"Old Hickory" kicked the bankers out. Sometimes it's fun to look at accomplishments of past leaders so we can see that it IS POSSIBLE to KICK THE BANKSTERS OUT
Years before Fukushima engineer Mitsuhiko Tanaka blew the whistle on the fact that Tepco covered up a defective containment vessel, the above-quoted Japan Times article blew the whistle:
Yoichi Kikuchi, a Japanese nuclear engineer who also became a whistle-blower, has told me personally of many safety problems at Japan's nuclear power plants, such as cracks in pipes in the cooling system from vibrations in the reactor. He said the electric companies are "gambling in a dangerous game to increase profits and decrease government oversight."
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City police are reviewing procedures after a police dog attacked an innocent bystander.
Police say the dog bolted from its handler Sunday afternoon and attacked the 56-year-old woman as she stood in front of her home talking on the telephone. She suffered several cuts on her head and buttocks. What do you want to bet the dog gets 3 days off with pay before internal affairs clears it.
The White House has vowed to veto the short-term spending bill House Republicans voted on this afternoon that would provide a budgetary “safety net” while the parties work on a long-term deal.
Hours later the House passed the safety net bill anyway on a mostly party-line 247-181 vote.
People are getting fed up with this kind of behavior. Check the comments. Many of them are very funny. Oh come on... The poor deputy was harassed and fed up... Let him beat on people... What's wrong with that? So many of them are doing it these days, it's either just plain good fun, or it must be good policing somehow. Tell y'all what... Why don't we just scrap the Bill of Rights and leave ourselves in the capable hands of our men in black? And in the video you can plainly see Tanner grabbing for Frazier's flashlight with the back of his head. Luckily the back of his head couldn't get a good grip on the flashlight or the deputy may have been killed by a blast of light from it.
China's health ministry said traces of radioactivity in spinach had been found in three provinces. India earlier this week banned Japanese food imports for three months. In South Korea, some schools closed because parents were worried that rain across the country could be toxic. "We've sent out an official communication today that schools should try to refrain from outdoor activities," an education official in South Korea said. South Korea's nuclear safety agency reported a small level of radioactive iodine and caesium particles in rain in the south but said it was not enough to be a public health concern. Nevertheless, many Koreans donned face masks, and streets near schools in Seoul were more congested than usual as parents drove children to work rather than let them walk.
Q: Why were radioactive materials detected in fish caught off Ibaraki Prefecture? A: Roughly speaking, the sub-arctic Oyashio current, which flows southward along the Pacific coasts of Hokkaido and the Tohoku region, and the Kuroshio current, which flows northward from the Kyushu and Shikoku regions, collide off Choshi, Chiba Prefecture during this period of the season. It is possible that contaminated water which leaked from the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has reached Ibaraki by moving with the sea current. It is also possible that radioactive materials carried by winds have fallen into the sea or that the fish had been in waters near the nuclear plant.
Americans are recognizing the link between the military-industrial complex and the Wall Street oligarchs—a connection that goes back to the beginning of the modern U.S. empire.
Israel says it would not stop short of taking any military action against the Gaza Strip after an Israeli fanfare alleged that firing of projectiles came ‘from the coastal sliver’s direction.’
Israeli fire killed five Palestinians and injured dozens more after a projectile from the Gaza Strip hit a school bus in southern Israel, injuring two people, medical and security officials said.
Compared to Iran, which is a signatory in good standing to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and is an enthusiastic supporter of the United Nations’ initiative of a Middle East nuclear-weapons-free zone, this government has rejected the call by the international community to join the NPT and to allow IAEA inspection of its hidden facilities.
The shameful bottom line in this latest debate about the ‘Goldstone report’ is that the world couldn’t care less whether a generation of Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip suffer from multiple trauma and psychological disorders because of Israel’s relentless night bombings and terrifying low-flying aircraft breaking the sound barrier. Palestinians in Gaza have almost become non-people.
Dr. Andrew Bogan is a managing member of Bogan Associates, LLC in Boston, Massachusetts. He has spoken at many international investor conferences – his specialty being global equity investing – and has been interviewed on live television for CNBC's Strategy Session.
Russia Bans Seafood Imports From Areas Near Japan Nuclear Plant Apr 7, 2011 MOSCOW -(Dow Jones)- Russia's federal food safety watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor has banned the import of seafood from some 242 Japanese processing plants situated near the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant. In a statement Rosselkhoznadzor said the ban came as a result of the analysis of radiation risks in the area surrounding the nuclear plant. "Russia's imports of Japanese seafood in 2010 totaled 57,000 metric tons."
Earthquake acceleration levels at Tohoku Electric Power Co.'s Onagawa nuclear plant in Miyagi Prefecture exceeded quake-proof standards when the March 11 temblor slammed Tohoku, the utility said Thursday.
Tsunami triggered by the earthquake also far exceeded the maximum level anticipated and almost reached the site of the plant. The power station, which has three reactors, safely suspended operations when the disaster hit, the utility said.
The village of Iitate, near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, plans to evacuate pregnant women, toddlers and babies amid growing doubts among residents there about the central government's radiation safety instructions, local officials said.
The Elite’s Main Stream Media has already started to marginalize and control the growing Freedom Movement. The WSJ/NBC conducted a poll of likely Republican primary voters and only gave the voters the choice of the Elite’s sock puppet candidates. Ron Paul was not a choice in the 9 candidate field. Even more mysteriously, Ron Paul was missing from the Tea Party specific poll. The big headline story was that Donald Trump is all of the sudden the #2 candidate on the poll. Even though we are way early in this race, I want to expose this Elitist plan to prevent any real revolution in this country.
Arnie Gundersen discusses inconstancies between what the NRC, TEPCo, and the Nuclear Industry are saying privately and publicly. Documents from the french nuclear firm, Areva, and the NRC reveal what the industry knows about the Fukushima disaster.
Japan's nuclear agency says the quake on Thursday night disabled 2 out of the 3 outside power lines used at the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture.
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency says the plant has been using outside power lines to cool its nuclear fuel rods since the March 11th quake. The agency says after Thursday's quake, the plant is using only one remaining power line.
The agency says there is no change in radiation levels around the plant as of just after midnight Thursday. The agency is trying to confirm the current status at the plant.
Stuxnet, a computer virus designed to attack servers isolated from the Internet, such as at power plants, has been confirmed on 63 personal computers in Japan since July, according to major security firm Symantec Corp.
The virus does not cause any damage online, but once it enters an industrial system, it can send a certain program out of control.
Symantec says the virus reaches the servers via USB memory sticks, and warns against the careless use of such devices.
Systems at power plants, gas stations and water facilities are not connected to the Internet to protect them from cyber-attacks.
Two nuclear power plants in Japan have lost power and are currently running on back up generators after another huge quake rocked Japan.
“At 12:23 a.m. the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, an arm of the Japanese government, began holding an emergency press conference. An official said external sources of electricity have been cut to both the Higashi-Dori nuclear power plant in Aomori Pref., in northern Japan and the Rokkasho nuclear recycling plant, which I wrote in the latest issue of Forbes magazine . Both plants are reportedly operating normally via on-site emergency generators,“wrote Yas Idei, writing for Forbes in Japan.
Reuters has reported that officials have restarted the cooling systems at the Onagawa nuclear plant.
After the radioactive cloud eminating from Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant reached Europe last week, French authorities have detected radioactive iodine-131 in rainwater and milk.
CRIIRAD, an independent French research body on radioactivity, said it had detected radioactive iodine-131 in rainwater in south-eastern France.
A sample analysed on 28 March showed radioactivity levels of 8.5 becquerel.
In parallel testing, the French Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN), the national public institution monitoring nuclear and radiological risks, found iodine 131 in milk.
According to the institute, concentrations from a sample collected on 25 March showed levels of less than 0.11 becquerels per litre.
In normal times, no trace of iodine-131 should be detectable in rainwater or milk. (story continues)
Police say an explosion near Santa Monica synagogue was caused by some type of mechanical failure and not any type of bomb.
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What is really interesting is that the damage was not to the Synagogue but to the house next door. But ABCNNBBCBS took the loud bang and the proximity to the Synagogue and ran with hate crime headlines, because Israel needs all the sympathy it can get right now. One report even claimed that the "bomb" had been hidden inside a Torah! But as it turns out, some worn out and overdue for replacement piece of the infrastructure let go with a loud bang. The media simply let their imaginations run wild.
Quakes can generate huge amounts of static electricity, and between the lightning bolts from the static and exploding power lines, brief flashes of light are common accompaniments to quakes, and indeed I have seen them myself during night quakes I have experienced.
But that long bright glow is something else! It has been reported there was a problem with the Onagawa power station following the quake. I do not know if this camera is looking in that direction.
Real estate tycoon Donald Trump said Thursday he has real doubts about whether President Obama was born in the United States and has sent investigators to Hawaii looking for answers.
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Given that the birth certificate issue is rather benign, he only thing that makes sense is that Trump is actually going to help Obama by making the birth certificate the campaign issue for 2012, using it to distract the voters from the wars, the economy, oil in the gulf of Mexico and radiation everywhere else. Then after all the players have inextricably committed themselves to this birth certificate issue, Obama reveals the truth about his real father, confirms he is eligible to be President, blasts his opponents for "dirty politics" and rides the resulting wave of public sympathy into a second term.
Trump, as a registered Republican, can also aid Obama by splitting the GOP vote and especially by taking votes away from Ron Paul.
A little more detail on today's confusing events in Libya. AJDABIYA, Libya – Rebel fighters claimed NATO airstrikes blasted their forces Thursday in another apparent mistake that sharply escalated anger about the military alliance's efforts to cripple Libyan forces. At least five rebels were killed and more than 20 injured, a doctor said. A rebel commander, Ayman Abdul-Karim, said he saw airstrikes hit tanks and a rebel convoy, which included a passenger bus carrying fighters toward Brega. He and other rebels described dozens killed or wounded, but a precise casualty toll was not immediately known.
La Voz de Aztlan, as a public service, is making the following information on how to spot an antisemitic hate crime hoax in view of the incident that occurred at the Claremont Colleges on March 9, 2004. In this incident, one of a growing number, Professor Kerri Dunn staged a hate crime hoax by graffiting "Kike Whore" and a swastika on her own car as well as slashing her tires after she delivered a speech on hate on the campus of Claremont-McKenna College.
The information below was collected from the book "Crying Wolf - Hate Crime Hoaxes in America" written by Laird Wilcox.
Dr. Kerri Dunn, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology at Claremont McKenna College in Southern California, was seen by two witnesses applying 'racist, anti—Semitic and sexist epithets' to her car.
After evaluating evidence from a hidden camera positioned in response to the swastika postings in Mitchell Hall, University Police have linked the student who filed the complaints to several of the incidents.
Following a final interview with investigators today, the student admitted responsibility for those incidents.
The individual will now face student judicial action and a determination will be made as to whether District of Columbia and/or federal laws were violated. No other suspects in the Mitchell Hall incidents were identified at any point through use of the hidden camera, interviews, or increased patrols of the residence hall.
First published Mar 04 2011 12:14PM Updated Mar 22, 2011 11:52PM
It may not fold as conveniently as dollar bills, but the Utah House took a first step Friday to recognize gold and silver as legal tender.
It voted 47-26 to pass HB317 by Rep. Brad Galvez, R-West Haven, and sent it to the Senate. The measure would recognize as legal tender gold and silver coins issued by the federal government — not just their face value, but also their value in gold and silver or to a collector.
Apr 7, 12:28 PM EDT - TOKYO (AP) -- Japan was rattled by a magnitude-7.4 aftershock Thursday night nearly a month after a devastating earthquake and tsunami flattened the northeastern coast. The Japan meteorological agency briefly issued another tsunami warning Thursday night, but later canceled it.
Officials at the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant said there was no immediate sign of new problems caused by the aftershock. Buildings as far away as Tokyo shook for about a minute.
Officials say Thursday's aftershock hit 30 miles (50 kilometers) under the water and off the coast of Miyagi prefecture. The quake that preceded last month's tsunami was a 9.0-magnitude. The U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo., later downgraded Thursday's quake to 7.1.
Tarak Kauff, Veteran For Peace activist and organizer, stated, "There are trillions for wars and occupations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and now Libya, billions yearly to support Israel's occupation and oppression of Palestine, again trillions in bailouts to make those at the top of the economic food chain even more powerful, but relative pennies for our children's education, adequate health care, infrastructure, housing and other necessities of Americans. Yet big corporate banks are thriving and, like Bank of America, pay no taxes. But you do, and I do, and working people all across this country pay taxes. I ask, what are we paying for and into whose pockets is it going?
The blowout preventer that failed on a BP Plc well last year, leading to the worst U.S. offshore oil spill, was four years overdue for maintenance under driller Transocean Ltd.’s internal guidelines, a U.S. regulator said.
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I want the name of the money-junkie who decided to save a few bucks by not doing the maintenance.
The complaints however, center around Gadhafi’s tanks in Misrata being “dispersed” across the city and inside the city, where the fighting is and where the population is. Though the allegation of human shields sounds dramatic, all it really means is that NATO is mad the tanks aren’t all clustered together in the desert, making them sitting ducks for air strikes.
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Brought to you courtesy of.... The Department of "You Can't Make this Stuff UP!"
An unnamed senior military official in Israel has confirmed Wednesday that a Tuesday attack on Sudan was carried out by the Israeli military. The confirmation came after a “no comment” response from the military itself.
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It is apparent that the Israeli government believes it has the right to strike any individual or country it wishes, and that there will never be any repercussions from these acts.
After all, they murdered an American citizen in cold blood on an aid ship headed toward Gaza last year, Furkan Dogan, whose "crime" was that of holding a camera. http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Media/american-killed-gaza-aid-flotilla/story?id=10814848
In the annals of classical literature, what creates a catastrophe is "hubris"; an overweening pride which makes people,(and governments), believe that they can get away with anything with no consequences.
As federal agents raid the offices of three major hedge funds amidst news of a sweeping probe of insider trading at Wall Street firms, we speak with New York Times business columnist Joe Nocera about his new book All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis. The book describes how most of the underlying structures and key players behind the financial crisis have emerged relatively unscathed.
We speak to Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, who addresses the growing class divide taking place in the United States and inequality in a new Vanity Fair article titled "Of the 1, by the 1, for the 1%." Stiglitz is a professor at Columbia University and author of numerous books, most recently Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy. "It’s not just that the people at the top are getting richer," Stiglitz says. "Actually, they’re gaining, and everybody else is decreasing... And right now, we are worse than Old Europe."
In a widely covered interview last Wednesday, the CEO of Wal-Mart, Bill Simon, warned that “U.S. consumers face ‘serious’ inflation in the months ahead for clothing, food and other products.” He noted: "We're seeing cost increases starting to come through at a pretty rapid rate." Given his purview, I accept Simon’s opinion as positively disconcerting, and if inflation is to hit home in the heartland of America, it will certainly begin at Wal-Mart...
If you extrapolate, Morgan Stanley's calculations means we have a shadow inventory of 38 months, on top of the current 8.7 months supply. This would imply almost 4 years of backlog. Gary Shilling says that home prices will fall another 20% before hitting bottom.
Rebels in eastern Libya say their forces have been mistakenly hit in a Nato air raid.
Doctors in Ajdabiya told the BBC at least 13 rebel fighters had been killed by the strike on a rebel tank position.
It is the third such incident in recent days involving international forces deployed to protect Libyan civilians.
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Are you sure you know which side the US Government is really on?
Remember, Israel wants Qaddafi kept in power. And public relations spin to the contrary, Israel always gets what it wants from the US Government.
Claire's comments follow. ---
WAY TO GO, NATO: KILLING THE VERY PEOPLE YOU ARE ALLEGEDLY SUPPOSED TO BE PROTECTING!!!!
And by the way, Supreme NATO Commander Stavridis, if the US and NATO are supposed to be "protecting" the Libyan people, why are you using depleted uranium weapons here?!?!? http://thoughtbites.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/nato-using-depleted-uranium-bombs-again-libya/
In your "love" for the patriotic Libyan people, are you hoping for the same outcome from the use of these weapons as happened in Fallujah, Iraq?!?
OK, NATO and the US: just drop the flipping hypocrisy, because we know what you're up to.. Just announce to the world, "This is absolutely naked aggression against Libya for the oil, the water, and the gold; the Libyan people are completely expendable. Just get over it, already!"
Because thinking people around the world understand quite well what is going on here; it's power and greed, wrapped in a bloody "humanitarian" banner.
And of course, let's not forget one country with a whole lot to lose in development deals when "regime change" comes in Libya: China.
"The riot in Libya has engulfed the many activities of Chinese firms striving to create billion-dollar businesses in the exploitation of oil fields and infrastructure projects. The Chinese Minister of Commerce announced on its website that on the 24 February 27 Chinese construction sites and plants were "attacked and devastated": the army and rebel groups have attacked buildings, destroyed vehicles and equipment, stolen money and everything else that they could."
After the radioactive cloud emanating from Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant reached Europe last week, French authorities have detected radioactive iodine-131 in rainwater and milk...
The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says pressure inside the containment vessel of the Number 1 reactor is rising following an injection of nitrogen gas.
Tokyo Electric Power Company started the injection early on Thursday to prevent a possible hydrogen explosion at the reactor.
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As I pointed out yesterday, the nitrogen idea only works in a stable environment where it will float on top of the oxygen but beneath the hydrogen, separating the two. But inside the reactor, there is a major source of heat, and convection currents will keep all the gases mixed. The containment is pressurized with en explosive mix of radioactive gases, and they just had another major quake. I hope the bubble did not burst!
Press TV: What is your reaction toward the Pentagon state secretary saying there is no decision yet in stopping military aid to Yemen and of the US assertion that US weapons are not being used against demonstrators?
They have been used; it is not honest to say that they have not. We know that (there are) special units the US and CIA have been training; perhaps they have not directly taken part in the shooting and killing of demonstrators personally. However, they have displaced other forces, meaning that they freed other forces to do that. There is a direct link between US aid to Yemen and the killings of hundreds of demonstrators.
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If true, it is hardly surprising.
But yet again, the US intelligence community appears to have has been caught off guard with the rapid movement of events in Yemen.
It is as though those in the bowels of power in DC pathologically refuse to realize that when peaceful revolution is impossible, violent revolution is almost inevitable.
When US officials pontificate about the need for democracy, human rights, and progress in the rest of the world, while participating in repression of a popular uprising against one of the tinpot dictators they've ensconced, it makes this country's leadership appear cynically hypocritical.
Sudan has accused Israel of carrying out a missile attack on a car in Port Sudan that killed two men, according to Haaretz.
The attack targeted a Hamas arms dealer. Sudanese foreign minister Ali Karti said one of the two men killed had no ties to the terrorist organization. Mr. Karti is convinced that it was an Israeli attack.
Officials claim Israel's attack was an attempt to undermine Sudanese attempts to get off America's list of state sponsors of terrorism. Sudan has been on the list since 1993.
The United States is "on guard" for terrorist attacks "emanating" out of war-torn Libya, FBI Director Robert Mueller has said.
The assessment came a day after the FBI confirmed that it was contacting Libyan nationals living in and visiting the US in an effort to "determine whether there is a threat to Americans".
Mueller, testifying before the House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, said that the US is also prepared for Libyan operatives who "may well" be in the country after crossing
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I wonder if a "terror attack" (reg trademark White House) by Libyan "Al Qaeda" (reg trademark Tel Aviv) will be the propaganda device used to sell the American people on the "need" to keep Qaddafi in power.
The film exposes the use and impact of radioactive weapons during the current war against Iraq.
The story is told by citizens of many nations. It opens with comments by two British veterans, Kenny Duncan and Jenny Moore, describing their exposure to radioactive, so-called depleted uranium (DU), weapons ...
...and
the congenital abnormalities of their children.
An award winning documentary film produced for German television by Freider Wagner and Valentin Thurn.
“Day by day, the things began to go back to the way it used to be as if the uprising never happened in the first place. Mubarak closest circle of aids and strong officials in the government and the national Democratic Party (NDP) were still on the loose with millions of dollars worth of liquid money and property stolen from the country and unaccounted for. Mubarak himself has not been put on trial yet despite the billions he has stolen and the atrocities he has committed.”
The IDF arrested more than 100 women from the Awarta village in the West Bank in connection to the ongoing investigation into the deaths if a couple and three of their children, including one baby, in the Itamar settlement last month, AFP reported Thursday. Awarta lies close to the Itamar settlement and Nablus.
The local council head told AFP that the IDF had stormed Awarta shortly after midnight, imposing a curfew and beginning to round up women. Though the IDF has been conducting consistent raids in the last four weeks since the Itamar murders, this is the first time the IDF has arrested women, the local council head added.
The video of Arna’s Children that was posted on this site as well as on many others was removed from YouTube “By User” which I find very unlikely….. but HERE is a link that works…
The rash of revolutions that have swept through the Middle East, and America’s hesitance to stand decisively on the side of democracy has emphasized the importance of oil and money on American foreign policy. America has been a staunch member of the NATO Coalition restricting a no-fly zone over Libya, as rebels attempt to oust standing dictator Muammar Gaddafi, but have refused to back from their support of Yemeni dictator Ali Saleh, despite his massacre of protestor calling for democracy on March 18th, largely because of the wishes of Saudi Arabia, one of America’s largest oil importers.
A couple of weeks ago a survey of the ultra-rich by Fidelity Investments showed that most of these millionaires did not feel rich unless they had $7.5 million. Keep in mind that one out of three Americans do not have one penny to their name, not even stashed in the beat up mattress. It is also the case that the average per capita income in the United States is $25,000 so it must be odd to hear millionaires saying that they don’t feel wealthy until they reach the $7.5 million mark. The top 1 percent already have over 40 percent of all financial wealth in this country but apparently this is not enough.
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"I am a recovering money-junkie. Please send all you can to help me. Nothing smaller than $100. Thank you."
Even loyal Obama supporters are raising their eyebrows at the very pricey fundraising -- like that exclusive $35,800-per-person dinner in San Francisco -- planned as part of the President's April 20 visit to the Bay Area
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A short memo to those "...loyal Obama supporters."
Please stop drinking the koolaid, and start looking to what has happened to this country under Obama's watch.
We have massive unemployment and underemployment with more and more jobs offshored; banks are foreclosing both legally and illegally in order to get the houses on the books to cover for the massive securitized derivatives they dumped on the market; the "surge" in Afghanistan has not netted any real security improvements on the ground, and the only winners there are the drug lords and defense contractors; Gitmo remains open; the economy is tanking, and all Geithner can do is keep printing money to the point where the US dollar is worthless; Iraq remains a ticking time-bomb; torture and extrajudicial assassination have become institutionalized; and with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq going catastrophically badly, Obama has chosen to start a third war against a country which never, ever, threatened us militarily!
Oh, yes, Obama has done a multitude of things since taking office; but if you look dispassionately, you will see that those things have nothing to do with the needs and concerns of We the People, but with the needs and concerns of those monied interests who put him in place to protect their interests.
All of a sudden,this $35,000-per-person soiree looks perfectly logical,and in fact a bargain, for those large corporations looking for their agendas to remain protected by this President.
The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Wednesday that some of the core of a stricken Japanese reactor had probably leaked from its steel pressure vessel into the bottom of the containment structure, implying that the damage was even worse than previously thought.
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2 weeks ago the Japanese were saying Reactor 2 had breached the pressure vessel and containment, Yesterday a congressman confirmed the core breach only to have the NRC issue a statement saying the matter "was not clear." Today they are back-peddling and acknowledging what we were telling you two weeks ago.
As the governor of Wisconsin defies court orders and exhibits imperious and law defying behavior, an article by Joseph Mercola, entitled "Governors as Dictators" stands out with enhanced relevant, not only for Wisconsin but for the country. For what Mercola addresses in the article would suggest that the protests in Wisconsin are not going deep enough, for they are not addressing laws on the Wisconsin books already which make the threats to union rights pale in comparison.
Dr. Mercola's article concerns the Model State Emergency Health Powers laws that were pushed through state legislatures under George Bush following 9/11 and the anthrax scare, though prepared long previous to both.
At the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, radiation in seawater near the Number 2 reactor remains high, even after the leakage of contaminated water into the sea was stopped.
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Meaning there are many leaks besides the one they plugged.
As a general rule, a large quake can expect one major aftershock about a magnitude less. This may have been it. The real danger here is that the containment on the damaged reactors at Fukushima are filled with water and seawater to cool the reactor cores. Holding that mass of water instead of air is not a normal mode of operation and adding a major quake on top of it may spring a few more leaks.
The government has decided to set consumption limits for radioactive iodine in fishery products at 2,000 becquerels per kilogram--the same regulatory value set for vegetables.
The hasty decision was made in response to Monday's announcement by an Ibaraki Prefecture fishery cooperative that radioactive iodine had been detected in kounago (young sand launce) caught in waters off the prefecture. The small eellike fish was found to contain 4,080 becquerels of iodine per kilogram.
Prominent French Jew Bernard-Henri Levy is claiming credit for having persuaded President Sarkozy to press successfully for Western intervention in Libya.
Fishermen who lost their homes and boats on March 11 now fear radioactive water gushing into the Pacific from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant could cost them their livelihoods.
The contaminated water has raised concerns about the safety of seafood, prompting the government to set limits for the first time on the amount of radiation permitted in fish.
Authorities insisted the radioactive water would dissipate and posed no immediate threat to sea creatures or people who eat them, and most experts agree.
But even though the new standards are being adopted as a precaution, the mere suggestion that seafood from Japan could be at any risk stirred worries throughout the fishing industry.
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"Authorities" are paid from tax revenues which derive from (among other things) commercial fishing.
GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli artillery and attack helicopters retaliated on Thursday after an anti-tank missile fired from the Gaza Strip hit an Israeli bus, seriously wounding a teenage boy and injuring several others.
Israeli forces immediately struck back, shelling various locations across the Gaza Strip, killing a 50-year-old man and wounding at least eight people including a 4-year-old girl, Palestinian medics said.
Recent Israeli government calls for the UN to retract the 2009 report of its Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict are a cynical attempt to avoid accountability for war crimes and deny both Palestinian and Israeli victims of the 2008-2009 conflict the justice and reparations they deserve.
Video: Al Gore ambushed on Climategate by activists at Chicago Bookstore
The day was November 29, a few weeks after Climategate broke. Gore was doing a signing at a Chicago bookstore. We Are Change Chicago was prepared. It's some of the best pure live footage I've ever seen. Do not miss the final 45 seconds. Someone screams out "You're a piece of shit Al Gore" and then the fun begins.
I am holding out no strong hopes that there are any “politicians” in Britain who have the guts or spine to stand up against Zionism. And, whether the Report is or is not rescinded or retracted, officially or not, the Report and its facts have been put before the public, and nothing will change that
Peggy Schulz was fed up. In March, after being unemployed for nearly two years, she performed an experiment: She went to a job-search website, limited the search to the Milwaukee area and typed in a simple term: "bus line."
The results displayed what had long been plaguing her. Job posting after job posting featured similar caveats: "this is not on a bus line," "need reliable transportation not on bus line," "positions are NOT on a bus line," "our client that is not located on a bus line is interested in having you work ..."
"Here it was in black and white," she later recalled with a bitter laugh. "It's been very frustrating to look through the want ads, look online, think about places I could work and realize, 'Nope, can't get there on the bus.'"
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The government, screaming "green" and "carbon dioxide", has been urging people to give up the freedom of their own cars and to accept independence on mass public transportation. When people actually do it, the public transportation has been shut down for lack of funds.
Israel has never been a “stooge” of the United States. If there is any stooge in this relationship, it is America. After all, it is the U.S. that has been fighting and paying for Israel’s wars, not the other way around.
After the accident, Turkish leaders calmly went on television to sip tea that had been harvested on Turkey's Black Sea coast, whose terraces soak up rain from the north throughout each spring. Scientists declared that there was no general health threat.
Until a month ago, that is. Suddenly newspapers were full of pictures of balding, leukemia-stricken children. Their angry parents stood beside them, accusing the government of negligence as their loved ones fell victim to cancer.
Well looks like Israel is getting ready for Cast Lead II!
Two people were wounded Thursday after a projectile exploded into a bus travelling in one of the communities surrounding the Gaza Strip.
Officials in the defense ministry believe the bus was hit by a mortar bomb, however other reports said the strike may have been an anti-tank missile. Following the attack, 16 additional mortar shells were fired at Israeli towns in the western Negev, most of them hitting open areas.
Three employees of Transocean, owner and operator of the Deepwater Horizon, have refused to cooperate with a federal investigation into last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.
The more you watch what is going on in the world, the more you come to one of two main conclusions; this is all happening for a reason or, chaos and darkness are upon our doorstep. I’m in the former group and it’s not something I am merely inclined toward or simply believe in. It’s one of the few things I know. The question is, why?
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The rule is follow is to never attribute to malice anything explainable by accident and stupidity.
Permit me to make some suggestions regarding the poisons those responders who died carried in them, and those that survived may be carrying with them now. These are based on the excellent film documentary, Dust To Dust—The health effects of 9/11, made by Heidi Dehncke-Fisher, a film I reviewed in 911’s second round of slaughter.
During the opening, Dehncke-Fisher supers on the screen “a short list” of some of the 2,500 deadly contaminants that erupted from the explosion of the World Trade Center Towers, that is, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, plus two fuel-laden jetliners that all turned into a toxic gray dust that hung in the air, as well as settled in people’s lungs, on area streets, vehicles, buildings, residences, both outside and inside the city for months . . .
Charlotte real estate agent Leigh Brown explains that after purchasing a BofA short sale, a North Carolina family was forced to hire private security guards to protect the home from Bank Of America.
While the U.S. Congress braces for a battle over the nation's budget -- even as the countdown begins towards an impending government shutdown Friday night -- 11 GOP senators have vowed continued financial support for Israel.
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No government can serve two masters. A government that serves Israel cannot and will not serve the American people. A friend of Israel is no friend of America. The time has come to rid our nation of these traitors in our midst.
Errol Morris "Mr. Death" is a stylized documentary that deals with the life and work of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., a US Federal Court qualified expert in execution technology.
On the basis of his qualifications, in 1988 Leuchter was commissioned by German-Canadian publisher Ernst Zundel to conduct the first thorough forensic examination of the alleged Nazi gas chambers at Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.
After Leuchter testified that the alleged facilities were not -- and could not have been -- used for mass extermination, Jewish activists ruined his life.
Leuchter comes across just as straightforward and guileless on film as he is in real life.
The outcome in Libya remains uncertain, but what seems clear beyond reasonable doubt is that military intervention has not saved the day for either the shadowy opposition known as ‘the rebels,’ and certainly not for the people of the country. It has seemingly plunged Libya into a protracted violent conflict with the domestic balance of forces tipping decisively in favor of the Qaddafi regime despite a major military onslaught managed by the American-led coalition, which in recent days has been supposedly outsourced to NATO. But since when is NATO not an American dominated alliance?
A “working class hero,” John Lennon told us in his song of that title, “is something to be/ Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV/ And you think you’re so clever and classless and free/ But you’re still fucking peasants as far as I can see.”
The delusion of a classless America in which opportunity is equally distributed is the most effective deception perpetrated by the moneyed elite that controls all the key levers of power in what passes for our democracy. It is a myth blown away by Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz in the current issue of Vanity Fair. In an article titled “Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%” Stiglitz states that the top thin layer of the superwealthy controls 40 percent of all wealth in what is now the most sharply class-divided of all developed nations: “Americans have been watching protests against repressive regimes that concentrate massive wealth in the hands of an elite few. Yet, in our own democracy, 1 percent of the people take nearly a quarter of the nation’s income—an inequality even the wealthy will come to regret.”
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Senate on Wednesday rejected a bid to strip President Barack Obama of his power to regulate greenhouse gases, a move that could have thrown US efforts against climate change into chaos...
The British government said on Monday that it does not support calls for a retraction of the Goldstone Report after its lead author distanced himself from the report’s main allegations.
As the credit crunch bites and a global economic crisis deepens, Robert Peston reveals how the super-rich have made their fortunes, and the rest of us are picking up the bill
Fort Carson will practice responding to a mass-casualty accident with an exercise simulating an airplane crash.
The exercise takes place Wednesday at Butts Army Airfield at Fort Carson, just outside Colorado Springs.
The exercise will involve resources and personnel from around Fort Carson, including Evans Army Community Hospital and first responders from nearby communities.
Extraordinary Rendition, Torture and Disappearances in the "War on Terror."
Human rights groups and several public inquiries in Europe have found the U.S. government, with the complicity of numerous governments worldwide, to be engaged in the illegal practice of extraordinary rendition, secret detention, and torture.
The U.S. government-sponsored program of renditions is an unlawful practice in which numerous persons have been illegally detained and secretly flown to third countries, where they are tortured and suffer enforced disappearance.
No one knows the exact number of persons affected, due to the secrecy under which the operations are carried out.
U.S. soldiers disregard lives, Afghan speaker says in Tacoma 04/06/11 Joya criticized their courts-martial as a distraction from the suffering the war has inflicted on ordinary Afghans. She advocated a rapid withdrawal of American forces, whose presence she argued props up corrupt warlords, drug traffickers and even the Taliban. "Just to hide their bigotry and crimes, that's why they are bringing these soldiers to court," Joya said. Last week, she wrote in London's The Guardian newspaper that "We believe that the brutal actions of these 'kill teams' reveal the aggression and racism which is part and parcel of the entire military occupation. While these photos are new, the murder of innocents is not."
U.S. troops in Afghanistan suffer more catastrophic injuries By Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times April 6, 2011 Everybody was taken aback by the frequency of these injuries: the double amputations, the injuries to the penis and testicles," said Holcomb, now a medical professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. "Nothing like this has been seen before." "Military brass say the increase in catastrophic injuries can be attributed to the Taliban's use of improvised explosive devices, the roadside bombs that account for the majority of U.S. and NATO deaths and injuries."
Radiation levels have been found to be extremely high in some Japanese school playgrounds. Radiation levels have been found to be extremely high in some Japanese school playgrounds.
All schools in the Fukushima area are now being checked under pressure from local parents.
Reports of high radioactivity beyond the Fukushima exclusion zone have raised fears that authorities are not doing all they can to tackle the crisis.
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