*Never a shortage of sinkhole news! And, the ground opening up and swallowing you can be a reality - EVEN WHEN YOU ARE PLAYING FOOTBALL!
We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth... For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to provide for it. --Patrick Henry
DEATH OF THE DOLLAR NEWS
Jim Willie Gold-Eagle.com | Systemic Failure Approaches Reuters | U.S. FDIC chief: "too big to fail" must end for allTheAge.com.au | China, India gain in crisis fallout: World Bank
Xinhua | Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrived in North Korea - greeted at airport by Kim Jong Il Sunday morning
BusinessInsider.com | Geithner: We'll Do Everything To Save The Dollar A few months ago, when Tim Geithner was on a bond-selling trip to China, he pledged that the US would repay the Chinese in full, prompting howls of laughter from those in attendance at his speech. ...
RELATED
June 1, 2009 - Chinese Laugh At US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner
World Bank and IMF join global attack on the dollar
- Contain China
- Stake-out oil claims
- Provide LOTS OF $$ for Defense Contractors
Whistle Blower Headline #1:
Don't bring up Israel's Nukes or we'll bomb you. Will the Washington Times be getting bombed?
Washington Times | Obama agrees to keep Israel’s nukes secret
President Obama has reaffirmed a 4-decade-old secret understanding that has allowed Israel to keep a nuclear arsenal without opening it to international inspections, three officials familiar with the understanding said....
We want to bomb Iran (and control their oil) - CAN'T let it out that Iranians are humans too
Telegraph.co.uk | Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad revealed to have Jewish past
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's vitriolic attacks on the Jewish world hide an astonishing secret, evidence uncovered by The Daily Telegraph shows.
Published: 7:30AM BST 03 Oct 2009 A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots.
A close-up of the document reveals he was previously known as Sabourjian – a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver.
The short note scrawled on the card suggests his family changed its name to Ahmadinejad when they converted to embrace Islam after his birth.
The Sabourjians traditionally hail from Aradan, Mr Ahmadinejad's birthplace, and the name derives from "weaver of the Sabour", the name for the Jewish Tallit shawl in Persia. The name is even on the list of reserved names for Iranian Jews compiled by Iran's Ministry of the Interior.
Experts last night suggested Mr Ahmadinejad's track record for hate-filled attacks on Jews could be an overcompensation to hide his past.
Ali Nourizadeh, of the Centre for Arab and Iranian Studies, said: "This aspect of Mr Ahmadinejad's background explains a lot about him.
"Every family that converts into a different religion takes a new identity by condemning their old faith.
"By making anti-Israeli statements he is trying to shed any suspicions about his Jewish connections. He feels vulnerable in a radical Shia society."
A London-based expert on Iranian Jewry said that "jian" ending to the name specifically showed the family had been practising Jews.
"He has changed his name for religious reasons, or at least his parents had," said the Iranian-born Jew living in London. "Sabourjian is well known Jewish name in Iran."
A spokesman for the Israeli embassy in London said it would not be drawn on Mr Ahmadinejad's background. "It's not something we'd talk about," said Ron Gidor, a spokesman.
The Iranian leader has not denied his name was changed when his family moved to Tehran in the 1950s. But he has never revealed what it was change from or directly addressed the reason for the switch.
Relatives have previously said a mixture of religious reasons and economic pressures forced his blacksmith father Ahmad to change when Mr Ahmadinejad was aged four. FULL STORY
CALIFORNIA IS NOT A HAPPY STATE
TENT CITIES POPULATION MAY SLOW DOWN?
UPI | Nevada Suit Could Halt Thousands of Foreclosures
A Reno law firm is preparing a class action lawsuit on behalf of Nevada homeowners who face foreclosure by a surrogate company that represents thousands of mortgage owners but doesn't actually own the loans themselves. If they succeed, the fallout could halt foreclosures
The company, known as Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems (MERS), was created by the mortgage industry years to keep track of the ownership of mortgages that are packaged inside of mortgage pools and often subject to in a series of transactions. This based in Reston, Virginia company didn't own the mortgages it registered, but it was listed in public records either as a nominee for the actual owner of the note or as the original mortgage holder. Some 60 million loans are registered in the name of MERS..........
TODAY'S SOLAR ACTIVITY
SpaceWeather.com | Arch-shaped prominence dancing along the limb of the sun. "It is several times wider than Earth"
Michael Buxton of Ocean Beach, California, has made a must-see movie of the prominence. "It was quite large and very pleasing to view as it danced in the chromosphere. The movie shows 1 hour and 45 minutes of action."
Readers with solar telescopes, train your optics on the sun's northwestern limb.
more images: from John Minnerath of Crowheart, Wyoming; from Mike Borman of Evansville, Indiana; from Steve Riegel of Santa Maria, California; from Fabio Mariuzza of Biauzzo - Italy;
SUNDAY MORNING'S PROTECTIVE SHELL WAS LOOKING NOT REAL PROTECTIVE!
THE WAY OUR MAGNETOSPHERE IS ACTING - ONE GOOD DIRECT INCOMING FROM THE SUN AND SAY BYE-BYE TO THE ELECTRICAL GRID!Real-time Magnetosphere Simulation | Earth's Magnetosphere ... doesn't look real protective right now 10-4-09 7:30am CDT
UPI | No damage reported in Philippines 6.6 magnitude quake hitting at a depth of 390 miles Oct. 4 2009 (UPI) -- No damage was reported Sunday from a 6.6-magnitude earthquake in the Moro Gulf off Mindanao in the Philippines, authorities said. There was no "destructive tsunami threat" from the tremor, which hit shortly before 7 p.m., local time, in the Philippines, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. The epicenter was located about 62 miles west southwest of Cotabato City at a depth of 390 miles, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
EARTHQUAKES DO MORE THAN SHAKE THE SURFACE
Guardian.co.uk | Sumatran hopes fade as whole villages are sucked into the earth
Rescue workers look for survivors inside the Ambacan Hotel. Photograph: Nicky Loh/Reuters
Sunday 4 October 2009 Rescue workers reported yesterday that entire villages had been sucked under the earth after the the devastating earthquake that hammered western Sumatra, estimating that at last 600 people had lost their lives in the countryside surrounding Pandang.
The dead included those attending a large wedding party numbering several hundreds. If the figure is confirmed, it would bring the total death toll to above 1,300. More than 3,000 people were listed as missing before the news about the villages emerged....
FULL STORYWATER SPOUT NEWS
Weather Watch - New Zealand | Photographic week in review - October 4, 2009
Image / Warwick Tilley, WeatherWatch.co.nz
YOU MAY STILL GET A CHANCE TO BUY YOURSELF A DINOSAUR
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A partial, fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton at a Las Vegas hotel was not sold at auction because bids were too low, an auction house official says.
Weekends are usually the quiet time for news - am sure when the workweek begins - humanity will be really running amuck again!
