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- John Adams - Second President (1797 - 1801)

Friday, November 6, 2009

Early Morning News Update | November 6, 2009

Good Morning! Time for me right now is about 5am - and looking forward to the 70+ degree temperatures coming today.

November 6th in history:

NATIONAL SEVERE WEATHER MAP




TENT CITY NEWS

St Louis Today | St. Louis Park Rangers and a bright orange city garbage truck destroyed a makeshift homeless camp - EVERYTHING those people owned

11.05.2009 9:00 pm - From the windows of our offices Thursday morning, we watched as St. Louis Park Rangers and a bright orange city garbage truck destroyed a makeshift homeless camp across Dr. Martin Luther King Drive from the Post-Dispatch building. People from our offices and from the St. Patrick Center for the homeless on the other side of the desolate park known as Interco Plaza poured out to intervene.

The city workers would not be stopped. “Just following orders,” one of the rangers told us.

In short order, the handful of tents and cardboard dwellings, as well as everything inside them, including sleeping bags and medicine, was stuffed into the garbage truck and crushed.

The occupants were not — you should pardon the expression — at home. When they returned, everything they owned was gone.

Homelessness is a difficult problem for cities, including St. Louis. The city has made great strides in recent years, but problems remain. But this scene, however atypical, was brutal.

We’d watched the little encampment grow over the past few weeks, knowing that sooner or later the city would intervene. Tent cities are considered an eyesore, even in an eyesore park. Parks have curfews, even parks that look like rubble in Baghdad. There are uncertainties for visitors and campers alike.

There’s supposed to be a protocol for this kind of thing. First comes an order to vacate from Park Rangers. Then comes intervention from the Department of Human Services, which offers to relocate people and tag and store belongings before garbage trucks roll.

It didn’t happen this time.

“There’s no question we screwed up,” said Bill Siedhoff, director of the Department of Human Services. He said his department never got a call. “We will make every effort to contact the individuals who were affected. We blew it and we’re going to do what we can to make it up.”




WHAT ARE THE ODDS?


"The full Moon was shining through Martin's hole--a natural gap in the rock of the Tschingelhorn," explains Ricklin Andreas of Elm, Switzerland, took a picture to prove it

What are the odds? It happens about twice a year. The sun itself shines through the gap on March 12/13 and Oct. 1/2. Likewise, the full (or nearly-full) Moons of March and October are in the right position to peek through the hole, although they don't do it on the same fixed dates as the sun because of complications caused by the Moon's 27.3-day, 5o-tilted orbit.

Andreas happened to be in the right place at the right time. To see the improbable, keep looking up!





USGS | 3.4 magnitude hit TENNESSEE - 4 mi NNW from Dyersburg, TN - Friday, November 06, 2009 at 12:12:39 AM at epicenter

MAP 3.4 2009/11/06 06:12:40 36.088 -89.402 9.7 TENNESSEE

Location36.088°N, 89.402°W
Depth9.7 km (6.0 miles)
RegionTENNESSEE
Distances
  • 6 km (4 miles) NNW (342°) from Dyersburg, TN
  • 12 km (8 miles) WSW (255°) from Newbern, TN
  • 21 km (13 miles) SSE (160°) from Ridgely, TN
  • 120 km (74 miles) NNE (25°) from Memphis, TN
  • 292 km (182 miles) SSE (165°) from St. Louis, MO




Alex Jone's InfoWars.com | This Mornings Headlines - November 6, 2009

Martial Law, Forced Vaccinations May be Unfolding in Ukraine
Kurt Nimmo | Is it possible government reaction to the pandemic in Ukraine is a beta test for mandatory flu vaccination elsewhere?

Senate Panel Clears Climate Bill
Wall Street Journal | A Senate panel cleared Thursday a climate bill that would reshape the U.S. economy.

Is Tony Blair CIA?
Geoff Vasil | Tony Blair has been campaigning to be selected as the new leader of the post-Lisbon Treaty European Union.

Gore Not Interested In Solutions To Climate Change That Don’t Line His Pockets
Paul Joseph Watson Adviser proposed solution to CO2 emissions that would bypass need for carbon trading system that Gore owns, and was promptly told to shove it

Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped with broken bottles’
Daniel Tencer | Murray said he only realized after his stint as ambassador that the CIA was sending people to be tortured in Uzbekistan.

Carbon traders deny sub-prime crisis brewing
Carbon trading involves “financial speculators and complex financial products” and “carries a risk that carbon trading will develop into a speculative commodity bubble”.

The billionaire bailout society
Russia Today | “The president runs the US, but the President is unwilling to toss overboard the fundamental philosophy that the bankers live under.”

Americans on food stamps tops 36 million
Reuters | At the current rate, an estimated one in eight Americans receive benefits.

Olympic protesters are ‘terrorists’
VicNews | People who protest the Winter Olympics are nothing more than “terrorists” with “limited intellect,” Liberal Burquitlam MLA Harry Bloy said in the legislature.

Video Shows Minneapolis Cop Tasering Man With Hands On Car
WCCO | No struggle can be seen before the officer used his Taser.

81-year-old Tasered by Eielson Air Force Base police
Daily News-Miner | Why is the Eielson Air Force Base’s 354th Security Forces Squadron patrolling a civilian highway?

Parents lose right over sex education
Telegraph | Pupils in England will be given classes in sex and relationships from the age of five under Government plans to cut teenage pregnancies.

Washroom Locks You In Unless You Wash Your Hands
Überloo International | Überloo International’s commitment to a reduction in the spread of contagious bacteria and viruses is as solid as the World Health Organization’s advice.

Bikini Clad Miss Earth Contestants Pushing Global Warming Propaganda
James Corbett | The timing of such a photo op must make this propaganda especially welcome to the proponents of the manmade global warming hoax.

Counter-terror plans will be revised to reflect Fort Hood and Afghan attacks
Times Online | Since the Mumbai attacks counter-terrorism planning has seen a major shift.

House Resolution Designates Venezuela a State Sponsor of Terrorism
Stephen Lendman | As long as Bolivarianism flourishes, expect new efforts to vilify, isolate, destabilize, and topple Chavez.

Persistent Rumor: U.S. Helicopters Ferrying Taliban
Ahmad Kawoosh | Persistent accounts of western forces in Afghanistan using their helicopters to ferry Taleban fighters is feeding mistrust of the forces that are supposed to be bringing order to the country.

Pneumonic Plague Now in China
Health Freedom Alliance | Two people have died, a town of 10,000 is under quarantine, and the area within a 17-mile radius around it has been sealed to contain a pneumonic plague outbreak.

WHO Continues To Deceive: Assumes That Ukraine Plague Is H1N1 Swine Flu
Prevent Disease | The World Health Organization (WHO) is continuing to deceive the world by stating sweeping assumptions about the Ukraine pandemic.

Has Baxter Released A BioWeapon In Ukraine?
Health Freedom Alliance | Evidence appears to suggest that Baxter International may be responsible for a new deadly outbreak of viral pneumonia in Ukraine.

ICE: Doctor supplied fake immigrant exams
UPI | U.S. immigration officials say a Los Angeles doctor faked medical exams for immigrants seeking U.S. visas.

The LAPD fights crime, not illegal immigration
Los Angeles Times | Illegal immigration is not crime?

Fewer illegal migrants flown to Mexico
Arizona Republic | The repatriation program, run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, this year averaged a record 293 people a day, but returned fewer overall than previous years.

Largest Iraq bombing in two years may have been inside job
Raw Story | Sunday’s twin suicide bombings in Baghdad that killed at least 155 people and wounded 500 others may have had help from within Iraq’s security apparatus.

Baghdad bombings kill 130, wound hundreds
MarketWatch | A pair of bomb blasts in downtown Baghdad near two government buildings killed more than 130 people and wounded hundreds.

Oil Tycoon: Our Troops Died … We’re “Entitled” to Sweet Contracts in Iraq!
Joshua Holland | The logic of billionaire T-Boone Pickens.

Protests flare in Iran’s capital as demonstrators, security forces clash
Los Angeles Times | Large areas of Tehran are in chaos as troops fire tear gas and beat antigovernment protesters on the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy’s seizure.

Ron Paul: Sanctions on Iran are an Act of War
Infowars | Dr. Paul explained to his colleagues the reasons for his opposition to the Iranian sanctions legislation.

French FM: Israel could strike Iran
Jerusalem Post | If world powers are not successful in efforts to contain the Iranian nuclear threat, an Israeli strike on Iran could become a reality.

Judge rules activist’s beliefs on climate change akin to religion
Guardian | A judge found Nicholson’s views on the environment were so deeply held that they were entitled to the same protection as religious convictions

Reported Cases of Mystery Flu in Ukraine Double in Two Days
Recombinomics | The number of infected patients has almost doubled to just under ½ million, compared to the report two days ago.

Italy convicts ‘U.S. agents’ in CIA kidnap trial
CNN | Two dozen Americans — most thought to work for the CIA — were sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday by an Italian court.

British plan to build training camp for Taliban fighters in Afghanistan
Independent | Britain planned to build a Taliban training camp for 2,000 fighters in southern Afghanistan.

Largest Banks Reported Funding Production Of Internationally Banned Weapons
Reuters | The top five loan providers were Bank of America, Citigroup , JP Morgan, Barclays and Goldman Sachs.

Pakistani-Pashtuns Say Blackwater USA (Xe Services) Responsible for Peshawar Bomb
Xinhua | The Chief of Pakistani-Pashtun Movement in Pakistan says Blackwater and Pakistani agencies are involved in attacks in public places.

Congressman Brad Sherman admits explosives found in dust of World Trade Center
Ed Brotherton | I have written an article for your knowledge and distribution as you deem fit about my dealings with Congressman’s Brad Sherman’s office.

‘Twin Towers’ warship enters NY
BBC | A warship built with steel salvaged from the World Trade Center has arrived in New York City.

Re-investigate 9/11: 2nd meeting in the House of Commons, London
9/11 Blogger | A few weeks ago I posted an entry about a meeting in the House of Commons in London. The second meeting will be monday 2nd November.

Obama’s New Bill of Rights
Dudley Brown | Gun grabbers in our government-run education system are now seeking to brainwash your children into accepting their anti-gun agenda — also by rewriting the Bill of Rights.

Anti-gun ObamaCare bill Coming to the House Floor Very Soon
Gun Owners of America | This bill will — like all the ObamaCare versions before it — most likely result in all of your gun-related health data being dumped into a government database.

The Oath Keepers
Infowars | Learn about how the Oath Keepers, a non-partisan association of currently serving military, Peace Officers, and Fire Fighters, who have sworn to uphold the Constitution and not follow unlawful orders to oppress the American people.

Global treaty could throw file-sharers off Internet after ‘three strikes’
Daniel Tencer | File-sharers could be jailed under proposed ACTA provisions.

Secret copyright treaty leaks. It’s bad. Very bad.
Cory Doctorow | The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concerns, has leaked.

It’s Time To Bring Back The BBS Network
Strategy & Tactics | Bringing back the BBS is something some of us in the patriot movement should be working on as a back up system for disseminating information and providing support in the cause of liberty.

12 Dead, 31 Wounded in Base Shootings
New York Times | A law enforcement official identified the shooter as Malik Nadal Hassan.

Texas Fort Hood in lockdown after shooting
Star-Telegram | A shooting at Fort Hood prompted the base and nearby schools to order a lockdown, according to news reports.

Pentagon: A third of U.S. youth are too fat, sickly to serve
USA Today | Many are too dumb or have used too many drugs to qualify, a study shows.

Tea parties descend on Capitol Hill
Politico | Thousands of tea party activists descended on Washington Thursday to protest the trillion-dollar health care bill and government spending.

House Democrats Prepare For Close Healthcare Vote
Reuters | Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives hustled on Thursday to count votes and round up support for a sweeping healthcare overhaul that was headed to a close floor vote on Saturday.

11 Uncovered Videos Show School Children Performing Praises to Obama
Big Hollywood | What seemed like an aberration now appears to be a troubling pattern.

Resistance is NOT Futile — The Rise of “Resistance Journalism”
Pyramids of Control | The battlefield of today has been correctly labeled by Alex Jones as the “Infowar.”

Planned Parenthood Leader Resigns After Watching Ultrasound of Abortion
Infowars | One wonders what she thought went on with abortion before watching the ultrasound.


OBAMA POISED TO CEDE US SOVEREIGNTY ON DECEMBER 29, 2009

YouTube - United Nations Climate Change Treaty, scheduled to be signed in Copenhagen in December 2009

November 5, 2009 | SENATE PANEL APPROVES 'GLOBAL WARMING' BILL OVER REPUBLICAN OPPOSITION...

Americans will lead the way for global slavery ... doesn't make me personally feel real proud.


US DEBT CLOCK
Click link to visit non-stop activity

http://www.usdebtclock.org/


My personal opinion is that Americans on the whole are not going to wake up before it's too late. Seems like they are still stuck with the Globalist's game for America - Republican and Democrats ... while multinational bankers and corporations have now robbed our nation blind. Keeping Americans divided with the use of political parties they finance has worked. The American tax payers trillions of $ in debt to bail out multinational banks - is like a world joke that the majority of Americans aren't hearing because of our mainstream news organizations also owned by multinational corporations... Americans are seemingly too lazy to exert effort beyond what is given them by the faces on television.

Our treasury secretary will be headed to Asia to meet with other Central Banksters behind closed doors prior to the G20 meeting that is take place in Scotland ... Americans will only wake up too late that our Treasury Secretary really works for off-shore banks.


Right now the gold prices remain suppressed while countries are getting out of their US$.



At least my own children won't ask me what I was doing when we were loosing our country. I was not asleep. We live in historical times of a great empire and its fall and Americans were laying on their couches watching television.

As Warren Buffet said after buying Burlington:

BUFFETT: You're seeing us get rid of a lot of dollars today in exchange for a lot of assets. So, I would rather own physical assets than own dollars.



Well ... it's already Friday. When the sun wakes up will get to see how my pond skimmer is handling the falling leaves it is gathering in its handy-dandy leaf catching basket.


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

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Evening News Update | November 5, 2009

AP | Saudis bomb Yemen rebels across border*

*In 2007 Google announced it was paying for Associated Press content displayed in Google News, but the articles are not permanently archived.

A footbridge in Shaharah, Yemen

The above incredible rock footbridge is located approximately where the A is on the map below. Hopefully, it wasn't blown up by the Saudi Arabian bombing today as it is a work of art and alot of human effort! I've carried rocks around - but no way could I build one of those and I'm sure they didn't haul in alot of bags of concrete to solidify it.


My personality, admittedly not always driving along mainstream highways, likes to take a news story and dissect it, research the facts set out and pull in any relevant and coincidental information.

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 11:05:44.312.36 N 45.90 E 8
ML4.6 NEAR THE COAST OF YEMEN2009-11-05 13:43
2009-11-05 10:03:07.512.19 N 45.81 E 13
ML3.9 NEAR THE COAST OF YEMEN2009-11-05 13:42
2009-11-05 08:05:51.612.06 N 45.95 E 10fmb5.1 NEAR THE COAST OF YEMEN2009-11-05 10:41
2009-11-05 07:12:33.412.02 N 45.95 E 10fmb5.5 NEAR THE COAST OF YEMEN2009-11-05 15:07
2009-11-05 06:23:04.512.17 N 45.67 E 2
ML4.4 NEAR THE COAST OF YEMEN2009-11-05 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 for
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.
http://www.ktiv.com/Global/story.asp?S=11419397

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.....

The James River (also known as the Jim River or the Dakota River) is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 710 mi (1,143 km) long, in the U.S. states of North Dakota and South Dakota. The river provides the main drainage of the flat lowland area of the Dakotas

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.

The James River has the distinction of being the longest unnavigable river in the world



SINKHOLE NEWS
THINK TWICE BEFORE CALLING THE AUTHORITIES?

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

A team of chemists from the U.S. and France examining ice-core samples have found large amounts of volcanic sulfuric acid - compelling evidence of a previously undocumented large volcanic eruption 200 years ago. The discovery helps explain why the decade from 1810 to 1819 is the coldest on record for the 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

The Macquarie Ridge Complex is an arcuate system of ridges and troughs which forms the boundary between the Pacific and lndian lithospheric plates, from the southern tip of New Zealand to the triple junction between the Indian, Antarctic and Pacific lithospheric plates at approximately 62°S (figure 1 ). Macquarie lsland occurs at 54.5°S, 159°E in the central region of the Macquarie Ridge Complex. In the letter region the Macquarie Trench occurs to the east of the Ridge, in contrast to the Puysegur Trench in the north, and the Hjort Trench in the south, which occur to the west of the Ridge.




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.

It is always interesting to see what the next special Google doodle is. Today, Google unveiled their latest one and it is a special one for kids of all ages. Today's Google doodle features the legs and feet of the lovable Big Bird from Sesame Street.

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.”

Biggest and most powerful banking house belongs to the Rothschild family

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, 2009

Patrick: 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


Blue Sun Bristling
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

According to a report published on the Tenth Amendment Center's web site, "Introduced in the Ohio House on October 16, 2009, the 'Firearms Freedom Act' (HB-315) seeks 'To enact section 2923.26 of the Revised Code to provide that ammunition, firearms, and firearm accessories that are manufactured and remain in Ohio are not subject to federal laws and regulations derived under Congress' authority to regulate interstate commerce and to require the words "Made in Ohio" be stamped on a central metallic part of any firearm manufactured and sold in Ohio.'" The report went on to say........



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


Full head of hair: These is how Dolores would have looked before she lost her fur. The spectacled bears have a thick, dark coat normally

With 72 degrees predicted for Friday and 70 degrees for Saturday and Sunday ... what can you say? Maybe Subway the Turtle will be on his rock sunning ... he went under for the winter about 3 weeks ago ... turtles are truly amazing how they can go months without eating in their hibernation.

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