below [more]

[4th section follows]

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TomApril 19, 2021 at 8:37 AM
[missed this a few days back]
Beware of Covid PCR Testing and the Relentless “Vaccinate Vaccinate Vaccinate” Campaign
https://www.globalresearch.ca/beware-pcr-testing-you-may-unknowingly-vaccinated-instead-tested/5742819

The validity of the PCR test has been questioned for months, if not from the very beginning of the declared covid-19 plandemic, including lately also by WHO. However, this test is still and ever more so being forced upon us. This despite the fact that ever more scientific evidence comes to the fore that the test is absolutely unsuited to determine whether a person is “infected” with the covid-19 virus. According to some scientists there are up to 90% false positives. Besides, a positive in 97% of the cases does not indicate that you will come down with symptoms. Especially young people, and people without any co-morbidities rarely show any symptoms.

On the other hand, there is a relentless drive by western countries, foremost Europe and the US to vaccinate-vaccinate-vaccinate – and this with a substance that is not even qualifying as a vaccine, namely a new type of what’s also called “gene-therapy”, a mRNA-type injection which will affect the human genome and most likely the human ADN. mRNA stands for messenger ribonucleuc acid.

The best-known pharma-manufacturers of these mRNA-type substances, falsely called vaccines, include Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson and Johnson (J & J) and a few other inoculations from the Bill Gates created GAVI Alliance, or the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations, also called the Vaccine Alliance. They are located in Geneva, next door to WHO.

This therapy is untested. No substantial animal trials. In the few animal trials carried out on ferrets and rats, all animals died. Claiming an emergency, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recognizes the gravity of the current public health emergency and has granted a so-called Emergency Use Application (EUA) for what effectively is a gene-therapy, not a vaccine. Therefore, further animal trials were skipped and this experimental gene-treatment, the mRNA-type jabs went directly to humans – which are now acting as guinea pigs. [more]

[5th page upcoming]

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TomApril 19, 2021 at 8:37 AM
Fauci blasted for criticizing vaccine hesitancy while backing tough Covid restrictions and deeming gun violence 'public health issue'
https://www.sott.net/article/451624-Fauci-blasted-for-criticizing-vaccine-hesitancy-while-backing-tough-Covid-restrictions-and-deeming-gun-violence-public-health-issue

White House advisor Anthony Fauci is being blasted by critics for attacking Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy while continuing to promote restrictions even for those inoculated, and weighing in on gun violence as a "public health issue."

Asked about recent polling showing nearly half of Republicans are still hesitant about receiving a Covid-19 vaccine, White House health advisor Fauci called the trend "frustrating" and "paradoxical."

[SOTT]Comment: In other words, getting the shot changes nothing about the restrictions. And yet he thinks people not wanting the shot is "paradoxical". Why get a risky medical procedure if it changes nothing? There's nothing the least bit "paradoxical" about it. [more]

Covid passports 'most dangerous policy proposal ever made' - UK's church leaders warn PM in open letter
https://www.sott.net/article/451625-Covid-passports-most-dangerous-policy-proposal-ever-made-UKs-church-leaders-warn-PM-in-open-letter

n an open letter, the leaders - who include Anglican and Catholic ministers - warn passports could create a "surveillance state".

The government says it is reviewing whether to use vaccine certificates and "no decisions have been taken".

The UK equality watchdog says passports could create a "two-tier society".

in the open letter to the prime minister, church leaders warned that introducing the passports would create a "medical apartheid".

this constitutes one of the most dangerous policy proposals ever to be made in the history of British politics." [more]

Taiwan struck by M6.2 and M5.8 earthquakes three minutes apart
https://www.sott.net/article/451614-Taiwan-struck-by-M6-2-and-M5-8-earthquakes-three-minutes-apart

[no reports of injuries or destruction yet; like birth pangs, eh?]

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TomApril 19, 2021 at 6:24 PM
Wildfire descends Table Mountain in South Africa, torching University of Cape Town
https://www.sott.net/article/451648-Wildfire-descends-Table-Mountain-in-South-Africa-torching-University-of-Cape-Town

Firefighters in Cape Town finally brought a wildfire under control Monday after it swept across the slopes of the city's famed Table Mountain, burning the university's historic library and forcing the evacuation of some neighborhoods.

The fire had already badly damaged the library and other buildings on the campus of the University of Cape Town on Sunday, as well as other historic buildings nearby. Fueled by the high winds, it spread through the wild bush on the mountain slopes toward the city's center and the surrounding residential areas.

Devil's Peak, one of the iconic points of the mountain which overlooks downtown Cape Town, was lit up by flames as the fire raged through the night. Residents of suburbs on the mountain slopes were evacuated early Monday as the blaze came dangerously close to their homes. [more]

[cue Pink Floyd's We Don't Need No Education]
Biden set to push critical race theory on US schools
https://www.sott.net/article/451647-Biden-set-to-push-critical-race-theory-on-US-schools

The woke revolution in the classroom is about to go federal. In an early but revelatory move, President Biden's Department of Education has signaled its intent to impose the most radical forms of Critical Race Theory on America's schools, very much including the 1619 Project and the so-called anti-racism of Ibram X. Kendi. (Kendi's "anti-racism" — which advocates a massive and indefinite expansion of reverse discrimination — is more like neo-racism.) Biden is obviously co-opting conservatives' interest in reviving traditional U.S. history and civics to deliver its perfect opposite — federal imposition of the very ideas conservatives aim to combat. [more; this will all be challenged; let's see where it goes]

Can the Great 'Awokening' Succeed?
https://www.sott.net/article/451654-Can-the-Great-Awokening-Succeed

All aspects of life, well beyond politics, are now to be ideologically conditioned. Everything from kindergarten messaging, cartoons, workplace reeducation, and television commercials to college admissions, baseball games, and the airlines are to be "fundamentally transformed" along racial lines.

Long gone is Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream of a colorblind society. Gone, at least at the state level, is confidence in the melting pot of assimilation, integration, and intermarriage (although mixed marriages and multiracial children are at an all-time high).

Gone are even the affirmative-action doctrines of proportional representation and disparate impact. (Yet the two mandates were always arbitrarily applied, in the sense that the U.S. Postal Service and the professional football and basketball leagues never paid much attention to racial quotas based on demographic percentages, which apparently only applied to white and Asian "overrepresentation" elsewhere).

Wokeism, however, is essentially tribal. It seeks to identify particular nonwhite constituencies, unite them not by identical class, not by similar skin color, not by collective similar history, not by shared experience, not by mutual cultural affinities, not by longstanding historical alliances, but simply by two premises:

1) Those of the woke collective are either claimants to being "nonwhite," and thus victims of racism, or they are architects and supporters of the wokeist agenda, and: 2) they can thereby all either directly leverage reparatory concessions in hiring, admissions, careers, compensation, and general influence or ensure the revolutionary guillotine exempts themselves. [more]

[more in 2nd comment]

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TomApril 19, 2021 at 6:25 PM
UK warships to sail for Black Sea in May as Ukraine-Russia tensions rise- Sunday Times
https://www.yahoo.com/news/uk-warships-sail-black-sea-013542458.html

British warships will sail for the Black Sea in May amid rising tensions between Ukraine and Russia, the Sunday Times newspaper reported, citing senior naval sources.

The deployment is aimed at showing solidarity with Ukraine and Britain's NATO allies [more]

[why not just target the judge and jury with threat of violence!]
Democratic congresswoman urges protesters to stay on streets if Derek Chauvin is cleared
https://www.yahoo.com/news/democratic-congresswoman-urges-protesters-stay-170814792.html

“I hope we’re going to get a verdict that will say guilty, guilty, guilty,” in the Chauvin trial. “And if we don’t, we cannot go away.”
[more; there goes justice - you can intimidate anyone freely now]

Russia says its airstrike in Syria killed 200 militants
https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-says-airstrike-syria-killed-205958584.html

Karpov said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies that the air raid killed some 200 militants and destroyed 24 vehicles and about 500 kilograms (over 1,100 pounds) of ammunition and explosives. He said the militants' base had served as a staging ground for terror attacks across Syria. [more]

1 dead, 100,000 displaced as typhoon blows near Philippines
https://www.yahoo.com/news/approaching-typhoon-displaces-68-000-092834553.html

An approaching powerful typhoon has left at least one person dead, another missing and prompted the evacuation of more than 100,000 people as a precaution in the eastern and central Philippines, although the unusual summer storm is not expected to blow into land, officials said Monday.

Typhoon Surigae was about 500 kilometers (310 miles) east of Infanta town in Quezon province on Monday afternoon with sustained winds of 195 kilometers (121 miles) per hour and gusts of up to 240 kph (149 mph). It is forecast to slowly move northwestward and then veer eastward away from the northern Philippines around Thursday. [more; and it hasn't even made landfall!]

Grizzly mauling near Yellowstone kills backcountry guide
https://www.yahoo.com/news/grizzly-mauling-near-yellowstone-kills-153207158.html [71 sec. lead-in news video]

A Montana backcountry guide has died after he was mauled by a large grizzly bear that was probably defending a nearby moose carcass just outside Yellowstone National Park, officials said Monday.

The grizzly was killed Friday after it charged a group of seven game wardens and other personnel as they approached the scene of the attack. Several people fired at the animal and it died about 20 yards (18 meters) from the group, Jacobsen said. [more; of course]

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TomApril 19, 2021 at 6:25 PM
[NEW TERM ALERT]
UN warns of climate 'abyss' as 2020 confirmed as one of 3 hottest years on record
https://www.yahoo.com/news/un-warns-climate-abyss-2020-154142806.html

2020 was one of the three hottest years on record, marked by wildfires, droughts, floods and melting glaciers, a United Nations report said on Monday, prompting the U.N. Secretary-General to say the world stands "on the verge of the abyss".

"We are on the verge of the abyss... We are seeing record levels in tropical storms, in the melting of ice sheets or glaciers, in relation to drought, heat waves and wildfires," U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told Reuters.

The report showed the global average temperature in 2020 was about 1.2 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial period, ranking it somewhere in the top three hottest years alongside 2016 and 2019 despite cooling La Niña conditions. [more; passed that long ago]

Rockets hit Iraqi air base, 2 security forces wounded
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rockets-hit-iraqi-air-2-173346312.html

The attack comes days after an explosives-laden drone targeted U.S.-led coalition forces near a northern Iraq airport, causing a large fire and damage to a building.

Mohsen said the attack resulted in the injury of two security forces, one of them in serious condition and the other only slightly. There was no material damage inside the base from the attack, he added. [more]

Coast Guard to halt search for missing from capsized commercial boat off Louisiana
https://www.yahoo.com/news/coast-guard-calls-off-search-184021927.html

The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday was set to call off a week-long search for the remaining eight people missing after a commercial lift boat used to service oil rigs capsized in hurricane force winds south of Louisiana's Port Fourchon.

The search will end at sunset on Monday, the U.S. Coast Guard announced at a midday news briefing. [more]

[just so ya know]
End of the Castro era: Diaz-Canel becomes Cuban Communist Party chief
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cuban-president-diaz-canel-made-160621954.html

Cuba's ruling Communist Party elected President Miguel Diaz-Canel to succeed Raul Castro as party first secretary, the most powerful position in the country, on the final day of its congress on Monday. [more]

Music teacher dies trying to save 2 children from rip current off NC beach, cops say
https://www.yahoo.com/news/music-teacher-dies-trying-save-185124626.html

A high school orchestra director died and multiple other people were injured Sunday while trying to rescue two children from a rip current off Kure Beach in southeastern North Carolina, according to police.

“Embry ... became distressed as she assisted with the rescue. Embry was brought to shore and life saving measures ... were unsuccessful.”

“Jessica gave her life in rescuing swimmers from a rip current,” the church wrote. “Immediately after pulling the swimmers from the water she went into cardiac arrest and was unable to be resuscitated.”[more; possible JJFH event]

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