Glacier National Park removes signs predicting glaciers would be “gone by 2020” Links 2, January 10, 2020

1. Iranian national found with knives on Flagler Memorial Bridge, Palm Beach police say

PALM BEACH, Fla. — Palm Beach police are investigating after they say a man believed to be an Iranian national was found with several knives on the Flagler Memorial Bridge on Friday.

Police said the man had no known address and was detained by officers.

In addition to the knives, police said the man had an undisclosed amount of U.S. currency on him.

The police department said this is an open and active investigation

(There are indicators that this man was planning an attack on President Trump at Mar a Lago)

2. Syrian Orthodox Church in Sweden Under Guard After Series of Suspected Arson Attacks

Following several suspicious fires, members of the Syrian Orthodox St Maria’s church in Norrköping say they will begin patrolling the area around the church at night to avoid further potential attacks.

 

The move comes after the church received a fire alarm on Sunday night as a fire had broken out in the assembly room of the church, the second suspicious fire in a month according to Isa Gergin, spokesman and caretaker for the Syrian Orthodox Church, SVT reports.

 

“On the third of December, it was the same. Someone had poured gasoline on the outside and lit it. But the emergency services were quickly in place,” Gergin said.

Commenting on Sunday’s fire, Gergin said: “We have not gone through all the damage yet, but the building has survived and internally it is only smoke damaged.”

(If any of our readers are in the insurance business, ideally an actuarial, I would really like tis know if Churches can even get fire insurance anymore)

3. An appeal court managed to force out a moment of reality

4. Montreal kicks in $1 million for de-radicalization centre

The City of Montreal is contributing nearly $1 million to the Centre for Prevention of Radicalization Leading to Violence.

The $975,000, which is in addition to $225,000 that the city granted the four-year-old organization this past spring, will allow the Centre to carry out its 2019-2020 action plan, the city said in a statement.

 

The funding follows the Centre’s recent announcement that it will be adjusting its mission slightly in order to take a more community-based approach to de-radicalization, said Rosannie Filato, the Montreal executive committee member responsible for public security.

 

“(The Centre’s) objectives will now be to focus and personalize their interventions on at-risk people and those around them,” Filato said, adding that the Centre will also soon have a dedicated board of directors and new leadership.

(I vote that the entrance gate to this centre should read: “Consensus will make you free”)

5. Doctors and engineers. Try to remember that. Doctors, and engineers.

https://twitter.com/LFC_blano/status/1215591904081072129

6. Lufthansa Says Canceling Tehran Flights due to Security Uncertainty

Germany’s flagship carrier Lufthansa said on Friday that its group airlines were canceling flights to and from Tehran until Jan. 20 inclusive due to the uncertain security situation of the airspace around the Iranian capital.

Lufthansa said the move was a “precautionary measure” and it would decide if and when its flights to Iran would resume when it had more information.

US officials said on Thursday that the government believed Iran accidentally shot down a Ukrainian airliner shortly after Iran fired missiles at two US military bases in Iraq, while Iran was on high alert.

7. Iran makes up a lot of stuff about successful attacks against US personnel, equipment.

8. President Trump gives hints about what the Iranian general had planned in terms of terror operations. It seems to have been 4 US embassies.

More at the Daily Wire

9. Blast during a Taliban meeting in Pakistan kills 30 including ISI members: Sources

A powerful explosion ripped through a religious school during a Taliban meeting on Friday evening in Quetta, Pakistan claiming at least 30 dead including key Taliban and ISI members, a security source confirmed.

A reliable Afghan security source from the who did not want to be named in the report told Khaama Press that according to intelligence reports, the explosion took place when several key Taliban members including Sheikh Abdul Karim (Taliban’s supreme judge), Sheikh Abdul Karim’s brother, 3 Pakistan’s ISI members and some drug smugglers were sitting together on Friday evening in a religious school, besides a prayer mosque in Ishaqabad area, in Quetta of Pakistan.

 

“The explosion has occurred during an important meeting between the Taliban militants, ISI members, and drug smugglers”, the source said.

(The ISI is Pakistan’s main intel services, which are said to be responsible for the attack on Bombay some years ago which killed many people, burned the Taj Hotel and murdered many innocents at a main rail station)

10.Trump hater orders man to remove MAGA hat; he refuses. So Trump hater makes threat, takes swing at hat — and victim pulls out his gun.

The Trump hater quickly opted for a change of scenery.

11. United States government-funded phones come pre-installed with unremovable malware

At time of original publication, we were not yet able to replicate the malware Android./Trojan.HiddenAds being dropped on our test device, though multiple users had reported that a variant of HiddenAds suddenly installed on their UMX mobile phone.

 

As of today, we are now able to report that our UMX U683CL test phone has become infected with a variant of HiddenAds we detect asAndroid/Trojan.HiddenAds.WRACT. This variant has been observed in the wild since spring 2019. It runs silently in the background and does not create an app icon. Evidence of its running in the background can be seen in the mobile device’s notifications. A notification box that changes its title name is highlighted below in red.

(Please click through and read this whole article. It is stunning)

12. Glacier National Park removes signs predicting glaciers would be “gone by 2020”

National Park spokeswoman Gina Kurzman said the signs were put up over a decade ago, reflecting forecasts from the U.S. Geological Survey at the time.

 

A national park in the United States has been forced to remove signs saying the park’s glaciers will be “gone by 2020” due to global warming, as the park still boasts 26 glaciers.

 

Glacier National Park in Montana said that the most visible warning of the glacier’s imminent demise had been removed by late 2019, with the remainder to be taken down shortly.

National Park spokeswoman Gina Kurzman said the signs were put up over a decade ago, reflecting forecasts from the U.S. Geological Survey at the time.

(Winston Smith now working for Geological Survey)

Thank you M., Wrath of Khan, Johnny U., Richard, EB.,  ML., and everyone who has contributed to our mutual enlightenment.