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North Texas and Southern Oklahoma 13 EQ in the last  7 days Landslides reported 11-09-2013
13 earthquakes in map area


  1. M 3.0 - 4km S of Springtown, Texas  2013-11-09 13:54:31 UTC-06:00 5.0 km


  2. M 2.7 - 7km SSE of Edmond, Oklahoma  2013-11-08 00:29:40 UTC-06:00 5.0 km


  3. M 2.5 - 5km SSE of Edmond, Oklahoma  2013-11-08 00:03:17 UTC-06:00 5.0 km


  4. M 3.2 - 7km SE of Edmond, Oklahoma  2013-11-07 23:50:05 UTC-06:00 5.0 km


  5. M 2.9 - 4km ESE of Springtown, Texas   2013-11-07 22:32:57 UTC-06:00 4.8 km


  6. M 2.7 - 6km E of The Village, Oklahoma   2013-11-07 16:50:15 UTC-06:00 5.0 km


  7. M 2.7 - 5km SSW of Springtown, Texas  2013-11-06 11:05:48 UTC-06:00 5.0 km


  8. M 2.6 - 2km ESE of Reno, Texas2013-11-05 21:32:09 UTC-06:00 5.0 km


  9. M 3.2 - 7km NW of Spencer, Oklahoma  2013-11-05 02:32:47 UTC-06:00 5.0 km


  10. M 2.5 - 1km SSE of Edmond, Oklahoma  2013-11-05 00:13:07 UTC-06:00 5.0 km


  11. M 3.8 - 5km WNW of Jones, Oklahoma   2013-11-04 22:01:35 UTC-06:00 5.9 km


  12. M 3.3 - 6km N of Spencer, Oklahoma  2013-11-03 19:52:02 UTC-06:00 7.1 km


  13. M 2.7 - 8km WNW of Jones, Oklahoma   2013-11-02 19:41:53 UTC-06:00 5.0 km


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Today Landslide USA State of Texas, Springtown Damage level Details


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Landslide in USA on Saturday, 09 November, 2013 at 05:02 (05:02 AM) UTC.
Description
A
Springtown family is concerned about the integrity of its home since
several sinkholes started appearing on its four-acre property four
months ago. Tracey Napier said she is very nervous about them. "I'm not a
worrywart, but I'm very worried about this," she said. None of the
holes appear to be deeper than a foot and most are quite small in
diameter, but the results, the family says, are apparent. There is a
large crack in the master bedroom window, and the front screen door
appears to be out-of-line with the door frame. A fence post that was
painted white all the way down to the ground several years ago now shows
between one-and-a-half inches to two inches of unpainted wood at the
bottom. The Napier family's frustration began before five earthquakes
shook the ground in the area around its community in the past seven
days. Earthquakes were detected near the Mid-Cities, Reno and Springtown
from Nov. 1-7. The U. S. Geological Survey reports a 2.1 magnitude
quake was centered 1 mile southeast of Richland Hills just before noon
on Nov. 1. Then, on Tuesday, a minor earthquake was reported near Azle.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey's website, the magnitude-2.6
earthquake hit about 1 mile east-southeast of Reno and about 2 miles
north of Azle at about 9:32 p.m.
An aftershock to that earthquake
was also felt Tuesday night at about 10 p.m. Wednesday was another shaky
day in North Texas. The U.S. Geological Survey said a 2.7-magnitude
earthquake was detected at 11:05 a.m. about 26 miles northwest of Fort
Worth near Springtown. According to the Modified Mercalli Intensity
Scale, the vibration would have felt like passing heavy trucks. Stopped
cars would rock, hanging objects to swing, windows, dishes and doors to
rattle, glasses to clink and wooden walls and frames creak. There were
no reports of injuries or damage in any of the earthquakes. Napier said
her sinkholes and the nearby earthquakes are "just crazy." Adding to the
Napier family's frustration is that they have yet to receive a clear
answer explaining why any of this is happening. The family has reached
out to the Parker County Commission, the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality, the Texas Department of Agriculture and other
government agencies, but has gotten no explanation, Napier said.


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http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/08/seniors-lose-insurance-and-doctors-under-obamacare/

I have a Medicare Advantage Plan through Humana.  Medicare was cut $716 Billion to help fund ObamaCare.  http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/08/fact-check-obama-ryan-romney-backed-medicare-cuts/.  While the total amount also included an alleged, but unspecified, amount recovered in clamping down on fraud and waste, how is it not cutting benefits by paying providers even less than the cut-throat cut-rates Medicare already paid.  It was already a problem that doctors would not accept Medicare patients at all, or limited their practice to only a certain percentage.

My annual out-of-pocket expense was raised $2,200 for 2014, and is now well over $6,000 per year.  Co-pays were increased. 

And in other articles I've been reading, DC has started an undercurrent of discontent by labeling Social Security recipients as freeloaders.  This is not welfare.  I (along with every other working American) paid 7.5% of my income throughout 120 quarters (the minimum needed is 40) for this required-by-law insurance.  My employers also paid 7.5% of my income.  This is not welfare.  And retirees and SSDI disabled are not bums.  This was guaranteed insurance.  So, ObamaCare has definitely made my financial life tougher and decreased the quality of medical care for me. 

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Email from Sheldon Day...


November 7, 2013 |  Filed under: Americas,Shepard Ambellas,Space |  Posted by: Shepard
   
By Shepard Ambellas | November 7, 2013 | 12:06pm EST
A massive meteor descended onto the city of San Diego Wednesday night before vaporizing in the air, raising the hair on the backs of local residents concerned for their safety.
Witness photo of 2013 Russian meteor event made from Chelyabimsk Drama Theatre (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
 
SAN DIEGO (INTELLIHUB) — 911 calls came pouring in Wednesday night as people around the area were concerned after witnessing a massive meteor fall from the sky just East of the metropolis. The sheer size and brightness of the meteor has even attracted scientists to respond and has some wondering if planet earth will soon be facing another extinction much like the dinosaurs did millions of years ago.
Reports say that the meteor “disintegrated in the sky” just before impact “with over 30 times the force measured of the bomb blast that destroyed Hiroshima”. Scientists say that this can happen as the “solar system is a shooting gallery”. However, this type activity can be expected for this time of the year.[1]
“I saw this big, greenish flash like, light up the sky. It was headed pretty sideways from like, east to west. I thought, ‘Is that a firework?’ And then I realized, that couldn’t be that big. It’s just in the middle of nowhere in a totally dark area where there’s no houses or anything where anyone would shoot fireworks. I thought, ‘Man, it must have been a meteor” CNN reported one witness saying.[1]
These meteors typically travel at 10 miles per second once they have entered the atmosphere and have been known to actually “knock people off their feet” like the one that descended on Russia earlier this year.
Neil Tyson, the director for the Hayden Planetarium explained on a CNN newscast that the government and NASA now possess the technology to deflect meteors to some extent as seen with NASA’s Project Deep Impact mission. “96 percent of what is driving this universe is “dark matter” Tyson explains, informing the viewers that the universe is a vast and rather expansive thing.[1]

According to eyewitness reports the meteor “broke into 3 large pieces”.[2]
NASA has recently announced that a meteor hitting the planet is 4 to 5 times more likely than originally thought. NASA now claims there are 20 million meteors up in the sky orbiting around earth which has gotten some wondering when the next massive impact will be.[2]
 
Sources:
[1] Was that a meteor over Southern California? - CNN.com
[2] SoCal Residents Report Meteor Sighting – NBCLosAngeles.com

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RT


 


Published on Nov 8, 2013


His business suffered in the wake of the NSA leaks scandal because
the service he provided was used by the person now most wanted in the US
- Edward Snowden. SophieCo is talking to Ladar Levison, founder and
owner of encrypted email service Lavabit.com, who says all he cares for
is the privacy and the trust of his clients.
FULL SCRIPT: http://on.rt.com/a0w0ru
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Alert! Satellite Falling To Earth Within 3 Days!

Earth Watch Report

 


DAHBOO77


 
 




Published on Nov 8, 2013

The GOCE Ran out of fuel on Oct.21st, They predict it to fall within 3 days!

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/07/world/s...
http://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=34602
http://www.n2yo.com/?s=34602
http://www.n2yo.com/passes/?s=34602
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Satellite falling to Earth

 

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Satellite will fall back to Earth, but where?



STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • Nobody knows where or when fragments will strike Earth
  • Pieces most likely to hit oceans and unpopulated areas
  • European Space Agency launched satellite in 2009

(CNN)
-- A European satellite that ran out of fuel will start falling in the
next few days, and fragments of the disintegrating 2,000-pound
spacecraft are expected to strike the Earth's surface.

Nobody
knows where or when the fragments will hit, but the European Space
Agency has said the parts are likely to fall into the ocean or
unpopulated areas. Potential spots will be narrowed down closer to
re-entry, ESA said on its website.

Re-entry
probably will occur Sunday or Monday, Rune Floberghagen, mission
manager for the Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Explorer, better
known as GOCE, told the New York Times.

GOCE
was launched in 2009 to map variations in the Earth's gravity in 3D,
provide ocean circulation patterns and make other measurements.

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European GOCE satellite falling to Earth – stay calm


The European GOCE satellite is falling uncontrollably to Earth but no one need worry too much

GOCE in orbit

The European Space Agency's GOCE satellite is falling back to Earth. Photograph: ESA/AOES Medialab A
one-tonne satellite is falling uncontrollably towards the Earth. It is
expected to hit sometime late this weekend or early next week. No one
knows exactly when or where it will smash down but it is likely to
fragment into 25-45 pieces en route.
Written in those terms it
sounds like pretty scary stuff, and indeed the news is making headlines
across the web. Many seem to have been triggered by a piece in the New
York Times, titled Satellite Will Fall to Earth, But No One Is Sure Where.
Perhaps a more sensible headline would have been Satellite Will Fall to Earth, But No One Need Worry Too Much.
The spacecraft in question is the European Space Agency's Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) mission. Since 2009, GOCE has been measuring the Earth's gravitational field with exquisite sensitivity.


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Obama's 'Socialism' Experiment Brought Home

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-08/guest-post-obamas-socialism-experiment-brought-home

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama’s plan”.. All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A…. (substituting grades for dollars – something closer to home and more readily understood by all).

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.

The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.

As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.

To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. Could not be any simpler than that.

Here are possibly the 5 key points about such an experiment:

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

 

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

 

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

 

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!

 

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

 

Or in graphical format...

capitalism-vs-socialism

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Earth Watch Report

Image Source : Wikimedia. Org

This image is a map derived from products of the United Nations Cartographic Section  PD

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In response to the polio outbreak in war-torn Syria, United Nations officials today announced an immunization campaign aiming to reach 20 million children in seven countries over the next 6 months.

Officials also said preliminary evidence suggests that the polio strain in Syria is of Pakistani origin and is similar to the strains detected in sewage in Egypt, Israel, and the Palestinian territories (the West Bank and Gaza Strip) in the past year.

The announcement from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) called the effort "the largest-ever consolidated immunization response in the Middle East." It targets children in Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, and the Palestinian territories.

Syria's polio outbreak is the first there since 1999 and has left 10 children paralyzed. Emergency polio immunization efforts in and around Syria have already reached 650,000 children, including 116,000 in the "highly contested" northeastern province of Deir-ez-Zor, where the outbreak was confirmed last week, the WHO statement said.

It said the campaign aims to reach 1.6 million children in Syria with vaccines against polio, measles, mumps, and rubella. Syria's polio immunization rate has dropped from 90% before the civil war to 68% today.

In Jordan, more than 18,800 children under age 5 in the Za'atari refugee camp have received polio vaccine in the past few days, and a nationwide campaign aims to reach 3.5 million people with polio, measles, and rubella vaccines, the WHO said. A vaccination drive has also been launched in western Iraq, and another will start soon in the country's Kurdistan region.

In addition, Lebanon plans to launch a nationwide immunization campaign later this week, and efforts in Turkey and Egypt are expected to start by mid-November, the agency said.

"The Middle East has shown exactly the coordinated leadership needed to combat a deadline virus: a consolidated and sustained assault on a vaccine-preventable disease and an extraordinary commitment to a common purpose," said Ala Alwan, MD, the WHO's regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean, in the WHO statement.

UNICEF has acquired 1.35 billion doses of polio vaccine so far this year and will have obtained up to 1.7 billion doses by year's end to meet increased demand, the UN agencies said. The Syrian outbreak has increased the pressure on a global supply that was already being stretched, they said.

 

 

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