QUAKE AND ANOMALY NEWS:      [NICDR: No Initial Casualties or Damage .

• 7.1 strikes near Vanuatu capital. No major tsunami alert.
• 5.7 shakes New Zealand. Felt in North and South islands.
• Russian team exploring 20 million year old lake in Antarctica missing. Haven't we seen this movie before?
• After several major quakes, giant amphipods discovered in Kermadec Trench. Now that's jumbo shrimp!
  

INTERNATIONAL NEWS:

• Two Chileans in Peru detained near military base. Chileans investigated for espionage.
• Espionage gang targeted Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) employees for blackmail. Now who could these blackmailers be affiliated with? It turns out that TUBITAK has had joint R&D projects with MATINOP, an Israeli non-profit organization providing mediation services between Israeli and foreign companies and promoting joint developments of advanced technologies.
  
• Iran hosts divine faiths conference. Representatives of Islam, Armenian Christianity, Judaism and Zoroastrian meet in Isfahan.
• American head of INTERPOL stomps his jackboot on political dissidents. Ron Noble: from the same mold that gave us Barack Obama and Eric Holder.

• Major Romney bundler represents UAE and former Dominican president Mejia. Mejia left Dominican economy in rubble.
  
• The Bajan cane boy strikes again. Holder Justice Department considers users of on-line privacy tools are terrorists.    Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID) tells Holder to resign during heated House exchange.
  
• TSA agent at JFK stole $5000 in cash from passenger's jacket pocket. TSA=Take Something Always.
  
• TSA no-fly list doubles in one year. Maybe TSA should create for its employees a frequent thieves list.