This is a defcon update. I repeat this is a update.
As of 10 PM HST we have moved from a standing of Defcon 3 to Defcon
2. For the
USA this does not mean anything as most of the things that have
forced us
to move from Defcon 3 to Defcon 2 has happened outside of the USA.
But this
does not mean that you in the USA can relax.
I repeat, this is a Defcon UPDATE.
We are now at Defcon 2.
Here are the following reasons why we have moved from Defcon 3 to
Defcon 2.
We will keep you updated as things happen.
Reason 1
Japanese engineers stopped a fission chain reaction inside a uranium
processing plant on Friday, raising hope that Japan's worst ever
nuclear disaster was on the verge of coming to an end.
Reason 2
The massive earthquake that rocked Mexico's Pacific coast Thursday,
killing
at least a dozen people and damaging hundreds of buildings,
was the most powerful to shake the country in the last 14 years.
Reason 3
GOLDSBORO, North Carolina. The showers have finally stopped in eastern
North
Carolina, but residents are still bracing for more flooding from
rivers
still rising after eight inches of rain fell this week.
Reason 4
Russian ground troops took positions up to six miles (10 kilometers)
inside
Chechnya Thursday
Reason 5
Yugoslav riot police attacked anti-government demonstrators for
the second
straight night Thursday, clubbing protesters as they lay on the
ground and cornering them in side streets.
Reason 6
Angola. Civil war is at its heart - a largely forgotten war. For
25 years
government forces have been fighting Unita rebels, leaving thousands
on the
brink of starvation.
Reason 7
Blood bath in East Timor.
Reason 8
The Ecuador capital of Quito is bracing itself for a volcanic eruption,
after a minor earthquake hinted at vigorous activity beneath the
mountain. Guagua Pichincha volcano has already begun to spit and
crumble.
Quito is now on orange alert.
Reason 9
Islamic guerrillas battled with Indian soldiers in a thickly forested
mountain stretch in Kashmir near the border with Pakistan, leaving
16 dead
in two gun battles, officials said Thursday.
Reason 10
Dozens of people were killed and thousands left homeless in northern
Nigeria
after they missed warnings that hydroelectric dam floodgates would
be opened
to release rising floodwaters.
Reason 11
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico Thousands of blood donations contaminated
by the AIDS
virus and hepatitis make their way into hemispheric blood banks
each year,
infecting thousands of people with the diseases, a leading expert
on safe
blood told health officials Thursday.
Reason 12
French police said on Thursday they had captured three suspected
Basque ETA
guerrillas and seized explosives that were part of eight tons of
dynamite
stolen earlier this week.
The only good news seems to be on the world markets.
Thank you
Tia