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- John Adams - Second President (1797 - 1801)

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Newsletter | 1 October 2009


Well - it's still the United States ... topping corporate-government news tonight is:
David Letterman Confession: I Had Sex With Staffers...
$2M EXTORTION PLOT...
Tells Fans of Scandal During Thursday Night Show

Give Americans what they want to hear ... supply and demand. Hearing about what is actually going to hold effect on their everyday life has not been what the United States is about - or years and decades ago corruption would not not have grown to be totally rampant in government. And, our industrial base would not have been allowed to be shipped overseas.
nasdaq.com | Facing a midnight deadline, the U.S. Senate Wednesday approved an emergency one-month extension of current funding levels for the federal government President Barack Obama must sign it into law by midnight to avert the shutdown.

Once again, remember that the price of gold going up is like a gauge for you to begin to perceive the collapse of the US$. I am also aware of the manipulation of gold prices by the gov.
SeekingAlpha.com | Expect Gold to Reach $3,000
The US$ will be dying from the outside inward - the effects will be seen globally before it will be felt in the United States. The G-7 Banksters are meeting this weekend in Istanbul - coincidently so is the World Bank and IMF (International Monetary Fund) ... but the G7 is no longer as important as they used to be given China's and other countries growing economic weight.

G20 means G7 no longer only game in town on forex Reuters - The G7 -- the United States, Britain, France, Japan, Canada, Germany and Italy -- say they will still meet periodically, starting this weekend on the ...

For some reason the humpty-dumpty story comes to my mind - like "all the banksters in the world can't put the dollar back together again".


SINKHOLE NEWS


Last week, a car that was swallowed by a sinkhole, in Atlanta. Well, it was finally removed from that gaping hole.

Officals determined the road was safe enough for a wrecker to drive in…and the pull car out.

The owner of the vechile says, originally, he was told he would have to pay for getting the car out, but in the three days that it was in the hole, someone also vandalized it.

The county said they would remove it as part of the process of repairing the roadway.

http://www2.wjbf.com/jbf/news/state_regional/georgia/article/car_finally_removed_from_atlanta_sinkhole/27632/

POLICE STATE USA

Nice to see US tax payers money being used to support foreign mercenaries on the ground in the United States - like any other good third world country has. Guess the news coming out that this particular company set up in Hardin, Montana is affiliated to Blackwater - now Xe. The United States government outsourcing work to foreigners is questionable - but then, what does the government do that isn't questionable?


RUFFIN PREVOST Of The Gazette Staff | Wednesday, September 30, 2009 6:25 pm

Michael Hilton of American Police Force arrived in Hardin with promises of Mercedes police cars and expertise in operating prisons. He delivered the cars last week, but may have learned about prisons following a 1993 conviction for grand theft.

Public records from police and state and federal courts in California show that Michael Anthony Hilton, using that name and more than a dozen aliases over several years, is cited in multiple criminal, civil and bankruptcy cases, and was sentenced in 1993 to two years in state prison in California.

Hilton pleaded guilty in March 1993 to 14 felonies, including 10 counts of grand theft, one count of attempted grand theft and three counts of diversion of construction funds, according to Orange County court records. He was sentenced to two years in prison, but it is unclear how much time he served.

Court records in that case list his real name as Michael Hilton, but they also include the aliases Midrag Ilia Dokovitch, Midrag Ilia Dokovich and Michael Miodrag.

Hilton, who speaks heavily accented English, has told reporters that he is a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Montenegro, a country bordering Serbia, and once part of the former Republic of Yugoslavia.


UPI | U.S. billionaires had a bad year

NEW YORK, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- The 400 richest U.S. citizens lost a collective $300 billion in the past year, the highly anticipated annual list of richest Americans reveals.

In the past 12 months, Warren Buffett, No. 2 on the list, lost $10 billion of his personal wealth, Forbes.com reported Thursday. While he was the biggest loser of the year, Buffet is still worth $40 billion, the magazine said.

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, maintained his spot on the top of the list for the 16th consecutive year.

Gates, valued at $50 billion, lost $7 billion in the past year.

The Top 10 also includes Oracle founder Lawrence Ellison (worth $27 billion), Wal-Mat heirs Christy Walton ($21.5 billion), Jim Walton ($19.6 billion), Alice Walton $19.3 billion) and S. Robson Walton ($19 billion), media mogul Michel Bloomberg ($17.5 billion), and energy investors David and Charles Koch ($16 billion each).


Frantic search as Indonesia quake toll tops 1,000...

Indonesia, Samoa hit by series of earthquakes - Hundreds feared dead as at least 15 quakes hit two areas along the Pacific Ring of Fire' in 3 days

guardian.co.uk, Thursday 1 October 2009 15.21 BST




DailyMail.co.uk | Open season on parakeets in England - Exotic birds can be shot without a licence under new regulations


The ring-necked parakeet - a wild parrot, with vibrant emerald feathers and crimson beak - will shortly become fair game for residents possessing a rifle or shotgun, cage trap or net under new rules from wildlife watchdog Natural England.

From January 1 the bird once dubbed 'the grey squirrel of the skies' can be killed or have its nest disturbed and eggs destroyed to help protect crops and such native species as the woodpecker.

DID YOU KNOW?


You all sleep good tonight - we have Big Brother taking care of us!




Morning Newsletter | 1 October 09

What can you say? China owns us.

AP | September 30, 2009, 6:54PM-
Empire State Building lights up to honor 60th anniversary of communist China


THE FDIC sells a failed American bank to huge Spanish bank - good job banksters for taking care of the general populous (not) - now current news about this Spanish bank:

Spiegel.de | After a rash of deals, BBVA is now the second-biggest European bank in Asia after HSBC, and it's just getting started.

The bank is also expanding rapidly in the US. On Aug. 20, BBVA won a US government auction for Texas-based Guaranty Financial Group, and the Spanish giant, led by Francisco González, has made it clear that BBVA is interested in taking over other shaky American banks. BBVA's profit in 2008 was $8 billion. The company doesn't provide any guidance or estimate for 2009's bottom line, but the consensus estimate of financial analysts is $7.1 billion, an 11 percent drop. FULL STORY


COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE BUBBLE YET TO POP

Reuters | Stay away from banks bearing commercial property-Goldman Sachs

NEW YORK, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs on Tuesday advised investors to shy away from banks and insurance companies that are heavily focused on commercial real estate, saying that the downturn in commercial real estate was more severe than Goldman had expected.

"Prices have yet to stabilize and thus are likely to overshoot our original estimates further," Goldman analysts said in a report.

Appraisal values have fallen 25 percent. Goldman expects a decline from peak levels in 2007 of 40 percent to 42 percent, a much steeper declined than the 28 percent it expected.

Sales prices have plunged 39 percent from their peak prices verses Goldman's prior estimate 24 percent.

At the same time, vacancy rates have risen 35 percent versus the 17 percent Goldman had expected. Rents have fallen by 9 percent, translating into fundamentals that have deteriorated by more than twice the rate Goldman anticipated.

Goldman expects $287 billion of losses on commercial real estate and construction loans.

FULL STORY

NOT A GOOD TIME TO BE TRAVELING TO ASIA
Philippines Mobilizes Armed Forces for Second Storm in a Week Oct. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The Philippines mobilized its armed forces as Supertyphoon Parma headed for the country, threatening more heavy rains a week after Tropical Storm Ketsana devastated parts of Manila in Luzon and left 277 people dead.

A map tracking the path of Typhoon Ketsana. Typhoon Ketsana extended its destructive rampage through Southeast Asia Wednesday, blowing away whole villages in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos as the regional death toll rose to 331. (AFP/Graphic)

A Vietnamese resident tries to get into his flooded house after Typhoon Ketsana swept through Hoi An. Typhoon Ketsana extended its destructive rampage through Southeast Asia Wednesday, blowing away whole villages in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos as the regional death toll rose to 331. (AFP/Hoang Dinh Nam)

One of the most destructive storms in years has extended its deadly path across Southeast Asia, crushing homes in Cambodia and Vietnam after submerging much of the Philippine capital Manila.

The death toll climbed to 331 and was still rising on Wednesday.

"We're used to storms that sweep away one or two houses. But I've never seen a storm this strong," said Nam Tum, governor of Cambodia's Kampong Thom province.

The immediate threat eased as Typhoon Ketsana was downgraded to a tropical depression as it crossed into a fourth nation, Laos. But its powerful winds and pummelling rain left a snaking trail of destruction.

Landslides triggered by the storm slammed into houses in central Vietnam on Tuesday, burying people including five members of the same family. The country's toll rose to 74 as officials recovered more bodies from the muck and swollen rivers, with 179 injured and a dozen missing.

The storm destroyed or damaged nearly 180,000 homes, inundated 150,000 more, and flattened crops across central Vietnam. More than 350,000 people were evacuated from the typhoon's path, posing a logistical headache to shelter and feed them.

"The scale of the devastation is stretching all of us," said Minnie Portales, a World Vision aid agency official in the Philippines. The agency said it was struggling to assess the needs of victims in four countries, including the possibility that Laos would have damage.

Parts of two Vietnamese provinces remained cut off by floodwaters and downed trees and power lines on roads.

In neighbouring Cambodia at least 11 people were killed and 29 injured on Tuesday as the storm toppled dozens of rickety houses and swept away residents in the two provinces north of the capital that were hit. About 100 houses were destroyed and 400 others damaged. Five members of the same family died when their house collapsed as they ate dinner.

Authorities were searching for more victims and rushing food, medical supplies and plastic sheeting for temporary tents to storm-hit areas.



A dog sits on a post in Sta Rosa, swamped by flash floods brought by typhoon Ketsana, locally known as Ondoy, in Laguna province south of Manila September 28, 2009. The Philippines appealed for international aid to help tens of thousands marooned by flashfloods, and apologised for the delays in rescue efforts to avoid potential political fallout from the crisis. REUTERS/Egay


HUGE EARTHQUAKES - PACIFIC BASIN

NYTimes | At Least 529 Die as 7.6 magnitude Quake Hits Indonesia Island

Residents walked through an area damaged by the earthquake in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, on Thursday. Dita Alangkara/Associated Press

Every building over three stories in Padang suffered damage from the initial quake, and the city’s three main hospitals all collapsed. At the biggest hopsital, Djamil, beds were pulled from the wreckage to serve the injured.

Padang, a port city of 900,000, is on the west-central coast of Sumatra, Indonesia’s largest island. The western coast is stippled with dozens of volcanoes, and Padang also sits alongside the Sunda Trench, part of the notorious Ring of Fire, the volatile network of volcanic arcs and oceanic trenches that partly encircles the Pacific Basin. The ring — and Sumatra in particular — is a zone of frequent earthquakes and volcanic activity.

Elsewhere in the basin, on Tuesday, an underwater earthquake measuring 8.0 created a tsunami that sent massive walls of water crashing into the islands of Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga.

Reports from government officials, the police, aid workers and news agencies showed Thursday that at least 154 people had been killed by the tsunami — 115 on Samoa, 30 on American Samoa and 9 on Tonga. FULL STORY

6.8 magnitude quake hits Southern Sumatra Indonesia (7.6 mag 9-29-09)


MAG UTC DATE-TIME
y/m/d h:m:s
LAT
deg
LON
deg
DEPTH
km
Region
MAP 6.8 2009/10/01 01:52:30 -2.538 101.625 24.9 SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA

Earthquake List for above 10-degree Map Centered at 5°S, 100°E


MAG UTC DATE-TIME
y/m/d h:m:s
LAT
deg
LON
deg
DEPTH
km
Region
MAP 6.8 2009/10/01 01:52:30 -2.538 101.625 24.9 SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
MAP 5.5 2009/09/30 10:38:54 -0.717 100.070 104.2 SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
MAP 7.6 2009/09/30 10:16:09 -0.789 99.961 80.0 SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
MAP 4.7 2009/09/29 02:04:08 -5.194 100.893 31.3 SOUTHWEST OF SUMATRA, INDONESIA

Deadly South Pacific quakes likely unrelated, Utah seismologists say

Salt Lake Tribune - Brian Maffly
A magnitude-8 earthquake struck undersea off American Samoa on Tuesday, then a magnitude-7.6 quake rattled Indonesia's Sumatra on Wednesday, both resulting ...

MAP 8.0 2009/09/29 17:48:11 -15.509 -172.034 18.0 SAMOA ISLANDS REGION


TENT CITY NEWS

60 residents of Nickelsville, homeless tent city located on Port of Seattle property has now been forced to move for the 9th time

Homeless advocate and Nickelsville resident Greg Lewis takes a stand and gets arrested by Port of Seattle Police at the Nickelsville homeless encampment at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30 at Terminal 107, which is owned by the Port. The Port issued the 60 or so residents an ultimatum, to vacate or get arrested for trespassing.

September 30, 2009

This was the camp's eighth location since it was first evicted from a South Park vacant city lot Sept. 26 of last year.

At about 1 p.m. Kurt Beckett, communications director Port of Seattle and Port Chief E.C. Wilson approached the camp surrounded by TV cameras, still cameras, tape recorders, and microphones, and of course, homeless residents. They stated peacefully that many talks between Port officials and Nickelsville residents have already taken place, that there was no other Port property available for the residents, and that now was the time for residents to leave.

There was an amicable question-and-answer portion between a few residents and Beckett, but he and Wilson finally said residents must leave or they would be arrested by Port police.

Three official warning announcements were made by an officer on a megaphone from his car, then more than 20 officers quietly entered the camp. Full Story


THE HAPPY STATE NEBRASKA HITS NATIONAL NEWS
WALMART Supercenter hosts first wedding...

Welcome to Walmart wedding

Katie Burke/World-Herald News Service


YORK, Neb. — The bride wore dark lavender, the groom black jeans.

Flowers were everywhere.

The York Walmart Supercenter hosted its first wedding Saturday when Crystal Newsome and Robert “Vick” Vickrey exchanged vows amid hanging baskets and seasonal foliage in the lawn and garden department.

“We had our first kiss at Walmart,” Crystal recalled.

Robert has been with Walmart for 12 years and is the grocery department manager. With five years behind her at the company, Crystal is the deli manager. Friendship blossomed into romance about two years ago.

Robert has three grown children and four grandchildren. Crystal has four children. Her oldest son, 6-year-old Keagan, walked her down the “aisle,” a white runner. The entire blended family was part of the wedding while Walmart employees gathered with more friends to hear Crystal and Robert exchange their vows.

“We put an invitation up near the time clock for a while,” Crystal said.

She laughed at her co-workers' reactions: “Are you kidding? Why would you want to be here on your day off?”

“We both work here, we met here, it all started here, why not?” Robert said of his Walmart wedding.

They make no secret about why they wanted to become one.

“He's fun,” Crystal said, a touch of laughter in her voice as she talked about Robert. “His personality is wonderful. He can make me laugh when I'm not in the mood to laugh.”

Robert's voice softens when he talks of Crystal.

“I love everything about her. She is an absolutely wonderful woman. She makes me smile. She's put the joy of life back in me.”

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WHERE IS OUR EARTH'S MAGNETOSPHERE WHEN WE NEED IT FOR PROTECTION FROM COSMIC RAYS?

The earth's magnetic field acting squirrelly.... heck we lost our magnetic south pole for awhile there - heck of a wobble of earth on its axis yesterday!



WE NEED TO BE WEARING TIN FOIL HATS TO PROTECT US FROM INCOMING COSMIC RAYS

This is a Russian website. I did a screenshot of the graph showing the incoming cosmic rays yesterday - looked like they were peaking out in the morning and deceased as the day went on ... then going up again in evening ...

http://cr0.izmiran.rssi.ru/mosc/main.htm

Galactic cosmic rays hit 50-year high

msnbc.com - ‎Sep 29, 2009‎
Galactic cosmic rays have just hit a Space Age high, new data from a NASA spacecraft indicates. "In 2009, cosmic ray intensities have increased 19 percent ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Science Daily (press release)



(AP) – October 1, 2009 - 56 minutes ago

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The developer building the world's tallest skyscraper in Dubai says cladding work on the shiny silver-colored tower's outside is complete.

Completion of the aluminum and glass facade marks a key milestone for Emaar Properties, which is racing to meet a self-imposed deadline to have the Burj Dubai complete by the end of the year.

By way of comparison, the builder says the amount of aluminum used on the building's face weighs as much as five double-decker Airbus A380 jetliners, while the more than 1 million square feet (103,000 square meters) of glass panels could cover 14 soccer fields.

The Burj Dubai, Arabic for "Dubai Tower," stands more than 2,600 feet (800 meters) tall, though Emaar has yet to confirm is final height.


Happy 1st day of October - Have a very good one!!

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Newsletter | 30 September 2009

WHO REALLY BENEFITS BY BOMBING IRAN! Follow the money...
If you don't learn from history - you'll be doomed to repeat it



The majority of Americans don't know geography - expecting them to know or remember history is but your own foolishness!

It is said frequently that Americans have been dumbed-down by the corporate-government's device seen in most homes, the television. Americans seem to falsely think that if you see or hear it on the television - it is true. Likewise, maps may be flashed across a television screen, yet as shown in a 2006 study only 23% of those with a college education were able to find all four countries of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Israel (only 6% of those with up to a high school diploma could find these four countries).


GET RID OF THE UNITED NATIONS!

THE GOVERNMENT CLAIMS TO OWN ALL WATER IN UNITED STATES

Together with all adjacent lands

Water Wars: Colossal Land Grab by the UN and the Feds

UN Agenda 21 “biological diversity” map

Cassandra Anderson
Infowars
September 30, 2009

The Federal government, influenced by the United Nations, is stealing American land and resources as Agenda 21 Sustainable Development is implemented in all states. Sustainable Development seems appealing and desirable on the surface, but it is actually a plot to erase humans entirely from 50% of American land, with a ban on extraction of resources, like water!

An example of this is playing out right now in California, regarding the man made drought. This situation affects every American, as California’s Central Valley supplies our country with 50% of its vegetable, fruits and nuts ( http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/, see the California Agricultural Statistical Review report). The federal Endangered Species Act, regarding the ‘threatened’ smelt minnow, is being used to severely restrict the water pump that delivers water from the Delta to the Central Valley farmlands, thus creating the drought condition. Both the federal Department of Interior and the federal Department of Commerce are claiming jurisdiction in order to control water resources. Full Story



SINKHOLE INFORMATION
FLOOD INSURANCE DOES NOT COVER SINKHOLES!
My news updates will insure you know the difference between potholes and sinkholes!

MyFoxAtlanta.com | $5,000 to fix Sinkhole Forms in Woman's Driveway - Flood insurance does not cover driveway damages due to flood

Published : Wednesday, 30 Sep 2009, 12:44 PM EDT

LITHONIA, Ga. - A Lithonia woman found out the hard way she is not insured for some major flood damage to her driveway and she's probably not alone.

State insurance commissioner John Oxendine said there are an estimated 20,000 homes in Georgia which were damaged or destroyed by flood waters and much of that damage isn't covered by insurance.

It's a problem preventing Shelia Walton from driving in or out of her home. Her driveway was washed away in the flood. Walton found out her insurance company will not cover her flood damage. Walton found out what other flood victims are probably finding out as well.

" If a sinkhole forms it itself is not covered," said Walton.

Georgia's insurance commissioner John Oxendine said most home owner insurance policies do not cover property like driveways or lawns where sink holes and other damages could occur.

"If a sinkhole does damage to an insured item like a car -- falls into a sinkhole or your house or the fence falls into the sink hole -- the damage to the insured structure is going to be covered," said John Oxendine.
FULL STORY

GEORGIA FLOODS UPDATE

Last week, more than 14 inches of rain poured onto counties in Georgia overnight; some places saw more than 20 inches in a 24-hour period.

Tractor trailer cars washed against a bridge going over Sweetwater Creek left there by flood waters from recent rains, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009, in Austell, Ga. (AP)

EVEN A MINOR EARTHQUAKE CAN AFFECT YOUR WATER SUPPLY
Minor earthquake breaks waterline

Associated Press

MONROE, La. (AP) - Officials say it was to small to shake houses or jar resident, but blame a miniature earthquake for the rupture of a Monroe water line.

George Newman with the Water Distribution Department said Sunday's break was minor and would only affect businesses in the vicinity. Repairs began Sunday night.

Newman tells The News-Star of Monroe little earthquake shifts happen frequently and cause lines to crack.



NEBRASKA CONTINUES TO BE A GLOBALIST STATE

Lincoln Journal Star | William Ayers Again Invited to Speak in Nebraska

Updated: 10:54 AM Sep 30, 2009
Lincoln, Neb

A Chicago professor whose radical past made him a lightning rod in the 2008 presidential campaign is scheduled to speak in Nebraska this fall.

A Chicago professor whose radical past made him a lightning rod in the 2008 presidential campaign is scheduled to speak in Nebraska this fall.

William Ayers' address to the Academic Freedom Coalition of Nebraska in Omaha on Nov. 14 comes a year after he was disinvited from speaking at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Ayers was a founder of the Weather Underground, a group that claimed responsibility for bombing several government buildings. His ties to Barack Obama became an issue in the U.S. presidential campaign last year.

The University of Illinois at Chicago education professor had been asked to speak about education issues at a Nov. 15, 2008, conference at UNL. The university rescinded the invitation, citing safety concerns.


THIS (Wednesday 9-30-09) MORNING'S 7.6 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE IN SUMATRA
MAP 7.6 2009/09/30 10:16:10 -0.789 99.961 80.0 SOUTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA

LA Times | Indonesian 7.6 earthquake kills 75, flattens buildings

John Newton / AFP / Getty Images
Four waves 15 to 20 feet high hurled vehicles into buildings.
The massive surge, spawned by a powerful earthquake, flattens villages and sweeps cars and people out to sea. At least 99 are dead and the toll is expected to rise. Photos
YESTERDAY'S (Tuesday 9-29-09) 8.3 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE IN TONGA

BBC.co.uk | South Pacific tsunami resulting from 8.3 magnitude earthquake kills more than 100 people

President Obama has declared the tsunami in American Samoa a major disaster

A tsunami in the South Pacific has caused widespread destruction on the islands of Samoa and American Samoa.

The 8.3 magnitude earthquake struck at 1748 GMT on Tuesday 29 September

At least 77 people were reported dead in Samoa, more than 25 in American Samoa and at least six in Tonga, on the island of Niuatoputatu.

Thousands of homes have been destroyed.

New Zealand has sent a plane to Samoa to help search for survivors, and says it is ready to air-lift supplies.


HUMANS CONTINUE TO SCREW AROUND WITH NATURE'S INNATE WISDOM
NEITHER DOGS OR WOLVES

British Columbia cull led to hybrid 'monster wolves,' study shows

A Pacific coastal wolf at Pacific Rim national park. The B.C. government's Vancouver Island wolf extermination program allowed 'monster' hybrids to take over the region. Photograph by: Chris Darimont/Raincoast.org, Canwest News Service

VANCOUVER — The B.C. government's Vancouver Island wolf extermination program allowed "monster" hybrids to take over the region, a team of scientists said.

From the 1920s until the 1970s, provincial officials tried to rid Vancouver Island of wolves so sport hunters would find it easier to hunt black-tailed deer, the wolves' principal prey.

So when a few hardy wolves swam across from the northern B.C. mainland in the early 1980s, some were unable to find mates. Instead, they mated with stray dogs.

The result, according to researchers from the University of Sweden, the Smithsonian Institution and the Raincoast Conservation Foundation, was something never documented before in the wild: animals that were neither wolves nor dogs. Full Story


HISTORIC HUMANS WHO WERE QUESTIONABLE "LEADERS"

AP | Nero's rotating banquet hall unveiled in Rome


An unidentified man talks to the media, near a recently unearthed brick structure incorporating a 4-meter diameter pillar, seen in the background, discovered during maintenance works in the Roman Forum, in Rome, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009. Archaeologists believe the structure supported a rotating dining room imitating the Earth's movement and used by Roman Emperor Nero to impress his guests in his Golden Palace. The Golden Palace, also known by its Latin name Domus Aurea, rose over the ruins of a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64 A.D. and was completed in 68 A.D. FULL STORY

Adolf Hitler suicide story questioned
Skull fragment long believed to belong to the Nazi dictator is, in fact, that of an unknown woman.
— The Telegraph



BusinessInsider.com | FDIC Paints Terrifying Picture Of Bank Health "Furthermore, any additional special assessment or immediate, large increase in assessment rates would impose a burden on an industry that is struggling to maintain positive earnings overall."

In plain English, that's like saying "everyone wants to pretend that the banks are solvent, but if we make them actually pay us extra money, it will make it harder to cover up the fact that the banks are insolvent". Thus, we wave a magic wand, and even though the FDIC is asking the banks for 3 years worth of money today, the banks will be able to recognize the cost over 3 years. Since when do we treat insurance as a depreciating asset? It's not like when you buy an airplane and recognize the cost over 20 years! There is a simple, unarguable fact: if Citibank pays the FDIC $1B TODAY (I'm making this number up) in fees for the next 3 years, Citibank has $1B less in cash today. Not $333MM less in cash - $1B less in cash. The FDIC's release today is a must read - it contains some serious and scary truths about our national financial situation, despite what the press and the administration have been telling us over the past six months.
Full Story

Tomorrow is the 1st of October - before we know it - it will be Spring again!
http://www.wunderground.com/severe.asp

Right now: 6:30pm CDT 9-30-09
You have to love the national weather map - with all its colors ... and all those pretty colors can keep their distance from Lancaster County!

LOOKS WET AND COLD AT OLD FAITHFUL!
Old Faithful Live Webcam link: http://www.nps.gov/archive/yell/oldfaithfulcam.htm


You all have a good evening on the last day of September!!

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