Disaster

One day after the US Navy announced it was placing global operations and patrols on temporary hold as it investigates the cause for the second deadly warship crash in two months, Navy and Marine Corps divers searched on Tuesday for 10 sailors missing from the USS John S. McCain which collided with a merchant ship near Singapore. According to the Navy’s Pacific Fleet Commander, at least one body and other unidentified remains have been found as the search so far. 

Photos and videos have emerged from the early Monday collision involving the guided-missile destroyer USS John McCain and an oil/chemical tanker called the Alnic MC. As reported late on Sunday, five sailors were injured in the collision, which occurred east of the Strait of Malacca, and a search is underway for 10 more who remain missing.

After a fiery press conference yesterday that seemingly did more damage than good, President Trump seems desperate to change the topic this morning.  Having attacked Amazon earlier over Twitter, the President just tweeted the following message thanking Kim Jong Un for a "very wise and well reasoned decision" saying the "alternative would have been catastrophic."

"Kim Jong Un of North Korea made a very wise and well reasoned decision. The alternative would have been both catastrophic and unacceptable!"

Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com,

California could be even closer to a major natural disaster than ever before.  With eight active volcanoes and a high state population, the United States Geological Survey says that the Golden State is in desperate need of very close monitoring.

As the world teeters on the brink of a nuclear confrontation with North Korea, FEMA and the U.S. Department of Energy are preparing to wargame so-called "Black Sky Hazards" that could result in a "subcontinent scale, long duration power outage, with cascading failure of all our other increasingly interdependent infrastructures."  Here's how EarthEx2017 described the exercise: