BREAKING: Massive earthquake kills dozens, injures over 200 in Philippines

Dozens of people were killed and more than two hundred injured on Monday after a powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck the Philippines.

The tremor struck south of the island of Mindanao, shaking at least twenty-two million people with severe or moderate force. Officials confirmed at least thirty-two deaths, more than two hundred injuries, and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of residents in what was described as the strongest earthquake to hit the country in nearly four decades.

The quake prompted tsunami warnings across the region, although American officials quickly stated that Hawaii faced no threat. Warnings were also issued for nearby areas including Taiwan, Japan, Guam, and Papua New Guinea.

"The national government is moving and we will not leave Mindanao behind," said Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. "I am in constant communication with our regional offices and local chief executives on the ground."

Mindanao is the second-largest island in the Philippines and is home to more than twenty-seven million people. Earthquakes are common in the region. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, at least thirty-five earthquakes measuring above magnitude 7 have struck the area since 1900. 

Marcos Jr. also announced that he had ordered "the suspensions of all classes in all levels across affected areas in Mindanao until further notice. The safety of our children comes first."He urged residents to take tsunami warnings seriously, telling them to "move to higher ground now. Do not wait. Your life is more important than anything left behind."

The U.S. Geological Survey estimated a 42 percent chance that the death toll would fall between ten and one hundred people, and a 32 percent chance that fatalities could range from one hundred to one thousand. The agency also estimated a 39 percent probability that economic losses would total between one hundred million dollars and one billion dollars. Officials said the earthquake was caused by thrust faulting, a process in which one section of the Earth's crust moves upward over another along a fault line.

One local resident told The New York Times that he rushed to higher ground with his young daughter after the earthquake struck.

"I was very scared, my knees were trembling," Julius Golez said. "We were crying; so many other people were also crying."

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Dumocratic congressman: Trump supporters are poorer, less educated, die early

Rep[rehensible] Hank Johnson (D-GA) a graduate of Hogwash University with a degree in Balderdash and a man who relies heavily on the stupidity of his constituents, made the unsubstantiated claim that President Trump supporters are older, less educated, poorer, and die early compared to other voters. He never said from where he got his data, nor how we can be older and still die early.

"Donald Trump supporters are older, less educated, less prosperous, and dying early," Johnson said at Friendship Baptist Church in Atlanta, refusing to refer to our president by his title.

Johnson didn't cite what data he used to come to his conclusion, however, an analysis by the Washington Post, no fan of the president, found that while a significant portion of Trump supporters may not have a college degree, they are generally prosperous.

Johnson is a great example of how the self-aggrandizing left views conservatives: as undeserving, unknowing science deniers, while they see themselves as the arbiters of all that's holy, including the killing of babies and calling it a woman's right to choose.

"Their life spans are decreasing. And many are dying from alcoholism, drug overdoses, liver disease or simply a broken heart caused by an economic despair," Johnson added, failing to explain how economic despair can cause a heart to "break."

Johnson once again didn't cite the evidence he based his claim off of, but a study released in September from Columbia University found counties with higher death rates did tend to vote Republican in 2016. And you can trust Columbia University to conduct an unbiased political demographic survey.

Johnson slammed Americans who voted for Trump with the disgusting lie that we want to bring America back to when "minorities and women were in their place."

"Americans elected an authoritarian anti-immigrant racist strongman to the nation's highest office. Donald Trump and his Make America Great Again followers want to return America back to a time where white men and white privilege were unchallenged. And where minorities and women were in their place. These folks now control the highest office in the land," he said.

No, America, not simply Americans, elected Trump because the alternative was a far worse choice. Trump is certainly not a role model for anyone, but presidents are government workers who have a job to do. Does anyone care what the mail carrier does in his or her spare time?

Johnson is black, but being black does not prevent him from being a racist, although some people would have you believe that nonsense. Identity politics is a form of racism. And Johnson has a history of making racist statements when, in 2016, he compared Jewish Israeli settlers to termites.

 He also stupidly expressed concern at a congressional hearing that the island of Guam could tip over because of the presence of U.S. troops. Then-President Obama assured him that he would ensure the troops would be evenly distributed around the island to prevent it from rocking.

The congressman said right-wing ideologues are dividing people because of their thirst for profits, as if making money was a bad thing--typical thinking of socialists and communists.

"Right-wing ideologues gain power by playing on peoples' economic despair. Pitting working people against each other. Enflaming racial tensions by blaming economic hardships on people of color," Johnson said. "The reality is that these right-wing authoritarians are laissez-faire free, market capitalist with insatiable thirst for more and more profits."

It was free market capitalism that created a world where, since 1980, poverty has substantially been eradicated in much of the world, particularly in the West.

During his racist speech, Johnson even compared Trump and the Republican Party to Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. This is a typical tactic of the left, appealing to the emotions while insulting the sensitivities of the Jews, who don't quite see Trump anything at all like the Nazis and Hitler.

Not satisfied with merely showing his insensitivity, Johnson made other, baseless, factless and eyebrow-raising remarks, proving that left-wing ideologues have nothing of real substance to bring to the table and must use identity politics and cemeteries to win votes.

Well here we are in the start of a new year and the world still hasn't come to an end with President Trump in the White House, in spite of what the media and the left [but I repeat myself] would have you believe. 

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NoKo says strike on US is 'inevitable' as we fly bombers off coast

North Korea's foreign minister, Ri Yong Ho, (aka 'Young Ho') under threat of being anti aircraft-gunned by the rogue nation's leader, called U.S. President Trump "a mentally deranged person full of megalomania." Ironically, Ho has no background in psychology, other than an evening adult ed class, so it's quite possible that his diagnosis of President Trump is wrong, especially given the fact that he never interviewed him diagnostically or otherwise.

As his daughter, Heidi, sat in the audience, Ho promised that  a strike on the U.S. mainland was "inevitable" in the speech he made at the UN General Assembly.

The Ho address began as the Pentagon announced that it had flown some badass bombers and fighter jet escorts to the farthest point north of the Korean DMZ (Demilitarized Zone), going farther than any such U.S. aircraft this century.

Ho

Defense Department spokesman, Dana White, said in a statement "This mission is a demonstration of U.S. resolve and a clear message that the president has many military options to defeat any threat."

White added, "North Korea's weapons program is a grave threat to the Asia-Pacific region and the entire international community. We are prepared to use the full range of military capabilities to defend the U.S. homeland and our allies."

According to the Pentagon, B-1B bombers from Guam, and F-15C Eagle fighter escorts from Okinawa, Japan, flew in international airspace over waters east of North Korea on Saturday.

Unlike other "show of force" missions, our birds were not accompanied by South Korean or Japanese planes. We simply wanted to show North Korea just how big our gonads are.

"While conducted unilaterally, this mission was coordinated with regional allies--namely the Republic of Korea [aka South Korea] and Japan--and was a strong testament to our ironclad alliance," U.S. Pacific Command spokesman Cmdr. Dave Benham told Fox News.

On Friday, Trump went on the rhetorical offensive against Adipose Kim.

"Kim Jong Un of North Korea, who is obviously a madman who doesn't mind starving or killing his people, will be tested like never before," Trump tweeted. He had previously announced increased economic sanctions against NoKo on Thursday. The sanctions will target any countries that do business with North Korea, but this is really aimed at China, who does almost 90 percent of the North's trade.

Due to the fact that President Trump spoke about North Korea, the liberal mainstream media and Democrats tried to put words in his mouth, accusing him of threatening NoKo preemptively.

Trump's words:

"North Korea's nuclear weapons and missile development is a grave threat to peace and security in our world and it is unacceptable that others financially support this criminal, rogue regime."

Kim (aka 'Rocket Man') went ballistic hours later saying Trump was "deranged."

Photo: Senior Airman Quay Drawdy

It's like the pot calling the kettle 'stoned'.

On a positive note, it looks like Trump has gotten China and Russia on board with the sanction program and it's possible that China could severely impede NoKo's ability to fund its missile and nuclear program.

And while fat Kim is saying Trump would "pay dearly" for threatening to "totally destroy" his hell-hole of a country if the U.S. had to defend ourselves or our allies against a North Korea attack, hopefully the sanctions will put an end to the bluster.


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Chubby Kim wants to shut U.S. up about military options

"Look Kim, a dead bird"

Seoul -- North Korea is looking to acquire military "equilibrium" with the U.S. in order to put an end to talks about using military options for dealing with Pyongyang, the obese dictator Kim Jong Un said after he launched another missile over Japan's mainland.

Corpulent Kim told his top missile unit that NoKo would continue to run "full speed and straight" toward military parity with us, reported the state fake news agency known as Korean Central News Agency (KCNA; aka Comedy Centrifuge).

The latest missile launch was the second one in three weeks. This time it flew over 2,300 miles from the launch site in Pyongyang and over the northern Japanese city of Hokkaido, home to some of Japan's finest sakes and world renown Sapporo Beer.

And Kim better not mess with our beer.

Fortunately for the fat man and Japan, the missile landed in the Pacific Ocean, but with a range like that, it could have easily reached Guam, which is about 2,100 miles from the launch site.

Kim has been threatening to "envelop" Guam with missiles, but if he did, it's highly likely we'd envelop his fat butt with enough fire power to make Pyongyang and the rest of NoKo indistinguishable from a Smokey the Bear nightmare.

In the meantime however, President Trump and other world leaders have retaliated with strong words of condemnation, which we all know scares the bejeezus out of Kim and will get him to think hard about what he has done.

Not!


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Nikki Haley: NoKo is "begging for war"

U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley spoke Monday morning at an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council. Haley asked for the strongest possible sanctions against the rogue nation of North Korea after their most recent nuclear test in which they claimed to have tested a hydrogen bomb.

First, she made the case by laying out the history of past "half measures" that didn't change NoKo's behavior, then said "the time for half measures . . . is over," and "enough is enough." 

Now North Korea is planning yet another nuclear test, which would be their seventh test thus far. They apparently are capable of launching an ICBM that could reach Alaska, Hawaii and Guam, as well as Japan and South Korea.

"We cannot kick this can down the road any longer," Haley said. Yesterday Haley said that North Korea is "begging for war."

President Trump did "an Obama" and condemned the test in the strongest possible terms. 

But what are the strongest possible terms? Vulgarity? Calling Kim's mother a prostitute? Just words, and words have done nothing for over two decades to reel in the dictatorship.

"North Korea is a rogue nation which has become a great threat and embarrassment to China, which is trying to help out with little success," Trump said Sunday in the strongest possible terms.

The future does not look promising for a peaceful resolution to this situation, and while Trump inherited the problem from Clinton, Bush and Obama, you know the left is going to blame him for whatever happens and make it all his fault.

But the fault began with Bill Clinton.


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NoKo claims it launched an ICBM

North Korea claims it has test-fired its first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) Tuesday, in what the corpulent Kim regime called the "final step" in creating a "powerful nuclear state that can strike anywhere on Earth."

If they did, indeed, launch an ICBM, it may be the "final step" North Korea takes under the Kim regime, if the U.S. and our allies such as Japan and South Korea are threatened.

If it turns out to be true and we can confirm the launch of the Hwasgon-14 launch, it's going to signal the start of the biggest nuclear standoff in the world and a 'flipping off' by North Korea to President Trump.

U.S., South Korean and Japanese officials agreed that North Korea fired an intermediate-range missile into the sea off the coast of Japan, known as Japan's Economic Zone. The range of such missiles is around 3,500 miles, long enough to reach Guam, where U.S. forces  are located.

"We are working with our interagency partners on a more detailed assessment," U.S. Pacific Command said in a statement. "We continue to monitor North Korea's actions closely."

Yes, we are like the 'dental monitor' in that LifeLock TV commercial who doesn't really fix cavities, but monitors for them.

The latest launch may be NoKo's most successful ballistic missile test thus far. State media said it was ordered and supervised by fat dictator Kim Jong Un, without the approval of Dennis Rodman.

The missile flew for about 40 minutes, reached an altitude of 1,500 miles, and beat the previous testing by about 10 minutes. A U.S. scientist monitored the height and distance and told the AP the missile could potentially be powerful enough to reach Alaska.

Predictably, President Trump responded to the launch in a whirlwind of tweets:

"North Korea has just launched another missile. Does this guy have anything better to do with his life? Hard to believe that South Korea and Japan will put up with this much longer. Perhaps China will put a heavy move on North Korea and end this nonsense once and for all!"

This missile launch might induce a new round of international sanctions, but it will likely have the same effect as hummingbird flatulence in a hurricane. North Korea is one of the most sanctioned countries on the planet.



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