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Sunday, October 11, 2009

Evening Newsletter | October 11, 2009

Having grown up in Nebraska - talking about the weather was a needed conversational skill. As I've grown older I've also discovered the need to answer such questions as "was this the earliest snow has fallen in Nebraska?". I chuckle, as dementia begins to set in - I now am expected to be encyclopedic ...

How early was the snow?

Only twice before in the past 60 years has a fall snow come earlier in Lincoln than Saturday's. Snow has blanketed Lincoln in October only nine other times in the same period:

Oct. 23, 2002: 2.4 inches
Oct. 22, 1996: 1.0 inch
Oct. 10, 1987: 0.3 inches
Oct. 27, 1980: 3.3 inches
Oct. 18, 1976: 0.4 inches
Oct. 26, 1997: 13.2 inches
Oct. 31, 1991: 2.3 inches
Sept. 29, 1985: 0.8 inches
Oct. 22, 1979: 0.4 inches
Oct. 9, 1970: 6.6 inches

- Ken Dewey, UNL Applied Climate Science

Looks like those in Omaha had to get out their now shovels on Saturday, and I didn't!


Omaha residents shovel their driveway as unusually early snow falls in Omaha, Neb., Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009. Several inches of snow accumulated in Omaha. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)


WHERE DOES ONE START WITH NEWS UPDATES -
The death of the dollar, social chaos on the horizon, war and rumors of war, upcoming global famine with crop failures due to weather, the new energy happenings with our sun affecting all planets in the solar system and our planet included. Only a couple planetary issues being our shrinking protective magnetosphere and our changing weather - not including higher gamma rays, xrays, etc- increasing earthquakes, volcanism, etc. So much news and so little time. That doesn't even include our out of control government and federalized police/military grid with foreign mercenaries on the ground in the US. Then there is the nasal FluMist made with live virus instead of the usual monkey kidneys, etc that they normally use (there is news out I'm researching regarding FluMist also being made with live cancer virus) ... time to wake up from a bad dream. But - NOT a good time to loose your sense of humor.

I feel like I should get paid by FEMA always repeating myself giving the admonishment to make sure you have water, food, an alternative source of heat, and extra needed prescriptions on hand, etc. The website 72.org provides an idea for preparing for 72 hours - but then, how do you really prepare for living in an empire that will be almost instantaneously transformed into a third world country with the dollar death? Social chaos - such an interesting little phrase - and a time period you probably won't want to be running to the store to pick up a few things.


FEDERAL RESERVE (OUR CENTRAL BANKSTERS) NEWS
Issued October 8, 2009 by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

For immediate release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday approved amendments to Appendix A of Regulation CC that reflect the restructuring of the Federal Reserve Banks' check-processing operations, and provided notice relating to future changes to the regulation....

You may follow the above link to read the Release and its attachments to perceive this is saying - a "single point of failure" has being been set up by the banksters for the American populous' checking account(s). When banksters start consolidating like this the general public should wake up and realize that there is a hidden reason that benefits them, not us. What would happen if a terrorist decided to blow up that one banksters building with those checking account records? Putting all your eggs in one basket ... in a time period of cyber attacks, etc sounds like letting the fox know where all the eggs are kept that will totally mess up our country's financial for some time.

When the quadrillions of derivatives come home to roost - be easy to blame some terrorist - probably somewhere in the Mideast - for the closing of banks? The Enron building being blown up with the trade towers in 2001 "disappeared" alot of financial records. Terrorists work as a way to cover up tracks. The American public goes along with bombing Iraq ... and the rest of the story is still going on in Iraq - when those terrorists that were said flew planes into the trade towers were from Saudi Arabia... what can you say. Americans aren't real sharp.

The corporate-government can spin this news with the electronic transactions, recession, etc. Billions can be spent on the new Homeland Security Department - don't try to tell me moving those records into one building, in one city is to save money. It's the creation of one big excuse than can conveniently go boom - if need be to cover the banksters behinds.


ADD THE WORD PERSIAN TO YOUR VOCABULARIES
Bombing Iran is bombing Persians vs. bombing Semitic speaking People as in Iraq

The major ethnic group in Iran are PERSIAN people and are an ethnic and linguistic branch of Indo-European peoples ... in contrast to ARAB people, as in Saudi Arabia that are a Semitic people.

A good read: The Persians vs. the Arabs and Genocide or is it the Shi'a vs. the Sunni and Genocide.

WHEN will America's immoral wars be confronted by the American populous? The government needs to reveal WHY our people are dying in these oversea American non-stop wars - and slaughtering millions of people, babies, families, etc., on their homelands. Our country has transformed into just a killing machine. If we are attacked - it's because of the enemies we continue to make with our military-industrial complex.


THE SUN IS NO LONGER YELLOW
And there are ALOT of BIG incoming rocks

Today as usual the planet, sun, solar system, and global populous appears to be running amuck as has become usual. Approximately 8 years ago the color of the sun began its transformation from yellow to its current color of white. I would personally think this color transformation of our sun should make big news. Nope. Our government just starts building all kinds of satellites, rockets, etc to go study the sun and give the public what they want the public to know.

You have to ask WHY our MILITARY NOT NASA is in charge of incoming rocks - when you read this headline from this summer:

Space.com | June 10, 2009 - Incoming space rocks now classified by military

However, good telescopes are had in people's backyards and information spreads across the globe. The incoming space rocks are not the normal little falling star types anymore:

HelioTown.com | Spectacular Fireball Over New Mexico - October 09, 2009 0804:43 UT ( 2:04 am MDT )

Preliminary Report : This was an uncommonly large fireball!

It occurred over northern New Mexico and I estimate that its path was roughly from around Questa heading towards the Springer area, or possibly from Taos heading towards the Wagon Mound area. NOTE: This is only a guesstimate and hopefully other reports will surface. Its magnitude was close to -12, almost as bright as the Full Moon.

Here are preliminary videos and more data will follow as it is processed: VHF forward scatter radio capture at 61.250 MHz and 55.250 MHz: VHF movie VLF/ELF radio observation here : VLF Movie

(I would RECOMMEND clicking on the picture below to see the movie of this fireball - way cool!)

SPACEWEATHER.COM | BLINDING FIREBALL

On Friday night Sept. 25th, at approximately 9:03 pm EDT, an asteroid hit Earth just above Lake Ontario. It was a lucky strike, right in the middle of a network of seven all-sky cameras operated by the University of Western Ontario (UWO). The disintegrating asteroid produced a blinding fireball 100 times brighter than a full Moon. Click on the image to view a movie from the Hamilton, Ontario, station:

The asteroid exploded in flight, producing strong low-frequency sound waves in the atmosphere. Analysis of infrasound records along with video from the seven camera stations lead researchers to believe that fragments of the asteroid could have reached the ground. "This bright fireball was large enough to have dropped meteorites in a region south of Grimsby on the Niagara Peninsula, providing masses that may total as much as several kilograms," according to a UWO press release.

Researchers at Western Ontario are interested in hearing from anyone within 10 km of Grimsby who may have witnessed or recorded the fireball, seen or heard unusual events at the time, or who may have found possible fragments of the freshly fallen meteorite. Meteorite-hunting tips and more video may be found here.

NOT REAL COMFORTING TO READ THE FOLLOWING - EASY TO UNDERSTAND - ARTICLE FROM NATURAL NEWS AND THEN LOOK AT OUR WEAKENED PLANETARY MAGNETOSPHERE SIMULATIONS OUT OF JAPAN:

(NaturalNews) Natural fluctuations in the sun's atmosphere could cause it to fire a giant plasma ball at Earth, shutting down the planet's electric grids and leading to widespread social collapse, according to a report from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

Funded by NASA, the report draws attention to naturally occurring events known as coronal mass ejections (CME), in which a ball of plasma -- the charged, high-energy particles that comprise stars -- is fired from the sun. If such a ball strikes the Earth, it could produce rapid changes in the planet's magnetic field, leading to a surge of direct current in the long-range power lines that carry electricity through modern power grids.

Modern power grids are designed to carry electricity at extremely high voltage, making them especially susceptible to this kind of magnetic disruption. What they are not designed to do, however, is carry direct current. Transformers are particularly vulnerable, and sudden influx of direct current could cause the wiring inside the devices to melt. The NAS report estimates that within 90 seconds of a plasma ball hitting the Earth's magnetic field, power would be knocked out to 130 million people in the United States alone. The same effect is likely throughout the world.

"A really large storm could be a planetary disaster," said power industry analyst John Kappenman. In the First World, where everything from transportation to food and water
distribution depends on electricity, this could create a humanitarian catastrophe.
FULL STORY

http://www2.nict.go.jp/y/y223/simulation/realtime/index.html




LOS ANGELES WILL PROBABLY BE HAVING MORE WATER MAIN PROBLEMS

Will provide me with more SINKHOLE news in the upcoming with ruptured water mains causing sinkholes ... since the Jet Propulsion Lab has validated that shaking the ground can cause ruptured pipes, etc. (like duh)

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php


MAG UTC DATE-TIME
y/m/d h:m:s
LAT
deg
LON
deg
DEPTH
km
Region
MAP 2.7 2009/10/12 00:40:00 33.908 -118.266 12.4 GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA

MAP 2.9 2009/10/11 15:39:33 34.044 -117.589 2.4 GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA


IS THERE AN INCOMING FROM THE SOUTH THAT IS REALLY BIG WE AREN'T BEING TOLD ABOUT?
I would hate to count the number of telescopes from countries all over the globe down at the South Pole - EVEN the Vatican has one there as they also have one in Arizona.

A group of 251 scientists, workers and logistics staff from China, Australia and Russia began the half-year-long research expedition in the icebreaker Xuelong, or "Snow Dragon." SHANGHAI, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- One would head to China's Kunlun Station located at Dome A, the highest point on the continent at 4,093 meters above sea level, where more research equipment would be installed for astronomical observation. (The emphasis is mine)


I WILL TAKE AN EARLY SNOW TO LATE TORNADOES

Kentucky.com | Weather service confirms three tornadoes hit Kentucky

... The National Weather Service confirmed Saturday that three tornadoes touched down when a storm system moved through Kentucky Friday. ...

RELATED:

Tornado Tears Through Tennessee
WHNT
The National Weather Service says an EF1 tornado hit Lincoln County. The NWS says wind speeds in Lincoln County peaked at 100 miles per hour. ...



Selfish Pigs by Andy Riley, creator of The Bunny Suicides


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This Sunday's Headlines on my Cave

It is time to free people from invisible chins of slavery, where bankers enslave nations through monetary system, where money is nothing but debt and debt is money. It is time to talk about real economics and not about financial illusion.




My Cave's Headline Saturday:

IMF - as world dictator NOT being swallowed by Iceland

Don't let the IMF bail out the Fed!!

Webster Tarpley | World Crisis Radio Program - October 10, 2009 MP3s
October 10, 2009 (hour 1)
October 10, 2009 (hour 2)

Debt Moratorium in Iceland
Center for Research on Globalization - Webster G. Tarpley -
Reykjavik , Iceland , Oct. 7 – A leading member of the Icelandic parliament called Monday night for the country to declare a debt moratorium and stop attempting to pay the $6 billion which the British and Netherlands governments are seeking to extort from Iceland with the help of the International Monetary Fund.....


TODAY'S SINKHOLE NEWS

WallStreetPit | California Budget: A Giant Sink Hole

California has a gapping hole – their government is much too big and it is sucking the life blood out of the California economy. The budget situation is so bad that they have resorted to issuing I.O.U.’s and using accounting tricks in an attempt to do anything but the right thing which is to shrink the size of government.


EVEN RUSSIANS AREN'T HAPPY WITH THEIR GOVERNMENT

Russian protest
(AFP/Getty Images photo by Dmitry Kostyukov / October 10, 2009)
A Russian political opposition activist waves a flare at a protest in Moscow on October 10, 2009. A few hundred protestors participated in the "Day of People's Rage" to express their anger at the current political situation in the country.





Gathering of Eagles: NY Fighting the Insurgency at Home - The Tea Party took to the roads of Long Island today!

Patriots departed from Rockvilles Centre, Lindenhurst and Setauket to converge on Islip Grange Park!



POLICE STATE USA NEWS

Published: Oct. 10, 2009 at 3:07 PM

LANSINGBURGH, N.Y., Oct. 10 (UPI) -- A 17-year-old Eagle Scout in Lansingburgh, N.Y., says he was suspended from school for a knife he kept in his car for emergency situations.

Lansingburgh Senior High School student Matthew Whalen said he was suspended for 20 days under the school district's Codes of Conduct when school officials learned of the 2-inch pocket knife in his car, WTEN-TV in Albany, N.Y., reported Thursday.

"My car is designed in a way that if I ever broke down, I'd be OK," Whalen said.

The school suspension last month is a rare negative mark against Whalen, who has completed Army basic training as part of his goal of attending the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

Whalen is also on the honor roll and was recognized by the Boy Scouts of America and the city of Troy for saving a woman's life last summer.

Whalen's father, Bryan, told WTEN he was upset to learn of his son's punishment.

"I want him to have fair treatment based on his character," the elder Whalen said. "It just totally baffles me that they would go after this when they have much bigger fish to fry."



Full Story

Click to view YouTube video of Oath Takers (There are some good guys out there!)

OATH KEEPERS: ORDERS WE WILL NOT OBEY

Click here to read full length version.

1. We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people.

2. We will NOT obey orders to conduct warrantless searches of the American people

3. We will NOT obey orders to detain American citizens as “unlawful enemy combatants” or to subject them to military tribunal.

4. We will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a “state of emergency” on a state.

5. We will NOT obey orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty.

6. We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps.

7. We will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext.

8. We will NOT obey orders to assist or support the use of any foreign troops on U.S. soil against the American people to “keep the peace” or to “maintain control."

9. We will NOT obey any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies.

10.We will NOT obey any orders which infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances.

Click here to read full length version.


ARE FASHION DESIGNERS MEETING THE NEEDS OF DOWN-TURNING GLOBAL ECONOMIES?
Go dumpster diving and get yourself a new outfit

Wearing glass
(Joao Henriques, Associated Press / October 10, 2009)
A Models displays a creation by Portuguese designer Vitor made with glass bottles during the ModaLisboa fashion week Saturday, Oct. 10 2009, in Cascais, outside Lisbon, Portugal



Rense.com | 3-D Chalk Drawings On Flat Cement Surface - Wow





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Philippines still suffering from flooding


Philippine flooding from Tropical Storm Parma
AFP/Getty Images photo by Ted Aljibe / October 10, 2009)

Residents wade through a flooded street in Dagupan City, in the northern Philippine province of Pangasinan on October 10, 2009. Floodwaters from Tropical Storm Parma have receded in much of the northern Philippines but the toll rose to 299 confirmed dead in landslides and flooding, officials said. This brings the death toll from two weeks of killer storms to at least 636 Tith about 301,000 still crammed into makeshift evacuation centers since Tropical Storm Ketsana struck two weeks ago, the civil defense office said.


All is well with me ... wasn't up to reporting on the results of the Moon bombing today ... the more I read, the more interesting it gets! Suffice it to say at EXACTLY the same time NASA was to release results of this bombing - Obama gets the Nobel peace prize...

My news blog: The Cave

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Morning Newsletter | 10 October 09

From my dining room door this morning (trees haven't even changed color yet and my sumac are just beginning) and there were still flowers on my butterfly bushes:



Omaha.com | Fall foliage served with a side of … snow
Fall this year is flaky.
Meteorologists are predicting a blast of cold air will sweep across Nebraska and western Iowa this weekend, leaving light to heavy snow in its path.
Nebraska is looking pretty white on this map today!

National Severe Weather Map Link

NOTE THE 10 - 15 INCHES OF RAINFALL OVER THE PAST FEW WEEKS

Tornadoes have touched down and a Flash Flood Watch is in effect through this evening across Northern Mississippi.

Heavy rain and thunderstorms could produce rainfall amounts of 2 to 4 inches with localized higher amounts, which could lead to flash flooding. (These areas have received 10 to 15 inches of rainfall over the past few weeks and grounds are saturated.) FULL STORY

The events in the Pacific with the Ring of Fire will be affecting the jet stream and greatly increasing the amount of moisture carried. Once again - imagine 10 inches of rain falling in the form of snow .. are you prepared?
Off the cuff, most meteorologists would say that there is a 10:1 ratio of snow to water (meaning that an inch of liquid water would result in 10 inches of snow). However, wet snows can result in ratios as low as 3:1 and very dry snows can result in ratios of 30:1 (in extreme cases, the ratio can be upwards of 100:1). So much depends on the wind and temperature profile of the atmosphere. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center


NEWS THAT GIVES NEBRASKA BAD NAME AROUND THE PLANET

Mad cow fear: Japan suspends beef from US plant

TOKYO — Japan has suspended beef shipments from an American meat-packing plant after finding cattle parts banned under an agreement to prevent the spread of mad cow disease, the agriculture ministry said Saturday.

Japanese quarantine inspectors found bovine spinal columns in one of 732 boxes sent by Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc., which arrived in Japan last month, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said in a statement. The box contained 35 pounds (16 kilograms) of chilled short loin with spinal bones.

The suspension only affects Tyson's factory in Nebraska, one of 46 meat-packing plants approved to export beef to Japan.

The Japanese ministry also asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate how the box containing the banned parts ended up in Japan.

Japan banned all U.S. beef imports in 2003 after the first case of mad cow disease was discovered in the United States. Japan resumed buying American beef in 2006 after a bilateral trade agreement setting new safety standards.

Mad cow disease, formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is a degenerative nerve disease in cattle. In humans, eating meat products contaminated with the illness is linked to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare and fatal malady.

Under the bilateral trade agreement, U.S. exporters must remove spinal columns, brain tissue and other parts considered linked to the mad cow disease. U.S. beef shipments to Japan must also come only from cattle age 20 months or younger, which are believed to pose less of a risk.

Washington has repeatedly criticized Japan for its tough import restrictions, which authorities say have no scientific basis.

U.S. officials have urged Japan to allow imports of beef from cattle aged up to 30 months, a widely used safety standard elsewhere.



NASA MOON BOMBING NEWS

One of the best comments I've ran across about NASA bombing of the Moon:
  • BillCorbett: "Take THAT, moon! Maybe you'll think twice next time before turning us into werewolves."
Related:
I ASK WILL TAXPAYERS NOW HAVE TO ONCE AGAIN CLEAN UP THE MESS FROM THEIR GOVERNMENT'S OBSESSION WITH BOMBING?
Since India had already determined water on the moon - did we bomb their base there?


EARTHQUAKES AFFECT BURIED WATER PIPE

DID THEY REALLY NEED TO HIRE ROCKET SCIENTISTS FROM THE JET PROPULSION LAB TO FIGURE OUT THE PROBLEM IS EARTHQUAKES?

WHY CALIFORNIA IS BROKE - SUPPORTING GLOBALIST INTERESTS?

Outgoing Department of Water and Power head David Nahai's departure coincided with a loss of confidence in his ability to head the utility from all over City Hall.

But what may have cinched his end, was when the water mains started bursting last month. They haven't stopped yet (one broke in Harbor Gateway this weekend). Even Angelenos unfamiliar with his name started having bad thoughts about the person who clearly wasn't managing the utility well enough to keep the streets from flooding during a water shortage. Nahai may as well have been standing atop the firetruck that got sucked into one of the sinkholes created by the breaks. Just days before his resignation to join Bill Clinton's Climate Initiative, Nahai sat in the hot seat before the Los Angeles City Council. Council members wanted to know why pipes are popping all over town; Nahai didn't have an answer.

(NOTE: Globalists don't hire based on brains - this guy is NOW going to work for globalist Bill Clinton's Climate Initiative)

The William J. Clinton Foundation launched the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) to create and advance solutions to the core issues driving climate change. We take a holistic approach, addressing the major sources of greenhouse gas emissions and the people, policies, and practices that impact them. Working with governments and businesses around the world, CCI focuses on three strategic program areas: increasing energy efficiency in cities, catalyzing the large-scale supply of clean energy, and working to stop deforestation.

The investigation into what could be causing a sharp rise in “major blowouts” of Los Angeles water mains has expanded to examine whether tectonic activity might be playing a role.

The L.A. Department of Water and Power have asked scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for help. As it happened, JPL officials were already evaluating ground movement in the Los Angeles Basin because of a several recent minor earthquakes.

Examining the timing and location of the breaks, JPL scientists notice “some deviation from the normal range” of ground movement in L.A. in the last 100 days, said Andrea Donnellan, a geophysicist at JPL. FULL STORY

Preparedness Tip: Quakes are hitting in unusual places - make sure you also have some water in case there are water pipe problems in your neighborhood.

PICTURES

Hot air balloons filled the sky during the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque, N.M., Thursday. (Susan Montoya Bryan/Associated Press)


A couple of micro pigs stand next to a cat. The pigs which grow to just 14" tall are the latest 'must have' pet and one can be yours for £700 Picture: GEOFF ROBINSON


Fishermen near Ketchikan, Alaska, watch a group of up to six humpback whales gorged on herring Picture: AP



NEWS ABOUT ANOTHER BANK IN LINCOLN

Lincoln Federal hit with regulatory order

Another local bank has been hit with an extraordinary regulatory order, the fifth institution so far this year.

The Office of Thrift Supervision issued a cease-and-desist order to Lincoln Federal Savings Bank, alleging unsound banking practices, including operating with inadequate capital, having too many bad loans and not having adequate internal oversight.

Like many of the other local banks that have come under heightened regulatory scrutiny since the first of the year, Lincoln Federal has run into trouble due to defaults on both residential and commercial mortgages.

The order lays out several corrective actions the bank needs to take, including:

  • Maintaining capital ratios higher than what is normally required;
  • Hiring an outside consultant to evaluate the bank's management;
  • Not paying dividends, bonuses or severance payments without approval from the OTS, and;
  • Not expanding its base of assets, typically loans, beyond interest earned on deposits, without permission.

Bill Ruberry, a spokesman for the OTS, said the agency does not comment on enforcement actions.

"The order will have to speak for itself," he said.

Leo Schumacher, president of Lincoln Federal and a member of its board of directors, said the bank has already taken action to allay some of the OTS's concerns.

He said the bank has hired four additional loan officers and has boosted its internal controls, though he declined to offer specifics.

Schumacher said the bank also has maintained capital levels that exceed the higher levels mandated by the OTS.

He said the problems have been predominantly with residential mortgages, and they have started showing up in the past year.

"We've seen some tough economic times, and some of our borrowers have struggled to make payments," Schumacher said.

Lincoln Federal's second-quarter financial reports filed with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation show the trend.

The bank's delinquent loans (those 30 to 90 days past due), jumped to nearly $7.5 million as of June 30, compared with just over $5.4 million at the same time last year.

Its noncurrent loans, or those more than 90 days past due, skyrocketed from $399,000 on June 30, 2008, to $5.9 million on June 30, 2009. That sent the bank's percentage of noncurrent loans as a percentage of total loans soaring to more than 2 percent, up from just 0.13 percent a year ago.

Property repossessed by the bank more than doubled from June 30, 2008 to June 30 2009 -- from just over $5.7 million to nearly $12.7 million.

Despite the deteriorating financial condition of its mortgage portfolio, Bauer Financial, a private company that rates the health of thousands of U.S. banks, gives Lincoln Federal three stars on a five-star scale, which equates to an average rating.

Lincoln Federal joins four other banks with local ties that have come under regulatory orders from their oversight agencies this year.

TierOne Bank signed a supervisory agreement with the OTS in January, a less-severe regulatory action than a cease-and-desist order.

In March, the FDIC issued a cease-and-desist order against Farmers Bank, a small Lincoln bank. Another small Lincoln bank, City Bank & Trust, received a cease-and-desist order from the Nebraska Department of Banking and Finance in August.

In September, Nebraska Bankers' Bank, a Lincoln-based affiliate of Jefferson City Mo.-based Midwest Independent Bancshares Inc., received a cease-and-desist order from the Federal Reserve.

One Nebraska bank, Sherman County Bank, has failed this year. It was closed in February, with its deposits taken over by Heritage Bank of Wood River and its loans taken over by the FDIC.



CALIFORNIA DROUGHT UPDATE


Schwarzenegger Holds State Hostage

East Bay Express - ‎2 hours ago‎

Among the issues being discussed is whether to build more dams and a peripheral canal that would steer freshwater around the fragile Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The governor also wants to take more fresh water from the delta and send it to farmers in the southern Central Valley who are suffering from the drought. But environmentalists say such a move would destroy the delta's already collapsing salmon and smelt populations and make the estuary less hospitable to a host of other species.
FIGHTING FIRE NEWS

Earth Talk

Issue date: 10/8/09 - "Goats help prevent forest fires by eating the dry stuff before the fire season strikes," says Lani Malmberg, owner of Colorado-based Ewe4ic (pronounced "u-for-ik") Ecological Services, which uses goats to gradually and naturally remove weeds and return lands to a healthier more natural state.

Goats have been called in for fire mitigation purposes across parts of California, Arizona and other drought-prone parts of the western U.S. In the Oakland and Berkeley hills regions of California's Bay Area, where the combined effects of drought and a bark beetle infestation have killed thousands of acres of trees, public agencies and residents have enlisted the help of goat herds to suppress weeds and keep down the fire risk in the process for what remains of the area's forest cover.

"The goat clearance scheme is one of the key reasons the Bay Area hasn't had a recurrence of a catastrophic fire in decades," says Tom Klatt, former manager of the Office of Emergency Preparedness at UC Berkeley and the author of UC Berkeley's 2007 Fire Mitigation Program Annual Report.
MY IDEA: USE GOATS SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO RAKE LEAVES IN AUTUMN!


Bet you didn't know goats climbed trees ... they're clever creatures!


FEDERALIZATION OF AMERICA'S POLICE

White House strips immigration policing powers from Arizona sheriff
--Sheriff Joe Arpaio has previously been attacked by critics for racial profiling among illegal immigrants
09 Oct 2009 A controversial Arizona sheriff known for taking a hard line against illegal immigrants has been stripped of some of his powers in what he described as a political move by the Obama administration. Joe Arpaio, a gruff lawman who styles himself as America's toughest sheriff, has won acclaim from US anti-immigrant forces for his relentless pursuit of mostly Hispanic illegal immigrants in Maricopa county, Arizona, a fast-growing county of 4 million people that is home to Phoenix, the nation's fifth largest city.





TENT CITY NEWS

TimesOnline.co.uk | Al-Qaeda finds a foothold amid Yemen’s poverty, fighting and corruption

Al-Qaeda is winning recruits by exploiting the poverty in camps such as this one

Al-Qaeda militants are establishing a safe haven in Yemen, exploiting the poverty, fighting and corruption that is causing chaos in much of the country. “The threat level from al-Qaeda is now critical,” one diplomat said. Analysts believe that al-Qaeda is recruiting disaffected Yemeni youths and bringing foreign militants to the country to attend its training camps....

FULL STORY


BAIL OUT OF FHA (FEDERAL HOUSE ADMINISTRATION) IS LOOMING
U.S. Mortgage Backer May Need Bailout, Experts Say
09 Oct 2009 A year after Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac teetered, industry executives and Washington policy makers are worrying that another government mortgage giant could be the next housing domino. Problems at the Federal Housing Administration, which guarantees mortgages with low down payments, are becoming so acute that some experts warn the agency might 'need' a federal bailout.
WHERE WERE THE BANKS ON FDIC's BANK FAILURE FRIDAY?
The question out there is whether there were actually no banks to be reorganized - or the FDIC is out of money and this is just the calm before one big storm ...


VACCINES ONLY BENEFIT BIG PHARMA'S BANK ACCOUNTS

Doctors express concern that FluMist vaccine may actually spread the swine flu. Why? Because it contains live swine-flu viruses.
Hospitals in Colorado and elsewhere are shunning the FluMist H1N1 vaccine, a nasal spray that contains live swine flu virus, because of fears it could infect people with weakened immune systems and underlying health conditions.

Hepatitis-B vaccine triples the risk of autism in infant boys. Mercola 2009 Oct 8


THERE ARE GOOD COPS OUT THERE
From a public forum I visit

@SamT: I had a very unusual experience last night on the way home from work that left me wondering about The Oathkeepers. The guy in this video said that he only hopes that law enforcement doesn't obey the NWO, when the time comes.

I was really tired and it was late 10:30 p.m. and I had just finished working my usual 11 hour day. I was behind another car and just kind of in auto-pilot. Usually, I try to be a little more aware of my surroundings, not this time. Well, I got lit up by a cop. Pulled over. This guy is hands down the nicest cop I've ever had the pleasure to interact with. He told me there were a couple of issues. He clocked me going 50 in a 30 in town. Clocked me going 50 in a 40 out of town. I wasn't wearing my seatbelt. My tags were dead. And my taillight was out! Oh! and I didn't have my registration with me. I was like... yeah, just lock me up. I could use the rest at this point! He says welp, I'm going to have to do something or I'll get in trouble. So, if you don't mind a little wait, I'll have to write up a couple of warnings. I was stunned into just nodding my head. It took about five minutes or so... he comes back with the pad for me to sign. I sign and hand it back. He says, oh, there's another one, hope you don't mind. I sign it. As he's ripping my copies out of the pad, he says, these are for you. You can take them home and use them as firestarters! I could have kissed him! There is hope for us yet.

(A response to that entry was cute: And another criminal is set free to terrorize the public again.)



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THE PONZI SCHEME OF DERIVATIVES - ALSO IN GOLD

THE DYNAMICS OF THE GOLD & SILVER MARKETS?….EXPLOSIVE!

This basic scam is at the center of modern gold market manipulation. Paper substitutes for gold are sold instead of real gold through derivatives, futures, pooled accounts, ETF’s, gold certificates etc. I estimate that each actual physical ounce of gold has been effectively sold 20 times over or more. To be able to maintain this Ponzi scheme some real gold is required because some investors or jewelers demand real gold. For the scam to be sustained there must always be plentiful physical gold for those who want it. This physical supply has been met from mine supply and central bank leasing and selling. The market is in effect a giant inverted pyramid with a huge paper gold market being supported above a small amount of physical gold at the tip of the inverted pyramid. The scam can continue until there are indications of a shortage of physical gold. If the twenty or so claimants of each oz of real gold demand their gold then there is the potential for a squeeze like has never been seen before in history..........


Just remembered where I put my blasted snow shovels - in my basement. Good thing the snow melted on landing upon the concrete. Actually a good think we didn't get ice with all the leaves still on the trees! Behave yourselves - your neighbors may be waiting to tattle on you....
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