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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 8/28/2016 11:01:54 AM
	Japan scientists detect rare, deep-Earth tremor August 26, 2016 An Atlantic “weather bomb,” or a severe, fast-developing storm, causes ocean swells that incite faint and deep tremors into the oceanic crust. These subtle waves run through the earth and can be detected in places as far away as Japan, where facilities using a method called “Hi-net” measure the amplitude of the storm’s P and S waves for the first time. Credit: Kiwamu Nishida and Ryota Takagi Scientists who study earthquakes in Japan said Thursday they have detected a rare deep-Earth tremor for the first time and traced its location to a distant and powerful storm. The findings, published in the US journal Science, could help experts learn more about the Earth's inner structure and improve detection of earthquakes and oceanic storms. The storm in the North Atlantic was known as a "weather bomb," a small but potent storm that gains punch as pressure quickly mounts. Groups of waves sloshed and pounded the ocean floor during the storm, which struck between Greenland and Iceland. Using seismic equipment on land and on the seafloor that usually detects the Earth's crust crumbling during earthquakes, researchers found something they had not detected before—a tremor known as an S wave microseism. Microseisms are very faint tremors. Another kind of tremor, known as P waves, or primary wave microseisms, can be detected during major hurricanes. P waves are fast-moving, and animals can often sense them just before an earthquake hits. The elusive S waves, or secondary waves, are slower, and move only through rock, not liquid. Humans feel them during earthquakes. Using more than 200 stations operated by the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention in Japan's Chugoku district, researchers Kiwamu Nishida and Ryota Takagi "successfully detected not only P wave microseisms triggered by a severe and distant North Atlantic storm, known as a weather bomb, but also S wave microseisms, too," said the study. Top: Ocean wave hindcast of significant wave height. Downloaded from NOAA. Bottom: Pwave power back projected from California centered at 0.21 Hz. Each frame is updated every 3h, from August 25 to September 9, 2006. Credit: Peter Gerstoft and Jian Zhang "The discovery marks the first time scientists have observed... an S wave microseism." Microseism S waves are so faint that they occur in the 0.05 to 0.5 Hz frequency range. The study in the journal Science details how researchers traced the direction and distance to the waves' origins, and the paths they traveled. The discovery "gives seismologists a new tool with which to study Earth's deeper structure," said Peter Gerstoft and Peter Bromirski of the University of California, San Diego in an accompanying Perspective article. Learning more about microseismic S waves may "add to our understanding of the deeper crust and upper mantle structure." Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-08-japan-scientists-rare-deep-earth-tremor.html#jCp
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 8/28/2016 11:17:37 AM
	AUGUST 26, 2016, 6:44 PM LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 2016, 7:46 PM 225+ heroin overdoses in 4 counties in 4 states in 1 week CHRIS LACHALL, (CHERRY HILL, N.J.) COURIER-POST Heroin addict Cait Dougherty of Philadelphia holds a palm card in November 2015 containing information about drug overdoses that she received in Camden, N.J., from a woman whose daughter died of an overdose. BY TERRY DEMIO THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER \| USA TODAY NETWORK CINCINNATI — An overdose crisis in the past week has left police and emergency responders here drained and without clues.. It has also underscored that this region does not have resources to treat all of people addicted to opioids, including heroin. Police are asking for the public's help in identifying the source of heroin sold here that caused scores of overdoses, including at least three deaths. More than 200 people in four states have been victims of what law enforcement officials are calling a supercharged form of the sedative, and one additional person died in Indiana. "We're working very closely to find the source dealer," said Police Chief Tom Synan of Newtown, Ohio, who heads the law enforcement task force for the Hamilton County Heroin Coalition. He said local, state and federal authorities are combining their forces to investigate the source or sources. "We don't have anything solid to go off of." The toll here has risen to an estimated 78 overdoses Tuesday and Wednesday alone and an estimated 174 overdose cases in emergency rooms in less than a week. In other states just this week: New Jersey. 29 people overdosed between Tuesday and Thursday in Camden on free samples of heroin marketed with a Batman stamp. Indiana. 13 people overdosed Tuesday in Jennings County, about 60 miles north of Louisville. That includes fatality. Kentucky. 12 people overdosed Wednesday in Montgomery County, about 100 miles east of Louisville. A similar cluster of overdoses occurred Aug. 15 in Huntington, W.Va., where 27 people overdosed within five hours, one fatally. "This is unprecedented to see as many alerts as we've seen in the last six days," said Tim Ingram, health commissioner for Hamilton County where Cincinnati is the largest city. A surveillance system alerts the public health department when an unusual number of drug-related emergency-room encounters occur. Deaths have not spiked along with the overdose reports because police officers or emergency medical technicians are immediately administering naloxone, sometimes in more than one dose, to bring heroin users back to consciousness and start them breathing. Cincinnati typically sees an average of four overdoses a day, according to a memo from City Manager Harry Black. "It's unlike anything we've seen before," said Hamilton County Commissioner Dennis Deters, who called the outbreak a public health emergency. The number of overdoses reported this week in the Cincinnati area has grown because several more agencies have added cases, officials said. The surveillance system does not give specifics but alerts on a breach of a threshold. No samples of the Cincinnati-area drugs are available to test yet, according to Synan and Cincinnati Police Lt. Col. Mike John. The victims could have injected heroin mixed with the potent painkiller fentanyl or the mega-potent animal opioid carfentanil. Carfentanil, an analgesic for large animals including elephants, was discovered in July in the region's heroin stream. In the memo, Black said carfentanil is believed to be the cause of the overdose spike the city is seeing now. When an officer doesn't know if a person has overdosed on heroin, it's OK to hit them with a dose or two of naloxone, said Dr. Erik Kochert, program director in York Hospital's emergency room. Police in the Pennsylvania county of almost 450,000 already have administered the opioid antidote almost 250 times this year. Even if the patient didn't overdose, naloxone won't cause any harm. It would just make a person wake up and experience withdrawal, Kochert said, which is better than not breathing. Officials in Akron and Columbus have reported carfentanil in heroin found in their cities as well. Both locations have suffered from bouts of overdoses. Hospitals in the region are not equipped to test blood for the animal opioid, which is rare and only in July surfaced in Greater Cincinnati's street heroin. Can doctors test for carfentanil? "Yes," said Dr. Shawn Ryan, a certified addiction expert and founder of BrightView Health, an outpatient addiction medicine practice with offices in Norwood and Colerain Township in suburban Cincinnati. But the drug is so rare and so new to the region, no local hospitals would have such tests available, he said. "We can’t confirm in the short term if someone’s had fentanyl, carfentanil or heroin. The tests flag only as positive or negative for opiates," said Nanette Bentley, spokeswoman for Cincinnati's Mercy Health. Tests could be ordered, but results could take days to weeks to come back. Deters announced Thursday in a news conference that he will ask his fellow county commissioners to come up with money for treatment to expand the Heroin and Opiates Response Team. Sheriff Jim Neil has thrown his support behind the move, and the two said that it's a direct response to the overdose crisis. The teams would consist of a law enforcement officer, emergency responder and treatment specialist who would approach people who've overdosed and offer them treatment. Colerain Township and Norwood already have such response teams, and Deters said the drop in overdoses in Colerain Township has been 35% since the work began a year ago. Norwood's started in July. Cost of an expansion of the response teams is still being determined, he said. Addiction experts across the nation consider it urgent to get to overdose survivors as quickly as possible to steer them into treatment. But that doesn't mean enough treatment is available. "People overwhelmingly want help, but we have to have a place to take them," said Nan Franks, a facilitator for the Addiction Services Council of Cincinnati. If all of those who need addiction treatment were to seek it at once, enough help wouldn't be available, she said. The federal Drug Enforcement Administration has been on alert for carfentanil since its appearance in U.S. and at the Canadian border, said Melvin Patterson, a DEA spokesman in Washington. Officials have little doubt that the carfentanil that's showing up in street drugs is from overseas, just as fentanyl is manufactured and brought across the U.S. borders. "It's such a restricted drug, there's only a handful of places in the United States that can have it," he said. Patterson's agency is working with Chinese counterparts who want to stop the illegal shipments, he said. The drug sometimes is manufactured in China, delivered to Mexico, shipped to Canada and then to the United States. He has heard some reports of it going directly to Canada and being intercepted by Mexican drug organizations, he said. John, who is the Cincinnati Police Department's special services commander, said the week of overdoses has taken a toll on his force. "It's been exhausting," John said. "They're running from one run to another." Contributing: (Cherry Hill, N.J.) Courier-Post; Justin Sayers, The (Louisville) Courier-Journal; Vic Ryckaert and Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star; Mark Walters, York (Pa.) Daily Record. Follow Terry DeMio on Twitter: @tdemio
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8/28/2016 3:21:06 PM

North Korea claims it’s now able to nuke U.S. mainland

Christopher Woolf, GlobalPost1:44 p.m. EDT August 26, 2016

North Korea says it launched a missile from a submarine. The country says the launch gives it a fully equipped nuclear attack capability and puts the U.S. mainland within striking distance. (Aug. 25) AP

This undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on August 25, 2016 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waving as he inspects a test-fire of strategic submarine-launched ballistic missile at an undisclosed location.(Photo: KNS, AFP/Getty Images)

The nation is celebrating its first successful test of a submarine-launched missile.

The country's leader — Kim Jong Un — says the U.S. mainland is now within striking range of his nuclear weapons.

That sounds like a threat.

Joel Wit, a former U.S. nuclear negotiator with North Korea, says he's concerned, but not worried. "Because — despite this success — we’re not within striking range of their nuclear weapons."

The threat to the U.S. mainland does not yet exist; there's no evidence North Korea has yet been able to miniaturize its nuclear weapons to fit into a warhead.

It's also extremely unlikely they could get a submarine within range of the U.S. coast: The new North Korean missile only appears to have a range of about 600 miles. But Wit says there is cause for concern, "because this is just one more step in terms of steady progress that North Korea is making in building nuclear weapons and building missiles to deliver them.”

“I’m concerned, and I think it should be ongoing concern for everyone.” The biggest concern, says Wit, is that North Korea is working to develop a working Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, or ICBM. “If they get that thing working then they will be able to reach the United States, and that, of course, is a serious concern for all of us.”

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un while inspecting the Taedonggang Pig Farm in Pyongyang, Aug.18, 2016
KCNA via AFP/Getty Images

He does not expect North Korea would use weapons like these aggressively, but he says they would seriously complicate relations. He says, for example, North Korea could threaten other countries in order to secure its objectives.

It could also complicate U.S. thinking when it comes to its assurances to allies like Japan and South Korea to defend them. Up to now, those promises were relatively simple, he says. But if North Korea could threaten the U.S. mainland, then that’s a whole different calculation.

Wit concludes, however, by saying he has some understanding of the North Korean concerns. The United States would like to see a unified Korea that’s democratic, “and if you’re North Korean, that would make you fairly nervous.”

This story originally appeared on GlobalPost and PRI.org. Its content was created separately to USA TODAY.

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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 8/29/2016 1:12:54 AM
	DHS Prepares For Nuke Attack With Massive Order For Radiation Detectors: ‘To Ensure Nuclear Devices Aren’t Secretly Being Transported In Public Areas’ Mac Slavo August 27th, 2016 SHTFplan.com Comments (145) Read by 15,430 people Earlier this year we reported that Texas game wardens on the southern border have been issued radiation detectors due to concerns that a nuclear or radiological device could be smuggled into the United States through the porous Mexican border. It appears that the Department of Homeland Security is also taking the potential for a nuclear-based weapon of mass destruction seriously. According to a new report from NextGov the government has ordered some $20 million worth of wearable intelligent nuclear detection (WIND) units in an effort to boost domestic security: Last year, DHS made a broad agency announcement soliciting proposals for so-called Wearable Intelligent Nuclear Detection, or WIND, technology. Employees would wear the products to ensure nuclear devices weren’t secretly being transported in areas like marine vessels, metro systems, or other public areas, according to DHS. DHS was specifically searching for “advanced technology demonstrations,” which are for “mature prototype capable of providing reliable performance measurements in a challenging and realistic, albeit simulated, operational environment,” the BAA said. … DHS’ Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, whose mission is to protect the U.S. from nuclear devices, was specifically searching for a modular wearable system that could sense, localize and identify nuclear particles, including gamma rays and neutrons. The move signals a real and emerging threat and one that the Obama administration highlighted in March in which they warned of the four ways a large-scale nuclear attack on U.S. soil could happen. Whatever the method, the end result would be devastating: The most devastating but improbable scenario involves a group stealing a fully functional bomb from a nuclear-armed country. Most nuclear experts point to Pakistan as the likeliest source, though that would require cooperation with someone on the inside of Pakistan’s military. Easier to pull off would be for IS or another group to obtain fissile material like highly enriched uranium, then turn it into a crude nuclear device delivered by truck or ship. A third possibility is that extremists could bomb an existing nuclear facility, such as the Belgian waste plant, spreading highly radioactive material over a wide area. The most likely scenario that security experts fear is that a group could get ahold of radioactive material, such as cesium or cobalt, for a dirty bomb that could be carried in a suitcase. Those materials are widely used in industrial, academic and hospital settings, with no consistent security standards across the globe. Last year, an Associated Press investigation revealed multiple attempts by black market smugglers to sell radioactive material to Middle East extremists. We know for a fact that individuals from the middle east have been using the Southern corridor to enter the United States illegally. We also know that some of those individuals have ties to terrorist organizations. With DHS actively looking for ways to detect nuclear radiation it appears that an attack on the United States is now a serious possibility. Of course, no threat has been announced to the public and chances are that should one existthe American people won’t know until it’s too late. Preparing for such an event is critical, because in the fallout (literally) there will be no assistance from emergency responders for days or weeks. That means law and order will break down, medical services will be non-existent and basic necessities will become unavailable. Having food, water, self defense armaments will be essential to survival. But in a CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiologicla, Nuclear) event, an evacuation plan will be just as critical. And if you are evacuating in a CBRN situation, advanced CBRN-rated breathing equipment will be a life saver. As Tess Pennington notes in her book The Prepper’s Blueprint, you need to be ready to move the moment a serious threat presents itself or you risk being stuck in the midst of thousands of others who are trying to escape the danger: If you are told to evacuate keep the following points in mind… If you are driving, keep the car windows and vents closed, and use recirculating air. Due to the fear of panic and gridlock that will ensure from mass evacuations, most governments will delay mandatory evacuations until the last minute. This will only cause mass confusion and chaos at gas stations, grocery stores and on the streets. The best way to prevent this is to stay ahead of the crowd and prepare ahead of time. There is a real possibility that one morning we’ll wake up to a massive terror attack on the United States. Will you be ready for it?
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