RandySF
RandySF's JournalIn case you're wondering what a 120 kiloton blast can do to your hometown.
Check out Nukemaps. San Francisco would see over 200,000 fatalities, but Seul would suffer over 400k. I hope Trump comes to understand the big picture.
https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
Monitoring agency: Nuclear test had a yield of 120 kilotons, 10x more powerful than previous tests.
An independent seismic monitoring agency, NORSAR, estimates that the blast created a yield of about 120 kilotons -- this would be a huge leap over previous tests.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/03/asia/north-korea-nuclear-test-live-updates/index.html?lf-content=211536609:lb-post-f88beef7b62033068f2681db555d25df@livefyre.com&hubRefSrc=permalink
Trump got his wish, North Korea respects us
And they showed it demonstrating that they can set off a one-megaton yield hydrogen bomb. Good job, Don.
URGENT: San Francisco hospitals calling for volunteers for assistance ASAP
Just got an email from NERT:
Hello
I have received a request for immediate assistance at 3 San Francisco Hospitals for ASAP up to an 8 hour shift.
Volunteers must be 18 years of age and have an active/current medial license of Paramedic or above.
Tasks: receiving patients from ambulances and monitoring patients until they can be seen in the ED. Bring your own food. Limited parking available at all sites. Keep receipt if you pay for parking in a lot.
The location and number of people needed are below:
UCSF Parnassus (need 2 people)
St Francis Memorial Hospital (need 2 people)
ZSFGH (General Hospital
Do not self deploy. Respond to this email if and ONLY IF YOU ARE AVAILABLE NOW AND CAN COMPLETE THE FULL 8 HOURS
Provide your response to Captain Arteseros BY TEXT at 415-254-5865. Include your full name, email address and license you hold. You will be notified exact details when assignments are made.
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Captain Arteseros
Heatwave Day Two: 100 Degrees in Downtown San Francisco
I left the Midwest over a decade ago to escape this kind of extreme weather. Keep coll everyone.
John Kelly Pushing Out Omarosa for Triggering Trump
Newly minted White House chief of staff John Kelly has sought to put a dent in the influence of one of President Donald Trump’s most famous advisers: Omarosa Manigault.
The former Apprentice co-star—who currently serves as the communications director for the Office of Public Liaison—has seen her direct access to the president limited since Kelly took the top White House job in late July, sources tell The Daily Beast. In particular, Kelly has taken steps to prevent her and other senior staffers from getting unvetted news articles on the president’s Resolute desk—a key method for influencing the president’s thinking, and one that Manigualt used to rile up Trump about internal White House drama.
Multiple sources in and outside the Trump White House told The Daily Beast that, until recently, it was common practice for aides to slide into the Oval Office and distract and infuriate the president with pieces of negative news coverage. Manigault, they say, was one of the worst offenders.
“When Gen. Kelly is talking about clamping down on access to the Oval, she’s patient zero,” a source close to the Trump administration said.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/john-kelly-pushing-out-omarosa-for-triggering-trump?source=twitter&via=desktop
San Francisco sets all-time heat record downtown at 106 degrees during hottest recorded summer
In almost 150 years of record keeping, it has never been as hot in San Francisco as it was on Friday.
Amid a brutal heat wave that has broiled California for a week while intermittently knocking out power to thousands and fueling more than a dozen wildfires, downtown San Francisco hit 106 degrees.
“San Francisco continues to climb. Latest high temperature for downtown is an incredible 106 degrees!” the National Weather Service’s Bay Area station tweeted Friday.
The previous record was 103 degrees, set in 2000. San Franciscans got creative on social media to document their pain.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-california-heat-wave-weekend-20170901-story.html
White House walks back promise about Trump donating his personal money to Harvey victims
On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters that President Trump would donate $1 million of his “personal money” to Hurricane Harvey victims. But on Friday, she wasn’t so sure.
Asked by a reporter if she knew whether Trump’s donation would be “coming from his own money or from the Trump Foundation,” Sanders dodged.
“I haven’t had a chance to do that,” she said, suggesting she hadn’t yet had a chance to ask the president where the money would be coming from.
During the campaign, reporting by the Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold and others demonstrated that Trump treated his foundation — which he hadn’t personally donated to since 2008 — like a personal expense account. Trump was also shown to have repeatedly exaggerated his giving.
https://thinkprogress.org/white-house-walks-back-trumps-promise-to-give-1-million-of-his-personal-money-to-harvey-victims-4691cf5e6dd6/
Treasury watchdog reviewing Mnuchin's solar eclipse trip
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal watchdog said on Friday it was reviewing the circumstances surrounding U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s controversial flight last month to Kentucky, where he spoke to business leaders and viewed the solar eclipse.
“Responding to inquiries received from members of the public, we are reviewing the circumstances of the Secretary’s August 21 flight to Louisville and Ft. Knox to determine whether all applicable travel, ethics, and appropriation laws and policies were observed,” Rich Delmar, counsel to the Treasury’s Office of Inspector General, said in a statement.
Mnuchin, a former hedge fund manager, and his wife, actress Louise Linton, traveled on a U.S. government plane to Kentucky where they viewed the Aug. 21 solar eclipse with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and others.
Linton posted a photo of herself on social media getting off the plane and listing the designer brands she was wearing, triggering criticism over the display of wealth and privilege.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-solar-eclipse-mnuchin/treasury-watchdog-reviewing-mnuchins-solar-eclipse-trip-idUSKCN1BC51C?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=59a9b9ea04d3013a82b1ba29&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
Smoke seen pouring from Russian consulate in San Francisco
Acrid, black smoke has been seen pouring from a chimney at the Russian consulate in San Francisco a day after the Trump administration ordered its closure amid escalating tensions between the United States and Russia.
Firefighters who arrived at the scene were not allowed to enter the building Friday.
An Associated Press reporter heard people who came from inside the building tell firefighters that there was no problem and that consulate staff were burning unidentified items in a fireplace.
The consulate's workers are hurrying to shut one of Russia's oldest consulates in the U.S.
The deadline for the consulate to close is Saturday.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/smoke-pouring-russian-consulate-san-francisco-49572573
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