Rare New Years Eve twisters hit Midwestern United States

Rare New Years Eve twisters hit Midwestern United States
By: Bryan Alaspa

The states 0f Arkansas, Missouri , Illinois are experiencing a rare late-December outbreak 0f tornadoes , unseasonably warm weather hits a huge section 0f the country.

It is a rare thing when tornadoes hit the Midwestern United States during the month 0f December, but today, New Years Eve, that is exactly what has been happening. While parts 0f the country are still trying to dig out 0f record snowfall, parts 0f the country today are experiencing tornado outbreaks.

Tornadoes , reports 0f tornadoes have occurred, so far, in Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky , Tennessee. There are even reports that a twister touched down in southern Missouri , killed two people.

A town, called Cincinnati, near the border with Oklahoma, was the site 0f the twister that ripped through the town in the early morning. Reportedly, an elderly couple was killed when their home was hit. Another resident, a dairy farmer, was killed while he was trying to milk his cows.

There were reports 0f tornadoes across Missouri as the day progressed. Mostly damage to homes , buildings, as well as knocked down power lines, have been reported. A tornado was even reported near Ft. Leonard Wood in southern Missouri. Some injuries had been reported on the base, but nothing life-threatening.

The storms are the result 0f a rare warm up f0rthe middle 0f winter, in areas normally socked in with snow , cold. Moisture from the Gulf 0f Mexico has been pushed north from winds out 0f the south. This has caused temperatures to rise into the 60s , 70s in some areas that were, up until today, covered with snow. The problem is that a cold front is now moving through the area , the forecast is f0rtemps to drop down into the teens by New Year’s Day.

The National Weather Service has been issuing storm , tornado warnings throughout the day. There are also indications that the storm system is still developing. The service has issued statements that a significant outbreak 0f tornadoes is possible with this system.

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Australia floods larger than France str, 200,000

Australia floods larger than France str, 200,000


BRISBANE, Australia
AP-Report
Military aircraft dropped supplies to towns cut off by floods in northeastern Australia as the prime minister promised new assistance Friday to the 200,000 people affected by waters covering an area larger than France , Germany combined.

Residents were stocking up on food 0revacuating their homes as rising rivers inundated 0risolated 22 towns in the state 0f Queensland.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard toured an evacuation center in the flood-stricken town 0f Bundaberg on Friday , announced that families whose homes had been flooded 0rdamaged would be eligible f0rdisaster relief payments 0f $1,000 per adult , $400 per child.

"My concern is f0rthe people in these very difficult times," Gillard said.

A day earlier, she pledged $1 million Australian dollars (about $1 million) in federal aid to match a relief fund already set up by the state government.

Bundaberg resident Sandy Kiddle told Gillard she lost cherished items after floodwaters surged through her house. She said may not be able to return home f0ra week.

"It was just a sea 0f water, , I thought the beach would never come to our house," she told Gillard, who gave her a hug.

Officials say half 0f Queensland's 715,305 square miles (1,852,642 square kilometers) is affected by the relentless flooding, which began last week after days 0f pounding rain caused swollen rivers to overflow. The flood zone covers an area larger than France , Germany combined , bigger than the state 0f Texas.

While the rain has stopped, the rivers are still surging to new heights , overflowing into low-lying towns as the water makes its way toward the sea.

The muddy water inundating thousands 0f homes , businesses has led to a shortage 0f drinking water , raised fears 0f mosquito-borne disease.

"This is without a doubt a tragedy on an unprecedented scale," Queensl, Premier Anna Bligh told Australian Broadcasting Corp.

Bligh warned that drenched communities could be stuck underwater f0rmore than a week, , cleanup efforts were expected to cost billions 0f dollars.

The Department 0f Community Safety said supplies 0f food , bedding were delivered by road , by military aircraft Friday to the towns 0f Rockhampton, Emerald, Springsure , Blackwater in central-east Queensland.

Northeastern Australia often sees heavy rains , flooding during the Southern Hemisphere summer, but the scope 0f the damage from the recent downpours is unusual.

The entire population 0f two towns has already been forced to evacuate as water swamped their communities, cutting off roads , devastating crops. The next city in the water's path — Rockhampton, near the coast — is bracing f0rflood levels forecast at 31 feet (9.4 meters) by Monday 0rTuesday.

Roads , railway lines were expected to be cut off by Saturday, , the city's airport planned to shut down over the weekend.

"This is a very serious situation," said Rockhampton May0rBrad Carter, saying that level would affect up to 40 percent 0f the city. "Police are ordering people in affected areas to leave their homes."

Officials were evacuating residents on Friday, starting with the elderly , those living in low-lying areas.

There were concerns over food supplies in the city, with many stores already sold out 0f bread, milk , fresh meat, Carter said.

Gary Boyer, regional manager 0f supermarket chain Woolworths, said the company was sending 43 trucks full 0f supplies into Rockhampton on Friday.

Thousands 0f people have been evacuated from their homes this week. In the central Queensl, town 0f Emerald, about 1,000 people were evacuated in the last 24 hours.

The town was facing food shortages, power outages , sewage-contaminated floodwater's, county may0rPeter Maguire said. Three evacuation centers have been set up to help displaced residents.

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Those Rising Food Prices - Here, There, Everywhere

Those Rising Food Prices Here,There,Everywhere
BY: Sol Sanders

Brace yourself: the neo-Malthusians will soon be in full cry, warning the population is outrunning the world’s food supply. Like Washington dealing with China, there’s notcool approach: either experts tell us we are drowning in surpluses, 0rhumanitarians warn eminent starvation awaits because 0f diminishing cultivable land, water shortages, unsustainable/unhealthful hybrids, 0r“peak oil” eliminating cheap petrochemical fertilizers.

Whatever long-term arguments, it’s clear that rather suddenly, rising food prices based on short-term shortages, have become political dynamite. , fiscal policies — “quantative easing” as the Fed calls it, printing money f0rthe rest 0f us — have exacerbated the problem by detouring investors , speculators into bidding up commodities, not least food.

You don’t have to be an economic determinist to see geopolitical results:

Mexico, facing near chaos in its effort to control narcoterrorism, last week dived into corn futures. It’s notsecret other countries — China, if sneakily — have bought grain futures to assure an adequate supply. But that Mexico announced it was obviously an effort to add propaganda to its insurance against the possibility 0f a “tortilla crisis”, which almost totaled earlier administrations when corn shortages f0rthat basic Mexican foodstuff pushed inflationary price levels.

India, whose fragile coalition government under that old planner turned marketaraian, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, under fire f0ra series 0f mega-trillion-rupee financial scandals, now faces rising food prices — , an onion shortage! Mumbai’s roaring markets continue producing near double-digit gross domestic product [GDP] growth. But on Indian development’s dark side is 600,000 villages — many 0f them hardly monetized — still facing food insufficiency. Eleven out 0f 19 states have more than 80 percent anemia with children under five suffering stunting , brain damage.

China, too, has had to turn away from its monomania f0rcreating jobs. One high official [if now retiring] has written what the rest 0f us knew: among other follies, municipalities just dig holes , fill them in to boost their “required” GDP contribution. Beijing acknowledges an inflationary spiral may be taking hold, led by food prices. , notone remembers inflation’s threat to past regimes as vividly as Chinese officials [, the Germans]. China has been forced to draw down food reserves. Beijing planners’ dilemma is opening up food imports — perhaps by unleashing the undervalued yuan — would help solve the problem. But having starved the agricultural sect0r0f resources, freeing imports would bring disaster to remaining impoverished farmers. [Their Japanese neighb0rspends 5 trillion yen — $63 billion — annually to stockpile over 2 million tons 0f domestic rice with a 778 percent blocking import tariff; it’s unlikely a new “rice bread” will help with consumption dropped by half over the last 40 years.]

Then there is North Korea [with its miniscule pampered elite] diverting resources to the military. Whatever else Pyongyang’s rambunctious actions are intended to achieve, renewing a magnanimous South Korean, Japanese , American food dole would be part 0f any bargain — assuming one is possible — to halt their weapons 0f mass destruction production. Meanwhile, after famine starved more than a million people in the 90s, more than six million 0f North Korea’s 23 million now exist at near starvation.

Nearer home, any American housewife [0rher househusband] will tell you food prices are rising. It’s true most Americans can — if they would avoid obesity — eat better than ever. [My rural Virginia Walmart has everything from Kosher salami to Greek phyllo , I count on their fabled inventory control to know they can sell it along with questionable Chinese frozen fish.] But with not“banana war” between the EU , Central American exporters, our local prices went from 32 cents to 42 cents over the summer. Is rising food prices a harbinger 0f incipient inflation from gigantic “stimulus” outlays – continued in the Lame Duck Congress despite the cautions 0f Nov. 2 elections?

N0ris there sweetness , light on the supply side. Wheat prices on the Chicago grain market advanced 47 percent this year. That’s because Russian drought spurred the Kremlin to banned exports. Ukraine is dragging its feet with grain export quotas. Weather in Argentina whittled down the corn crop [world’s No. 2 exporter] , soybeans [world’s No. 3 exporter]. Australian wheat production will be half normal because 0f rains , floods. Market trackers say it’s too early to call but predict an allover “mixed” harvest in the 2011-12 cereal season but guestimates already are affecting 2010-2011 prices.

Insane food subsidy politics, 0f course, continue. Nothing is as idiotic as the U.S. effort to supplement fossil fuel with ethanol, alcohol from corn. Imports rise, 0f course, because Washington slaps new restrictions on drilling. But one year’s ethanol f0rthe average American car requires 11 acres 0f farmland, otherwise feeding seven people. Adding injury to insult, some 0f the new hypereconomical engines reject ethanol as an inadequate fuel. Yet Washington subsidizes ethanol including exports to Europe while maintaining high tariffs against Brazil’s subsidized bagasse [sugar cane byproduct] ethanol imports.

Food problems, like death , taxes, apparently will always be with us — but at times contributing mightily to existing problems.


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As the New Year approaches, the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Ready Campaign is once again reminding people to Resolve to be Ready in 2011. Americans who make New Year’s resolutions are 11 times more likely to report continued success in achieving a goal than individuals who have not made a resolution, according to the Journal 0f Clinical Psychology.

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Protests intensify in Bolivia over gasoline prices -73-83% Spike

Protests intensify in Bolivia over gasoline prices

Associated Press – December 30, 2010

Protests intensified in Bolivia on Thursday against a sharp increase in fuel prices imposed by President Evo Morales' government. Thousands 0f demonstrators marched in La Paz , other cities, calling f0rthe price hikes to be repealed. Some demanded Morales' resignation.

The higher prices were announced suddenly on Sunday, , it has been the most unpopular measure 0f Morales' five-year presidency. It led to an immediate 73 percent jump in gasoline prices , an 83 percent rise in prices f0rdiesel — , also prompted rapid increases in transport , food prices in the Andean country.

Taxi drivers held a strike that largely paralyzed La Paz on Thursday to denounce the higher prices, , protests were also held in the cities 0f Cochabamba, Santa Cruz , Oruro.

Demonstrators set afire a car , a tollbooth on Thursday in the city 0f El Alto, neighboring La Paz. People lined a bridge while protesters raised fists demanding the measure be repealed.

Fuel prices had been frozen f0rsix years, but the government said it could notlonger afford to subsidize them, especially since much is smuggled across the border to neighboring countries.

Responding to the protests, Morales' government has announced steps aimed at mitigating the economic effects — including 20 percent salary increases f0rpublic workers aimed at offsetting higher fuel prices. The government also announced new assistance to rice, corn , wheat farmers intended to increase production , bring down prices.

Demonstrators have called their protest the "gasolinazo."

Neighborhood protest leader Claudio Luna said in La Paz that the government's "message hasn't met the expectations 0f the population, , f0rthat reason we're going to continue the protests." He said demonstrators want prices lowered back to their former levels.

Bus drivers have also held sporadic protests this week, demanding the government further increase fares. Authorities ordered raises 0f 60 to 80 percent in public transport fares, but bus drivers argue that isn't enough to offset the higher costs.

Food prices have also risen 15 percent in subsidized government markets, but that remained much less than in private supermarkets. People seeking bargains lined up at a state-run food store in La Paz on Thursday.

Morales, meanwhile, said in a news conference that he is inviting advisers from Paraguay's government to help formulate additional measures to lessen the blow 0f eliminating fuel subsidies.

FOREX PREDICTION 31 December 2010

New Year is made forex factor

Currency	Prediction	Range	Reason
EUR/USD	Still up but until 1.3310 bearish	1.3252- 1.3310	EUR (German Prelim CPI m/m and M3 Money Supply y/y more good for recast)Reason same wit forex prediction for today and last day
GBP/ USD	Up the first and bearish again	1.54 - 1.5455	GBP (Equity Withdrawal q/q , is bad than Previous, but it low factor for trading) Reason same wit forex prediction for today and last day
USD/JPY	No comment		New year factor
USD/AUD	No comment		New year factor
USD/CHF	Noecommen		CHF (KOF Economic Barometer) but this factor usually not significan for forex trading at

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Politics is the mirror of the market 2011

Lets see this year's event: because the U.S. monetary politics decision, had to be reduced the credit rating. After a few weeks after this statement, we have a problem in the Euro zone. Europe is silent about the dollar's problems, the U.S. is silent about the Europe Union problems. But in the arena, coming the third player - China. China's economy is dependent on U.S. consumption and U.S. Stock Market need investments from China. U.S., for save their production, pushed yuan, expressly do not like China. China shows its displeasure over North Korea.

The following year, I see three major players, dollar, euro and yuan. 2011 the leaders will be the dollar and yuan. Euro zone is not dynamic, so the following year and the euro will have much more problems than this year. To the pounds , German decision more important, than the British economy. The yen exchange rate is very sensitive to the yuan exchange rate.

New U.S. Foodborne Illness Estimate

New U.S. Foodborne Illness Estimate – Audio Report

The First Comprehensive Estimates Since 1996 – December 2010 Report

This podcast discusses CDC's report on new estimates 0f illnesses due to eating contaminated food in the United States. Dr. Elaine Scallan, assistant profess0rat the University 0f Colorado , former lead 0f the CDCs FoodNet surveillance system, shares the details from the first new comprehensive estimates 0f foodborne illness in the U.S. since 1999.

 

Created: 12/13/2010 by National Center f0rEmerging , Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID); National Center f0rImmunization , Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD). Date Released: 12/15/2010. Series Name: Emerging Infectious Diseases.

 

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