US Geological Survey Unable To Provide Indonesia Tsunami Data Due To Government Shutdown (huffingtonpost.com.au)

An underwater landslide caused by activity from the Anak Krakatau volcano is being blamed for a tsunami that struck Indonesia late Saturday, killing at least 222 people and injuring more than 800 others. Normally, the U.S. Geological Survey would report on such events and provide any necessary data it had to the public. But it can't due to America's partial government shutdown, which began Saturday after President Donald Trump refused to sign legislation that didn't include funding for his southern border wall. From a report: The USGS website is dormant as of Sunday, except for a notice at the top. "Due to a lapse in appropriations, the majority of USGS websites may not be up to date and may not reflect current conditions," the note reads. "Websites displaying real-time data, such as Earthquake and Water and information needed for public health and safety will be updated with limited support." According to the government shutdown contingency plan, the USGS will retain just 75 of its estimated 8,032 employees, or 0.9 percent. "The USGS will suspend the majority of its activities with the exception of those functions to protect life and property," the plan states. The document also claims that 450 employees will be "on call" for natural disasters, but it's unclear if that process has been enacted, as the USGS website says the agency is not "able to respond to inquiries until appropriations are enacted."

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Re: Far right tantrum

[Anonymous Coward]

What a shame the children running the DNC have decided to shutdown the government and screw all those workers and the people they serve in a petty stab at Trump over a wall those same people have agreed in the past that we need to protect the country.

FTFY.

Embrace the healing power of AND

[SuperKendall]

Hey guess what? If it were not for Trump the government would still be fully up (only.a tiny part is really shut down) - at the same time it is ALSO true that if even ten Democrats agreed to fund the wall, the government would be fully up as well.

This is what I despise about modern politics. We place this blame squarely on Trump or Schumer, but in reality can those fuckers in Congress not really all vote for themselves? It would seem not, Schumer or Trump is large and in charge!

I say shut it all down for a year and see what we really need. In the meantime I am SO SORRY you canâ(TM)t get technical specs on exactly what killed hundreds of real humans.

Are taxes still being taken from your paycheck? Then the unstoppable juggernaut of government is far from being shut down.

Re:Trump would gladly sign legislation

[meglon]

It's fucking idiots like you that have caused out massive national debt. Fucking little cowardly piece of shit liar. Trump wanted a shutdown so he could show the fucking idiots of his base that he's "fighting" for them, and cunts like you suck it down like a $5 whore on her knees.

Re: Trump would gladly sign legislation

[meglon]

Unfortunately lying little cunts like you have to make up strawmen arguments, then post articles that, while you think they prove you right, don't actually do that. you're as much of a lying useless cunt as melted is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Conservatives are nothing more than nationalist fascists now days. Tell me, why is it you cunt fascists are all such lying sacks of shit? Did it start with your parents not teaching you about integrity?

Re: Far right tantrum

[iNaya]

You're busy calling people "worthless sack[s] of shit", but you don't even care about the atrocities that your country causes in the name of "democracy" and "human rights". Maybe it's because you think that Arabs deserve to die.

Maybe you should stop calling people sacks of shit, and realise that everyone has a right to live, and that America should stop denying that right just because people have the wrong sort of democracy.

Or maybe you could live in your fool's paradise where everything is ruled by liberals, and the evil right wingers are all gassed to death. All several hundred million of them.