Early Morning News Update | October 30, 2009

Good morning! Up early today ... now 4am ... so, this is the EARLY news. Looks like alot of flooding is going on when you look at the National Weather Map.

A couple weather headlines out this morning:

Grand Island, Nebraska sets record October rainfall amount

Grand Island Independent - Robert Pore - ‎10 hours ago‎

October continues its trend of wet and cooler-than-normal weather, frustrating area farmers who are finding it difficult to harvest their crops.

According to the National Weather Service in Hastings, Grand Island had received 2.94 inches of precipitation for October by 2 p.m. Thursday, breaking the previous monthly record amount of 2.85 inches set in 1914. Grand Island will continue to add to that record amount as additional precipitation in the form or rain and snow will fall today until a dry spell begins this weekend. ...

Casper, Wyoming - Black ice advisories, road closures still in effect

Casper Star-Tribune Online - Tom Morton - ‎9 hours ago‎

The black ice advisories for major roads in Natrona County remain in effect, as do the closures of Interstates 80 and 25, according to the Wyoming Department of Transportation.

And if it's any consolation for future storytelling, the total snowfall recorded at the National Weather Service office in Cheyenne for the month of October reached 24.0 inches as of Wednesday night. This sets a new record for the most snowfall ever recorded in Cheyenne for the month of October. The previous record was 23.1 inches, which was measured in October 1906. ...

Continuing rain leads to more Flash Flood Warnings

KMOX.com - Brian Kelly - ‎10 hours ago‎

LOUIS, MO (KMOX) -- With rain still falling throughout the St. Louis region, and more on the way, the National Weather Service has extended flash flood ...

Storm brings more rain than snow in ND

Grand Forks Herald - ‎8 hours ago‎

AP - FARGO, ND A storm expected to dump snow in much of North Dakota brought rain instead and the National Weather Service issued a flood watch Thursday for ...

National Severe Weather Map


Woke up to see this BIG QUAKE this morning:

MAP

6.9

2009/10/30 07:03:40

29.154

129.903

35.0

RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN

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This weekend Daylight Savings ends

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BANKSTER NEWS

Thousands of people gather to rally at an American Bankers Association conference at a downtown hotel to demand that banks stop lobbying against financial reforms, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009 in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

MarketOracle.co.uk | Trillion Dollar Ticking Derivatives Time Bomb to Explode Under Bankrupt Banks

The War on the U.S. Dollar

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(A Few) Breaking Headlines

REPORT: TAXPAYERS PAID $24,000 PER 'CASH FOR CLUNKERS' VEHICLE

HSBC earned more than £650m in fees from work for Textron, US manufacturer of cluster weapons

The deadly trade in cluster bombs is funded by the world's biggest banks who have loaned or arranged finance worth $20bn (£12.5bn) to firms producing the controversial weapons, despite growing international efforts to ban them.

Top banks fund cluster bombs as ban nears - report
http://www.alertnet.org/db/an_art/60725/2009/09/29-184126-1.htm

U.S. Home Vacancies Rise to 18.8 Million on Defaults

About 18.8 million homes stood empty in the U.S. during the third quarter as banks seized properties from delinquent borrowers and new home sales fell in September.

Russia Plans Atomic-Powered Spaceship

News agency RIA-Novosti reports on the latest Russian super-villain scheme: A nuclear-powered spacecraft.

Fox News Promotes U.S. Military’s Civilian Recruitment Drive

New game lets players massacre civilians

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is set for release Nov. 10, in time for the American holiday shopping season. Its predecessor sold 14 million copies and earned myriad "game of the year" awards.

National Insanity: British Parents Not Allowed in Parks With Children Unless They Complete Police Background Checks

Robot Armies Will Explore Alien Worlds

Robotic airships and satellites will fly above the surface of the distant world, commanding squadrons of wheeled rovers and floating robot boats, according to Wolfgang Fink of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

Government Is Trying to Make Bailouts for the Giant Banks PERMANENT

Paul Volcker and senior Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron both testified to Congress this week that the government is trying to make bailouts for the giant banks permanent.

More Mexicans Turn to the Lynch Mob as Crime Spirals Out of Control

Vigilante justice spreads across Mexico

GEORGE SOROS : CHINA MUST BE PART OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER

De-Classified Document Admits Lee Harvey Oswald Was CIA

CBO Puts House Health Bill Total Cost At $1.055 Trillion...

Pelosi's biggest one yet! 1,990 pages...


Boehner: '1,990 Pages Of Bureaucracy'...

$2.2M A WORD

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WHERE IS THE CHRISTIAN'S OUTRAGE?
TOTAL DISRESPECT FOR CHRISTIANITY

One of the only government-corporate media headlines on the recent sewer crap vomited out of television:

Larry David Blasted for 'Curb' Episode Where He Urinates on Jesus Painting

YET, HILARY CLINTON WEAR'S HER SCARF IN RESPECT FOR ISLAM



Clinton charm offensive runs into suspicions in Pakistan...

Volunteers and residents search for victims among the rubble following a deadly car bomb blast at a market in Peshawar, Pakistan on Oct. 28, 2009. A huge car bomb detonated in a crowded street in the Meena Bazaar just hours after U.S. Secretary Hillary Clinton arrived in Pakistan to bolster the two countries' troubled alliance against Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants. Photograph: AFP

Oh, my God. US to Give $125 Million to Upgrade Pakistan's Power Sector 29 Oct 2009 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, seeking to bolster Islamabad's fight against Islamic extremists US corporaterrorists' profits, initiated a crash U.S. assistance program for Pakistan's power sector aimed at rolling back electricity shortages that threaten to cripple the South Asian nation's economy. Mrs. Clinton, on the first of a three-day diplomatic mission to Pakistan, said that Washington will disburse $125 million to Islamabad for the upgrading of key power stations and transmission lines. U.S. experts [!] are also beginning to work with Pakistani utility companies to reduce power outages and lost revenue caused by outmoded technologies and systemic non-payment by customers, which costs Pakistan hundreds of millions of dollars each year. [Clinton announces $125 million more to be sucked into the Obusha AfPak money pit for... wait for it... *Pakistan's* power sector (that the US bombs in its illegal killer drone attacks). We can't get single-payer health care in the US -- we can't even get a so-called public option -- because the Congressional pharma-wh*res (LieberBush, etc.) tell us it may add to the US deficit. Where are the calls for endless CBO studies on the billions wasted funding contractors, mercenaries, and terrorists benefiting from Obusha's wars? Bay Bridge closed after repair falls apart 28 Oct 2009 (CA) Three pieces of an emergency repair to the Bay Bridge's cantilever section made over Labor Day weekend snapped and crashed onto the upper deck of the span late Tuesday afternoon, striking three vehicles and forcing the indefinite closure of the region's busiest bridge. Caltrans officials ordered the closure of the bridge in both directions shortly after 7 p.m. and said late Tuesday night that it would be closed indefinitely. Too bad the bridge isn't in Pakistan. Then, Blackwater/Xe could blow it up, blame the Taliban, and the US could pay contractors billions to keep rebuilding it. --LRP]

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EARTHQUAKES GO ON - WHEN WILL THE PACIFIC PLATE CRACK?

Previously Unknown Fault Caused Earthquake Swarm Off Oregon's Coast

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INTERESTING TRANSPORTATION

The police department in the small Minnesota town of Proctor will put a motorized lounge chair up for auction next week after it was seized in a drunk driving incident. The black and blue pleather lounge chair, pictured in this undated police handout, comes complete with stereo, footrest, cupholders, headlights, a nitro­us oxide power boost system, drag racing style steering wheel and a parachute.

(AFP/HO/File)

Buzz Pinkham shouts during the motorized competition at the fourth annual Damariscotta Pumpkinfest Regatta, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009, in Damariscotta, Maine. Pinkham and a friend came up with the idea for a race while looking for something to do with a 700-pound pumpkin they had shown at a county fair. They hollowed it out, attached a motor and launched what has become a wacky race that now attracts more than a thousand people to town.

(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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YOU ALL HAVE A GOOD ONE - LOOKS LIKE MID-40'S TODAY WITH SOME CLOUDS ... Last check yesterday we had gotten .6 of an inch of rain ... pond is looking nice and full and cleaning leaves out of skimmer on pond twice a day ... haven't seen Subway the Turtle for awhile, but fish are hungry still and haven't gone away for the winter yet.

My news blog: The Cave
Published Version of my News Updates: Surviving the Revolution

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Afternoon News Update | October 29, 2009

I haven't been sending News Updates ... maybe one of the reasons why - the volume of crappy news headlines is accelerating and a part of me knows there isn't a damn thing anyone can do to change all the crap. What does it mean when the SHTF is maybe more meaningful?

There is the corporate-government media's headlines:
Economy grows in Q3, unofficially ends recession...

And then there are pages of headlines like the following - I just put the words "state government layoffs" in Google News:

Jefferson City, Mo braces for latest state budget cuts

Jefferson City News Tribune - Gerry Tritz - ‎9 hours ago‎

Of those cuts, 363 will come from layoffs and most of the rest through not filling vacant positions. The state expects to cut another 200 full-time ...

UMass report: State still stuck in recession

Boston Herald - Jay Fitzgerald - ‎43 minutes ago‎

... state's economy contracted by 1.1 percent in the third quarter, amid increasing layoffs at companies and declining tax revenues for state government. ...

Iowa - Culver orders furloughs, rejects corrections cuts

Sioux City Journal - ‎12 hours ago‎

6 percent -- The approximate pay cut state department directors will see. 181 -- Number of layoffs included in agencies' budget-cutting plans approved so ...

Hundreds of Pa. state government layoffs expected

Philadelphia Inquirer

Hundreds more employees of Pennsylvania's state government are expected to get pink slips. Gov. Ed Rendell said Friday that he expects hundreds of layoffs ...

Given I've personally spent most of my adult living in my own personal economic world that could be labeled a DEPRESSION. I experienced what they now call the historically studied "Recession of the early 1980's" when Gather's Software went under - and herds of professionals were looking for jobs in Denver in about 1984. DEPRESSION and REPRESSION are terms that are subject areas and words owned by academic experts.

Can they keep the gigantic derivative bubble from popping?

This is an interesting article from 2004:

Secrets Of The Plunge Protection Team - THE 4 DERIVATIVE U.S. DICTATORS

12 May 2004, 10:41

There are just four people who control all of the U.S. markets through their use of dangerous and explosive DERIVATIVES. They are risking the assets and retirement funds of all Americans. Because of their manipulations, especially since 2001, U.S. financial markets are now based on the gambling whims of a special fraternity of Federal Government DERIVATIVE dealers.

This group is known among Wall Street as the Plunge Protection Team (PPT). Their "official" role was to prevent another 1987 "Black Monday". They have the entire U.S. Treasury at their disposal to manipulate the markets through DERIVATIVES (futures options). In other words, they are using the assets behind the U.S. Treasury to rig the prices of commodites (gold, currencies, etc.) and stocks.

This fraternity comprises of Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the heads of the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Association. It works closely with all the U.S. exchanges and Wall Street banks, including the largest DERIVATIVE risk holders Citibank and JP Morgan Chase.

Few people are aware of Executive Order 12631 signed by Ronald Reagan on March 18, 1988. In a nut shell, this is the "authority" behind the four dictators and the [sic] "laws" and "regulations" that have backed their casino-style DERIVATIVE gambling spree since 2001. Here are some highlights of this Executive Order to ponder: Full Story

Now throw in this current news article:

Government is trying to make bank bailouts permanent -- Paul Volcker and senior Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron both testified to Congress this week that the government is trying to make bailouts for the giant banks permanent.

Paul Adolph Volcker (born September 5, 1927) is an American economist. He was the Chairman of the Federal Reserve under United States Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan (from August 1979 to August 1987). He is currently chairman of the newly formed Economic Recovery Advisory Board under President Barack Obama
The Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve (private) Bank is the head of the central banking system of the United States http://www.newyorkfed.org/

We have one completely corrupt and rogue government - with politicians getting rich from global corporation lobbyists. And Obama goes to Copenhagen on December 29th - to essentially turn our country over to global governance. It would be wise to watch the short YouTube below to figure out about the CAP AND TRADE - CLIMATE CHANGE bull crap. Short but yet very concise and correct presentation - WORTH YOUR TIME TO LISTEN TO!

Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty
United Nations Climate Change Treaty, scheduled to be signed in Copenhagen in December 2009

Radical Environmentalism: Pretext for Power and Money Grab by Would Be One World Governors

There is SO MUCH CORRUPTION BEING EXPOSED - I honestly don't know where you can start.

Lets take the War on Drugs - now exposed by the NY Times yesterday that one of the BIGGEST drug lords in Afghanistan is part of our own CIA ... no surprise to many.

America's drug crisis brought to you by the CIA -- Kudos to the New York Times, and to reporters Dexter Filkins, Mark Mazzetti and James Risen, for their lead article today reporting that Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of Afghanistan's stunningly corrupt President Hamid Karzai, a leading drug lord in the world's major opium-producing nation, has for eight years been on the CIA payroll.

Was talking about the new flu vaccine being a bio-weapons lab creation - little did I know that idea was being worked on in 1972!

World Health Organization (WHO) Memos 1972 Explains How to Turn Vaccines into a Means of Killing

No wonder that Rockefeller wants the Internet to be taken down! NEWS travels too fast and without the globalist's control! (At least today - they are working on getting it controlled as I type ... and weed out those that talk too much maybe?).

National Security Agency (NSA) Supercenters to Store Americans’ Private Data Permanently

Thomas R. Eddlem | The National Security Agency is building huge new storage facilities to store the unconstitutionally gained data on the American people’s telephone calls and Internet traffic permanently.

Interesting headlines today:

German Protest Over Toxic Swine Flu Jab Grows After Army Rejects It As Too Risky

No Men OR Women Needed: Artificial Sperm and Eggs Created for First Time

Are Populations Being Primed for Nano-Microchips Inside Vaccines?


Verichip chooses Raytheon /ECLAN to manufacture it's implantable microchips -- VeriChip Corporation announced that it has selected Raytheon Microelectronics España/ECLAN for the production of the company’s implantable microchips, including the chip used in its HealthLink patient identification system, its new eight millimeter microchip for use in Medical Components Inc.’s vascular access medical devices, and its glucose-sensing RFID microchip under development with RECEPTORS LLC.

Verichip shares soar after H1n1 patent win...implantable microchip to detect viruses -- Shares of VeriChip Corp (CHIP.O) tripled after the company said it had been granted an exclusive license to two patents, which will help it to develop implantable virus detection systems in humans.

How mercury (in vaccines) kills brain neurons - University of Calgary (video)

This video is from the university of Calgary. It shows how mercury kills brain neurons. Using live brain cultures, the mercury is introduced and the video shows how autism occurs.. Autism is mercury poisoning.

All for right now...

Evening News Update | October 28, 2009

After an early October snow and freezing temperatures -
the first brand new bloom on a Yellow Autumn Daisy that had grown from wildflower seed
that I had planted this summer

This overcast afternoon on my way down my little brick pathway to feed my spoiled squirrels and birds, immediately after ducking to get under my overgrown trumpet vine archway I immediately saw this happy little daisy bloom waiting for me next to my plum tree.

This summer I played Johnny Appleseed with a quarter pound of mixed perennial wildflower seed - sprinkling the seeds around in various places. I always get a smile on my face when I run across another new interesting little guy blooming from that mixture of seeds.

The LAST thing I expected to run across this afternoon was to discovering a new bloom on a new plant in my yard. I have to get on the internet to sometimes identify the new wildflower choosing to grow - and this is a Hardy Yellow Autumn Daisy. The white blooms on the Shasta Daisies by my pond are still there ... definitely am liking daisies!

If you notice in the above picture - there is not only the leaves of my white clover but also the leaves of what may be called Creeping Charlie (or alot of other names). It is one tough little plant. I usually hate pulling unwanted plants (weeds) from my flower beds (I feel like a murderer) ... but pulling Creeping Charlie doesn't bother me - you can't kill that plant I swear. You can get it out of a flower bed and return two days later and it looks like you haven't ever weeded.

Tonight finally I decided to research that fast growing little guy that can remind you of an ivy - yet, I have actual Ground Ivy under the Mulberry tree and there is a big difference. After my Internet research - I will need to pull and collect that fast growing little plant for all its medicinal uses!!

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Glechoma hederacea (syn. Nepeta glechoma Benth., Nepeta hederacea (L.) Trevir.) is an aromatic, perennial, evergreen creeper of the mint family Lamiaceae. It is commonly known as Ground-ivy.

It is native to Europe and southwestern Asia but has been introduced to North America and is now common in most regions other than the Rocky Mountains. Its common names includeAlehoof, Creeping Charlie (or Charley), Catsfoot (from the size and shape of the leaf), Field Balm, Run-away-robin, Ground Ivy, Gill-over-the-ground and Tunhoof.

Glechoma is sometimes grown as a potted plant, and occasionally as a ground cover. A variegated variety is sometimes commercially available.

While often thought of as a weed because of its propensity for spreading, Glechoma has culinary and medicinal uses which were the cause of its being imported to America by early European settlers. The fresh herb can be rinsed and steeped in hot water to create an herbal tea which is rich in vitamin C. The essential oil of the plant has many potent medicinal properties; the plant has been used for centuries as a general tonic for colds and coughs and to relieve congestion of the mucous membranes. The plant has been demonstrated to have anti-inflammatory properties. It has also been claimed to increase excretion of lead in the urine.

Its medicinal properties have been described for millennia, Galen recommending the plant to treat inflammation of the eyes, for instance. John Gerard, an English herbalist, recommended the plant to treat tinnitus, as well as a "diuretic, astringent, tonic and gentle stimulant. Useful in kidney diseases and for indigestion." It is also useful as a "lung herb".

Glechoma was also widely used by the Saxons in brewing beer as flavoring, clarification, and preservative, before the introduction of hops for these purposes; thus the brewing-related names,Alehoof, Tunhoof, and Gill-over-the-ground.

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