Kevin Pete reels in his line while fishing in Galveston, Texas. The city, on the tip of a barrier island, overlooks the Gulf of Mexico on one side and Galveston Bay on the other. Its low cost of living is attractive for retirees. Brett Coomer / Associated Press
November 7, 2009 - Reporting from Galveston, Texas - After trying out Pasadena, Atlanta and Miami, Lilian Junco decided this was the place to retire. Being near her son was the first attraction, but soon she was drawn in by the same combination of features that has lured tens of thousands of others from out of state: Gulf Coast living and super-low costs.......
LAS VEGAS - November 7, 2009 —The struggling economy should bring commercial construction to a virtual standstill around Las Vegas next year, according to a Las Vegas research firm.
Applied Analysis says nine major commercial projects are under construction in southern Nevada, and development will essentially cease once most of them wind down early next year.
Jake Joyce, an analyst with the firm, said that's in sharp contrast with 2007, when commercial development was booming and there were 75 to 100 projects under construction. FULL STORY
KABUL - November 8, 2009 - SEVEN Afghan security personnel were killed in a mis-targeted Nato air strike in the remote northwest, the defence ministry said on Saturday, signalling further trouble for a fraying Western military effort.
The 'friendly fire' incident occurred when Nato and Afghan forces searching for two missing American paratroopers in the barren, rugged area clashed with the Taleban.
'Due to a Nato forces air strike on November 6 in Badghis province, seven Afghan security personnel (both army and national police) were martyred and also some were wounded,' the ministry said in a statement.
Nato's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said that more than 25 ISAF and Afghan security personnel were killed or wounded during the joint operation.
It said it was investigating whether some of those casualties resulted from friendly fire. However, one Western military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed to AFP that it appeared to be a 'blue-on-blue incident' - a military term for friendly fire - with 'a huge number of casualties'.
Afghan defence ministry spokesman Mohammad Zahir Azimi told AFP there was no doubt Afghan personnel had been killed and injured by their international partners. 'It was an erroneous air strike which caused casualties to friendly forces,' he said. -- AFP
The New Mexico Transportation Department has installed signs along U.S. 285 warning drivers of a potential sinkhole. (Susan Montoya Bryan, The Associated Press )
Posted: 11/07/2009 01:00:00 AM MST
CARLSBAD, N.M. — The bright yellow signs on U.S. 285 are the first indication that things aren't right in Carlsbad.
"U.S. 285 south subject to sinkhole 1,000 feet ahead," motorists are warned.
But there is little other evidence that in southeastern New Mexico's oil country, a giant cavern sits below the surface, ready to swallow part of the highway and possibly a church, several businesses and a trailer park.
The cavern was formed over three decades as oil-field service companies pumped fresh water into a salt layer more than 400 feet below the surface and extracted several million barrels of brine to help with drilling. State regulators flagged it as a potential danger after concluding that it was similar to two wells northwest of Carlsbad that collapsed without warning last year.
Over the past few decades, communities in Texas, Kansas, Michigan, Canada and Europe learned of similar underground danger only after cracks appeared and the ground began to sink. Regulators are trying to determine how to prevent collapses by better managing a practice that is used throughout the world.
Most brine wells operate far from homes and businesses, but Carlsbad's is unique because it is in a population center.
"It would be a mess. It would be like a bomb going off in the middle of town," said Jim Griswold, a New Mexico Oil Conservation Division hydrologist.
The City Council and the Eddy County Commission declared a state of emergency Thursday, the first step to free state and federal funds that could be used to figure out a way to stabilize the cavern.
The city of about 26,000 residents knows caverns well. It is home to Carlsbad Caverns National Park, a network of some of the largest natural caverns in North America.
Officials have set up a monitoring system that takes readings from tilt meters and pressure sensors every two seconds and averages them to determine whether there are changes drastic enough to trigger alarms. The alarms are expected to give authorities several hours to evacuate people in advance of a cave-in that could span anywhere from 200 to 500 feet.
I&W Trucking, the oil-field service company that owns the site where the cavern is located, contends the state is overreacting because of the previous collapses on state land and criticized the Oil Conservation Division for not doing more tests to establish the size of the brine cavern before forcing it to plug the well.
Inhabitants of the Cardenas community, in Tabasco state, Mexico, leave their house on 6 November 2009, due to the floods caused by the last days of heavy rain, which according to official reports, have stranded close to 21,000 people. EPA/Marco Polo Guzmán
Children stay inside a house in the Cardenas community, in Tabasco state, Mexico, on 06 November 2009, due to the floolds caused by the last days of heavy rain, which according to official reports, have stranded close to 21,000 people. EPA/Marco Polo Guzmán
A man looks at one of the rooms of his house located at the community of Cardenas, southern state of Tabasco, Mexico, 05 November 2009, flooded after the heavy rains that have hit the region since last weekend. Two men and a woman died due to the rains that have left 44.000 people affected and 90 rural communities flooded in the state of Tabasco. EPA/Marco Polo Guzmán
Inhabitants walk amid flooded waters in the community of Cardenas, Mexican State of Tabasco, Mexico, 05 November 2009. Heavy rains had provoked overflows of rivers since last week end with a death toll of two men and one woman. EPA/MARCO POLO GUZMAN
VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico – November 7, 2009 - The number of victims of flooded homes in the rain-soaked Mexican Gulf coast states of Tabasco and Veracruz has risen to 206,000, officials said.
In Tabasco, the most affected area, the number of people whose homes have been flooded due to heavy rains has climbed from 79,000 to 200,000, Gov. Andres Granier said on Friday.
“There are more than 200,000 Tabasco residents who are in a desperate situation at the moment and, of course, I’m worried about this,” Granier said during a public event.
Official reports indicate that some 24,225 hectares (60,000 acres) of crops have been destroyed by the flooding in two municipalities of that southeastern state, where heavy rains two years ago left 80 percent of the state underwater and killed more than two-dozen people.
After rivers in the Tabasco towns of Cardenas and Huimanguillo burst their banks, the state government said the agricultural zone known as “El Plan Chontalpa” is practically “broken” and that rice, sugarcane, pineapple and lemon crops have been lost.
“The situation is serious. Crops have been lost and federal government funds are needed to cope with the crisis,” Granier said.
“Soon we’ll know the extent of the losses, and that won’t be until the water retreats,” the leader in Tabasco of the National Peasants’ Confederation, or CNC, Juan Jose Cadenas, said.
The Tabasco Agriculture Secretariat, meanwhile, said that at least 10,000 hectares (24,690 acres) of pastureland have been flooded and that ranchers have been forced to move more than 40,000 head of cattle to higher ground.
“If the cattle keeps getting thinner, we’ll lose a lot of (those animals),” said a source of that department.
In Cardenas and Huimanguillo, where more than 150 rural communities have been inundated and 12 damaged roads remain closed, ranchers reported the death of at least 50 head of cattle and an equal number of sheep.
In addition, some 145 schools in those two municipalities have been flooded and many others are being used as temporary shelters.
Meanwhile, in the neighboring state of Veracruz, authorities said Thursday that the homes of some 6,000 people in eight different towns have been flooded as a result of the torrential downpours.
Those municipalities have suffered flooding in both urban and rural areas due to both heavy rains and the swelling of rivers that flow into the state from Tabasco and Chiapas.
For its part, the National Defense Secretariat, or Sedena, said in a statement Friday that it has implemented an emergency plan to assist flood victims in Tabasco and Veracruz states, where the army thus far has evacuated 2,065 victims and set up nine shelters housing another 2,468 people.
Sedena has deployed 455 soldiers to the area, including a general, and said the military contingent in the Mexico City metropolitan area is on alert “to attend to other emergency situations that may arise due to the rains.”
The Mexican government said that, in addition to the current cold front, southeastern Mexico could be affected in the coming days by Tropical Storm Ida, which drenched Nicaragua on Friday but has begun re-strengthening as it moves north over the warm waters of the Caribbean.
Nov. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Group of 20 governments split on whether to tax financial trading as part of a broader strategy to ensure the global economy’s expansion is less crisis-prone.
U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown told a meeting of finance chiefs in St. Andrews, Scotland yesterday that such a levy could prevent excessive risk taking and fund future bank rescues, adding momentum to a debate begun by France. U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said a “day-by-day” tax on speculation is “not something we’re prepared to support.”
The dispute over a so-called Tobin tax suggests that the unity the G-20 showed in battling the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression is unraveling as its focus intensifies on how far to rein in the banking system. The outcome may determine the strength of markets as the recovery builds as well as the scope for banks to profit from them.
“The initial market reaction to talk of a Tobin tax is likely to be negative,” said Julian Jessop, a former U.K. Treasury official and now chief international economist at Capital Economics Ltd. in London.
A day after U.S. data showed the unemployment rate rose more than economists forecast to a 26-year high, the G-20 also agreed to keep stimulating their economies until recoveries take hold. They mapped out a time plan to show how they will make growth across the world more even and less reliant on Chinese savings and U.S. domestic demand. FULL STORY
Cave Editor's Note - Just tax the taxpayers - not the banksters and wall street gamblers??
Jason Mick DailyTech November 7, 2009 EO at leading parts supplier: “Energy independence…ultimately means that fuel has to be more expensive” It’s no secret that when gas prices dropped early in the year and with the recession in full swing, hybrid sales saw their first drop in years. Faced with tough new fuel economy restrictions, auto executives [...]
Clinton Connects Overpopulation to Climate Change Jurriaan Maessen | Recent comments made by Clinton reflect the mindset of the neo-Malthusian scientists currently occupying key positions in the Obama administration.
Pelosi: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail House Committee On Ways & Means Republicans | Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” are subject to criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.
The Feds Have No Faith in Recovery Michael Pento | A closer look indicates that neither the administration nor the Federal Reserve believes its own recovery
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.
Obama’s Health Care: “The Hell With the Constitution” CNSNews | Congress who want to force Americans to buy health insurance — as both House and Senate versions of the health care plan would do — are saying “the hell with the Constitution.”
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.
Swine Flu — One of the Most Massive Cover-ups in American History Dr. Mercola | Vaccine manufacturers were doing all they could to fuel this fear and they were quietly making deals with WHO to be among the companies selected to manufacture the “pandemic” vaccine for the world.
Police prepare drill for plague at school Northwest Herald | Citizens infected with a fictitious pneumonic plague will line up outside Lincoln Prairie Elementary School on Saturday to help test the site as a medication dispensary in case of an emergency.
In this update to Human Rights Watch’s work on eliminating the sentence of life without parole for juvenile offenders, a number of findings are presented that illustrate the troublesome nature of the sentence and how it is applied to youthful offenders.
Among those findings are that the United States is alone in the world in applying this harsh sentence to juveniles, that an estimated 59 percent of youth who receive the sentence had no prior adjudications or convictions, and that there are currently nearly 2,500 offenders who are serving life without parole for crimes committed while they were a juvenile.
Additionally, data reveal that there are stark racial disparities in the imposition of the sentence, with black youth serving life without parole at a per capita rate that is 10 times the rate of white youth.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD that the speaker will not allow the final language of the health care to be posted online for 72 hours before bringing the bill to a vote on the House floor, despite her September 24 statement that she was “absolutely” committed to doing so.
An ExxonMobil-led consortium has beaten rival Russian, French and Chinese groups to bag initial rights to develop Iraq’s West Qurna field, the Oil Ministry said.
The US government is now so totally under the thumbs of organized interest groups that “our” government can no longer respond to the concerns of the American people who elect the president and the members of the House and Senate.
The unemployment rate in the U.S. soared to a 26-year high of 10.2 percent in October and employers cut more jobs than forecast, underscoring why Federal Reserve policy makers say interest rates will remain low until the labor market recovers.
People who protest the Winter Olympics are nothing more than “terrorists” with “limited intellect,” Liberal Burquitlam MLA Harry Bloy said in the legislature Monday.
Thanks to our controlled and uncontrolled media, we know when you take the derivative of the foreclosure crisis you get those greedy predatory lenders at AIG, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America plotting to steal our tacky (I mean tract-y) houses.
The number of Americans receiving food stamp assistance soared above 36 million for the first time in August, the eighth month in a row that enrollment set a record, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Wednesday.
The new financial instruments invented about 30 years ago helped the America’s wealthiest to suck up the extra wealth created by deregulated finance system, explains Les Leopold, author of “The Looting of America”.
WASHINGTON — November 7, 2009 - The US House of Representatives on Saturday threw its support behind two Chinese activists put on trial after investigating whether shoddy construction led to children's deaths in last year's Sichuan earthquake.
In a nearly unanimous vote, the House approved a resolution saying it "expresses its support" for activists Huang Qi and Tan Zuoren and calling on China to guarantee their rights to free speech and fair trials.
A total of 426 members of Congress voted for the resolution. The only lawmaker to vote no was Republican Ron Paul, who usually opposes such appeals on the grounds that they unjustly interfere in other nations' affairs.
Another seven lawmakers did not vote.
Huang and Tan went on separate trials in August on respective charges of possessing state secrets and subversion, although human rights groups believe they were targeted due to their activism after the Sichuan earthquake.
Huang, the founder of a human rights website, posted parents' demands for an investigation and spent nearly 14 months in detention before going on trial. Tan, a writer, led calls for an independent probe into school construction.
The earthquake in southwestern China left nearly 88,000 people dead or missing.
Schools bore the brunt of the tragedy, with thousands collapsing on top of students, fueling angry charges from parents that corruption had led to shoddy construction.
"Huang Qi and Tan Zuoren are two courageous individuals who sought to hold the Chinese regime accountable for its gross negligence," said Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the top Republican on the Foreign Affairs Committee.
"These two brave men sought answers for the grieving parents of these children, but their efforts led to their own imprisonment on trumped up charges, followed by trials in kangaroo courts," she said.
"The United States must not be silent in the face of such injustice," she said on the House floor Friday.
A total of 426 members of Congress voted for the resolution. The only lawmaker to vote no was Republican Ron Paul, who usually opposes such appeals on the grounds that they unjustly interfere in other nations' affairs.
BETHESDA, MD. - November 7, 2009 - The wife of an International Monetary Fund economist spoke out for the first time Friday about the attack on her husband. She asked the public for help in solving a crime she says has traumatized and shaken her family.
Dr. Ashoka Mody was shot multiple times as he pulled into the garage of his Bethesda home the night of October 8. Montgomery County Police have ruled out robbery as a motive as well as the doctor’s work with the IMF, but they have stopped just short of calling it a hit.
Holding what she described as prayers in her hands, Jyothsna Mody spoke from the heart, asking reporters not to show her face.
"My husband is a very hard-working family man," said Mrs. Mody. "No one can understand why anything like this could possibly have happened to him."
What’s clear is that Dr. Mody pulled into the garage attached to his house and as he or the shooter opened the driver's side door of his vehicle, he was shot multiple times by a gunman who dropped a mask in the driveway and left the neighborhood.
"I have always been very sheltered,” said Mrs. Mody. “Nothing in the life I've lead so far ever prepared me for an event of this kind."
Police are now hoping $36,000 in reward money will be tempting enough for someone to tip off the police.
"This happened pretty quick for him,” said Captain Paul Starks of the Montgomery County Police Department. “And it was a surprise. It was dark. He pulls into his garage and he is shot-- he was only able to describe the person involved as a person."
If the shooter said anything to Dr. Mody, police aren’t saying. What we do know is that Jyothsna Mody was at home at the time. She heard the shots and called 911.
"Please, I appeal to all of you to come forward with any tips-- any tips whatsoever," Mrs. Mody said.
Police are working on the theory that the shooter left the neighborhood in a car driven with its lights out.
Dr. Mody, an expert on European economies, is now in what is described as a step-down unit, recovering from his wounds. He is able to communicate with his family and police.
Investigators say the suspect was last seen fleeing on foot from the victim's driveway, and a small, dark-colored car was seen on Millwood Road headed in the direction of Goldsboro Road around the time of the shooting. The car had its lights off.
The suspect is described only as an individual of medium build who was dressed in dark clothing and wore a mask, which was recovered near the scene of the attack. Police released photos of the mask in hopes someone may recognize it.
On Friday, the reward for information leading to an arrest in the case was increased to $36,000, the president of Crime Solvers in Montgomery County announced. Anyone with information in the case is asked to call Crime Solvers at 1-866-411-TIPS (8477).
(Milwaukee, WI) -- A truck transporting 900 doses of H1N1 vaccine for the Milwaukee Health Department was stolen and recovered Thursday night, but the doses will have to be dumped.
Police say the truck was taken from an entrance to a middle school, where nearly two-thousand people were vaccinated earlier in the day.
The truck was later found abandoned.
While its contents of injectable and nasal vaccines appeared intact, officials say they can't be used because they were out of the health department's possession.
They will be sent back to the manufacturer and may not be replaced.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (L) talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at the Presidential Palace in Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 7, 2009. (Xinhua/Li Tao)'
CAIRO, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at the Presidential Palace in Cairo on Saturday morning.
They are expected to exchange views on bilateral relations and the fourth ministerial meeting of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, which is scheduled to open on Sunday in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
''The China-Africa Cooperation addresses the fundamentals of what African countries need most,'' he concluded. Saying that the cooperation between Zambia ...
ST ANDREWS, SCOTLAND - NOVEMBER 07: G20 finance ministers and bank govenors gather for the family photograph on November 7, 2009 in St Andrews, Scotland. G20 finance ministers have gathered in St Andrews for a G20 summit where they will discuss global economic stimulus packages and the cost of paying for climate change.
The UN Day for the Prevention of the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict is Nov. 6 and is the International Day of Action in the campaign to ban depleted uranium (DU) weapons which are anti-tank shells.
However, the impact of a fired shell with a tank puts a cloud of radioactive and chemically toxic DU oxide particles in the air that can be inhaled or ingested. As its half-life — DU is radioactive — is over 4 million years — once in the environment, it is here to stay.
DU anti-tank shells have been used by the U.S. and the U.K. since 1991. During the First Gulf War in 1991, 320 tons of DU was dumped on Iraq, Kuwait and a little on Saudi Arabia. They have been used in the Balkans Wars of the 1990s and also in Iraq in 2003 where they were used in urban areas.
Reports from Iraq indicate increased rates of cancer, especially in children, and increased rates of birth defects that may be due to DU exposure. DU has been found to cause mutations in humans and laboratory animals and cancers including leukemia in laboratory rodents.
Nuclear Metals/Starmet in nearby Concord manufactured DU anti-tank shells for 25 years but the site is now a Superfund site. Just the demolition of the buildings on the site down to the foundations will cost more than $63 million according to a 2009 EPA estimate. The buildings are contaminated with DU and beryllium.
Overall, the depleted uranium problem is one that the public should be more aware of. There is concern elsewhere in the world. In September the Human Rights Commission of Latin American Parliament (Parlatino Americano) voted for a regional moratorium on uranium weapons and called for an international treaty on uranium weapons that the 22 member states should work on.
Belgium’s law banning uranium weapons on Belgium territory went into effect in June. Also in 2008 the UN asked its members to submit reports on DU weapons. The European Parliament has had four resolutions calling for a moratorium on these weapons.
Mayer Amschel Rothschild, the progenitor of the super rich Rothschild family, said to permit him to control a nation’s money and he cared not who wrote its laws.Question—did Rothschild know what he was talking about?
The Rothschild Cabal of money manipulators took over United States money and effectively the United States in late 1913 with the Federal Reserve Act.Over the years, they instituted three practices which have made the Cabal banks unimaginably wealthy, as Paul Volcker put it some weeks ago (as discussed in the Goldsmiths 102).
Besides these three practices, to make gobs and gobs of money for the Cabal banks, they added still one more practice (a fourth one) to tip off certain Cabal relatives and colleagues on a personal level of coming events to allow them to also become incredibly wealthy.FULL STORY
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November 7, 2009 - Charles and Camilla, who are making their first visit to Canada as a married couple, tour Vancouver's Olympic village site
ASTEROID NEAR MISS: On Nov. 6th at 2132 UT, asteroid 2009 VA barely missed Earth when it flew just 14,000 km above the planet's surface. That's well inside the "Clarke Belt" of geosynchronous satellites. If it had hit, the ~6-meter wide space rock would have disintegrated in the atmosphere as a spectacular fireball, causing no significant damage to the ground. 2009 VA was discovered just 15 hours before closest approach by astronomers working at the Catalina Sky Survey.
MAGNETIC FILAMENT: Today, amateur astronomers are monitoring a picturesque magnetic filament looping around the western limb of the sun. Jan Timmermans sends this picture from his backyard observatory in Valkenswaard, The Netherlands:
The portion of the filament seen in front of the sun looks dark, because it is cooler than the inferno below. But note how the filament glows in projection against the black space beyond the limb. The glow comes from plasma trapped inside the filament--not as bright as the surface of the sun, but definitely brighter than the void.
"The image clearly shows that the only difference between a 'dark' filament and a 'bright' prominence is where they are located: inside or outside the solar disk," notes Timmermans.
The Largest IRS Refund in US History The IRS and Kersting did not get along. For the better part of three decades the IRS challenged and chased Kersting and his investors and in fact, when Kersting died they continued to go after his assets. Kersting had fought each and every controversy with the IRS. It was a fight that had him litigate his cases all over the United States. Kersting had numerous published decisions in various circuit courts and in Tax Court. Sadly for Kersting and his investors, every single recorded case that he fought with the IRS......... http://www.newswithviews.com/Snook/edward101.htm by Edward Snook
Do Christians Have a Right to Self Defense , Part 1 Does a modern Christian have a right to self defense? With every right there is a correlative responsibility. The ancient right to bear arms has been described in antiquity as the obligation to bear arms in defense of your community. In those ancient times if you would not arm yourself to defend your community you were often shunned if not run out of town all together. ....... http://www.newswithviews.com/Gregory/williams109.htm by Brother Gregory Williams
Teaching Children To Use Drugs It should have been no surprise to anyone when drug education courses served only to arouse curiosity and promote experimentation on the part of children exposed to them. You don't discuss a subject day-in and day-out if you want children to stop thinking about it. To this day if I try to explain the danger of drug education courses to those who are lamenting the "drug problem," the majority will respond with nothing but a dumb smile. Then they will anxiously try to change the subject........ http://www.newswithviews.com/Erica/Carle162.htm by Erica Carle
National Health Care: Resurrecting the Welfare State Feminists have exercised nearly unfettered control of Congress’s social policy philosophy since the creation of the Great Society. That arrangement, designed to help a few women in trouble, evolved into an industry executing the feminist goal of destroying marriage. The ever-escalating demands to entitle non-marriage and out-of-wedlock procreation never end. Welfare state expansions have eviscerated the function of marriage. Marriage naturally guarantees..... http://www.newswithviews.com/Usher/david189.htm by David Usher
Communism never went away We have been battling the same old nightmare that continues to morph into cause after cause and shape after shape. Many of you thought we had beat Communism when Ronald Reagan said “Gentlemen tear down that wall” and Communist Russia disbanded. Sadly, it oozed into other bodies. A lot of you don’t know it but the rope is already tightening around your little necks. Even worse, many of you support your own strangulation because you have bought the enemy’s..... http://www.newswithviews.com/Roth/laurie188.htm by Laurie Roth
