Residents stand on a bridge that collapsed due to heavy rain in Zacatecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, Nov. 8 , 2009. El Salvador's interior minister says the death toll is now 91 from floods and slides touched off by three days of heavy rains.
(AP Photo/La Prensa Grafica)GULF COAST IS BRACING FOR INCOMING HURRICANE IDA
November 8, 2009 - The authorities in El Salvador have declared a state of emergency in five regions and expect to find more victims, Interior Minister Humberto Centeno told reporters.A hurricane watch has been issued for coastal Louisiana and Mississippi by forecasters at the Hurricane Center. Winds have reached up to 90mph.
It is estimated Hurricane Ida could reach the United States' northern Gulf Coast by Tuesday.
In forecasting terms, a watch means hurricane conditions are possible within 36 hours. A hurricane warning remains in force for parts of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
Hurricane Ida, a category 1 storm, is now on course to hit the Gulf of Mexico
A state of emergency in five regions in the country after the storm cause damage and flooding 
Heavy rains have caused flooding which is hampering rescue and clean up efforts
Hurricane Ida has claimed 91 lives and caused heavy destruction in El SalvadorNATIONAL SEVERE WEATHER MAP
Flash Flood Watch Issued in Advance of Ida
In Asia tonight the US$ is going down, down, down......
SPACE INCOMING NEWS
SpaceWeather.com | Brilliant Fireball seen over San Francisco Bay on Saturday November 7, 2009
On Saturday, Nov. 7th, just as the sun was setting over San Francisco Bay, a brilliant meteor glided across the sky and disappeared into the sunset. Witnesses say it was "slow-moving," "white and green," and that it left behind "a trail of smoke and sparkles of debris." Alerted by a friend, Rick Baldridge of Campbell, California, rushed outside and snapped this picture of the fireball's aftermath:CBC.ca | Possible meteor spotted in British Columbia sky - it was bright white, with red and green and some blue colours, with a bit of a trail behind
SINKHOLE NEWS
Denver Post | Drilling Related Sink Hole Forming in Carlsbad, NM
The New Mexico Transportation Department has installed signs along U.S. 285 warning drivers of a potential sinkhole. (Susan Montoya Bryan, The Associated Press )Posted: 11/07/2009 01:00:00 AM MSTCARLSBAD, N.M. — The bright yellow signs on U.S. 285 are the first indication that things aren't right in Carlsbad.
"U.S. 285 south subject to sinkhole 1,000 feet ahead," motorists are warned.
But there is little other evidence that in southeastern New Mexico's oil country, a giant cavern sits below the surface, ready to swallow part of the highway and possibly a church, several businesses and a trailer park.
The cavern was formed over three decades as oil-field service companies pumped fresh water into a salt layer more than 400 feet below the surface and extracted several million barrels of brine to help with drilling. State regulators flagged it as a potential danger after concluding that it was similar to two wells northwest of Carlsbad that collapsed without warning last year.
Over the past few decades, communities in Texas, Kansas, Michigan, Canada and Europe learned of similar underground danger only after cracks appeared and the ground began to sink. Regulators are trying to determine how to prevent collapses by better managing a practice that is used throughout the world.
Most brine wells operate far from homes and businesses, but Carlsbad's is unique because it is in a population center.
"It would be a mess. It would be like a bomb going off in the middle of town," said Jim Griswold, a New Mexico Oil Conservation Division hydrologist.
The City Council and the Eddy County Commission declared a state of emergency Thursday, the first step to free state and federal funds that could be used to figure out a way to stabilize the cavern.
The city of about 26,000 residents knows caverns well. It is home to Carlsbad Caverns National Park, a network of some of the largest natural caverns in North America.
Officials have set up a monitoring system that takes readings from tilt meters and pressure sensors every two seconds and averages them to determine whether there are changes drastic enough to trigger alarms. The alarms are expected to give authorities several hours to evacuate people in advance of a cave-in that could span anywhere from 200 to 500 feet.
I&W Trucking, the oil-field service company that owns the site where the cavern is located, contends the state is overreacting because of the previous collapses on state land and criticized the Oil Conservation Division for not doing more tests to establish the size of the brine cavern before forcing it to plug the well.
Burst pipe probed in Utah refinery blast as questions asked over safety
Nuclear-News.net | Secrecy, radioactive leaks, in South Australia’s uranium mines owned by US weapons and energy producing giant Quasar Resources
November 9, 2009 - Secretive US Arms Tycoon behind New Uranium Mine in AustraliaA Media Freedom International 9 Nov 09 US mining company is threatening the sacred lands of Aboriginal peoples in Australia. In the outback of the Southern Australian Adelaide and Flinders Ranges, the United States weapons and energy producing giant: Quasar Resources is venturing with Alliance Resources to mine over 3.9 million tons of U308, also known as yellowcake or depleted uranium from the newly discovered Four Mile Mine.
Quasar is controlled by billionaire James Neil Blue, who holds over a billion dollars in Pentagon contracts for energy and weapons manufacturing.
Blue was instrumental in designing the unmanned Predator aircraft currently being used in Afghanistan and Iraq.The local communities, traditional owners, and Adnyamathanha Aboriginals are outraged with the Australian government, stating that their voices haven’t been heard during the negotiations for the Four Mile uranium mine, and that Quasar Resources and the Government are simply ignoring their cultural and health concerns.
The other uranium enriched Beverly Mine, located next to the Four Mile Mine has already had a recorded 59 spills of radioactive material since the past decade, according to the South Australian Department of Primary Industries and Resources. Mining U308 is highly dangerous and can cause dermatitis, renal damage and acute necrotic arterial lesions and death.
BBC.co.uk | Thousands of Japanese protest against US base on southern Japanese Okinawa Island
Thousands of people have protested on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa demanding the removal of a US military base thereNovember 8, 2009 - The local mayor called on new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama "to put an end to Okinawa's burden and ordeal".
Japan and the US agreed in 2006 to relocate the Futenma base from an urban area to reclaimed land but the PM's election has rekindled opposition.
The protest comes ahead of this week's visit by US President Barack Obama.
The BBC's Roland Buerk in Tokyo says the row over the relocation of the base threatens to sour relations between Japan's new government and the country's key security ally.
Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada warned it was unlikely to be resolved before Mr Obama arrives in Japan on Friday.
Japan's new government has expressed a determination to have a less subservient relationship with the US.
USGS | Large 6.7 magnitude earthquake hit Sumbawa Region, Indonesia - 54 km from Mount Tambora an active stratovolcano - November 8, 2009
Tambora from the International Space Station| MAG | UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s | LAT deg | LON deg | DEPTH km | Region | |
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| MAP | 6.7 | 2009/11/08 19:41:45 | -8.316 | 118.697 | 18.3 | SUMBAWA REGION, INDONESIA |
| Magnitude | 6.7 |
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| Location | 8.316°S, 118.697°E |
| Depth | 18.3 km (11.4 miles) (poorly constrained) |
| Region | SUMBAWA REGION, INDONESIA |
| Distances | 15 km (10 miles) NNW of Raba, Sumbawa, Indonesia 310 km (190 miles) ENE of Mataram, Lombok, Indonesia 330 km (205 miles) W of Ende, Flores, Indonesia 1335 km (830 miles) E of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia |
Sumbawa lies within the Pacific Ring of Fire. It is a volcanic island, including Mount Tambora (8°14’41”S, 117°59’35”E) which exploded in 1815, the most destructive volcanic eruption in modern history (roughly four times larger than the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, between Java and Sumatra, in terms of volume of magma ejected). The eruption killed as many as 72,000. It also apparently destroyed a small culture of Southeast Asian affinity, known to archaeologists as the Tamboran kingdom. It launched 100 cubic kilometers of ash into the upper atmosphere, which caused 1816 to be the "year without a summer."
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Mount Tambora (or Tomboro) is an active stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, on the Sumbawa islands, Indonesia. Sumbawa is flanked both to the north and south by oceanic crust, and Tambora was formed by the active subduction zones beneath it. This raised Mount Tambora as high as 4,300 m (14,000 ft),[2] making it one of the tallest peaks in the Indonesian archipelago, and drained off a large magma chamber inside the mountain. It took decades to refill the magma chamber, its volcanic activity reaching its peak in April 1815.[3]
Tambora erupted in 1815 with a rating of seven on the Volcanic Explosivity Index, making it the largest eruption since the Lake Taupo eruption in about 180 CE.[4] It was the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. The explosion was heard on Sumatra island (more than 2,000 km (1,200 mi) away). Heavy volcanic ash falls were observed as far away as Borneo, Sulawesi, Java and Maluku islands. Most deaths from the eruption were from starvation and disease, as the eruptive fallout ruined agricultural productivity in the local region. The death toll was at least 71,000 people (perhaps the most deadly eruption in history), of whom 11,000–12,000 were killed directly by the eruption;[4] the often-cited figure of 92,000 people killed is believed to be an overestimate.[5] The eruption created global climate anomalies; 1816 became known as the Year Without Summer because of the effect on North American and European weather. Agricultural crops failed and livestock died in much of the Northern Hemisphere, resulting in the worst famine of the 19th century.[4]
GlobalResearch.ca | The Responsibility of the US in Contaminating Iraq with Depleted Uranium
The following text was presented to the Kuala Lumpur International Conference to Criminalise War, Putra World Trade Centre, 28-31 October 2009.
November 8, 2009 - For two decades, the administrations of the United States of America and the United Kingdom have been waging continuous wars on Iraq to occupy this oil rich country.
The armed forces of those two countries attacked civilians with different kinds of conventional, non-conventional, and banned weapons such as cluster bombs ammunitions, napalm bombs, white phosphorous weapons and depleted Uranium weapons.
Depleted Uranium (DU) is a radioactive and chemically toxic heavy metal. If ingested, inhaled, or it enters the human body through wounds or skin, it remains there for decades.
Within the human body the (DU) particles would be a continuous source for emitting alpha particles. With its toxic effects, published research & epidemiological studies have proved that it causes serious health damages to the human body. Some of the damage to the human body is to lymph tissue, kidneys, developing fetuses, neurological system, the bones, lung fibrosis, and an increase in the risk of many types of cancer and malignancies.
Hundreds of tons of (DU) expenditure have been fired & exploded on Iraqi highly populated areas like Basrah, Baghdad, Nasriya, Dewania, Samawa, and other cities.
Exploration programs and site measurements by Iraqi and non-Iraqi researchers all proved the existence of (DU) related contamination over most Iraqi territories.
Iraq's Minister of Environment admitted in July 23, 2007 in Cairo that "at least 350 sites in Iraq are contaminated with (DU)". She added that the nation is facing a tremendous number of cancer cases and called for the international community to help Iraq cope with this problem.
A few years after exposure to (DU) contamination, multifold increase of malignancies, congenital malformations, miscarriages, children leukemia, and sterility cases have been registered in suburb areas of Basrah and other surrounding areas. Similar problems appeared in Falluja, where illegal weapons were also used intensively in the 2004 attack of occupation forces on the city. More than two million of the Iraqi population died since 1991 because of the synergic multiple impact of using (DU) weapons, economical sanctions, and the destruction of the health care systems. FULL STORY
Salt Lake Tribune | Shallow landfills of depleted uranium - could spread long-lived radioactive material throughout the Great Salt Lake Basin
Geologist Stephen T. Nelson and climatologist Summer B. Rupper, both of Brigham Young University, and Kansas State University geologist Charles G. Oviatt, say it is "absurd" for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to deem depleted uranium safe for surface disposal.
The uranium enrichment waste gets increasingly hazardous for a million years, and that's too long to reasonably ensure the safety of any shallow landfills, especially one like the Tooele County site that is underwater a few hundred of every several thousand years. Those wet cycles could spread long-lived radioactive material throughout the Great Salt Lake basin, the scientists say.
The criticism comes in a letter to the regulators, who are fielding public input on whether large amounts of DU can be safely disposed at sites like EnergySolutions'.
NRC spokesman David McIntyre said his agency will consider the scientists' comments as part of its in-depth review. But, he added, the agency won't approve any more DU disposal in Utah "if we don't think it's safe."
The company said it's looking at the impacts of rising lake levels on the landfill cover, erosion potential and leaching. FULL STORY
Villagers in the Dominican Republic claim children have been born without limbs and organs because of coal ash Virginia power company dumped nearby
McClatchyDC.com | Obama leaning toward 34,000 more troops for Afghanistan
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may not announce it until after he consults with key allies and completes a trip to Asia later this month, administration and military officials have told McClatchy.
As it now stands, the administration's plan calls for sending three Army brigades from the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky. and the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, N.Y. and a Marine brigade, for a total of as many as 23,000 additional combat and support troops.......
NEBRASKA RELIGION NEWSThe 240-194 roll call Saturday by which the House voted to prohibit federal funding of abortions in a Democratic-written health care bill.
A "yes" vote is a vote to prohibit federal funding of abortions.
Voting yes were 64 Democrats and 176 Republicans.
Voting no were 194 Democrats and 0 Republicans.
NEBRASKA
Republicans - Fortenberry, Y; Smith, Y; Terry, Y.
(Act Surprised) Reuters | Treas Sec Geithner opposed the utility of a tax on financial transactions as a way to dampen risky bank behavior
20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall
People walk along the restored segment of East Side Gallery, the largest remaining part of the former Berlin Wall, in Berlin November 6, 2009. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) 
This Nov. 10, 1989 file photo shows East Berliners getting helping hands from West Berliners as they climb the Berlin Wall which divided the city since the end of World War II, near the Brandenburger Tor (Brandenburg Gate). Monday, Nov. 9, 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
This Nov. 10, 1989 file photo shows Berliners from East and West in front of the Brandenburger Tor (Brandenburg Gate), standing atop and below the Berlin Wall, which divided the city since the end of World War II. Monday, Nov. 9, 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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