UrbanSurvival.com - Friday, November 27, 2009:
"BLACK FRIDAY" NOVEMBER 27, 2009 - 7:13 AM CDT
Source:
Black Friday Shoppers Crowd Best Buy, Target in Pursuit of `Elusive Game'
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Shoppers gathered at Best Buy Co., Target Corp. and Toys “R” Us Inc. stores from New Jersey to Texas well before midnight yesterday to take advantage of Black Friday deals on televisions, laptops and robot hamsters.
“I do this because of my family,” Eihab Elzubier, a truck driver, said as he stood at the head of the line outside a Best Buy in Greensboro, North Carolina. He arrived at 9 a.m. Thursday and kept his place in the queue with the help of his wife, mother and sister.
Elzubier, 41, figured the 20-hour wait will save him as much as $1,000. He plans to buy a 42-inch Samsung flat-panel TV for $547.99, a Sony laptop computer for $399.99, a Compaq laptop for $179.99, software and accessories.
The day after U.S. Thanksgiving is known as Black Friday, the traditional beginning of holiday buying. Explanations of the phrase’s origins differ, one holding that it’s the weekend when retailers go to being in the black, profitable for the year. Stores open early on Black Friday and offer so-called doorbuster discounts to attract business. This year, shoppers say they plan to spend less on gifts than they did last year. Full article
Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=acI0iup6vuRc&pos=5
Best Buy Ditches ‘Christmas’ But Celebrates Muslim Holiday in Fliers
Mystery of "X" at the Center of Spiral Galaxies
One such stellar sight is the "bulge" around the center of galaxies. Spiral galaxies seem to feature an odd X-wing shape around their center, odd dust tracks at and angle to the galactic plane, and before we can explain them we have to be able to see them: specifically, we need a galaxy that happens to be edge-on from where we are to afford us an end view. Like NGC 4710, recently imaged by the Hubble telescope.
Picture Source: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/.a/6a00d8341bf7f753ef012875daee9b970c-pi
OUR PLANET'S PROTECTIVE MAGNETOSPHERE UPDATE:
MOON UPDATE
Current Moon Phase
http://www.die.net/moon/
Friday 11-27-09 - The waxing gibbous, 9.9 day old moon, 75.5% lit:
China readies second Moon mission
TG Daily - 4 hours ago
Friday, 27 November 2009 04:33
The second lunar probe, dubbed Chang'e 2, builds on the experience the Chinese built when they lobbed Chang'e 1 onto the surface of the Moon in March.
Official newspaper the China Daily said that Chang'e 2 will have a higher resolution camera and will orbit closer to the surface. China is also planning a third mission in 2015 that will land on the Moon, collect samples of rock and return them to Earth.
And China may have a manned mission landing on the Moon as early as 2017. China also plans a Mars mission in the future.
The country also has ambitious plans to launch a space station and to conduct scientific deep space experiments.
China is engaged in a space race with other Asian countries including India and South Korea, but maintains that its space program is for peaceful and not for military purposes.
Source:
http://www.tgdaily.com/space-features/44837-china-readies-second-moon-mission
SUNSPOTS
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/sunspots/EARTHQUAKE NEWS
Magnitude 2.5 Earthquake hits Tennessee - 3 mi SE from Ridgely, TN - Friday, November 27, 2009 at 06:10:02 AM at epicenter
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=36.2393+-89.4362(M2.5+-+TENNESSEE+-+2009+November+27++12:10:02+UTC)&f=d&t=h&hl=e&ie=UTF8&ll=36.2393,-89.4362&spn=10.165668,22.631836&z=6
| Magnitude | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| Date-Time |
|
| Location | 36.239°N, 89.436°W |
| Depth | 7.9 km (4.9 miles) |
| Region | TENNESSEE |
| Distances |
|
Source:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/nm1011.php
Latest Earthquakes Magnitude 2.5 or Greater in the United States and Adjacent Areas and Magnitude 4.5 or Greater in the Rest of the World
Update time = Fri Nov 27 16:00:02 UTC 2009
| | MAG | UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s | LAT deg | LON deg | DEPTH km | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAP | 2.8 | 2009/11/27 15:29:57 | 19.197 | -66.579 | 57.7 | PUERTO RICO REGION |
| MAP | 3.2 | 2009/11/27 13:51:47 | 19.288 | -66.288 | 84.6 | PUERTO RICO REGION |
| MAP | 3.3 | 2009/11/27 13:24:01 | 19.478 | -66.259 | 71.3 | PUERTO RICO REGION |
| MAP | 3.9 | 2009/11/27 13:17:25 | 19.492 | -66.243 | 51.1 | PUERTO RICO REGION |
| MAP | 2.5 | 2009/11/27 12:10:03 | 36.239 | -89.436 | 7.9 | TENNESSEE |
| MAP | 3.2 | 2009/11/27 11:07:40 | 67.533 | -145.354 | 18.7 | NORTHERN ALASKA |
| MAP | 5.5 | 2009/11/27 08:15:54 | 10.416 | -69.588 | 10.0 | LARA, VENEZUELA |
| MAP | 5.0 | 2009/11/27 04:36:48 | 44.009 | 147.219 | 67.0 | KURIL ISLANDS |
| MAP | 3.3 | 2009/11/27 04:07:40 | 19.172 | -64.679 | 27.7 | VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION |
| MAP | 2.6 | 2009/11/27 00:33:24 | 59.950 | -147.404 | 0.1 | GULF OF ALASKA |
| MAP | 2.5 | 2009/11/27 00:33:21 | 38.994 | -123.040 | 5.5 | NORTHERN CALIFORNIA |
VOLCANISM NEWS
Hundreds evacuated as Pacific volcano erupts on Vanuatu
Published: 12:39PM GMT 26 Nov 2009
"They're evacuating people to the other side of the island. The volcano was throwing ash in the place they live," said a Red Cross spokesman. He said police and Vanuatu's National Disaster Management Office were overseeing the operation.
The Red Cross is providing water containers and purification tablets for the villagers, who have been hit by respiratory problems and diarrhoea caused by the volcano's pungent sulphur fumes.
The evacuees will have to stay away from their villages until the volcano subsides, the official said.
The area has been put on the second highest alert level, reports said. Gaua, about 9,800 feet high, has erupted 13 times since 1963, tourism officials say. Vanuatu is on the "Pacific Ring of Fire", where the meeting of continental plates causes high volcanic and seismic activity.
Source:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/vanuatu/6661032/Hundreds-evacuated-as-Pacific-volcano-erupts-on-Vanuatu.html
CLIMATE CHANGE NEWS
National Severe Weather Map
Surface Temperature Forecast Map
Devastating Flood Kills 83 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - Gateway for Muslim pilgrams headed to Mecca
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia - November 27, 2009 — More bodies have been recovered in the western Saudi city of Jeddah, gateway for Muslim pilgrims headed to Mecca, pushing the death toll from Wednesday's flash flood to 83, reports said on Friday.
The Al-Watan and Okaz newspapers said the toll had risen to 83, nearly all of them in Jeddah, after the Red Sea port was hit by a torrential downpour that sparked what observers said looked like a tidal wave when it struck the city.
Al-Hayat said 84 had died.
Officials said none of the dead were pilgrims for the hajj, which was underway in Mecca 80 kilometres (50 miles) away.
Receding waters yesterday revealed crumbled bridges and torn up roads, with crumpled vehicles piled up in areas like driftwood.
Citizens worried that a huge sewage reservoir outside the city would burst its banks. Jeddah municipality spokesman Ahmad al-Ghamdi said that the reservoir was safe and not in danger of being overwhelmed by floodwaters, the reports said.
Source:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jR6Avqt7ormuzBGi3nnSubaieu1g
CLIMATE CHANGE AS AN EXCUSE FOR 'GLOBAL GOVERNANCE'
From UrbanSurvival.com on Friday, November 27, 2009:
Climategate
Five MP's in Australia have tossed in the towel now that climategate makes it clear that junk science and academic/PTB strong-arming was more the source of global warning.
Implications of rigging the data are still being felt.
---
But no, don't let the trip by president O to Copenhagen get interrupted. Gotta keep up appearances for the still gullible...or silent majority - call it what you will.
The Death Blow to Climate Science [In Consensus & Skeptics] added November 21, 2009
Himalayan Glaciers - A State-of-Art Review [In Polar Regions and Glaciers] added November 21, 2009
Hadley Climate Research Unit Hacked! [In News and Events] added November 20, 2009
The Dog Ate Global Warming [In Temperature History] added November 14, 2009
Friday, 27 November 2009
In the years of the boom, Dubai set about building with an ambition that would have made even Ozymandias blush. Artificial islands full of luxury villas, the world's tallest tower, an underwater hotel, even a stone-by-stone recreation of the French city of Lyon – no project was too extravagant, some would say vulgar, for the construction magnates of the emirate.
But this was a project built on the shifting sands of credit. Foreign capital poured into Dubai as its ruler, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, set about turning his nation into the financial, tourist and sporting hub of the Gulf. In less than a decade, Dubai managed to accumulate foreign liabilities of $80bn. Some estimates put it still higher. Full Article
Source:
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-the-collapse-of-an-economy-that-was-built-on-sand-1828409.html
LA Times | Latin America Digest: Today's one-line news briefs
November 26, 2009 | 9:54 pm
Livingston, Guatemala -- Descendants of African slaves who fled to Guatemala two centuries ago honored their ancestors Thursday in a celebration of the Black Carib Garifuna culture that included hundreds of people reenacting their forefathers' arrival by dugout canoe
Manaus, Brazil -- Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said “gringos” should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich Western nations have caused much more environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn trees in the world's largest tropical rain forest.
Tegucigalpa, Honduras -- The Honduran Supreme Court recommended that lawmakers vote against restoring President Manuel Zelaya, concluding that Zelaya, who was ousted in a June 28 coup, should not return to the presidency while he has criminal charges pending against him, a spokesman said.
Havana, Cuba -- Cuba began its biggest military maneuvers in five years, with the state-run press quoting military leaders as saying the nation needed to prepare for a possible invasion by the United States.
San Salvador, El Salvador -- An earthquake off El Salvador's Pacific coast sent people running from buildings in the nation and in neighboring Guatemala, though officials said there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
-- Times wire reports
Cambodia's Khmer Rouge torturer Duch – killer of 12,380 – asks court to set him free
Cambodia's Khmer Rouge prison boss Kaing Guek Eav tells war crimes trial that his 10 years already served is enough
The Khmer Rouge prison boss who admitted responsibility for the torture and murder of more than 12,000 people today stunned a war crimes court by asking to be acquitted and released.
On the last day of a nine-month trial, Kaing Guek Eav, known as Comrade Duch, asked the judges to consider his co-operation with the court and the 10 years he had already served in jail and set him free.
In the last sentence of his final summing up, he said: "I would ask the chamber to release me, thank you very much."
The extraordinary request came just two days after he told the court he was ultimately accountable for the deaths that occurred while he headed the Khmer Rouge's Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh. "I am solely and individually responsible for the loss of at least 12,380 lives," he said.
This morning an astounded bench asked Duch's lawyer, Kar Savuth, to clarify his statement, asking if his plea to be released was a request for acquittal.
"Release means acquittal," the court was told.
Duch's request enraged Bou Meng, one of only a dozen prisoners to walk out of Tuol Sleng alive. He stormed from the public gallery, describing Duch's plea as an insult to his wife's memory.
"I could not accept the request for the release by Duch, because many people, including my wife, have been killed during the Khmer Rouge time. He cannot step on the victims like this." Full Article
Source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/27/cambodia-duch-asks-court-freedom
NEWS ABOUT OUR NATION'S BIGGEST BUSINESS: WAR
USA is no longer an industrialized power - WAR is its specialty!
The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception
.Thursday, November 26, 2009 9:28 am TWN, The China Post
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A research team headed by National Taiwan University (NTU) has created a microchip that can be inserted into your body and alleviate pain through the swipe of a cell phone-sized device.
At only NT$10 a piece, the microchip is said to possess healing properties that provide chronic pain relief for up to three months per "swipe." The chip will help those who suffer from bone spurs, trigeminal nerve injuries, painful amputation stumps and sports injuries.
The landmark device will reportedly be ready for public use in two years time.
The innovative project was a collaborative effort by the NTU Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering and Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology as well as scholars and doctors from the Chungshing Hospital and Shin Kong Wu Ho-su Memorial Hospital. The nanomaterials used in the microchip technology were provided by the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited. Full Article
Source:
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2009/11/26/234205/NTU-develops.htm
UFO NEWS
Mutual UFO Network (MUFON)
UFO Database
Examiner.com | Large triangle UFO spotted by commercial airline pilot in Memphis, Tennessee
November 27, 1:12 AM Memphis UFO Examiner
On 11/24/09 at 9:45 pm, a commercial airline pilot in the Cordova area was looking to the north at departing air-traffic from the Memphis airport, when he saw what he described as a diamond-shaped craft pass directly under a CRJ-200 [Canadair Regional Jetliner ] . This pilot who has asked to remain anonymous said the jet was flying at about 8000 feet and the Unknown flew under it at an approximate altitude of 6000 feet [a close call in terms of air-traffic safety regulations]. The pilot said the UFO was on a flight path from east to west and traveling at somewhere between Mach 1 and Mach 1.5. He said that it was banking slightly to the north-west as it flew under the jet, so he got a view of its underside. He described it as a perfect triangle with dim white lights at its corners and about 200 ft across, easily as large as a 747. Though it was somewhat hazy in appearance, he said he saw it distinctly enough to make out that it was a solid body with the lights attached. It had no stobe lights and was totally silent. He observed it for about 20 seconds until it passed out of sight .
This man has been flying all his life and is very knowledgable about airplanes. He said he has never personally witnessed any aircraft this strange before. He commented in the interview the next day with the MUFON Tennessee State Director that he was very confident that it was nothing of ours, military or otherwise. In his report to the MUFON CMS files, he concluded by stating that this sighting left him feeling numb. When interviewed, he admitted that he was still shaken by what he had witnessed.
Keep Reading »
Related:
Keep Reading »
NaturalNews.com | Today's Featured Stories - November 27, 2009
| (NaturalNews) The November 25 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute contains a report about the long-term side effects experienced by men who received cisplatin-based chemotherapy for testicular cancer. Severe neurological side... |
| FDA Warns on Overdose Risk for Darvon and Darvocet Painkillers (NaturalNews) The FDA has issued a warning about the high overdose risk from the opiate painkillers Darvon and Darvocet, but has stopped short of banning the drugs as the United Kingdom has done. Darvon and Darvocet contain a mix of an over-the-counter... |
| Mediterranean diet cuts risk of breast cancer in older women (NaturalNews) A recent French study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology has revealed that a "Mediterranean" diet rich in fruits and vegetables, fish, and olive and sunflower oils will reduce the risk of post-menopausal women developing... |
| Medical Mafia Marches in the New World Order (Opinion) A Benedictine Nun from inside a monastery in Barcelona exposed this premise. Sister Teresa Forcades, a former MD, gave a detailed analysis of the flawed pandemic reportage while warning of the dangers from a highly questionable vaccination... |
| Common Pain Pills Fuels Cancer Growth Painkillers known as opiates are widely used to treat both acute and chronic pain. But now comes evidence from two new studies that strongly indicates... |
| Professors claim worldwide health may be improved by reducing greenhouse gases (NaturalNews) Two professors from the University of California, Berkeley, have published a series of six papers outlining the health benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. They claim the risk of developing health problems, especially among those... |
| Take Notice of the Sustainability Factor and the Disposable Economy of the World, Part II As we drown the planet in garbage, pollute the waterways with industrial agricultural runoff, and extract the last of the easy-to-acquire oil, minerals, and other resources, we rush blindly forward into our own doom. At very best, we have... |
| Make Healthy, Sweet Baked Treats with Stevia and Dates Many people think living a healthy, natural life and eating good quality health food means eliminating sweet treats from their diets forever. Not true - there are so many healthy, sweet alternatives such as honey, stevia and dates which can...
|
| New Tires Made from Orange Peel Oil Instead of Petroleum (NaturalNews) Yokohama Tire, the North American subsidiary of Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd., has introduced a new tire that replaces much of its petroleum with oil derived from orange peels instead. "The eco-focused dB Super E-spec mixes sustainable orange... |
| Use Natural and Safe Treatments for Dry, Damaged and Frizzy Hair Aromatherapy oil combinations and simple homemade herbal hair packs can provide gentle, non-harmful ways of moisturizing and repairing damaged hair. Regular use of over-the-counter shampoos and conditioners laden with toxic chemicals can... |
Friday has arrived - Have a good one! Talk at you all later ...
My News blog: The Cave
LINKS:
in case my blogs get bombed out of the water AGAIN!)
Real-time Magnetosphere Simulation
HAARP Fluxgate Magnetometer
SpaceWeather.com
SolarCycle24.com
National Association of Radio-Distress Signalling and Infocommunications
Emergency and Disaster Information Services (EDIS)
Budapest Hungary
- Link: SolarCyle24.com
- USGS Latest Earthquakes 2+ US and 4.5+ in (some) of the world - last 7 days
- USGS Latest Earthquakes 1+ in the US - last 7 days
- European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre
- Alaska Volcano Observatory
- Yellowstone Volcano Observatory Information
- Live webcams - Alaskan volcanoes
- Mount St. Helens WebCam
- The Old Faithful WebCam
Recent Volcano Observatory Activity Reports
List of Volcanoes of Antarctica and South Sandwich Islands
African Desert Rift Confirmed as New Ocean in the Making - Geologists Show that Seafloor Dynamics Are at Work in Splitting African Continent
Space.com | June 10, 2009 - Incoming space rocks now classified by military WHY?
Maps of Nuclear Power Reactors
The Living Moon
No comments:
Post a Comment