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Retirement Facility Fire

Fire broke out in what looks like the roof or attic area of an elderly assisted living facility tonight in Colorado:

(9news.com) "ADAMS COUNTY – A fire broke out on the third floor of an assisted living facility on Friday night forcing at least 50 people outside of the building.  The South Adams County Fire Department was called to the Madonna Plaza around 7:30 p.m. on a report of an electrical odor.

When crews arrived on scene, they discovered there was a fire on the third floor of the building. The building was evacuated. The fire department says five units were affected.  Ten residents were moved to another facility Friday night. The fire department says 40 others would remain at the Madonna Plaza.

Firefighters are still investigating what caused the fire, but believe a lightning strike may have started the fire."

            

Keep in mind that assisted living is for the elderly and others who cannot ambulate or "get around" on their own without assistance.  As I've said before, these types of facilities, nursing homes and hospitals are all sitting ducks for terrorist activity whether it be arson, carbon monoxide or a bomb because evacuation is tedious and time consuming.

Bizarre Bomb Threat Incident In N.M.

This one was at the Bank of America and the area was closed off to traffic along with a school lockdown:

"The unidentified suspect tried to rob the Bank of America on Montgomery and Juan Tabo Friday afternoon. Before entering the bank, the suspect captured two people, a doctor and his assistant, as hostages.  The robber then attached fanny packs to his hostages, telling them they were explosives. The hostages were instructed to withdraw money from the bank or the fanny packs would explode.

Shortly after entering the bank, however, the hostages took off the fanny packs and were rescued by police.

Authorities are now investigating the fanny packs, but said they contained no explosives. Meanwhile, the suspect is on the loose."

                

And after taking  hostages, HE GOT AWAY.

This is such a "stooge" robbery/bomb attempt that I don't think the thief-o-bomber ever intended to get any cash.  It's as if the only reason it was done was to create chaos.

Sunday School Teacher SHOT

A Sunday school teacher in New Mexico was found in his dead in his car.  He had been shot multiple times:

"The UNEXPLAINED MURDER of a young man shot as he drove on an Albuquerque street early Wednesday continues to stun those who knew him.

Friends describe James "Jimmy" Howell, 26, as outgoing and kind with what looked like a bright future.

Members of the Hoffmantown Church are especially hurt.  Until recently, when work demands got in the way, Howell had taught 4th grade Sunday school there.

Howell was found slumped over the wheel of his car at Comanche and San Pedro NE a few blocks from his home at 2 a.m. Wednesday.

Police say he died of multiple gunshot wounds but are releasing no other information.

Hoffmantown children's pastor Ryan Foster:

Frazier said it will be difficult explaining to Howell's former Sunday school students why he's gone now. "

"The way he poured his life into those children was a blessing to all of us to see how he exemplified the character of Christ," Frazier said.  "Jimmy loved the Lord and it was obvious in the way he treated those who he was around."

                        

Another in a line of crimes perpetrated against Christians in this country....we have entered an era in which murders, kidnappings and church burnings have become common place.  Attacks on Jews and synagogues have also occurred.  It's got to stop.  If it doesn't, citizens will one day take matters into their own hands in expelling the guilty parties.

The recent events in this country have gone beyond crime.  The daily facts reek of war. 

If the enemy willing to risk war within, he may be surprised at the resistance that ensues.  This country will undergo a revolution that will take it back to "pre-liberal" laws that were invoked to rule and secure American citizens long ago.

Suspicious Package At Virology Lab

A virology lab in Winnepeg had a suspicious item delivered to them and an investigation has ensued:

"The Winnepeg Police Bomb Unit and the fire department's hazardous materials unit are at the federal virology laboratory late this afternoon investigating a mysterious package. graham Avenue.

Arlington Street is closed to traffic between William and Alexander avenues until further notice, but the building has not been evacuated.

"It's going to be some time before we know what it is," Const. Jacqueline Chaput said late this afternoon.

Chaput wouldn't describe the package.

"It's actually outside of the building," she said.

Kelly Keith, the Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health's (virology lab) communications director, said the package came to the lab's community liaison committee's post office box at the main post office on

"It wasn't expected," she said. "They picked it up there, and left the (post office) building with it."

            

The suspicious item sent to a virology lab is a veiled threat to use biological warfare....plain and simple.  The suspicious item has been placed in a special container to eventually be analyzed.

The person or group responsible for most of the recent threats over the last week is continuing on with an agenda despite knowing that the FBI and other intelligence agencies are focused on finding out where the threats are originating.  Logic would indicate that the person or group instigating these threats is operating from a "safe house" overseas....and it's an area where extradition to the United States won't be implemented by authorities in the "safe house".

Go figure and take your pick of Islamist countries.  Iran comes to mind.  I don't think all these phone calls would be risked in Afghanistan and the computer hacking into store security cameras isn't going to be carried out in a cave.

Huge Mexican Skyscraper Evacuated AGAIN

Workers have again FLED from the Torre Mayor, Mexico's tallest building due to ANOTHER THREAT today:

"Mexico's 59-story Torre Mayor, Mexico City's tallest building, was evacuated for the second consecutive day Aug. 31 after an anonymous bomb threat. Police began an inspection of the building but no further details were made available regarding the threat. The building was also evacuated Aug. 30 due to a bomb threat and the discovery of an explosive device in a stolen car."

Thousands are pouring out of building again today where a bomb was found in a stolen car in the parking area just YESTERDAY.  Where's the bomb today?

We are rapidly approaching a state of chaos which is just what the enemy is attempting to instigate.  What's worse is that all these bomb threats could be serving as a smoke screen....an attention diversion, with the real attack waiting in the wings.

Unfortunately, it's time to arm yourselves.  You never know what is lurking beyond the obvious.  Ideally, the government should at this point be deporting or locking up every illegal, suspicious person on the streets, but we all know that won't happen even though the enemy is living among us.

People Gassed At Work

It's carbon monoxide that gassed people in two work areas and some were so over come by the FUMES that they had to be transported to hospitals.  In a meat packing plant, the carbon monoxide level was a hefty 1000 ppm and workers were reduced to fleeing from poisonous fumes:

"Chicago-As many as nine people were sickened early Friday when carbon monoxide fumes poured into a meat processing plant on the city's Northwest Side.

Fire Department Chief Kevin MacGregor said about 25 workers fled the building after six of them complained of nausea. MacGregor said the workers were all waiting on the street outside when firefighters arrived.

few as six and as many as nine people were reportedly overcome by fumes and had to be taken to area hospitals. Their conditions were not immediately learned."(this statement makes no sense, but you get the idea)

And that's not all:

"Toronto-Thirteen people were rushed to the hospital after a carbon monoxide leak in Durham region.

The patients are all employees at the Sobeys Distribution Centre in Whitby.

Durham Police tell AM 640 Toronto Radio the employees were suffering respiratory distress, but they are all expected to be okay.

The Whitby fire department is airing out the building. The Ministry of Labour will take over the investigation."

People are also being gassed in their apartment complex MULTIPLE TIMES in Virginia, 2 weeks after Virginia Tech students in an off campus apartment were RENDERED UNCONSCIOUS by carbon monoxide.

One of the apartment complex dwellers puts it all into perspective:

"This whole thing is just BIZARRE,” Stosser said. “You rarely hear of these leaks. Normally someone smells [natural] gas and the leak is fixed"

I would have to agree.  With all the bomb threats, hostage situations, arsons, explosions and gassing incidents, the ENTIRE LAST FEW WEEKS HAVE BEEN

B I Z A R R E.

FBI Investigates Blast At "Terrorist Training" Site In PA

If the blast sounded bigger than an M-80, it must have been dynamite:

"Residents south of Gouldsboro are used to the sound of gunfire from the public shooting range on State Game Lands 127. So when residents there say there was a big explosion and automatic gunfire, there's a good chance they're not crying wolf.

The shooting range was used earlier this year by six men now dubbed the Fort Dix Six for a half-baked terrorism plot they are accused of concocting, involving an attack on that New Jersey military base.

The incident occurred Wednesday, Aug. 15. The remains of a small crater, apparently from the explosion, are still visible but aren't much to look at.

There's an active investigation, too, but that's also not very visible.

The explosion occurred at 5:47 a.m. and was loud enough to awaken residents who live near the shooting range. Numerous residents called 911. Because State Game Lands is near the Lackawanna County border, some of the 911 calls went to the State Police in Dunmore.

One of the 911 callers described what she heard. "There was a series of single shots that were very loud — louder than a normal gun. I've lived in that area for 22 years and it was nothing like any gunfire I have ever heard before.

"Then there was a huge explosion followed by more shots that sounded like automatic machine gun fire. I called my brother-in-law and asked him if we should do anything and he said to call the cops. So I did.

"I dialed 911 and went through many transfers to Dunmore and then Swiftwater. Then Pocono Mountain Regional Police called me back at 6:10 a.m. and said they would come up, but I knew by the time they drove all the way up here, the people would be gone."

    

It sounds like someone was up there experimenting.  I don't know why it should take so long to analyze the residue.  If the Fort Dix Six were up there, others like them are probably still visiting the area testing their explosives and automatic weapons.

That's why a lot of us are on patrol in the Oregon woods.

On The Verge Of Bomb Threat Fatigue

There have probably been more bomb threats these last few weeks than there have been in the last 6 months.  Law enforcement, HAZMAT, firemen and other assorted responders, including sniffing dogs must be thinking...."Oh no....not another one".  And at this point, the stink bomb emerges.....harmless, but nauseating.  One was released in a library:

                  

"Canyon City police and firefighters were called out to the public city Library on Thursday around 2:15 p.m. because someone reported smelling noxious fumes.

Library staff evacuated the building after smelling a strong sulfur-like odor and noticing glass shards on the floor.  Two Library patrons were transported to the hospital after complaining of shortness of breath.

They were later released.

Firefighters ventilated the building.

They also recovered glass shards that are believed to have contained the noxious substance.

These were turned over to police for processing.

Some of the glass shards were reassembled and appear to resemble glass vials used in “stink bombs”.

It is believed that they contained ammonium sulfide but this has not been confirmed.

At this time there are no suspects."

            

There was also a stink bomb released in a hospital emergency room over the weekend.

The events over the last few weeks are turning America into a collage of hoaxes, pranks and copy-cat threats!  BUT among them, the REAL THREAT is lurking and accomplishing it's goal which is citizen fatigue leading into the real attack.

People are also becoming dangerously desensitized to the threats and in some cases, the evacuation isn't carried out immediately because store, restaurant owners, etc are delaying calling authorities in some cases where there have already been multiple HOAX threats.  In one instance, a man walked into a store and said there would be a bomb going off later that night.  No one was evacuated because the store wasn't open at night.

It's obvious that a party or parties may be actually aiming these hoax threats at citizens to accomplish an atmosphere of delayed, desensitized response.  And just when the time is ripe, a REAL BOMB will be released in 50 stores across the nation simultaneously.

Now, who do you think stands to benefit from bomb threat desensitization and fatigue?  Who benefits from watching security responses nationwide?  Who benefits from hoax-weary citizens who've been stink-bombed into a nonchalant oblivion?

I can guarantee you it's not dumb kids seeking to get out of classes for the day.

Dreaded E.Coli In Oregon Hamburger

The E.Coli bacterium is showing up once again on the dinner table....and it's in the extra lean too:

         

"An alert was issued Thursday for extra lean ground beef linked to eight E. Coli infections in Oregon and Washington, the Oregon Department of Human Services said.

Health officials warned consumers that Northwest Finest natural ground beef and organic ground beef was sold at QFC, Fred Meyer and Safeway stores in Oregon and Washington in late July and early August.

The first eight confirmed cases of E. coli infection were in six homes, five of them in Washington and one in Oregon.

Health officials said the organic beef was sold at QFC, Fred Meyer and Safeway; while the natural beef was sold at Safeway and possibly other locations.

The meat was ground by Interstate Meat Dist., Inc., in Clackamas. On Thursday, a representative from the meat distributor said none of the product is on store shelves.

According to the Oregon Department of Human Services, E. coli causes mild to severe intestinal illness, including severe cramps and diarrhea that is often bloody. Health officials said young children and elderly people may suffer serious or potentially fatal kidney damage."

Of course it's not on the shelves, but hopefully they are checking the distributer.  Along with another baby-spinach alert, people are liable to be plagued with bloody blow-outs over the holiday weekend because they left before the news came out(no pun intended).

Are they not keeping tabs on people in packaging plants?  The baby spinach producers should have learned their lesson by now IF it was just due to "irrigation water"....which was hard to believe.

These  packaging plants had better start checking their worker's pockets for vials of enteric disease causing bacteria.  There aren't that many workers sh*tting in the fields anymore since the advent of portable chemical toilets!

Rio Train Rear-Ends Another

One high speed train crashed into a another empty train and people are still stuck in the wreckage:

"A fast-moving train carrying hundreds of commuters slammed into an empty train near Rio de Janeiro on Thursday, killing at least eight people and injuring 60, officials said.

The collision about 200 years from a train station on Rio's poor north side left some people trapped in wreckage.

"We have to use blowtorches to open the sides of the train cars to reach the people," said Pedro Machado, commander-general of the Rio de Janeiro Fire Department.

Up to 850 people were aboard the commuter train when it crashed into the rear end of an empty train, which was being moved from one track to another, firefighters and train company officials said.

Machado said in a televised interview that eight people were killed and about 60 injured. "But now we're positive that there are no more fatal victims."

   

Twenty people have been taken to hospitals so far, mainly with fractures.  And get this....the commuter train was carrying 850 people.