Posted on 03/05/2005 5:06:15 PM PST by nwctwx
Edited on 03/29/2005 8:49:43 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
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"ACLU: Punish officials
for 'un-American' prayer
Law group outraged God petitioned before game, wants administrators jailed"
Posted: April 7, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
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ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The American Civil Liberties Union has asked a judge to hold a Louisiana school board in contempt because someone said a prayer over the PA system before a high-school baseball game.
Joe Cook, executive director of ACLU of Louisiana, claims members of the Tangipahoa Parish School Board should be fined or go to jail "for their calculated un-American and immoral conduct to embarrass, hinder or obstruct the court in the administration of justice."
The March 24 prayer came after a years-long legal battle waged against the district by the ACLU, which claims any prayer at a public-school event violates the First Amendment establishment clause."
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PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman
This information is current as of today, Wed Apr 06 2005 22:47:33 GMT-0700.
Mexico
April 06, 2005
This Public Announcement is being issued to alert U.S. citizens to the deterioration in recent weeks of local law enforcement in Cancun caused by a persistent shortage of municipal funds to pay for police and public services. Police responsiveness to emergency calls and investigation of crimes has been severely impaired, and the U.S. Consulate in Merida has received several reports of petty corruption and extortion aimed at U.S. travelers. This Public Announcement supplements the Announcement issued on January 26 and it expires on May 31.
The U.S. Consular Agency in Cancun has received numerous allegations of tourists being extorted for money by taxi drivers and malfeasant police or individuals posing as police officers. In some cases, tourists have been taken to ATM machines for immediate payment of alleged infractions. In other cases, extortion attempts occur after a motorist (typically in a rental car) is stopped for an alleged moving violation. The motorist is threatened with imprisonment if a "fine" is not immediately paid, even though there is no proof that any infraction has been committed.
Visitors to Cancun should be aware that a written citation should be received before the payment of any fine. No money should be paid directly to a police officer. If you believe you are the victim of an extortion attempt, you should make a note of the officer's name and badge number, the time and location of the incident, and the number of the patrol car if applicable, and immediately call the U.S. Consular Agency in Cancun or the U.S. Consulate in Merida.
The U.S. Consular Agency is located on the second floor of Plaza Caracol, Boulevard Kukulcan, km. 8.5 Zona Hotelera, Cancun, and can be reached by telephone at (52) (998) 883-0272. The U.S. Consulate in Merida is located at Paseo Montejo No. 453, Col. Centro, Merida, Yucatan. The U.S. Consulate in Merida can be reached by e-mail at consularmerida@state.gov or by telephone at (52)(999) 925-5011 during working hours or (52)(999) 947-2285 after hours or on weekends.
Current information on travel and security in Mexico can be obtained from the Department of State's Consular Information Sheet, which can found at the Internet website of the Bureau of Consular Affairs, http://travel.state.gov. U.S. citizens living or traveling in Mexico are encouraged to register with the nearest U.S. Consulate or through the Department of State's travel registration website: http://travelregistration.state.gov. For further information, U.S. citizens may also contact the Department of State toll-free at 1-888-407-4747. From outside the United States and Canada, call 202-501-4444. This is a toll call.
ON THE NET...
ICC-CCS.ORG - THE WEEKLY PIRACY REPORT
http://www.icc-ccs.org/prc/piracyreport.php
http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\200504\CUL20050406a.html
"Banning Guns Won't Stop Terrorists, Poll Shows"
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Morning Editor
April 06, 2005
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "(CNSNews.com) - Would banning guns reduce the threat from terrorists? Seventy-five percent of Americans say no, according to a new Zogby International poll commissioned by the Second Amendment Foundation.
Only one in five respondents supported a gun ban and five percent were not sure. Zobgy pollsters contacted 1,009 likely voters chosen at random nationwide between March 30 and April 1. The poll's margin of error is plus/minus 3.2 percent."
UPDATE - Adding 1 link to original post:
ON THE NET...
http://www.google.com/search?q=Abdul+Rahman+Yasin%22+%0D%0A&hl=en&lr=&filter=0
http://news.google.com/news?q=Abdul+Rahman+Yasin%22&hl=en&lr=&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&filter=0
http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/terrorists/teryasin.htm
http://www.rewardsforjustice.net/english/wanted_captured/index.cfm?page=Wanted_Terrorist
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2005/04/005633print.html
April 06, 2005
U.S. Raises Reward for Suspect in '93 Attack
Twelve years later, one of them is still at large. From AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
BAGHDAD — The U.S. State Department said Monday that it was offering a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the capture and conviction of the last remaining person wanted in connection with the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
In a statement released in the Iraqi capital, the State Department said it was looking for Abdul Rahman Yasin, 45, an Iraqi American who is believed to have helped build the bomb used in the Feb. 26, 1993, attack that killed six people.
The statement described Yasin, for whom the U.S. earlier offered a reward of $2 million, as an epileptic and said he "possibly has a noticeable chemical scar on his right thigh."
Yasin was born in Bloomington, Ind., to Iraqi parents and moved to Iraq when he was young.
Posted at April 6, 2005 09:03 AM
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"Trojan horse takes down smart phones"
Published: April 6, 2005, 5:10 PM PDT
By Richard Shim
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Interesting set of links DC.
Thanks.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 2005
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FACT SHEET:USA PATRIOT ACT PROVISIONS SET FOR REAUTHORIZATION
For more than three years, the USA PATRIOT Act has been an invaluable tool in the war on terror, helping the law enforcement and intelligence communities to coordinate, communicate, and uncover terrorist operations and other serious crimes. The Department of Justice has thoughtfully and carefully utilized the PATRIOT Act to fight crime and terrorism, acting within the framework of the Constitution and prioritizing the protection of civil liberties.
Today, Congress starts hearings on the PATRIOT Act to begin a discussion on 16 provisions of the law requiring reauthorization. These provisions have a proven track record of saving lives and fighting crime, and play an integral role in building a culture of prevention in the war on terror. The provisions set for reauthorization are as follows:
Section 201:
Section 201 allows law enforcement to utilize existing electronic surveillance authorities, such as wiretaps, to investigate certain offenses that terrorists are likely to commit, including chemical weapons offenses; use of weapons of mass destruction; violent acts of terrorism transcending national borders; financial transactions with countries which support terrorism; material support of terrorists; and material support of terrorist organizations. This provision allows investigators to gather information when looking into the full range of terrorism-related crimes.
In total, as of March 10, 2005, the Department has utilized section 201 on four occasions. These four uses occurred in two separate investigations. One of these cases involved an Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, who attempted to purchase hand grenades for the purpose of bombing abortion clinics and was subsequently convicted of numerous explosives and firearms charges.
Section 202:
Section 202 adds felony violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to the list of federal wiretap predicates, including computer espionage, extortion, and intentionally damaging a federal government computer.
As of March 10, 2005, the Justice Department had used section 202 of the PATRIOT Act on two occasions. These two uses occurred in a computer fraud investigation that eventually broadened to include drug trafficking.
Section 203(b) and 203(d):
Section 203 allows law enforcement and intelligence officers to break down the “wall” that once hindered communication and to “connect the dots” in cases related to national security. This ability to exchange terrorism-related information did not exist prior to the passage of the PATRIOT Act and has since allowed for the sharing of foreign intelligence, counterintelligence, and foreign intelligence information obtained as part of a criminal investigation between federal law enforcement officers and federal intelligence officers for certain national security purposes.
Vital information has been made available to the intelligence community and other federal officials under section 203 on many occasions since the passage of the PATRIOT Act. For instance, such disclosures have been used to support the revocation of visas of suspected terrorists and prevent their reentry into the United States, track terrorists’ funding sources, and identify terrorist operatives overseas.
Section 204:
Section 204 is a technical amendment that merely clarifies what Congress had always intended a particular statute governing the interception and disclosure of certain types of communications to mean. Section 204 clarifies that the law which governs the installation and use of pen registers (surveillance devices that capture phone numbers dialed on outgoing telephone calls) and trap-and-trace devices (surveillance devices that capture the numbers identifying incoming calls) will not interfere with certain foreign intelligence activities that fall outside of the definition of “electronic surveillance” in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Section 204 also makes it clear that the statute’s exclusivity provision applies to the interception of electronic communications as well as the interception of wire and oral communications.
Section 206:
Section 206 allows the FISA Court to authorize the use of roving surveillance, attaching the wiretap authorization to a particular suspect as opposed to a particular communications device. Because terrorists are trained to rapidly change their means of communication, section 206 greatly enhances the government’s ability to monitor sophisticated international terrorists by tracking individual suspects instead of individual modes of communication. This authority has long been granted to investigate ordinary crimes, including drug offenses. As of March 30, this provision had been used 49 times and has been effective in monitoring international terrorists and spies.
Section 207:
Section 207 extends the initial time duration of FISA electronic surveillance and physical search orders from 90 days to 120 days, and such orders may be extended for a maximum of one year-instead of 90 days-at a time with court approval. These orders and extensions require the express permission of a federal judge. The FISA court must find probable cause to believe that the target of the surveillance or search is a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power prior to granting authorization.
The Department estimates that section 207 has saved nearly 60,000 attorney hours. In other words, it has saved 30 lawyers a year’s work; and this estimate does not account for time saved by FBI agents, administrative staff, and the judiciary. Department personnel were able to spend that time pursuing other investigations and oversight matters.
Section 209:
Section 209 permits stored voicemail to be obtained by a search warrant rather than a wiretap order, making the procedure for obtaining voicemail messages consistent with the procedure for obtaining answering machine messages. This authority preserved all of the pre-existing standards for the availability of search warrants, but modernized the federal law by enabling investigators to more quickly access suspects’ voice-mail.
Section 209 has been very useful to the Department, and warrants issued pursuant to this provision have been used to obtain evidence in a variety of criminal cases, including a number of drug trafficking investigations, such as an investigation of a large-scale Ecstasy smuggling ring based in the Netherlands, an investigation into a series of violent robberies, and a kidnapping investigation.
Section 212:
Section 212 allows electronic communications service providers to disclose either customer records or the content of customers’ communications to a governmental entity in any emergency situation that involves an immediate danger of death or serious physical injury.
Section 212 has already played a vital role in investigating threats of violence and saving lives. Jared Bjarnason was indicted for threatening violence in order to obstruct members of the Islamic Center of El Paso, in the free exercise of their religion, and for transmitting a communication containing a threat to injure members of the Islamic Center. Specifically, Bjarnason was charged with sending an electronic mail message to the Islamic Center threatening violence against the Islamic Center and its members, which allegedly threatened to burn the Islamic Center’s mosque to the ground, if hostages held in Iraq were not freed within three days. With the PATRIOT Act’s authority, agents of the FBI were able to trace the allegedly threatening e-mail well before the expiration of the deadline contained in the threat. Absent this provision, investigating authorities would have had to obtain a separate search warrant from each service provider through whose system the e-mail traveled, a process which could have taken over 30 days.
Section 214:
Section 214 allows FISA to issue pen-register and trap-and-trace orders by certifying that the resulting information would be relevant to a foreign intelligence investigation. Previously, such orders could be issued under FISA only where the device to be monitored was being used to contact an agent of a foreign power, such as an individual engaged in international terrorism. This provision makes the standard in FISA similar to the standard for obtaining a pen register or trap-and-trace order in the criminal context.
The Department has applied section 214 to international terrorism and counterintelligence investigations, including a case where the subject was believed to be attempting to procure nuclear arms. In one terrorism case, the only phone that the FBI could prove was used by the subject was his associate’s phone. Additionally, the FBI had insufficient information that this associate was an agent of a foreign power. Thus, under the previous standard for a FISA pen register or trap-and-trace order, the FBI may not have succeeded in obtaining a pen register or trap-and-trace order. The standard established by section 214, however, allowed the agents to obtain the order by demonstrating that the information to be collected was relevant to an ongoing terrorism investigation. The information obtained by the order was valuable because it demonstrated the extent that the subject and his associate were communicating with subjects of other terrorism investigations.
Section 215:
Section 215 allows the FISA court to order the production of business records and other items, in the context of a national security investigation, to obtain foreign intelligence information not concerning a U.S. person; or to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities. Section 215 cannot be used to investigate ordinary crimes or domestic terrorism, and it is expressly provided that the FBI cannot conduct an investigation on a U.S. citizen solely on the basis of activities protected by the First Amendment.
Federal judges have reviewed and granted the Department’s request for a section 215 order 35 times as of March 30, 2005. To date, the provision has only been used to obtain driver’s license records, public accommodations records, apartment leasing records, credit card records, and subscriber information-such as names and addresses-for telephone numbers captured through court-authorized pen registers. The Department has not obtained a section 215 order to obtain library or bookstore records, medical records, or gun sale records.
Section 217:
Section 217 allows victims of computer hacking to obtain law enforcement assistance in intercepting the electronic communications of a computer trespasser that have been transmitted to, from, or through a protected computer under limited circumstances. Essentially, this provision brings the law relating to cyber-trespassing in line with the law relating to physical trespassing.
Section 218:
Section 218 encourages an integrated antiterrorism campaign by allowing FISA orders to be issued in cases where “a significant purpose” of the investigation is obtaining foreign intelligence. This provision lifted the “wall” which too often inhibited vital information sharing and coordination between the intelligence and law enforcement communities. Full coordination between these communities has already resulted in important successes in the war on terror.
For example, the Department’s successful dismantling of a Portland, Oregon terror cell, popularly known as the “Portland Seven,” relied heavily on use of section 218 in combination with section 504 of the PATRIOT Act. Members of this terror cell had attempted to travel to Afghanistan in 2001 and 2002 to take up arms with the Taliban and al Qaeda against United States and coalition forces fighting there, and law enforcement officials had learned at least one member of the cell had contemplated attacking Jewish schools or synagogues. Using sections 218 and 504 of the PATRIOT Act, agents and prosecutors were ultimately able to collect sufficient evidence to charge seven defendants and then to secure convictions and prison sentences ranging from three to 18 years for the six defendants taken into custody. Charges against the seventh defendant were dismissed after he was killed in Pakistan by Pakistani troops on October 3, 2003.
Section 220:
Section 220 allows federal judges with jurisdiction over a particular investigation to issue search warrants to obtain electronic evidence that is stored anywhere in the country. This provision allows courts to obtain evidence quickly and has proved itself invaluable in terrorist and criminal cases alike.
Section 220 was vital in the case of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, a pregnant woman who was strangled to death in her Missouri home, and whose unborn daughter was cut from her womb with a kitchen knife. Police officers were able to use Section 220 to investigate e-mails relating to her dog-breeding business. Officers found an exchange from a message board between Bobbie Jo and someone who called herself Darlene Fisher, who claimed to be interested in a dog. She had asked Bobbie Jo for directions to her house for a meeting on December 16th, the same day as the murder. Using a PATRIOT Act provision, FBI agents and examiners were able to trace Darlene Fisher's messages to a server in Topeka, find Darlene Fisher's e-mail address, and then trace it to a house in Melvern, Kansas. Darlene Fisher's real name was actually Lisa Montgomery. Montgomery was arrested and subsequently confessed. Bobbie Jo’s baby, Victoria Jo Stinnett, was found alive less than 24 hours after she was cut from her mother's womb and she was returned to her father.
Section 223:
Section 223 allows individuals to sue the federal government for money damages if a federal official discloses sensitive information without authorization. This provision provides individuals with a remedy in the event that an error is made by a federal law enforcement or intelligence agent. To date, no lawsuits have been filed against the government under section 223.
Section 225:
Section 225 immunizes from civil liability individuals who disclose information to the government in compliance with a FISA order. This immunity is important because it helps to secure the prompt cooperation of private parties with law enforcement officers to ensure the effective implementation of court orders.
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Wednesday, April 6, 2005
TWO SURVIVORS FROM NORTH KOREAN PRISON CAMPS TELL OF THE ABUSE THEY SUFFERED WHILE IMPRISONED
By Jeremy Reynalds
Special Correspondent for ASSIST News Service
SURREY, ENGLAND (ANS) -- Two Christian survivors of North Korean prison camps told of the unspeakable abuse they suffered while imprisoned.
They spoke at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR), the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and at the European Union (EU).
According to a news release from Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), a Christian human rights organization, Kim Tae Jin, 49, initially defected to China in 1986 to escape North Korea.
During the 16 months Jin spent in China he became a Christian, a decision that cost him dearly in North Korea when he was sent back there by the Chinese authorities.
North Korean authorities discovered a Bible in Jin’s belongings and he was subsequently imprisoned without trial in Yodok Political Prison Camp. There he was tortured in a variety of ways that included being beaten with burning wood. He was forced to do hard labor with very little food, and beaten unconscious when he became too weak to carry out his tasks.
Jin suffered such severe torture in the eight months following his return that he swallowed a nail, preferring an operation to staying in his prison cell.
He survived the imprisonment and eventually defected again, arriving in South Korea in June 2001, where he is involved in ministry as well as studying at a seminary.
Jin said in the news release, “In a political prison camp in North Korea, one must forget that he .... is a human being. I had to do many things to survive. I carefully watched a dog so that I could steal its food. I ate snakes, frogs, rats and anything that could be a source of nutrition.”
He added, “My prayer is that the situation in North Korea will be improved by your prayers, partnership and advocacy in both national and international arenas. I want to thank CSW for giving us this opportunity to speak.”
Kim Young Soon, 67, was arrested by the North Korean security forces after her husband disappeared. Along with her four children, CSW reported that she was also imprisoned in Yodok Political Prison Camp, “solely as a punishment for their association with him.”
She spent eight years in the prison camp, from 1970-1978, enduring brutal treatment that included forced labor, regular physical and verbal abuse, ideological indoctrination and severe degradation. She described the camp as “a living hell where prisoners were treated as less than animals.”
Soon’s youngest son perished in the camp, along with her mother and father who were also there. Her second son was executed after an unsuccessful attempt to escape from North Korea, and her eldest son became disabled as a result of his imprisonment. She has never seen her husband since his disappearance.
Soon eventually fled North Korea and arrived in South Korea in Nov. 2003, CSW reported. She is now a member of a human rights agency representing survivors of the political prison camps.
“I had to go through the tremendous pain of losing family members, which was much more painful than being killed myself,” Soon said. “The pain and suffering I have described is still shared by many people in North Korea, even today.”
According to CSW, there are estimated to be more than 100,000 prisoners incarcerated in North Korean prison camps.
At the UN parallel meeting, along with hearing from the prison camp survivors, the first ever video footage of public executions in North Korea was shown. In addition, a list of more than 600 individuals who have disappeared was revealed.
Stuart Windsor, CSW’s National Director, said in the news release, “It is vital the international community hears the truth about conditions inside the prison camps of North Korea. These two survivors need to be heard by the world as they share the horrors of the conditions they endured. The UNCHR, the FCO and the EU must do all they can to ensure the end of these political prison camps and all the human suffering that happens in them. We now have unprecedented filmed evidence of what defectors have been telling us for years about the use of public executions, which adds further impetus to the urgent need to address the human rights situation in North Korea.”
For more information visit www.csw.org.uk
Jeremy Reynalds is a freelance writer and the founder and director of Joy Junction, New Mexico's largest emergency homeless shelter, http://www.joyjunction.org or http://www.christianity.com/joyjunction. He has a master's degree in communication from the University of New Mexico and is a candidate for the Ph.D. in intercultural education at Biola University in Los Angeles. He is married with five children and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For more information contact: Jeremy Reynalds at jgreynalds@aol.com. Tel: (505) 877-6967 or (505) 400-7145. Note: A black and white JPEG picture of Jeremy Reynalds is available on request from Dan Wooding at danjuma1@aol.com.
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"U.S. has evidence of N.K. nuke exports to Libya"
Korea Herald ^ | Thursday, April 7, 2005 | Choi Soung-ah
Posted on 04/07/2005 12:15:04 AM PDT by nickcarraway
..I can't imagine eating rats and frogs!
It was a matter of survival.
Good morning folks.
Sorry to report bad news first thing, but this is the first thing I saw when I signed on this morning.
Nuclear Plants in 31 States Said Prone
http://www.adelphia.net/news/read.php?ps=1018&id=11828319
Fuel storage pools at nuclear power plants in 31 states may be vulnerable to terrorist attacks that could unleash raging fires and deadly radiation, scientists advised the government on Wednesday.
The group of nuclear experts said neither the government nor the nuclear industry "adequately understands the vulnerabilities and consequences of such an event." They recommended undertaking a plant-by-plant examination of fuel storage security as soon as possible.
In the meantime, plant operators promptly should reconfigure used fuel rods in the storage pools to lower decay-heat intensity and install spray devices to reduce the risk of a fire should a storage facility be attacked, the scientists said.
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I hope that the Americans that travel to this area in Mexico check these alerts prior to their travel. Especially the spring break college students and their parents.
Prayers being sent for Mr. Messner, his family, friends and colleagues at IH.
Report: FBI Says Teens Planned Suicide Bombing (NY - 4/7/05)
Teenage Girls Are From Bangladesh And Guinea
Apr 7, 2005 8:00 am US/Eastern NEW YORK (AP) Two 16-year-old girls from New York City have been arrested on immigration charges after federal authorities said they planned to become suicide bombers, according to a published report.
The teenagers were arrested March 24 and were being held in a detention center in Leesport, Pa., The New York Times reported Thursday, citing a government document provided by a federal agent.
According to the document, the FBI found that the girls posed “an imminent threat to the security of the United States based upon evidence that they plan to be suicide bombers,” the Times said.
The evidence was not described in the document.
Manny Van Pelt, a spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, would confirm only that two juveniles had been arrested on “administrative immigration violations” and remained in custody.
The girls—one from Bangladesh, one from Guinea—were living in the United States illegally, the Times reported.
Adam Carroll, a community activist with the Islamic Circle of North America, told the Times one of the girls had been arrested after she stopped attending public high school in September. Federal immigration agents investigated her home and discovered an essay about suicide and Islam on her computer, Carroll said.....
P.S. Checking out for about a week for a little vacation...JP when I return I will have the time to send the requested posts to NoE, I haven't been ignoring your posts....just crazy busy. Everyone stay safe and hopefully you are all enjoying some nice spring weather.
For what it's worth (found this at www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=68914):
Reports have reached us today showing an increasing level of concern among Russian scientists that a major earthquake could affect large parts of the United States Eastern Coastal Regions in the very near future.
In my March 6th report titled “Arctic Circle Earthquakes Begins North American Continent Instability, Greater Earthquakes Sure to Follow”, I had stated, “Reports have reached us today that the Franz Josef Land archipelago Region of Russia, and in the Arctic Circle, has been stricken by a series of powerful earthquakes. The Seismic Network of the Russian Academy of Sciences is currently estimating the largest of these events to be over 6.0 magnitude event, and covering an area of the Arctic Regions of tens of thousands of square kilometers.
And now today as we are evidencing these events, not to the ‘stability’, but rather to the ‘instability’ of the entire Eastern Seaboard Regions of the areas of Canada, the United States and the Caribbean Sea are we concerned about. Of concern to Russian researchers has also been that the United States Geological Service’s Quaternary Faults Maps for the Eastern Regions of this country are non-existent, so no further estimations can be made as to the immediate future course of these events.”
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Newspaper Times Herald-Record in their article titled "The mysterious vanishing water", and which says, "This sleepy village on the New Jersey border has never thirsted. Even in times of drought – when other towns and villages in Orange County suffered from water shortages – Unionville's sand and gravel aquifer has provided. There are about 600 people in Unionville, who use an average of 40,000 gallons of drinking water a day. So village officials were puzzled a month ago when they discovered they were pumping more than twice that amount from the wells.
"It's a mystery," said Unionville Mayor Richard Ludwick. "But somewhere we're losing water and hopefully, within the next week, we'll find out where it’s going." Over the past month, the amount of "missing" water from the village's two wells has fluctuated from 25,000 to 40,000 gallons a day, he said."
The connection between these two New England Region events lies in the ancient Ramapo Fault Line, of which we can read about as said by the United States Columbia University, and which says, “The Ramapo Fault is part of a system of north-east striking, southeast-dipping faults, which are mapped from southeastern New York to eastern Pennsylvania and beyond. These faults were active at different times during the evolution of the Appalachians, especially in the Mesozoic when they served as border faults to the Newark Basin and other extensional basins formed by the opening of the Atlantic Ocean approximately 200 million years ago.”
Japanese researchers have long known the predictive value of dropping water tables as precursor events leading to earthquakes, and as we can read from the Japanese Fujita Research Organization in their research paper titled Earthquake Prediction, and which says, "Changing water levels in deep wells is recognized by the IASPEI as a significant precursor to earthquakes. Perhaps part of the reason for this is explained by the discoveries of German scientists working at “KTB”, which is planned to be the deepest hole ever drilled in the earth’s crust (to 10 km). At a depth of 3 900 m the researchers struck water. A heavy brine with a salinity twice that of sea water, it was at a temperature of 118°C and contained 80% by volume of gases in solution, principally N2(70%) and CH4 (29%). The discovery of this brine led the researchers to postulate a “crustal ocean”, with tides, currents, and flows, all of which could conceivably react to seismic activity."
Full article found at http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index714.htm
Still feeling safe from any major quakes here on the Cheseapeake Bay. Last big event here was 35 million years ago, when a big ol' rock carved out a big chunk of the region, shattering the rock that was holding fresh water and making well-drilling problematic here. You can go down to one depth and get fresh water, and above and below it get some of the nastiest brine. Geologically speaking, this place is messed up because of the meteor hit.
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