Sumatra Earthquake Magnitude 7.8 Northern Sumatra April 6-7 2010

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake has struck Northern Sumatra according to the USGS at 5:15 a.m. Sumatra time, 6:15 p.m. EDT on April 7th local, April 6th in the U.S.  Some 45 minutes after the earthquake there are no early reports of injury or damage. Continuing updates as available.

Sumatra Earthquake - Magnitude 7.8

According to the USGS, the region is Northern Sumatra, Indonesia, 145 miles SW of Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia, 125 miles WNW of Sibolga, Sumatra, Indonesia. The depth of the quake's epicenter occurred at 28.6 miles beneath the Indian Ocean.

FOX News has David Piper (7:00 p.m. EDT) reporting that if there is a tsunami, it will happen on the western coast of Sumatra within the next hour.

A tsunami warning is not in effect for Alaskan coasts, California, Oregon, Washington or British Columbia.

Update 7:40 p.m. EDT:
A tsunami warning has just been issued for Thailand.

Update 9:30 p.m. EDT: The tsunami alert for Sumatra has been lifted. Still no reports of injuries.

Fauzi, an official at the meterology agency's Jakarta office who uses a single name, said there were no immediate reports of damage or casualities but officials were monitoring the situation.

Local media reports said the quake, which struck as people in the region were preparing for morning prayers, caused panic in North Sumatra's capital of Medan and other cities in the province. Electricity was cut in Medan.

Indonesia to Tear Down Obama Statue? Little Barry Statue Barely a Month Old Needs to Go

A bronze statue of President Obama, known as "Little Barry," may be removed from Jakarta, Indonesia's  Menteng Park barely a month after its unveiling.

Little Barry Sotoero (Barack Obama)

According to this story, Obama's "relatives and friends erected the statue." The statue sits near the former elementary school the President attended when his name was Barry Soetoro, and he lived in Jakarta with his mother and stepfather, Lolo Soetoro. The statue is intended to encourage children to "dream big."

Critics say the site should have been used to honour an Indonesian...

The Take Down the Barack Obama Statue in Menteng Park page on Facebook has 55,000 fans. The page, not written in English, allegedly says Obama has done nothing for Indonesia:

Little Barry Statue

"Barack Obama has yet to make a significant contribution to the Indonesian nation. We could say Obama only ate and s (expletive) in Menteng. He spent his subsequent days living as an American," the web page says.

"For the dignity of a sovereign nation, Barack Obama's monument in Menteng Park must be removed immediately."

 There are three such pages on Facebook. This page in English is a "student groups," and says "Remove the Obama statue and make room for real heroes."  This page shows 2,358 members and refers to a Fox News Story in its description. It links to the original group which appears to be in an Indonesian language, with 55,513 members.

I wonder who the Obama "relatives and friends are," - the ones that erected this in the first place, and talked the parks department into accepting it. I'm betting there is more to this story.

Indonesia Earthquake September 2009: Ring of Fire Indonesian Quake

Following just hours after the Tonga earthquake and tsunami, Indonesia was hit with a 7.6 earthquake centered 32 miles north-west of Sumatra. A 6.2 aftershock followed. The intitial quake happened at 5:15 a.m. CDT. The quake was felt in Singapore and Malaysia. Ongoing updates as available. See video below. See Update 10-1-09 below.

Indonesia Earthquake - September 2009

This story says 75 are reported dead with more fatalities expected. Buildings are down, including hotels, bridges and Jamil hospital. A health ministry spokesman says "thousands of people are trapped in the rubble of buildings."

A number of hotels in Padang have been destroyed," Rahmat Triyono, of the Indonesian geophysics and meteorology agency was quoted as saying by the Jakarta Post. "Up to now we haven't been able to reach Padang. Communications have been cut."

Tsunami warnings were issued but cancelled. The faultline is known as the "Ring of Fire," the same fault that hosted the devastating 2004 quake and tsunami that killed close to 250,000.

Indonesia Earthquake September 2009 (video)  

Update 10-1-09:
A report just hours old says the death toll in Sumatra has reached 1100. "Hundred are injured." Many are said to remain trapped under rubble. In Padang, a city of 1 million, a Padang school building collapsed. Five children died and last reports are that 40-50 children are still trapped. Large areas of the city have been destroyed. Emergency workers fought driving rains. Power and communications are out in Padang. All three of the city's hospitals were "severely" damaged. Doctors are treating patients in tents. There is an extreme shortage of medical personnel.

Padang itself, a port city encircled by mountains, is built on one of the world's most active fault lines: the same one that sparked the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. Nonetheless, locals were shocked by the quake's ferocity. "I saw the road move up and down like a wave," said Anas Taylor, 54. "The ground was not just shaking, but actually jumping up and down. It's by far the worst I've ever seen."

Fuel is scarce and looting is reported. Road are blocked so exiting the city is impossible. Professor John McCloskey, a geophyscicist at the University of Ulster says it is not likely that the Indonesia Ring of Fire earthquake and the Tonga-Somao earthquakes are related. The distance between the quakes — 10,000km (6,200 miles) —and the orientation of the tectonic plates made a causal link physically implausible, he said.

Early estimates suggest that the Sumatra quake occurred about 50 miles beneath the Earth’s crust, so deep that there was little or no movement on the ocean floor, and no resultant tsunami. A key concern is that the quake could have led to an increase in pressure at other points along the fault line, which could trigger a second tremor closer to the surface. “The real danger in the coming days is that a second larger quake with a magnitude of around 8.5 could occur just off the coast of Padang,” Professor McCloskey said. That could result in a huge tsunami submerging the town and surrounding coastline, which has a population of about 1.5 million.

McCloskey said warnings do not reach the people so residents have been instructed to move to higher ground "if they felt a tremor lasting more than 30 seconds." For information about the Somoa-American Samoa earthquake on September 29th, see this.

Obama Claims Victimhood for Extremist Islam

UPDATE July 17, 2008

If there was any doubt how Barack Obama views America on the world stage, his own words now make his position deadly clear.

Obama's July 13th statement defies words. Is he ignorant, a sociopath, or a hardcore Muslim-leaning leftist? The details:

Obama went public and placed unabashed blame on "the West" for Islamic extremism. In an interview on July 13th with CNN's Foreign Affairs Analyst, Fareed Zakaria asked:

[ZAKARIA]: But how do you view the problem within Islam? As somebody who saw it in Indonesia ... the largest Muslim country in the world?

Obama reminisced about the years he lived in Indonesia (late 1960's, early 1970's) and then calmly offered up a very firm opinion about "the problem with Islam."

[Obama] And what's interesting is, you can see some correlation between the economic crash during the Asian financial crisis [1997], where about a third of Indonesia's GDP was wiped out, and the acceleration of these Islamic extremist forces.

It isn't to say that there is a direct correlation, but what is absolutely true is that there has been a shift in Islam that I believe is connected to the failures of governments and the failures of the West to work with many of these countries, in order to make sure that opportunities are there, that there's bottom-up economic growth.

Just to be clear: Obama states unequivocally that "the West" caused a "shift in Islam," and the "shift" caused by the Free World is the "problem with Islam."

Here are reminders of the "problem with Islam," 4 of which occurred before the Asian financial crash.

A hat tip to Korla Pundit who supplied the details of the March 1, 1973 murder
March 1, 1973 - American diplomats taken hostage in Khartoum, Sudan by the Black September terrorists. 3 dead - 2 of them American officials. A declassified Department of State document states [this is an amended document dated May 4, 2006 - 25 years after the murders] :

The Khartoum operation was planned and carried out with the full knowledge and personal approval of Yasir Arafat, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and the head of Fatah. Fatah representatives based in Khartoum participated in the attack,...

...one of the primary goals of the operation was to strike at the United States because of its efforts to achieve a Middle East peace settlement which many Arabs believe would be inimical to Palestinian interests.

The open participation of Fatah representatives in Khartoum in the attack provides further evidence of the Fatah/Black September Organization relationship. The emergence of the United States as a primary fedayeen target indicates a serious threat of further incidents similar to that which occurred in Khartoum

The word "fedayeen" in the above paragraph, refers to (I think) the Black September Organization - fedayeen meaning "fighters for the faith," and not Saddam's Hussein's fedayeen.
See the original declassified State Department amended document at World Net Daily.

During Bill Clinton's two terms in office [1993-2001], Arafat was invited to the White House more than any other international political figure. (Clinton met Arafat a total of 24 times in eight years.)

This deadly serious cartoon courtesy of Raf Nagidimov

When Arafat died, UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, shaking with emotion, called it “a grave day for the world,” and instructed headquarters in New York to especially fly the UN flag at half-mast. (This is despite the fact that Arafat did not represent any UN member state, and the UN doesn’t usually mark the death of leaders of even its member states in this way. The UN didn’t fly its flag at half-mast when, for example, Ronald Reagan died a few months before Arafat.)

The Black September Organization executed 11 Israeli atheletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, barely 5 months before the murders of Americans in Khartoum.

April 1983 - U.S. Embassy Bombing in Beirut, Lebanon: 80 died - 17 Americans, 32 Lebanese embassy employees and 14 passersby. Islamic Jihad Organization claimed responsibility.

October 1983 - Beirut U.S. Marine Corps Barracks Bombing: 241 U.S. Marines were murdered and 80 were seriously injured when Islamic factions trucked-in the equivalent of 12,000 tons of TNT, and blew-up American military barracks in Lebanon. Islamic Jihad Organization claimed responsibility, however, Hezbollah - organized, trained and funded by Iran's Revolutionary Guard, is believed to be the perpetrator of the attack. In February 2008, a truck bombing in Damascus, Syria erased Imad Mughniyah from the world's civil societies. Better known to Americans as Hajj, Mughniyah was instrumental in the formation of Hezbollah and was always among the heads of the snake.

October 1985 - The Achille Lauro (an Italian cruiseship) was hijacked by the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) off the coast of Egypt. One American murdered. Leon Klinghoffer, celebrating his 36th wedding anniversary with his wife, was shot in the head and chest while sitting in his wheelchair. The ship's barber and a waiter were forced to throw Mr. Klinghoffer's body overboard. Klinghoffer was Jewish. 400+ passengers were on-board during the two-day saga.

June 1985 - TWA Flight 847 (an American-owned airline) was hijacked by Hezbollah. The airliner was taken over in Athens, then flown to Beirut, Lebanon where it released a few passengers, refueled and continued to Algeria - again releasing a few passengers. Navy Diver, Robert Stethem was identified as U.S. military - beaten, shot and his body dumped on the Beirut tarmac. Over a period of 16 days, passengers were terrorized and flown back and forth between Beirut and Algiers before the whole horrible terrorist act was over.

While cowards commandeered the airplane, a heroic flight attendant, Uli Derickson, hid the passports of Jewish passengers and used her own credit card to purchase jet fuel.

February 1993 - First World Trade Tower Bombing: Terrorism arrived on American soil. 6 dead, over 1,000 injured. Conspiracy theories still fly, but what we do know to be true is that the perpetrators were Muslim. They intended to bring down both World Trade Towers, the plot was enormous - this was no small bombing event. It left a 95' wide crater, multiple stories up and down destroyed. The mastermind, Ramzi Yousef, planned simultaneous bombings of U.S. aircraft. He was captured by Pakistani forces in an Al-Qaeda safehouse in Islamabad, Pakistan, two years after the bombing. He was tried and sentenced in an American court and is serving a life sentence in Colorado, supposedly in solitary confinement. The taxpayers get to pay for his keep and speculate how many terrorist gangs he has organized, and how many apostles he has gained, while in "solitary confinement." His uncle is Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a member of Al-Qaeda and a close association of Osama bin Laden. Yousef and his uncle are both Muslims.

October 2000 - USS Cole is bombed: 17 dead American sailors, 39 injured. It is believed that Al-Qaeda and the Sudenese government worked together to assault the USS Cole as it refueled in Yemen. According to the CIA Factbook, "Military regimes favoring Islamic-oriented governments have dominated [Sudanese] national politics since independence from the UK in 1956.

September 2001 -
American Airlines Flight 11 hijacked and crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center: 92 passengers, crew and Islamic terrorists dead.

United Airlines Flight 175 hijacked and crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. 56 passengers, crew and Islamic terrorists dead.

American Airlines Flight 77 - 9:37 am: Hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon. 64 passengers, crew and Islamic terrorists dead. 125 dead in the Pentagon.

American Airlines Flight 93 - Hijacked and crashed into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. 44 passengers, crew and Islamic terrorists dead.

A total of 2974 persons are considered dead due to the September 11, 2001 attacks. How many died in each separate building? There seem to be no statistics "by building." I think we know why. Are the 19 terrorists in this count? I don't know the answer. 24 persons are considered missing.

Along with the North and South World Trade Towers, 5 additional buildings in the complex were destroyed and three others were destroyed or were beyond repair: St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, The Deutsche Bank Building, and the Borough of Manhattan Community College's Fiterman Hall.

The "Asian Financial crises" (recovering began within 9 months) was multi-layered, but to offer it as an excuse for Islamic terrorism is unconscionable.

As we head to the November election, let us be ever mindful of not only those Americans who have died at the hands of the "government" of Islam, but the thousands injured who will never be able to forget for even one day. Let us remember with certainty, that Obama blames America for Muslim Rage.





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