AP | Saudis bomb Yemen rebels across border*
A footbridge in Shaharah, Yemen
For example, earlier in the afternoon I emailed out a News Update relating to bombs falling in the Mideast -- breaking news out on the AP wires.
Coincidentally on the US Geological Survey USGS earthquake website - what the heck - earthquakes in Yemen. Was Yemen being shaken hard enough for seismic equipment to pick up by natural forces or by the Saudi Arabian air force?
Given I trust our own national governmental agencies as much as I trust the local weather man - I checked some other global earthquake monitoring websites and out of European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre note their running tally of shakes going on in the small country of Yemen.
USGS
| MAP | 5.1 | 2009/11/05 08:05:50 | 12.065 | 45.978 | 10.0 | NEAR THE COAST OF YEMEN |
| MAP | 4.7 | 2009/11/05 07:57:31 | 12.066 | 45.996 | 10.0 | NEAR THE COAST OF YEMEN |
European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre
http://www.emsc-csem.org/index.php?page=current&sub=list
| 2009-11-05 11:05:44.3 | 12.36 | N | 45.90 | E | 8 | ML | 4.6 | NEAR THE COAST OF YEMEN | 2009-11-05 13:43 | |
| 2009-11-05 10:03:07.5 | 12.19 | N | 45.81 | E | 13 | ML | 3.9 | NEAR THE COAST OF YEMEN | 2009-11-05 13:42 | |
| 2009-11-05 08:05:51.6 | 12.06 | N | 45.95 | E | 10 | f | mb | 5.1 | NEAR THE COAST OF YEMEN | 2009-11-05 10:41 |
| 2009-11-05 07:12:33.4 | 12.02 | N | 45.95 | E | 10 | f | mb | 5.5 | NEAR THE COAST OF YEMEN | 2009-11-05 15:07 |
| 2009-11-05 06:23:04.5 | 12.17 | N | 45.67 | E | 2 | ML | 4.4 | NEAR THE COAST OF YEMEN | 2009-11-05 15:08 |
When I see pictures of our own President bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia and the former President Bush holding hands with this same Arabian King ... what can I say? The AP news article refers to Yemen Rebels - but then our own Department of Homeland Security has people carrying Bibles and Constitutions on their watch lists!
National Severe Weather Map
Maybe if more Americans actually took a little time and energy looking at a National Weather map - there would be more Americans with more knowledge of at least our own nation's geography.
For weeks upon weeks green areas have been showing in North and South Dakota along the James River.
The Flood Warning continues forhttp://www.ktiv.com/Global/story.asp?S=11419397
the James River near Stratford
* until further notice...
* at 9 am Monday the stage was 16.4 feet...
* moderate flooding is occurring and moderate flooding is forecast...
* flood stage is 14.0 feet...
* at 17.0 feet... County roads begin flooding and the Road 2 miles
north of the gaging location is one of the first to flood.
YANKTON, S.D. (AP) - A James River Water Development District board member from Menno, Dave Bender, says he can't remember seeing the river flows as high as they are this time of year.
And hydrologist Mike Gillispie of the National Weather Service says the river appears headed for an October record.
He says the river has been running about 5 feet higher than normal.....
This narrow area was formed by the lobe of a glacier during the last ice age, and as a consequence the watershed of the river is slender and it has few major tributaries for a river of its length.
SINKHOLE NEWS
THINK TWICE BEFORE CALLING THE AUTHORITIES?
KENS5.com San Antonio Texas | Sinkhole leaves local man with a whole new problem - code compliance
Click to view video on news website:
When sinkholes opened in the alley behind Tim Tilt's home he thought, no big deal. I'll call the city and they'll fill them Boy, was he in for a surprise. Tilt watched the holes grow from small, six inch circles to a trench more than a foot wide, seven feet long and eighteen inches wide.
One day Tilt was mowing the grass in the alley and noticed the small hole. he stepped near it and the ground tried to swallow him. The hole grew to about a foot across. With the recent rains, Tilt has watched the one hole continue to grow and others begin to form. There are now more than half a dozen in the alley.
Tilt first called AT&T because he could see an AT&T cable in one of the holes. They sent someone out, who called their supervisor only to be told it wasn't the phone company's problem...call the city. Tilt next called the city. He was passed back and forth five times until he got tired of the hand-offs and called Eyewitness Wants To Know.
Surprisingly we learned the problem belongs to Tilt and any other homeowner who is unfortunate enough to live adjacent to an alley and a problem arises in the alley. According to city code, homeowners who's property adjoins an alley or easement are responsible for the maintenance of half of that alley. That means mowing the grass or weeds and if a sinkhole opens...filling it.
Tilt was lucky in this case though. When we called Code Compliance, they called Public Works, who said they had a crew working in the area anyway...so they would go ahead and fill the holes. But keep in mind, the next time you call code compliance with what you see as a problem...it may just create a liability for you.
Nov 5, 2009 4:46 pm US/Eastern
Delaware Officials Planning For Rising Sea Level
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) ― Delaware Planning Coordinator Connie Holland is studying how a rise in sea level would affect the state, particularly property owners.
Holland said her agency's only begun to study the issue that could significantly affect wetland habitats as well as developed properties and undeveloped, low-lying areas.
In Delaware, 27 percent of the shoreline is developed, 26 percent is partially developed with more expected and 23 percent is undeveloped. New Castle and Kent counties have restrictions on flood plain development, but Sussex County doesn't.
Holland said the state has to take into account spending strategies and how the state handles impervious surfaces.
VOLCANIC ACTIVITY SHOOTS ASH INTO ATMOSPHERE AFFECTING TEMPERATURES
Geophysical Research Letters | Undocumented large volcanic eruption 200 years ago - why from 1810 to 1819 is the coldest on record for last 500 years
The discovery was made after analyzing chemicals in ice samples from Antarctica and Greenland in the Arctic. The year-by-year accumulation of snow in the polar ice sheets serves as a record of what takes place in the atmosphere.
"We've never seen any evidence of this eruption before in the glacial record," said Mark Thiemens, dean of the Division of Physical Sciences at UCSD and a co-author of the study. "But if you look at the size of the signal we found in the ice cores, it had to be huge ... bigger than the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, which killed hundreds of people and affected climate around the world."
TORNADO NEWS
KTBS 3 News - Shreveport LA ArkLaTex News | Last Thursday's storms had 22 tornadoes
The tornado that cut across Shreveport-Bossier City last Thursday was among 22 twisters in the ArkLaTex that afternoon, the National Weather Service said. The strongest of the...
ANOTHER BIG 6.0 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE HIT AGAIN TODAY
USGS | 6.0 magnitude earthquake MACQUARIE ISLAND REGION - Thursday, November 05, 2009 at 08:43:21 PM at epicenter
| MAP | 6.0 | 2009/11/05 09:43:22 | -52.317 | 160.755 | 10.0 | MACQUARIE ISLAND REGION |
Recent studies of Macquarie Island and the Macquarie Ridge Complex
Big Bird Google Doodle: Happy Birthday Sesame Street - On the November 10th, First Lady Michelle Obama is scheduled appear on the show
November 5, 2009 - Sesame Street is the longest running US children program. Sesame Street and its lovable muppets has been educating and entertaining children for 40 years on PBS. On the November 10th, First Lady Michelle Obama is scheduled appear on the show. She will be working in the garden and educating the kids to eat healthy.
Google is doing the special Big Bird doodle to celebrate Sesame Street's 40th anniversary.
http://www.sesamestreet.org/home
RawStory.com | Breckenridge, Colorado voters legalize marijuana, paraphernalia
Voters in the ski resort town of Breckenridge, Colorado legalized marijuana and marijuana paraphernalia by a nearly three-to-one margin on Tuesday. It is the first municipality in the United States to allow paraphernalia, such as pipes, bongs and bubblers. "[The measure] passed 73 percent to 27 percent," ABC 7 News in Denver reported.
Boston.com | Abuse of OxyContin and heroin in Massachusetts has reached epidemic levels - special state commission reported today
November 5, 2009 01:18 PM - During those five years, 78 service people lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan while 3,265 died from drug-related causes, the panel, known formally as the Massachusetts OxyContin and Heroin Commission.....
Examiner.com | Baron Mayer A. Rothschild (1744 – 1812) wrote, “Give me control over a nation’s currency and I care not who makes its laws.”
November 5, 1:59 PM
In “Descent into Slavery”, Des Griffin wrote, “For many the words international banker, Rothschild, Money and Gold have held a mystical fascination for many people around the world but particularly in the United States.”
What makes the Rothschild family so fascinating? By most accounts the Rothschild family is by far the wealthiest family in the world. Some believe that the Rothschild’s control as much as half of the world’s wealth.
How did the Rothschild family become so wealthy? They have controlled central banks throughout the world for hundreds of years. The last one to be put in place was the Federal Reserve System.
Again, Des Griffin wrote: John F. Hylan, then Mayor of New York, said in 1911 that “the real menace of our republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus, sprawls its slimy length over our city, state and nation. At the head is a small group of banking houses, generally referred to as ‘international bankers.’”
What Mayor Hylan did not say is that the biggest and most powerful banking house belongs to the Rothschild family.
How did the Rothschild family become so wealthy? That feat was accomplished by using central banks to rob entire nations of their wealth.
WorldCurrencyWatch.com | The $10 Trillion Dollar Bill - Is America Turning into Zimbabwe?
November 5, 2009Patrick: After 24 hours in Los Cabos I’m already feeling richer. Bill Gates, eat your heart out, I’m a TRILLIONAIRE!
And so is everyone else…
We’re all holding $10 trillion-dollar bills from Zimbabwe, courtesy of Asset Strategies International – one of the must-see exhibitors at the Offshore Advantage Academy.
Quite the conversation piece! But if we were to convert this note to Pesos and hand it to a porter at the Westin resort, he’d probably give us the stink-eye. (At best it could buy a stale loaf of bread.)
No wonder Zimbabweans have rejected their currency and turned to gold.
Could this ever happen in America?
The short answer is, yes. It’s happening right now, at a slow, but steady pace. A world reserve currency like the dollar can’t “disappear” overnight. But make no mistake – it is on a slow boat to China.
29 years ago, The Sovereign Society’s Chairman, John Pugsley, summed up the dollar’s demise in his New York Times Best-Seller, The Alpha Strategy:
“You are the target of the greatest sting in the history of mankind… To give you an idea of the magnitude of your loss, you are being steadily fleeced of about half of everything you earn and, in the long run, of the majority of everything you save.”
According to our Chairman, “there’s no such thing as a tax cut.” Sounds strange, I know. Who wouldn’t want to pay less tax?
But the fact remains, the Feds could cut your tax bill in half and you still wouldn’t come out ahead. They could slash every tax in the IRS bible…and it wouldn’t matter! And I’ve got proof.
Take a deep breath then look at this chart…
U.S. Spending Continues to Climb…No Matter Who’s in Office
John showed us how government spending has been on a near-constant uptrend. ALL this money has to come from somewhere. And if they’re not taking it from you today, they’re surely swiping it from you “tomorrow.”
There are only two ways someone can rob you: by force or by fraud. And in this case, the fraud of inflation is robbing Americans blind.
Of course, not if we can help it. That’s what the rest of this week is all about. I’ll be back with more currency notes from here on the ground in Los Cabos. Till then…
Patrick Bove
Your Offshore Advantage Insider
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Astronomy Picture of the Day
Alan Friedman (Averted Imagination)
Explanation: Our Sun may look like all soft and fluffy, but it's not. Our Sun is an extremely large ball of bubbling hot gas, mostly hydrogen gas. The above picture of our Sun was taken last month in a specific red color of light emitted by hydrogen gas called Hydrogen-alpha and then color inverted to appear blue. In this light, details of the Sun's chromosphere are particularly visible, highlighting numerous thin tubes of magnetically-confined hot gas known as spicules rising from the Sun like bristles from a shag carpet. Our Sun glows because it is hot, but it is not on fire. Fire is the rapid acquisition of oxygen, and there is very little oxygen on the Sun. The energy source of our Sun is the nuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium deep within its core. No sunspots or large active regions were visible on the Sun this day, although some solar prominences are visible around the edges.
SpaceWeather.com | High-latitude geomagnetic storm - Oct. 31st CME should arrive on Nov. 5th
GLANCING BLOW: Arctic sky watchers should be alert for Northern Lights on Nov. 5th. NOAA forecasters say there is a chance that a coronal mass ejection (CME) will hit Earth's magnetic field, and the impact could spark a high-latitude geomagnetic storm. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory recorded this movie of the CME:
The billon-ton cloud was blown into space by departing sunspot 1029 on Oct. 31st. Normally, CMEs take only two or three days to reach Earth, but during the deep solar minimum of 2008-2009, the clouds have slowed to a veritable crawl (~350 km/s, down from 700 to 1000 km/s). Crossing the sun-Earth divide now requires about five days, so an Oct. 31st CME should arrive on Nov. 5th. Because the blast was not squarely Earth-directed, the sluggish CME will deliver at most a glancing blow. NOAA forecasters estimate a 5% chance of strong geomagnetic storms around Earth's poles.
Our planet's protective Magnetosphere hasn't been looking real protective today
Real-time Magnetosphere Simulation from JAPAN (Not OUR government)
http://www2.nict.go.jp/y/y223/simulation/realtime/index.html
TOP 10 WEIRDEST CIA PROGRAMS
CHECK OUT HOW TAXPAYER'S MONEY HAS BEEN USED ON THE LINK BELOW
http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-weirdest-cia-programs.php
10. Acoustic Kitty
Most people wouldn’t think of the common house cat as being a potential master of espionage, but the CIA sure did. In the 1960s, American intelligence is said to have spent over $20 million on “Acoustic Kitty,” a top-secret project that used cats as recording devices. The project took a group of specially trained cats and surgically implanted microphones, antennae and batteries into their tails, and then set them loose near the Russian embassy. The idea was that an unassuming cat would be able to stride right up to groups of communist officials and listen in on their conversation, which it could then beam back to agents with its sophisticated radio equipment. The plan was eventually put into action, but the first cat sent into the field was supposedly run over by a taxi before it could make a recording, and operation ‘Acoustic Kitty” was abandoned shortly thereafter.
Man Shows Up -- at His Own Funeral!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33622390/ns/world_news-weird_news/?gt1=43001=
Bricklayer shows up at his own funeral in Brazil
59-year-old shocks mourners who believed they were burying crash victim
RIO DE JANEIRO - A Brazilian bricklayer reportedly killed in a car crash shocked his mourning family by showing up alive at his funeral.
Relatives of Ademir Jorge Goncalves, 59, had identified him as the victim of a Sunday night car crash in Parana state in southern Brazil, police said.
As is customary in Brazil, the funeral was held the following day, which happened to be the holiday of Finados, when Brazilians visit cemeteries to honor the dead.
What family members didn't know was that Goncalves had spent the night at a truck stop talking with friends over drinks of a sugarcane liquor known as cachaca, his niece Rosa Sampaio told the O Globo newspaper. He did not get word about his own funeral until it was already happening Monday morning.
A police spokesman in the town of Santo Antonio da Platina said Goncalves rushed to the funeral to let family members know he was not dead.
"The corpse was badly disfigured, but dressed in similar clothing," said the police spokesman, who talked on condition of anonymity as he wasn't authorized to discuss the case. "People are afraid to look for very long when they identify bodies, and I think that is what happened in this case."
'I had doubts'
Sampaio told O Globo that some family members were not sure the body was Goncalves.
"My two uncles and I had doubts about the identification," she told O Globo. "But an aunt and four of his friends identified the body, so what were we to do? We went ahead with the funeral."
NewsWithViews.com - Pastor Chuck Baldwin | Another State Introduces Firearms Freedom Act
CANADIANS GET TO BOW TO THEIR VISITORS
When will humans stop bowing to other humans??
DailyMail.co.uk | Open fire! Duchess of Cornwall looks less than impressed with her Canadian naval artillery experience
November 5, 2009 - The Duchess of Cornwall had a crash course in sea warfare today... and looked less than impressed with the experience.
As part of their official visit to Canada, Prince Charles and Camilla has the chance to fire the gun on the HMCS Haida.
But the Duchess dissolved into giggles as she tried to protect herself from the ear-splitting sound.
In an unsuccessful attempt at multi-tasking the Duchess tried to cover her ears and flinch away from the sound while pulling the trigger of the destroyer's gun.....
5 THINGS NEVER TO SAY TO INSURANCE AGENTS
Some words are red flags to insurers and using them could mean that your claim might be delayed or even denied.
1. "I Think ..."
Never begin a statement regarding a claim with these words. If you aren't sure, don't guess. What you say could cause your claim to be delayed or denied, says attorney Vedica Puri. And if you're wrong -- say, you report driving at 30 miles per hour before an accident but police later prove you were going 50 -- it could hurt your credibility.
Particularly beware of speculating on blame or causation. For example, if you suggest that a water leak is due to a construction defect, you could give the insurer an out if that's a policy exclusion.
Stick to the facts. Should the insurance rep ask you a question you can't answer, simply say, "I don't know." If the person is taking a written or recorded statement, ask for a transcript to review for misstatements.
2. "I Got Whiplash"
Fraud costs auto insurers up to $6.8 billion a year, reports the Insurance Research Council. And suing for damages caused by whiplash is a fraudster favorite ("Oh, my neck!"). Merely mentioning the term is likely to get your claim flagged for further investigation, says Amy Danise of Insure.com.
Whiplash is a specific diagnosis. If a doctor says that you have it, then you should report it as such. Other wise, if you feel neck pain, just refer to it that way.
3. "It's an Experimental Treatment"
Truly experimental or investigational medical procedures are typically not eligible for health insurance coverage. So if a doctor tells you he wants to experiment with a treatment, don't represent it using those words. "In medical terms it may not actually be experimental or investigational," explains Danise. "If it's proven effective, your doctor deems it medically necessary, and it's not an exclusion, it should be covered." Verify with your doctor that it meets the above litmus tests before going to the insurer.
4. "My Basement Flooded"
With homeowners insurance, "flood" is a red flag. "The word refers to an act of weather or an overflow from a nearby body of water," says Danise. "And a standard homeowners policy doesn't cover it. You'd need flood insurance."
So don't use the f-word if your basement is knee-deep in water because of a burst pipe. Damages from such an incident should be covered by a homeowners policy. But calling it a "flood" could muddy the waters, so to speak.
5. "Just Send Me a Check"
When filing a home or auto claim, don't emphasize that you're just looking for the cash.
"If you were to say, 'I don't care about the roof leak, I just need the money,' that admission could slow things to a halt," says Puri. Technically, you're supposed to use the payout to make the repair for which you filed. While it's true that most insurance companies aren't going to check up on you, you'll certainly raise the fraud unit's suspicions if you imply that you won't. And then you might lose out on the money altogether.
Who's taken my fur coat? Vets baffled by bald bears with mystery condition
You'd have thought a fur coat would have been the ultimate bear necessity.
But not for the unfortunate Dolores who has lost all her body hair and has just been left with a few tufts around her head.
Vets have been left baffled by the condition of the bespectacled bear, who lives at a zoo in Leipzig.
Bare-faced: Dolores has a condition which means she has gone totally bald
And Dolores isn't the only one. The sudden hair loss has affected all female bears at the zoo.
Some experts believe it could be due to a genetic defect though the animals do not seem to be suffering from any other affliction.
The bears, which originate from South America, normally have fluffy dark brown fur and would now be growing a thicker fur coat to keep warm during the winter.
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