Stories below the fold

the latest supertyphoon missed the Philippines: it was north of Luzon and we only got heavy rains and floods.

But Japan and Korea are expecting problems so keep them in your prayers.

more here

In other news, China has an earthquake along the Himalays in the west and the people were in covid quarantine and were very upset that they weren't allowed out of their homes.

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one does worry when one reads of problems because no one is paying attention to detail.

in the USA, a big shot involved in a US Navy Scandal just cut off his anke bracelet and disappeared.

then you have quality control problems that are causing the grounding of Chinook helicopters. So who was the subcontracter who supplied these parts?

2015 article on the problem of counterfeit parts and fraud in military equipment.

this is a big problem when we buy stuff here in the Philippines not only auto parts and hardware but medicines that don't work.