Surveys show about 75 percent of Americans decorate during the holidays, a Lincoln Electric System energy services representative said in a release. I spend that money on bird seed instead!
Deciding to create my 'pond beach' last summer was a good idea. The pump that brings water up to that 'beach' is running and keeping a nice open area in my pond for the outside guys. Haven't needed to turn on my horse trough heater - and after this current cold and snow test - don't think I will be using it this year with how good my pump system is working.
Eventually will get my Saturday News Update out ... been doing everything else ... (even tried a new bread recipe) been intentionally avoiding focusing much energy upon what's going on beyond by vision via the Internet. One can only stand reading about humans going amuck in small doses - why government/corporate media is successful in entrapping Americans with their entertaining diversions.
I've been a single woman for many, many years and as I teach young women - you walk out the front door of your home and stop and become aware of all that is in your environment. You don't just go running out your door mindlessly. You literally stop, look around and gain awareness of what's in your environment (sights, sounds, etc). Grounding yourself in the environment you are entering. Too often people just leave their house, get in their car and drive off with all kinds of unrelated thoughts looping around in their minds.
Why I watch cars backing out - some people throw their car in reverse and just go - not even looking in rear view mirrors. Christmas season always makes drivers more distracted.
Staying in the 'now' is not just some 'new age talk'. I may chuckle about some of the crimes that come to my email because I signed up for the crime alert for the surrounding neighborhood. However, crimes are increasing and this economy will only intensive the crimes committed. Awareness of your environment is also being aware of what is affecting your community, state, nation, etc.
I generally attempt to retain a sense of humor and reading current events in these times makes humor sometimes difficult. However, I read current events because what is going on in Washington DC or globally now pose real potential threats in my own personal environment.
For the past year+ I've been aware of what is happening to the US dollar and each month it is going down the tubes even more. I am not going to be one of the muckers when Americans wake up one of these mornings and find out the dollar has been devalued - 3$ for 1$ as what is being talked about right now. Why the police state usa section - thousands of troops on ground in the US focusing upon the American populous - speaks a loud message that they are preparing for what they know is going to come down ... and it's not that long off.
Saturday morning (7:30am) - listening to my 'plant show' on Genesis ... the only hard thing is that it's about 12 degrees outside and listening to him always makes me want to go outside and get busy doing something!
Really appreciate Internet Radio stations - you get such a large choice of subject areas and you have access to archives ... so, you can listen to whatever you want at your own time convenience.
Continue to have absolute NO DESIRE to have a television in my home. I always have said that most American homes have the TV as a type of altar center ... all chairs facing that altar and a magnet pulling focus of all a person's energy and attention.
'They' say that our time and energy are our greatest gifts ... giving my entire focus for hours upon end to a blasted television set sounds just like the agenda you can read that was written a couple decades ago by those called the PowersThatBe - the elitists architects of the financial take-down of our nation and global governance ... and the economic 'pump and dump' currently taking place right now by globalists.
Every week, Mort White shares his love affair with mother nature and over 1.5 million listeners. The Magic Garden is a mix of well hewn garden wisdom, whimsical humor and theater.
On air since 1981, Mort's naturalness comes through loud and clear. With a quick pun, he can turn a listeners driest question into a springboard for a zany reply. Asked once the wisdom of killing slugs with beer, Mort's response was simple and direct: "It only works with the alcoholic slugs."
A member of the pioneers in broadcasting and the Garden Writers of America, Mort White continues to write a nationally syndicated column, ads for key sponsors and makes regular appearances around the country for various organizations. Mort also has produced television programs of gardens throughout North America.
He has been a consultant to major horticultural companies, but his true love is the connection he makes with his audience on The Magic Garden Show:
Prairieland on a roll in milk production
The "all natural" promotion of the product means the cows get no hormone injections to boost their milk production and no antibiotics in their feed.
HALLAM, NEBRASKA - Dec 12, 2009 - The management at Prairieland Dairy feeds its 1,500 cows distillers' grain from the Adams ethanol plant, leftover cereal mix from US Foods in Lincoln and something called "spent brewers grain" from the microbrewery operation at Lazlo's Brewery and Grill.
They make compost for springtime gardeners and all-natural eggnog for Christmas. They use odorless, tasteless seaweed as the binding agent in their chocolate milk. The cows move back and forth through a tunnel under the road.
And if seemingly endless innovation goes according to plan, Prairieland is on its way to selling every drop of the 12,000 gallons of milk it produces a day near Firth into the Lincoln market.
"Right now we're focused on Lincoln," said marketing director Terry Landes. "And if we could be Lincoln's hometown dairy, we'd be fine."
In their first year of processing and direct marketing, sales already have reached 6,000 gallons a week.
"We go in every day with the attitude it's going to happen," Landes said of the longer-term goal.
This isn't the first time the dairy plant 14 miles away at Hallam has been a launching pad for big dreams.
In 2006, smaller dairy farmers and business partners Rex DeFrain of Fairbury and Jerry Bond of Avoca carved out some space in the dairy section in Lincoln stores from the same processing point, using glass bottles for eye appeal and flavors as exotic as root beer.
It all came apart in 2008, largely because of their inability to find other farmers willing to break ranks with the Dairy Farmers of America cooperative and sell milk to their Legacy Dairy to keep up with demand.
Prairieland, formed earlier from dairy farms at Firth, Beatrice and Falls City, acquired the plant from the bank a year ago.
"All the milk comes from our farm," Landes said. "That's our approach."
Rather than trying to pry producers out of the DFA hierarchy, they remain in the DFA supply line themselves and buy back part of their own milk for the Hallam plant.
"It's a bit of an insurance policy," Landes said of the continuing DFA association.
But so far, there's nothing to suggest that the boom phase at Prairieland is about to go bust.
"The last three months, we've doubled every month," Landes said.
The product selection, all sold under the Prairieland label, is built around white and chocolate milk, cream and half-and-half. And the stores on the delivery list include such familiar names as Russ's, Hy-Vee and Ideal.
The "all natural" promotion of the product means the cows get no hormone injections to boost their milk production and no antibiotics in their feed.
The local origin of the milk supply is also a big selling point.
A Prairieland brochure features a woman in 1950-style attire working on her milk mustache and seemingly pondering the question printed just above her: "Do you know where your milk comes from?"
For all their innovative zeal, Prairieland partners would like to take their customers back to the days when the answer to that question was a lot clearer.
The idea of local food is no longer just a fad, Landes said. "We're beyond the fad standard. It's a fad like the Internet is a fad."
http://www.journalstar.com/business/local/article_e7880564-e6be-11de-98a7-001cc4c03286.html
WONDER IF THESE PIGEONS HAVE LINKED UP TO MY TWO 7-YEAR OLD DOVES THAT ESCAPED THIS SUMMER??
Miss my guys - but at least since this summer they have had a chance to adapt to the changing temps ... still watching for mine!
Lincoln, Ne police investigate missing pigeons
Thirty pigeons are missing, and Lincoln Police say they either were stolen or flew the coop.
Teen Racks Up $21K Cell Phone Bill - News Story - KTVU San Francisco
"I was completely caught off guard," said Estarija. "This is outrageous. It seems like it comes to almost $100 a minute."
Estarija said he asked Verizon to restrict his son's usage to phone calls and texts, but the bill shows his son downloaded about a million and a half kilobytes of data with his phone while racking up the massive charges.
"This is not completely his fault," said Estarija. "I put more blame on Verizon than anybody. They shouldn't allow this to happen."
Corn harvest, crop insurance deadline crisscross
The snow that blanketed much of Nebraska this week came with an estimated $630 million worth of corn still in the field, according to the Nebraska Corn Board.
Nelson said Wednesday during a telephone news conference that Omaha had been restored to the list of cities that can receive a share of the $2.7 billion in grants the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will hand out.
Nelson says Omaha deserves to receive the security grants because it is strategically important to the nation with its communications network and other assets.
Nelson did not say what the grant money will be used for in Omaha.
http://www.1011now.com/political/headlines/78878077.html
http://www.1011now.com/political/headlines/78824177.html
Thousands of employees may not get paid - They work for Southern Illinois University (SIU)
The problem started in October, when the state fell behind on its payments to SIU. University leaders say they can't make anymore cuts and need $16 million in back payments with in a weeks time or they won't meet payroll at the end of Dec. This next week will determine if SIU will continue to operate smoothly or face very real and difficult cuts that will affect not only the employees, but the economy in the region ....
READ MORE:
http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/local/79012672.html
Cause of Norfolk, NE propane pipe fire still unknown
The relief was evident at the Norfolk Fire Division on Thursday afternoon.
Especially from Norfolk Fire Chief Shane Weidner and other firefighters who were getting out of their gear from five hours spent battling a propane fire near the former Protient plant.
“They’re all extremely brave,” Weidner said of his 16-person crew that attacked a propane fire near the former Protient plant Thursday morning. “I’m very, very proud of them. They’ve done a fantastic job.”
Weidner said Thursday’s propane fire was the most significant of his career and had the potential to be extremely dangerous. The Nebraska State Fire Marshal’s Office will do some more testing Friday to determine the cause of the fire. No official cause has yet been released.
“It could’ve caused a lot of destruction. It could’ve leveled homes,” Weidner said. “I couldn’t tell you exactly what it could’ve done — just that it was extremely dangerous.”
http://norfolkdailynews.com/main.asp?SectionID=3&SubSectionID=104&ArticleID=20387
America's Partners Are Now Treating Us Like A Third-World Country
Two recent stories regarding America and its global partners jump out to us:
- In Germany they're freaking out because all the good manufacturing jobs are coming to America -- courtesy of our super-weak dollar.
- And in China, they're slapping tarrifs on our steel, accusing us of dumping.
That's right.
The rest of the world now views us the way we, for decades, viewed the rest of the world. We complained about them getting our good manufacturing jobs, and dumping cheap-ass steel onto our shores, undercutting ours.
The world's so-called reserve currency has weakened to the point that we're regarded as a pesky third-world country, undermining developed mature economies.
Keep an eye out for this.
Shippers Brace for New Tax on Fuel
Wall Street JournalBRUSSELS -- Shipping companies, already crimped by a global trade slump, fear that the Copenhagen climate summit will deliver another hit: a tax on bunker fuel, the thick, sulfuric low-grade oil that powers ships.
In anticipation of a levy, the industry has developed a flurry of new technologies ranging from a giant kite that functions as a sail to aerodynamic paint, and are making simpler adjustments such as sailing more slowly ...
BANK CLOSING FRIDAY
FDIC Bank Closing Information
Bank Closing Information - December 11, 2009
- SolutionsBank, Overland Park, KS
- Valley Capital Bank, NA, Mesa, AZ
- Republic Federal Bank, NA, Miami, FL
PREPAREDNESS
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HiramCook YouTube Channel | Tea Light Stove - Vertical Wick - Boil Test 1 & 2
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Title: Tea Light Stove - Vertical Wick - Boil Test 1
Room temp: 51°
Humidity: 41%
Weather condition: Cloudy - Windy
Burner:Tea light cup lined with 1" tall exhaust wrap
Stove/Pot stand:Hardware cloth - 1/2" squares - 4 squares high
Pot: Standard #2 (Boy Scout pot)
Fuel: Denatured Alcohol (Ace)
Amount of fuel: 20 ml
Amount of water: 1 cup(s)
Water temp at start: 60°
Time to boil : 3 minutes 46 seconds
Time to run-out: 6 minutes 55 seconds
Water temp at run-out: NA
NA = Not Applicable
WRONG WAY TO PREPARE!
New crime has been reported in your area:
| Description: | Location: | Agency: | Date: |
|---|---|---|---|
| PR TO CONCEAL ITEMS IN HIS COAT VODKA, RICE | 200 BLOCK OF N 48TH ST | Lincoln PD, NE | 12/10/2009 |
MY CAVE NEWS BLOG HEADLINES THIS SATURDAY MORNING
(RawStory.com) Bankers might be feeling public’s wrath — literally
National Inflation Association (NIA) Declares Silver Best Investment for Next Decade
United Nations Resolution Would Criminalize Christianity (with video)
(CNSNews.com) Inhofe: Some Senators Share Obama's Science & Tech Czar Holdren's View That BORN Babies Are Not ‘Human Beings’
Television remains the single largest source of information in US: study
Fluoride Causes Premature Births, Brain Degradation, Bone Loss, Cancer and Hormone Disruption
Corruption is destroying the soul of US society, warns FBI agent
It's a Climategate Christmas (video)
UPDATED HEADLINES:
(Wall Street Journal) Goldman Fueled AIG Gambles
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. played a bigger role than has been publicly disclosed in fueling the mortgage bets that nearly felled American Insurance Group Inc.
U.S. Approves Spanish Bank’s Purchase of Mellon United
“This acquisition comes at the right time and we also hope to have the chance in the near future to make other acquisitions, in order to take full advantage of the opportunity the U.S. market offers during this period of crisis,” the Spanish banker said.
(Latin Am Herald) South Carolina Will Need Immigrants to Boost Its Political Power
South Carolina, one of the states with the toughest laws against undocumented immigrants, will need its growing Hispanic community to be counted in the 2010 Census to increase its representation in the U.S. Congress.
United Nations Notes Rise in Number of Indians Slain in Columbia - victims of massacres, forced displacement and confinement
Colombian government statistics show that in 2009 the number of Indian murder victims rose 64 percent relative to the previous year.
Strong Reaction Follows Editorial Calling for Global One-child Dictatorship
Paul Joseph Watson | Editorialist Diane Francis advocates brutal regime that kidnaps, drugs women, and carries out forced abortions in China.
CNSNews | Landrieu would leave it up to the “constitutional lawyers” to explain exactly where Congress gets the constitutional authority to force Americans to buy health insurance.
GLOBALIST NEBRASKA:
Farmers Mutual plans new headquarters in downtown Lincoln, Nebraska
Farmers Mutual Insurance Co. of Nebraska wants to build a three-story, 45,000-square-foot building next to its existing headquarters at 1220 Lincoln Mall.
Farmers Mutual is the second insurance company to announce plans for new headquarters.
Assurity Life Insurance Co. started construction earlier this fall on its $53 million, five-story, 175,000-square-foot headquarters near 20th and Q streets. That is expected to be ready for occupancy by late 2011.
Indiana cities pull plug on streetlamps to save money
Merrillville has turned off every other streetlight on its main roads. Valparaiso is turning off every other light in some areas and has set others to turn off at midnight. Muncie officials say the city will shut off 85 percent of overhead lights to help balance the 2010 budget.
The moves are a response to rising costs and shrinking revenue that's the result of the ailing economy and property tax caps.
Muncie Mayor Sharon McShurley says the move could result in more than just darker streets.
"I'm setting you on notice," she told the council. "The decisions you have made, unless you reconsider the budget, are going to be detrimental to the city."
But officials in several cities say the changes are necessary. Merrillville Public Works Director Bruce Spires said the city is more than a year behind on its NIPSCO bills.
The city will turn off 300 streetlights, for a savings of about $2,000 a month.
Read more: http://www.wthr.com/global/story.asp?s=11666470
NORWAY SPIRAL LIGHTS (MORE) NEWS
AFTER I FIRST SAW THIS I IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT OF HAARP. Then seeing all the attention from UFO poeple (which i have NO BONE TO PICK WITH) - and the fact that this thing is now the most viewed thing on Youtube, I have made this video to try and explain that this is the result of ELV WAVES - giga joules of energy being tranmitted and focusseed into the atmosphere.
Why now ? you may ask... Well its uncannt that this happens during COP15 - or have we forgotten about this ? Perhaps a LIVE demionstration for the delegates hmmm?
Well look it up do the research and don't believe some idiot saying its a UFO on a dupetube comment!
The Norwegian Version of this is called EISCAT.
YES its scary - and ? YES it has military applications!!!
There are definaitely links between these things and man made global warming!!!
From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/
EISCAT is an acronym for the European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association. It operates three incoherent scatter radar systems, at 224 MHz, 931 MHz in Northern Scandinavia and one at 500 MHz on Svalbard, used to study the interaction between the Sun and the Earth as revealed by disturbances in the ionosphere and magnetosphere. At the Ramfjordmoen facility (near Tromsø, Norway) it also operates an ionospheric heater facility, similar to HAARP. Additional receiver stations are located in Sodankylä, Finland, and Kiruna, Sweden. The EISCAT Headquarters are also located in Kiruna.
EISCAT is funded and operated by research institutes and research councils of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Japan, China, the United Kingdom and Germany.
Its purpose is to investigate the ionosphere and establish whether some of its properties can be used for communication or surveillance purposes. Started in 1993, the project is proposed to last for a period of twenty years. The system was designed and built by Advanced Power Technologies (APTI) and since 2003, by BAE Advanced Technologies.
Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has promised unions he will not accede to corporate calls to relax rigid labour laws, which business leaders say have helped push unemployment close to 20 percent.
... “They want to buy our water, electricity, vacation time and each new worker that enters this company will only have a salary,” union leader Yuri Chavez said at one of the entrances to the mine.READ MORE:
“All the workers are with their labor leaders waiting for this stubborn management to understand that the benefits we’ve gained after years of struggle can’t be sold for a bit more money,” he added. ...
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=348732&CategoryId=14094
GLOBALIST ELITES MOVING IN TO GRAB THIRD WORLD RESOURCES - MORE NEWS
Norwegian Firm Wins Concession for Peru Hydroelectric Dam
Remember yesterday's pic of our minion Pres kissing up to Norway's piece of the PowersThatBe - part of the Western Puppet Masters overseeing the crap taking place economically globally
Obama half-brother has been named "image ambassador" of his hometown of Shenzhen, China and in Nov briefly met the US Pres
Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo, who had the same, late, father as the U.S. president, was also given a "five-star volunteer" award in a ceremony in Shenzhen on Friday, the official Guangzhou Daily said.
The newspaper added that Ndesandjo held a concert earlier this year to raise money for victims of last year's massive earthquake in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan.
Ndesandjo has kept a low public profile since reports surfaced last year that he was living and working in the southern Chinese manufacturing center of Shenzhen, around an hour's train ride from Hong Kong. He made a rare public appearance earlier in November in the nearby city of Guangzhou to launch a novel he said drew on his painful childhood under an abusive father.
He briefly met the U.S. president in November during Obama's visit to China.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BB0NG20091212?type=politicsNews
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November 19, 2009:
" ... The President took time on the trip to meet his younger half-brother, who lives in China where he works as a piano teacher and runs a business in the southern boomtown of Shenzhen.
Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo seemed overwhelmed by the meeting. He said: “My big brother, you know I think he was on his way to see the President of China. He came directly off the plane, changed some clothes and then came down and saw us. He just gave me a big hug. It was so intense. I’m over the moon. My wife, I think she is still recovering.”
The younger man, who shares the same father with the US President, bought his tickets to fly to Beijing months ago, hoping to reconnect with his brother. The two last met in January when Mr Ndesandjo attended the President’s inauguration as a family guest.
He said that they had a long chat and he took the occasion to introduce Mr Obama to his wife, whom he married a year ago and who is a native of central Henan province ... "
Mr Ndesandjo, who emerged into the spotlight a few weeks ago to promote a novel he has written that draws on his own painful childhood with his abusive father, has lived in China for seven years.
Speaking to CNN, President Obama said that he didn’t know his half-brother very well but he did not feel Mr Ndesandjo was betraying private family details in his book. “It’s no secret that my father was a troubled person,” he said.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6921888.ece
Geminid meteors expected to offer display of shooting stars Sunday
If the predicted cloudy skies don't make an appearance, meteors should be visible away from city lights.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
If you can spare a few moments for stargazing this weekend — and the weather cooperates — Sunday night will probably be your lucky night. That's when the year's brightest meteor shower is expected to show off.
The Geminids, so called because they appear to emanate from the Gemini constellation, are the most visible and dependable of about four or five major meteor showers each year, said Rebecca Johnson, editor of StarDate magazine, an astronomy magazine published by the University of Texas' McDonald Observatory.
Meteor showers are created when Earth passes through the debris of comets, Johnson said.
"The debris hits our atmosphere like a space rock," she said. The speed and heat of the meteors cause them to burn up, producing a good show of shooting stars under a dark sky.
"Meteor showers are notoriously hard to predict, and sometimes you don't expect anything good, but the Geminids are the most reliable," she said. The Geminid meteor shower is one of four or five major meteor showers each year among hundreds of minor showers that are usually less visible, Johnson said.
Astronomers predict that there could be more than 100 meteors per hour well past the peak of the Geminid shower, which in Central Texas will take place about 11 p.m. Sunday and last into early dawn on Monday. Johnson said that moonlight sometimes overpowers the streaking lights produced during meteor showers, but Sunday night, a tiny waxing crescent moon is expected to leave the skies dark enough to provide a good backdrop for the Geminids.
Clouds could interfere with the show, however. The National Weather Service predicts a 20 percent chance of rain with temperatures in the 50s and mostly cloudy skies for Sunday night.
If the skies are clear enough, Johnson said, the best viewing space for meteors would be away from city lights, at state or city parks or in other safe, dark sites.
"Lie on a blanket or reclining lawn chair for the best view," she said. "That makes it easier not to get a cramp in your neck.
In this weather, you should also plan on having lots of layers and something warm to drink."
OUR PLANET'S PROTECTIVE MAGNETOSPHERE UPDATE:
About Real-Time Magnetosphere Simulation
http://www2.nict.go.jp/y/y223/simulation/realtime/home.html
DECEMBER 12, 2009 AT 6:30 PM CDT - LOOKS LIKE A REVERSAL RIGHT NOW!
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Click to view Animated Magnetosphere on YouTube: December 11, 2009
MOON UPDATE
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http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/sunspots/
Magnetic fields trigger solar wind
There remains a chance for B-Class flares.
Sunspot region 1034 emerged 2 days before a heliocentric conjunction of Jupiter and Mercury. The planets producing the strongest tidal effect on the solar surface are also the strongest in forming new regions when in synergies with the Sun. (science forum)
EARTHQUAKE NEWS
Earthquakes hit Oklahoma and Colorado - Saturday December 12, 2009 at their epicenters
| MAP | 3.1 | 2009/12/12 11:34:06 | 35.537 | -97.338 | 5.0 | OKLAHOMA |
December 12, 2009 Oklahoma Earthquake Details
| Magnitude | 3.1 |
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| Location | 35.537°N, 97.338°W |
| Depth | 5 km (3.1 miles) set by location program |
| Region | OKLAHOMA |
| Distances |
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| MAP | 3.0 | 2009/12/11 20:32:27 | 37.006 | -105.219 | 5.0 | COLORADO |
Dec 11, 2009 Colorado Earthquake Details
| Magnitude | 3.0 |
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| Location | 37.006°N, 105.219°W |
| Depth | 5 km (3.1 miles) set by location program |
| Region | COLORADO |
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Update time = Sat Dec 12 22:46:04 UTC 2009
| MAG | UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s | LAT deg | LON deg | DEPTH km | Region | |
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| MAP | 4.8 | 2009/12/12 21:37:44 | 27.959 | 53.450 | 35.0 | SOUTHERN IRAN *** |
| MAP | 4.7 | 2009/12/12 20:39:36 | -21.494 | -176.980 | 319.1 | FIJI REGION |
| MAP | 5.5 | 2009/12/12 18:38:44 | 48.817 | 156.160 | 2.7 | EAST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS |
| MAP | 5.1 | 2009/12/12 17:05:27 | 19.482 | -104.782 | 75.1 | JALISCO, MEXICO |
| MAP | 2.5 | 2009/12/12 16:49:05 | 63.348 | -152.146 | 5.3 | CENTRAL ALASKA |
| MAP | 2.7 | 2009/12/12 16:24:59 | 38.819 | -122.805 | 2.4 | NORTHERN CALIFORNIA |
| MAP | 5.0 | 2009/12/12 16:22:12 | 28.412 | 66.605 | 41.5 | PAKISTAN *** |
| MAP | 5.0 | 2009/12/12 13:50:32 | 28.197 | 129.443 | 10.0 | RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN |
| MAP | 5.1 | 2009/12/12 11:51:26 | 17.127 | 73.832 | 10.0 | MAHARASHTRA, INDIA |
| MAP | 3.1 | 2009/12/12 11:34:06 | 35.537 | -97.338 | 5.0 | OKLAHOMA |
| MAP | 2.7 | 2009/12/12 11:25:35 | 58.386 | -155.505 | 110.6 | ALASKA PENINSULA |
| MAP | 4.7 | 2009/12/12 11:00:27 | 3.179 | -103.799 | 10.0 | GALAPAGOS TRIPLE JUNCTION REGION |
| MAP | 5.1 | 2009/12/12 09:08:06 | -16.173 | -173.448 | 10.0 | TONGA |
| MAP | 4.5 | 2009/12/12 06:18:13 | 2.734 | 95.870 | 10.0 | SIMEULUE, INDONESIA |
| MAP | 2.8 | 2009/12/12 03:52:48 | 64.071 | -148.958 | 10.6 | CENTRAL ALASKA |
| MAP | 5.4 | 2009/12/12 02:27:04 | -9.963 | 33.877 | 10.0 | MALAWI |
| MAP | 5.0 | 2009/12/12 02:16:52 | 53.058 | 157.960 | 126.8 | KAMCHATKA PENINSULA, RUSSIA |
| MAP | 4.7 | 2009/12/12 01:50:49 | 5.560 | 126.745 | 66.9 | MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES |
| MAP | 4.4 | 2009/12/12 01:20:38 | 12.614 | -88.948 | 83.8 | OFFSHORE EL SALVADOR |
| MAP | 4.7 | 2009/12/12 01:00:53 | -0.390 | 132.362 | 35.0 | NEAR THE NORTH COAST OF PAPUA, INDONESIA |
*** Looks like our HAARP might be working on Saturday!
VOLCANISM NEWS
December 12, 2009
LEGAZPI CITY—Mayon Volcano shook at least 29 times on Thursday, its highest recorded seismic activity this week and indicating it remained active, scientists said Friday.
Volcanologists were continuing to monitor the mountain for quakes and gas emissions in case it was ready to erupt, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said.
The agency said seismic instruments had been detecting low- and high-frequency harmonic quakes, indicating magma was forming and climbing up the volcano’s vent.
Instruments had recorded 44 earthquakes that have rocked the volcano since Dec. 1, resident volcanologist Ed Laguerta said.
He said the volcano continued to disgorge sulfur dioxide, and that it had spat out 710 tons of the gas in the past 24 hours. The volcano had been spitting out 592 tons and up to 1,303 tons of sulfur dioxide in the past three days, Laguerta said.
Alert level 2 remains hoisted over Mayon volcano, meaning the six-kilometer permanent danger zone and the seven-kilometer extended danger zone are off limits to human activity.
http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideNews.htm?f=2009/december/12/news6.isx&d=/2009/december/12
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Mayon Volcano, also known as Mount Mayon, is an active stratovolcano in the province of Albay, in the Bicol Region, on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines.
Renowned as the "Perfect Cone" because of its almost perfectly conical shape, Mayon is situated 15 kilometres northwest of Legazpi City.
CLIMATE IS ACTING WEIRD - NEWS
National Severe Weather Map
Surface Temperature Forecast Map
SEATTLE - IS STILL GETTING CLOBBERED - NEWS
Snow, freezing rain headed for the Northwest
A frozen fountain outside Seattle's Sorrento Hotel.
SEATTLE - Temperatures have been freezing the past week in Washington, and now we could see some snow over the weekend.
Shipping alert over massive iceberg - Dislodged from Antarctica about a decade ago before drifting north and twice the size of Hong Kong
The iceberg has been floating around Antarctica since shearing off the icy continent but had lately begun heading north because of ocean currents and weather conditions.
Australian authorities have issued a shipping alert over a gigantic iceberg almost twice the size of Hong Kong island that is gradually approaching the country’s southwest coast.
The Bureau of Meteorology said the once-in-a-century cliff of ice, which dislodged from Antarctica about a decade ago before drifting north, was being monitored.
“Mariners are advised that at 1200 GMT on December 9, an iceberg 1,700km south-southwest of the West Australian coast was observed,” it said.
“The iceberg is 140sq km in area – 19km long by 8km.”
Experts believe the iceberg - known as B17B - is likely to break up as it enters warmer waters nearer Australia.
Its discovery comes after two other large icebergs were spotted further east, off Australia’s Macquarie Island, followed by more than 100 smaller chunks heading towards New Zealand
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=331389&version=1&template_id=39&parent_id=21
ClimateGate: Global warming looking more like a hoax
NewsChief | The energy cap-and-trade bill could cost us more than $100 trillion.
Scientists worry about climate change enforcement
USA Today | Greenhouse gas emissions are difficult to measure and highly susceptible to manipulation by government officials and companies.
Organized Crime in Charge of EU Carbon Trade, Europol Says
EUXTV | Europe’s top police body Europol has exposed a massive fraud with the official market in carbon credits, the Emission Trading System.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091212/...limate_e_mails
AP IMPACT: Science not faked, but not pretty
BY SETH BORENSTEIN, RAPHAEL SATTER and MALCOLM RITTER, Associated Press Writers Seth Borenstein, Raphael Satter And Malcolm Ritter, Associated Press Writers – 2 hrs 38 mins ago
LONDON – E-mails stolen from climate scientists show they stonewalled skeptics and discussed hiding data — but the messages don't support claims that the science of global warming was faked, according to an exhaustive review by The Associated Press.
I didn't need to read past this line;
to know the story was going to be government-corporate cap and trade spin!!
WAR: ONE OF THE BUSINESSES OF THE
BANKING-MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Unemployment Insurance in a War Bill
Anti-Afghan War Escalation Rally to Reach for a World That Ought to Be
OpEdNews - - Dec 11, 2009
President Barack Obama looks over his Nobel Peace Prize during a ceremony in the Main Hall of Oslo City Hall in Oslo, Norway,
POLICE STATE USA
Drones, Cowboys and the Right to Surrender
Joni Dahlstrom | It is only a matter of time before the drone is used against us.
Is Obama Really Preparing For Civil War?
Chuck Baldwin | Do Wall Street and Russian analysts know something that we don’t know?
Obama bags Peace Prize while his lawyers are ‘gutting’ Nuremberg
Raw Story | Department of Justice attempting to block lawsuit brought against torture author John Yoo by Jose Padilla.
My Note: If our country can torture 'terrorists' - remember that those with Bibles or copies of the constitution are now defined also as potential 'terrorists' by Homeland Security
FROM A FORUM:
Oklahoma law passed, 37 to 9, had a few liberals in the mix, an amendment to place the Ten Commandments on the front entrance to the state capitol. The feds in D.C., along with the ACLU, said it would be a mistake. Hey this is a conservative state, based on Christian values...!HB 1330
Oklahoma recently passed a law in the state to incarcerate all illegal immigrants, and ship them back to where they came from unless they want to get a green card and become an American citizen. They all scattered.HB 1804. Hope we didn't send any of them to your state. This was against the advice of the Federal Government, and the ACLU, they said it would be a mistake.
Recently we passed a law to include DNA samples from any and all illegals to the Oklahoma database, for criminal investigative purposes. Pelosi said it was unconstitutional.SB 1102
Several weeks ago, we passed a law, declaring Oklahoma as a Sovereign state, not under the Federal Government directives. Joining Texas , Montana and Utah as the only states to do so. More states are likely to follow: Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, the Carolina's, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, West Virginia, Mississippi, Florida. Save your confederate money, it appears the South is about to rise up once again. HJR 1003
The federal Government has made bold steps to take away our gXXs. Oklahoma, a week ago, passed a law confirming people in this state have the right to bear arms and transport them in their vehicles. I'm sure that was a set back for the criminals (and Obamaites). Liberals didn't like it-- But ...
Just this month, my state has voted and passed a law that ALL driver's license exams will be printed in English, and only English, and no other language. We have been called racist for doing this, but the fact is that ALL of our road signs are in English only. If you want to drive in Oklahoma , you must read and write English. Really simple.
Guess what....who cares... Oklahoma is doing it anyway.
http://newsok.com/oklahoma-state-capitol-to-display-ten-commandments/article/3370730
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-01-09-immigcover_N.htm
OKLAHOMA MAY JUST BE THE PLACE TO LIVE!
Macroeconomic Equalibria, Globalist Agenda, and You
by C.J. Graham
Ne. Senator Nelson offers war bonds bill
Omaha World-Herald | In an attempt to help avoid sharp tax increases or increase foreign borrowing, Sen. Ben Nelson on Tuesday introduced the U.S. War Bonds Act of 2009.
The legislation would authorize the Treasury to issue and market war bonds to the American people to help finance the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
“I believe that we need shared sacrifice and fiscal discipline in financing the war effort,” said Nelson, D-Neb. “I don’t believe our first instinct should always be a rush to tax. The government has gone to great lengths to address the economic downturn, and adding new taxes right now could undermine those efforts.
“War bonds allow us to borrow from ourselves, rather than other countries.”
TENT CITY NEWS
'Obamaville' sign posted near Colorado Springs homeless camp
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- Someone has put a lot of thought into a welcome sign that may surprise you, it's in front of a homeless camp off I-25 in Colorado Springs.
Its message, "Welcome to Obamaville, Colorado's fastest growing community." Despite repeated calls no one could answer the question, who put up the sign?
To some homeless the sign's message says enough. Mark Limonez, a homeless man living in "tent city", says the sign doesn't make him feel good about trying to get back on his feet. "Guys are trying to work but there's not enough work out there, so they go pan handling or flag a sign" Limonez says, "I've never seen so many camps since I've been out in the streets - there's no money."
There are no logos on the front of the sign and no clues to where it comes from.
Manatees dying at a record pace
Brevard has more habitat; therefore, more manatees tend to live and die here than in any other Florida county.
But biologists are worried about the high numbers that keep dying young. Along the Space Coast, almost half died within a year of birth.
Statewide, 413 sea cows have died this year, putting the species on pace to break the previous record of 417 deaths, set in 2006.
"It's virtually certain that's going to happen," said Pat Rose, executive director of Save the Manatee Club, an advocacy group based in Maitland. "I would love it if that did not happen."
Brevard's total surpassed the previous county record of 87 manatee deaths, also set in 2006, by 20 percent.
Thirteen died here because of cold snaps.
Boats killed six manatees, only 5 percent of the county's overall death toll, and 91 manatees statewide, or 22 percent.
But "perinatal" deaths topped the causes with 48 in Brevard, or 45 percent, and 114 statewide, about 28 percent.
Florida defines perinatal deaths as those that happen before the manatee grows to be 5 feet long -- typically, within a year of birth. The category can include deaths caused by complications with birth and disease.
Boaters against go-slow manatee zones attribute this year's high death toll to a growing manatee population. The record deaths came in the same year the state counted a record 3,802 manatees statewide. The boaters say slow zones do little to protect a species they see thriving.
Manatee conservationists chalk up the statewide deaths from boat strikes and record overall deaths as proof that the species is in peril.
Rose acknowledges that the record perinatal deaths in Brevard may be evidence of robust manatee numbers here.
"But it can't really explain the magnitude of that," he said. "I think it's a really bad year. You don't get these kind of spikes in perinatal deaths without something bad happening."
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But state biologists don't know what that is. They, like Rose, say the high statewide perinatal deaths can't be explained by population growth alone.
The 101 perinatal deaths last year, however, represented an even higher portion of the overall deaths, almost 30 percent. A total of 337 manatees died statewide in 2008.
This year, the biggest portion of deaths deemed perinatal was in animals too decomposed to tell what killed them.
"It's really hard to say something really statistical about those perinatal deaths because they are really based on the size of the manatee, so it has a big mix of causes," said Martine DeWit, associate research scientist at the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg.
This year's perinatal deaths in Brevard nearly tripled the previous 20-year average of about 17.
DeWit suspects that the increase may signify more manatees being born this year. But she stops short of declaring a "recovery."
"I wouldn't call it the species recovering. It could be that the population numbers are growing," she said. "That doesn't mean the population is recovering because there are so many threats to manatees."
Those include red tide, declining warm water springs and seagrass disappearance.
"The overall numbers are relatively high this year. And nothing is really jumping out. We didn't have a big red tide die-off this year," DeWit said. "But what was really obvious this year is that we had really strange cold weather peaks."
The state attributes 54 manatee deaths, about 13 percent, to cold stress in 2009, including 13 deaths in Brevard. That was the second highest on record in the county. The highest was 28 cold stress deaths in 1990.
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20091212/NEWS01/912120314/1006/Manatees+dying+at+a+record+pace
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UFO seen by entire Chinese city, photo
On Friday at around 7pm a glowing spherical UFO descended, apparently, from space and hovered just above the Chinese city of Guangzhou. It circled the city for about twenty minutes before disappearing, as reported by China's largest private media agency, Sina.com.
The UFO was seen by thousands of residents who jammed newspaper lines with reports. Numerous residents managed to get photos of the UFO (one such image seen above)
Most residents insisted that what they saw was not a blimp, as already suggested by some. A few interviewed noted that the UFO was too bright and fast for a blimp. Others claimed it had a 'delicate' and 'unworldly quality'.
One witness claimed to have vaguely made out English letters on the craft but he could not say what they said.
Undoubtedly this sighting will be thoroughly investigated by China's leading UFO researchers.
http://www.allnewsweb.com/page9899892.php
SANTA CLAUS NEWS
People dressed as Santa Claus participate in a race through a Lima downtown pedestrian street
December 11, 2009.
(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
Swinging Santas
Snowed in
Snowy egret
Talk at you all later - have a good Saturday night!
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