A 48-hour strike ahead of a crucial vote on new Austerity measures for a banker bailout sees airports and ports grind to a halt as Athens burns in riots and police fire tear gas, percussion grenades and beat protestors.
Salem Unit 2 nuclear reactor shuts down after cooling pump failure Published: Tuesday, June 28, 2011, 1:20 AM By Bill Gallo Jr. LOWER ALLOWAYS CREEK TWP. — The Salem Unit 2 nuclear plant remained shut down this afternoon following a problem with a reactor coolant pump, according to a spokesman for the plant’s operator. Salem 2 automatically went offline Sunday at 6:01 p.m. when the coolant pump tripped, said Joe Delmar, spokesman for PSEG Nuclear. When the pump shut down, the auxiliary pump system automatically started to provide water to cool the reactor. The cause of the pump failure is still being investigated, according to Delmar. The plant functioned as designed, he said. The plant remained in “hot shutdown” mode this afternoon.
Slog tipper Nick says he spotted this SPD car parked in front of the Roosevelt Hotel on Pine in downtown Seattle last night just after 9 PM. There were no cops in the car, says Nick, no cops on the sidewalk, no cops anywhere. Just a cop car with an assault weapon sitting on the trunk.
The US may soon be forced into a situation similar to the one in Greece and be forced to perform a fire sale of national sovereign assets to China pay down the out of control debt that some say is really over $100 trillion.
Central Florida Veterans For Peace chapter co-chair Phil Restino is interviewed by FOX-35 TV (Orlando, FL) on the Killing of Bin Laden. The interview is followed by a clip from the “Building What?” Campaign and another clip from the “Geraldo at Large” show where Geraldo Rivera presents fair coverage of a long overdue issue of WTC7.
Updated 4:30 pm: The Las Conchas fire, at 60,741 acres as of this morning, is "a road away" from the nuclear lab, according to Los Alamos Fire Chief Doug Tucker.
According to a recent press release from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Las Conchas fire has burned up to State Road 4, which borders the lab's southwest edge.
A large wildfire moving across northern New Mexico Tuesday had authorities watching for a potential release of radiation around the nation's main nuclear-weapons lab in Los Alamos. ... Authorities also are worried about potential radiation releases from nearby canyons. Radioactive material from nuclear tests was deposited in the canyons decades ago, and if trees in those canyons go up in flames, they could release radiation into the air, said Rita Bates, an air-quality official with the New Mexico Environment Department. That could raise the "potential for that smoke to affect people's health," she added.
Twenty years ago after U.S. forces had driven the Iraqi military out of Kuwait and back into Iraq, President George H.W. Bush as Commander in Chief ordered the U.S. military to cease-fire on February 28, 1991. Years later in his 1998 memoir A World Transformed, Bush admitted that the reason he chose to order the cease-fire was because he understood that advancing further into Iraq, a country that had not attacked the U.S., and overthrowing its government could easily be seen as an illegal war of aggression and thus warrant a call from the American people for his removal from office by the constitutional remedy of impeachment. It was the fear of a call for impeachment by the American people that in effect stopped the President from continuing the war.
After 50 days of shenanigans, “lulz,” and fearmongering by the mainstream media, the now-infamous LulzSecurity, or LulzSec, has announced an end to their campaign. I found this quite surprising, especially given they just recently announced a new joint operation with Anonymous entitled “Anti-Sec.”
Why was their crusade so short lived? Why end without carrying out any of the grandiose promises and threats published across the internet? Why prove themselves to be yet another blow-hard hacker group that does way more talking and hyping than hacking?
Tony Cartalucci, Contributing Writer Activist Post
Bangkok, Thailand June 29, 2011 - The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a think-tank representing the collective interests of the Fortune 500 corporations that constitute its corporate membership, and one of the many key architects of producing and implementing the global corporatocracy's agenda, has seized upon a conveniently timed WikiLeaks dump regarding Thailand, just days before a controversial, highly contested Thai national election...
Western science has had remarkable success in explaining the functioning of the material world, but when it comes to the inner world of the mind, it has very little to say. And when it comes to consciousness itself, science falls curiously silent. There is nothing in physics, chemistry, biology, or any other science that can account for our having an interior world. In a strange way, scientists would be much happier if minds did not exist. Yet without minds there would be no science.
This ever-present paradox may be pushing Western science into what Thomas Kuhn called a paradigm shift–a fundamental change in worldview...
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama wants congressional authorization to use force in Libya but does not need it, a top aide told openly skeptical lawmakers on Tuesday amid a bitter dispute over war-making powers.
"This administration is acting lawfully, consistent with both the letter and spirit of the Constitution and the War Powers Resolution," US State Department legal adviser Harold Koh told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Lawmakers of both major US parties have charged that Obama has violated that 1973 law, which aimed to curb US presidents' ability to enter overseas conflicts without permission from the US Congress in the wake of the Vietnam war...
The US faces nuclear disasters across the nation as Fukushima residents are found to have radioactive urine and radioactive water measuring over 1 sievert per hour is found leaking from the plant.
As the day nears when many brave souls from countries around the world put their life on the line to bring desperately needed aid to the embattled people of Gaza, the Israeli Navy has once again made it clear they will do whatever it takes to stop the flotilla. Absurd, baseless justifications are still being thrown around, like the notion that these peace activists are actually supporting terrorists. These are the same “supporters of Hamas” that attempted to defend themselves with sticks, pieces of scrap metal, chains and knives while being boarded and attacked by IDF commandos.
Goldman Sachs is going to fire employees in the U.S. and some other countries so that it can hire 1,000 in Singapore, where it's cheaper.
Not much loyalty among the money-junkies, is there? And all those Goldman Sachs employees, who helped loot America? Think anyone in this country is going to feel like giving them a job?
An extract found in cinnamon bark, called CEppt, may be key to Alzheimer’s disease prevention, researchers at Tel Aviv University suggest.
Michael Ovadia says he was inspired to investigate the healing properties of cinnamon by a passage in the Bible.
High priests used the spice in a holy ointment, presumably meant to protect them from infectious diseases and after discovering cinnamon extract had anti-viral properties.
Last December, drug smugglers killed Border Patrol Agent, Brian Terry in the Arizona desert south of Tucson. Will repercussions from that murder bring down Attorney General Holder?
Brian Terry’s mother announced on June 23rd that her family would sue top government officials, including Attorney General Holder and President Obama, to find out who is ultimately responsible for a Gunrunner-smuggled AK47 combat rifle that killed her son.
"I want whoever decided this program and knew about it to be held responsible. I want justice for my son. He served his country. He was a Marine. He was a police officer. He was a border patrol agent. My son was a true American hero," (KGUN (2011)
I suspect that over in Europe, they are seeing news stories about how the Earth is getting warmer, only it just happened to be cool where they were.
Enough is enough. Global Warning and the grab for Carbon Taxes is as legitimate as Killer Bees or Y2K. The money junkies are hoping that now we are in summer you will have forgotten the record-setting snow (leading the the record-setting flooding) all over the northern hemisphere! They really think you are that stupid where you will ignore the evidence of your own senses and believe as you are ordered to believe, thus to give them the money you are ordered to give to them.
To believe is to be their slaves. To be free is to tell the snake-oil salesmen to shove their carbon-cult where the sun don't shine!
N.M. facility calls in teams to track readings that measure levels of plutonium and uranium in the air ‘as a precaution’
[... T]he facility called in special teams to track readings from a network of 60 monitoring stations that measure levels of substances such as plutonium and uranium in the air “as a precaution,” said lab director Charles McMillan. [...]
U.S. Sen. Tom Udall of New Mexico, who was visiting evacuees at the Santa Claran Hotel Casino in Espanola, said “there’s no doubt” the lab stores a variety of hazardous and radioactive materials that “you don’t want to escape in the atmosphere.” But he said he was confident lab and state environmental officials had monitoring systems in place to “evaluate exactly what we’re seeing here.” [...]
A raging wildfire in the southwestern United States is moving closer to a key nuclear weapons laboratory, forcing it to shut down for another two days.
Toxicology test results have been carried out which could shed light on how Christopher Shale, a close friend and political ally of David Cameron, died at the Glastonbury festival.
A spokesman for the Taliban, Zabiullah Mujahid, said the Taliban was responsible for the 10 p.m. attack on the hotel, which is popular among international guests. There were no immediate details on casualties.
BULL BISCUITS! This Zabiullah Mujahid is a self-proclaimed "spokesman" for the Taliban. There is no confirmation that he is connected with them, and frankly comes across as yet another in an endless line of CIA and Mossad phonies used to trick Americans into wars against Israel's enemies.
Summer visitors to Lake Powell will experience water levels last seen ten years ago, according to a new report by the Bureau of Reclamation. The report predicts water levels to be 3,665 feet above sea level by mid-August, a level not seen since 2001. In the last two months, the nation's second largest man-made lake has added 28 feet of water elevation with half of the snowpack still left to melt. This excess snowmelt is creating more areas to explore at Lake Powell, America's favorite houseboating destination.
For a quarter century Greenberg testified as an expert in forensic psychology, an inscrutable field with immense power. Purporting to offer insight into the human condition, he evaluated more than 2,000 children, teenagers and adults. His word could determine which parent received custody of a child, or whether a jury believed a claim of sexual assault, or what damages might be awarded for emotional distress.
At conferences and in classrooms, in Washington and beyond, he taught others to do what he did. He became his profession's gatekeeper, quizzing aspirants, judging others' work, writing the national-certification exam. His peers elected him their national president.
At a time when the richest people and the largest corporations in our country are doing phenomenally well, and, in many cases, have never had it so good, while the middle class is disappearing and poverty is increasing, it is absolutely imperative that a deficit reduction package not include the disastrous cuts in programs for working families, the elderly, the sick, the children and the poor that the Republicans in Congress, dominated by the extreme right wing, are demanding.
A YouTube video featuring a man who presented himself as an American gay rights activist disillusioned with the latest Gaza flotilla campaign has been exposed as a hoax.
The man in the video, who introduced himself to viewers as Marc and claimed that the organizers of the latest flotilla of ships bound for Gaza had rejected his offer to mobilize a network of gay activists in support of their cause, was identified as Omer Gershon, a Tel Aviv actor involved in marketing, by the Electronic Intifada, a pro-Palestinian Web site.
Amidst the crisis sit our Gazabound activists who show their support to the Greek people as they themselves prepare to leave on a mission that will hopefully bring change and Democracy to their destination.
According to Feiler, there is no doubt that the action was a deliberate attempt at sabotage, which he believed also violated Greece’s sovereignty.
Even though the problem can be fixed, it is still unclear how long it would take, especially with Greece’s recently declared general strike on Tuesday and Wednesday.
This action adds to a series of delays that have kept the Gaza flotilla from sailing, including Greece’s determination to carry out additional non-routine examinations on several of the ships.
Notice the similar, frumpy, hackneyed tactics by those professionals protecting the official story. No attempt to address or dispute the evidence presented by architect Richard Gage, but instead an immediate accusation of being "Anti-Semitic". The lady doth protest too much. Who instructed the British RIBA and other trade groups to use the tactic of slandering and libeling Richard Gage, AIA instead of using their expertise to refute Gage's findings?
This is a clear indication that they cannot refute Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, regardless of any spin to come out of the so-called debunkers, Honest assessments by outside observers indicate that Gage has scored a substantial victory for the 9/11 Truth movement.
Santa Fe, NM - In less than 24 hours the Las Conchas wildfire has burned 43,000 acres of forest and has raced 12 miles to the southwestern boundary of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) where a number of sensitive tritium facilities are located.
In the year 2000 the Cerro Grande Fire took nearly two weeks to burn ~48,000 acres in the same general vicinity of the east side of the Jemez Mountains, including ~5,000 acres within LANL boundaries.
At that time, the Lab and Los Alamos County underwent a hurried mandatory evacuation, with only essential personnel left behind to guard sensitive Lab facilities. Because of the emergency routine monitoring of daily radioactive emissions came to an abrupt halt, arguably precisely when they were most needed.
Soros buying farmland is not a surprise, as all hedge funds have become interested as they anticipate future food shortages. What is surprising is that the Army Corp of Engineers is looking to buy the land that they themselves allowed to be flooded earlier this Spring.
Once again, the corporate media is ignoring a potentially deadly nuclear situation, this time right here in the United States.
The Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant in Nebraska is now inundated with flood water from the Missouri River. A berm protecting the plant collapsed on Sunday. Prior to the failure of the berm, there was a fire at the facility.
The official story was that the fire was contained in an electrical switchgear room.
A raging wildfire is threatening to engulf the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Los Alamos likely contains more nuclear weapons than any other facility in the world.
The fire has already swept over one of the areas where nuclear weapons were being tested, so any radioactive dust in the soil near the surface has probably been kicked up into the atmosphere and carried with the smoke.
The US could withdraw funding from the United Nations if its members decide to recognise and independent Palestinian state, a close ally of President Barack Obama has warned.
The US Government's pandering to Israel (or control by them) does not get any more obvious than this. Frankly, if I were in charge of the United Nations I would kick out Israel for being in violation of its conditions for membership, and I would kick out the US for the sheer effrontery of trying to extort a political decision.
As a side note, any threat to deny needed support as a means to coerce a political choice is defined as an act of terror under the USAPATRIOT act.
No government can serve two masters, and a government that serves Israel cannot serve the American people.
A friend to Israel is no friend of America.
America needs leaders who will put America first, second, and third.
Norwegian delegation leader Torstein Dahle said in a statement that the incident shows "someone is willing to go to great lengths to stop the flotilla from sailing."
Michele Bachmann, as self-proclaimed fiscal hawk who has spoken often and ardently against those who benefit from federal dollars, was not forthcoming with Fox News’s Chris Wallace about how her family has personally benefited from federal money.
The corporate media will give her a pass on this, because after all, she is a strong supporter of Israel, and that's what counts!
One person is dead on Detroit's west side after a homeowner caught three people breaking into vehicles and started shooting early Tuesday morning.
Common sense tells us that the police do not thwart crimes in progress, simply because the crooks don't commit crimes while they see a cop. The police show up afterwards to clean up the mess while looking official. Since this guy was not being threatened within his home, the courts will probably stomp in him, but my sympathies are with the homeowner. At least around here, the police are totally busy writing traffic tickets and other "revenue enhancement" activity and as a result, crime has gone totally out of control. Most people I know are fed up with this "Let the crooks take what they want and get the insurance company to replace it" attitude from the police. Most of us cannot afford monthly payments for insurance any longer. But we can afford the one-time purchase of a gun.
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has begun building a giant polyester shield over the damaged Number 1 reactor building to contain the spread of radiation.
Israel and the United States have been pressuring Greece to find some reason to hold the second Freedom Flotilla in port, keeping it from leaving for Gaza, but to no avail.
They complain that Greece is throwing up “administrative obstacles” for the activists in response to pressure from Israel, the Associated Press reported on Monday.
“We call on the Greek government to let us sail,” Ann Wright said.
The former US State Department official plans to sail with several dozen other Americans on a vessel named The Audacity of Hope to the Gaza Strip.
Activists blame the Israel Law Center, a group of Israeli lawyers, for attempts to hold up their boats.
The government of Greece is probably looking only at their precarious financial situation, and no doubt inducements such as slight adjustments to interest rates are being waved around to lure the Greek Government to help Israel derail the aid flotilla. But if the Greek Legislature caves into the bankers and passes that austerity measure, the Greek people and possibly even the Greek military will rise in revolt, and the ability of the Greek government to come out of this mess alive is going to rest squarely on world perception. Siding with Israel against the flotilla may be the difference between being able to escape to a safe haven to retire in, or ending their careers dangling from a tree in Athens.
So why were these companies allowed to call that shit "4G" when it wasn't even 10 percent of the standard? Well, once they started using 4G as a marketing term, the ITU actually backed down and just said "Sure, fuck it, whatever" and retroactively applied the 4G moniker to the standards the carriers are actually using. Proving once again that if you say enough stupid shit, people will eventually give in just to shut you up.
In comments yesterday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seemed to lay the ground – indeed almost provide a green light – for an Israeli military attack on the upcoming Gaza Freedom Flotilla, which will include the US Boat to Gaza.
Among the passengers aboard the American boat will be 87-year old Kindertransport survivor Hedy Epstein, and author and poet Alice Walker. In all it is expected that about 10 ships, carrying 1000 people from over 20 countries will take part.
Should Hillary decide to run again for President, please keep this moment in mind, because if she refuses to take care of Americans as Secretary of State, she will refuse to take care of Americans as President; and have we not already had enough of that callous disregard from the White House for one lifetime?
Governor Walker's Approved Wisconsin State Budget Includes Deep Spending Cuts in Public Education.
"If those little bastards want an education, they can join the @#%ing ARMY! Our first loyalty is and will remain to the private central bankers! All hail the campaign donors! Sieg HEIL! Sieg HEIL! Sieg HEIL!" -- Official White Horse Souse.
The dispute erupted after the Danes refused to let Israeli security agents perform independent security checks on Israeli airline flights from Copenhagen to Israel recently. The Israelis were also not allowed to carry weapons. Israeli airline executives are concerned the ban could reach Israeli carriers flying from other European destinations.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday participants in an aid flotilla planning to challenge an Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip were seeking "confrontation and blood."
So, don't give them what you think they want. Let them through to Gaza! That'll show them! :)
After Union representatives in Boston discovered a “cancer cluster” amongst TSA workers linked with radiation from the body scanners, the TSA sought to downplay the matter and refused to issue employees with dosimeters to measure levels of exposure.
Those who live by the scanner shall die by the scanner!
Why am I going on the Freedom Flotilla II to Gaza? I ask myself this, even though the answer is: What else would I do? I am in my sixty-seventh year, having lived already a long and fruitful life, one with which I am content. It seems to me that during this period of eldering it is good to reap the harvest of one's understanding of what is important, and to share this, especially with the young. How are they to learn, otherwise?
Unlike Ramallah and Nablus, which are categorized as "A" areas, Azzariyeh and its neighbors Sawahra and Abu Dis are holed up in an enclave of type "B", where the IDF does not allow the Palestinian police to be fully functional. The interim Oslo 2 agreement determines that the Palestinian Authority is responsible for maintaining public order in Area B, but in the same breath it limits the PA's authority and the means by which it can protect the people from disruptions of public order. Almost every action taken by the Palestinian police in Area B requires IDF approval.
In an apparent attempt to frame a state trooper investigating him, a West Virginia man allegedly opened an e-mail account in the police officer's name and used it to send multiple illicit images of children to law enforcement and media outlets, according to FBI affidavits.
I am surprised this even got reported. Framing people for child porn is an old trick. Israel's supporters have been using this for years against their enemies. One guy up in Canada got caught when the porn was found on his machine before he could break into his victim's system to plant it, and given that the Canadians have what I consider a very healthy attitude towards child porn, this loser went away for a very long time!
On the final stop of a five-day visit to Europe, the Prime Minister of China Wen Jiabao has signed a huge multi-billion euro trading agreement with Germany.
The slew of deals, estimated to be valued at about $15-bilion include the purchase of 88 Airbus A320 aircraft by China; and a pact for Germany to manufacture electric cars in China.
The "New American Century" has lasted a mere 11 years. America has given away its productivity in exchange for a drug called "get rich quick on Wall Street" and is in decline as a world power. Between unsafe GM crops and toxic flooding of farmlands, America finds it harder to export agricultural goods, indeed has less to export as the population swells from south of the border while high tech farming produces lower yields. With the potential for an almost certain radiation release in Nebraska and potentially from the fire-threatened radioactive waste storage facility near Los Alamos, an already Fukushima-wary marketplace will not be eager to purchase US farm goods no matter how cheaply they are sold.
That we have gone down a wrong path is obvious. Our leaders wanted to stand in the marble palaces playing gods with the nations of the world, and could not be bothered to soil their finely manicured hands with things like building roads, repairing flood control, or figure out what to do with all that nuclear waste that was piling up around the nation. That was the next administration's problem, along with the permanently growing debt to the private central bank.
They are not just evil, they are indeed incompetent!
President Barack Obama threw the talks on the debt ceiling crisis into turmoil on Monday afternoon by proposing a $600 billion tax hike before even meeting with Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell.
Obama is taking America the same direction as Greece. Tax the people into total poverty and then strip mine the hard assets taxpayers paid to build, and sell them off at fire-sale prices to the guys running the money printing presses that created this mess.
We The People must stop this, because Obama's solution is no solution.
Obama's simplistic thinking is to simply take more money from the American people, but we have no money left. Looting the population to keep the Wall Street Mortgage-backed securities fraudsters out of prison has cost the American people an estimated $27 trillion (Dylan Ratigan's figures). There is little out here left to take!
The reality Obama is pretending does not exist is that the Federal Reserve System was and is a debt-trap from which escape is designed to be impossible, so long as the people are brainwashed into unquestioned believing in the rules the bankers created to make themselves rich. The system is PLANNED to keep people slaves to debt. The only way new money comes into being under this private central banking system is through more loans; loans to business start-ups, loans to employers, and loans to consumers, but if that money is grabbed by the government to pay their bills, the total aggregate debt still exceeds the available money supply and the total debt continues to climb.
There is one and only one way to end this debt problem. The private central bank debt-based currency experiment has failed the nation. It is time for the Federal Reserve to go. All the government can do is decide which side of that debate they wish to be on, and to live (or die) with the consequences of that choice. You are either with the bankers, or with the people. There is no middle road, even in an election year.
Days after Authorities Arrest Terror Suspects for Attempting to Buy Firearms, Campaign Draws Attention to Al Qaeda Propaganda Video Urging Followers to Buy Firearms at Gun Shows with No Background Check
In the video, President Obama promotes a "Dinner With Barack" raffle. To participate in the contest you need to donate at least $5 to the president's re-election campaign and your name will be raffled off to enjoy a dinner with the President, airfare and accommodations included. In a new web video, Obama announced Vice President Joe Biden will also be attending the dinner.
The issue of Israel is of critical importance to the antiwar movement, as frequenters of this website are surely aware. This is because Israel and its lobby in the United States have succeeded in so intertwining their interests with those of the United States that whenever Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sneezes four hundred congressmen say “Gesundheit!” What Israel does has consequences for every American citizen, and not only because Tel Aviv is the largest recipient of US economic and military assistance. It is indisputable that Israel and its friends in the White House and Defense Department played a major role in creating the lies and generating the momentum in the drive to war against Iraq
there is very little stopping OPEC at this point from decoupling from the U.S. dollar completely, especially if crude prices continue to rise despite the IEA dump. The fact of currency inflation and dollar implosion will be so exposed that no one, not even “Tiny Tim” Geithner, will be able to deny it. Once the illusions of “limited supply” and “speculation” are cast aside,
The American public struggles with political rhetoric and US corporate media to discern fact from spin.
“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” unsourced and attributed to Andrew Carnegie
What US “leadership” has done are the following:
from Congressional reports we now know that all “reasons” for war with Afghanistan and Iraq were known to be lies as they were told.
allows a million children a month to die of preventable poverty, even though historically ending poverty reduces population growth rate and the investment is less than 1% of the developed nations' gross national incomes (GNI).
A green ‘stealth’ tax to encourage new wind farms and nuclear power plants could push tens of thousands of households into fuel poverty but do nothing to reduce emissions.
The carbon floor price, announced in the March Budget, could even end up giving climate policies a ‘bad name’, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has warned.
To be introduced in 2013, the tax is intended to encourage investment in low-carbon energy – and raise billions for the Treasury.
Diet soft drinks can actually make people fatter, say scientists.
Reaching for the Diet cola is a bad idea for those trying to cut calories - because it may make you want to eat more, according to two studies.
Artificial sweeteners could be to blame, as they were shown to increase blood sugar levels over time, and researchers believe they could also actually trigger the appetite.
In one study that followed nearly 500 people, those who drank any amount of the soft drinks each day had 70 per cent bigger waists after a decade than those who drank none.
Despite shifting into higher gear within the consumer's green conscience, hybrid vehicles are still tethered to the gas pump via a fuel-thirsty 100-year-old invention: the internal combustion engine.
However, researchers at Michigan State University have built a prototype gasoline engine that requires no transmission, crankshaft, pistons, valves, fuel compression, cooling systems or fluids. Their so-called Wave Disk Generator could greatly improve the efficiency of gas-electric hybrid automobiles and potentially decrease auto emissions up to 90 percent when compared with conventional combustion engines.
Last year, the U.S. Navy bought 59,000 microchips for use in everything from missiles to transponders that turned out to be counterfeits from China.
Wired reports the chips weren't only low-quality fakes, they had been made with a "back-door" and could have been remotely shut down at any time.
If left undiscovered the result could have rendered useless U.S. missiles and killed the signal from aircraft that tells everyone whether it's friend or foe.
Following the YouTube video’s release, U.S. blogger Max Blumenthal found that the recording, which was distributed by Israeli government employee Neil Lazarus on his Facebook page, was a hoax, and that the man who appears in it was actually an Israeli entrepreneur and public relations expert named Omer Gershon.
The video was also tweeted later by Guy Seeman, who was apparently working as an intern in the prime minister’s office, Ali Abunimah posted on the blog Electronic Intifada.
The premier’s office refused to comment about Seeman’s employment.
Amid the string of emails discussing the matter, an undisclosed sender explains that NIST was "a little concerned" over Napolitano's public reassurances that TSA's naked body scanners are safe. After all, NIST does not test products, and it never tested the naked body scanners in the first place. Napolitano apparently took the individual machine dose measurements that NIST had gathered and twisted them to say what she wanted them to say, which was that the machines are safe.
Overwhelmed by the rising Missouri River, a 2000-foot stretch of a protective water balloon, surrounding the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant in Nebraska, collapsed at 1:25 AM on Sunday, June 26.
Two days earlier, Kansas State University reported an emergency when radiation leaked at 149 times the Derived Air Concentration (DAC) limit for Iodine during a trial run of its reactor.
Six and a half hours after the Ft Calhoun water berm collapsed, operators reported it to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, registering it as a “non-emergency."...
Democracy Now Up to 50 Americans are set to sail from a Greek port on a U.S.-flagged ship that is part of an international flotilla carrying humanitarian aid and letters of support for Gaza's 1.5 million Palestinian residents. Its fate is now in limbo under the weight of U.S.-Israeli pressure and Greece's economic turmoil. Israel insists it will enforce its blockade on Gaza, which it says is aimed at stopping weapons from reaching the Hamas government. "The Israelis have a right to interdict arms traffic. We are bearing letters," says Ray McGovern, former Senior CIA analyst and passenger on the U.S. aid ship. "How can these letters be considered a threat to security of Israel?"
Workers across Greece walked off the job on Tuesday, kicking off a crippling 48-hour strike with a mass protest in the capital, Athens, as parliament debated a new austerity plan. Police fired tear gas in clashes with protesters.
AFP -- France 24
Greece ground to a halt Tuesday as angry workers launched a 48-hour general strike against an austerity drive ordered by its bankruptcy-threatened government in exchange for a European bailout...
Six Democratic lawmakers urged U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to ensure the safety of the American citizens who join the Gaza flotilla.
U.S. Reps. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), William Clay (D-Mo.), Sam Farr (D-Calif.), Bob Filner (D-Calif.) and Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) signed a letter to Clinton last Friday expressing their concern for the safety of the passengers who will be aboard the U.S. ship The Audacity of Hope.
The statement said Israel's best efforts to stop the boats at port, including pressure on governments, threats against insurance and communications companies, intimidation of human rights defenders and other underhand tactics, had failed.
"In the coming days, the rest of the vessels in the flotilla, two cargo ships and seven other passenger boats, will leave from various ports to a meeting point in international waters from which the boats will sail all together to Gaza.
"We will carry nearly 3,000 tonnes of aid and hundreds of civilians from dozens of countries, including members of parliaments, politicians, writers, artists, journalists and sports figures as well as representatives of indigenous peoples and various faith groups.
One of the ships due to participate in the Gaza flotilla was deliberately tampered with while it was docked in Greece’s Piraeus port, organizers of the Gaza flotilla told Haaretz on Monday. The ship, due to carry Greek, Norwegian, and Swedish passengers to Gaza, was found to have been tampered with when its propeller shaft was found broken, the ship’s spokesman, Israeli activist Dror Feiler told Haaretz.
Napolitano falsely claimed that research conducted by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory confirms the safety of naked body scanners, even though the research actually suggests the opposite. Dr. Michael Love from the school publicly stated that the machines are going to give people skin cancer, and the specific findings of the report indicate that "radiation zones" around the machines emit enough radiation to exceed the "General Public Dose Limit." Worse, NIST had actually warned DHS and TSA that the machines were not necessarily safe, and that airport screening agents should avoid standing next to them because of the harmful radiation they emit. It is unclear whether or not this warning was ever taken seriously by TSA officials.
Concerned Citizens For Nuclear Safety, an anti nuclear watchdog group, has reported that over 30,000 barrels of plutonium contaminated waste is being stored in tents ABOVE ground near the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory.
These barrels may be in danger due to a massive fire that has been quoted as, “entirely uncontained and highly unpredictable.”
“The weather forecast for Los Alamos predicts the wind through Tuesday afternoon will be from the southeast, then switching from the southwest at 11-18 mph with minimum humidities in the lower teens. This could encourage the fire to move closer to Los Alamos,” reported Wildfiretoday.com.
This is absolutely critical information that was given a paragraph in the corporate controlled media.
paralysing transport and public services as lawmakers debated a new round of austerity measures in order to receive rescue loans to avoid bankruptcy.
Government offices and banks were shut and ferries anchored at ports across Greece. The walkout also halted train services, closed schools and public services, and left hospitals and ambulances operating with emergency staff only.
Even Greek journalists and actors at the state-operated theater joined the walkout.
An anti nuclear watch dog group called Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety has reported the fact that over 30,000 barrels of plutonium radioactive waste is being stored in tents ABOVE ground near the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory.
This is absolutely critical information that was given a a paragraph in the corporate controlled media.
The fact that this is not headline news throughout America shows just how controlled the mainstream media actually are.
The antinuclear watchdog group Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety said the fire appeared to be about 3 1/2 miles from a dump site where as many as 30,000 55-gallon drums of plutonium-contaminated waste were stored in fabric tents above ground. The group said the drums were awaiting transport to a low-level radiation dump site in southern New Mexico.
Lab spokesman Steve Sandoval declined to comment on that assertion but did acknowledge that there is low-level waste stored in drums on lab property.
. . . . our biggest concern is whether the fire could reach the fabric buildings (essentially very large tents) at Technical Area-54’s Area G that store some 20,000 barrels of plutonium-contaminated wastes from nuclear weapons research and production.
Sir John Scarlett wanted dossier to strengthen case for war
The senior intelligence official responsible for Tony Blair's notorious dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction proposed using the document to mislead the public about the significance of Iraq's banned weapons.
Sir John Scarlett, who as head of the Joint Intelligence Committee was placed "in charge" of writing the September 2002 dossier, sent a memo to Blair's foreign affairs adviser referring to "the benefit of obscuring the fact that in terms of WMD Iraq is not that exceptional".
The memo, released under the Freedom of Information Act, has been described as one of the most significant documents on the dossier yet published.
Tony Cartalucci, Contributing Writer Activist Post
Bangkok, Thailand June 25, 2011 - As terrifying as any Biblical plague, the very corporations that funded the think-tanks and media organizations that crafted and sold the entirely engineered "Arab Spring" hoax to the world, have finally swarmed into Egypt to settle in and strip its lands clean.
US Senator John McCain recently led a delegation representing his true constituency, Fortune 500 corporations, to Egypt and Tunisia to promote "private sector growth." Traveling with McCain was a collection of corporate parasites from General Electric, Boeing, Coca-Cola, Bechtel, ExxonMobil, Marriot, and Dow who surveyed Cairo like conquering despots...
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Monday that challenges like Europe's crisis meant the IMF needed a strong leader, though he resisted endorsing one of the two candidates.
Geithner praised the process to choose a new executive director for the International Monetary fund -- with a decision expected Tuesday -- as "open", despite criticism that it remains opaque, with behind-the-scenes dealing assuring the job will go to French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde.
"I do think we're on the verge of having what I thought was necessary -- which is an open, contested process, two excellent candidates, quick resolution," Geithner told reporters...
There may be those among the less than brainwashed lemmingerati out there who have noticed what, as we have pointed out for the past month when reporting on the various manufacturing and regional Fed indices, has been an epic collapse in the appropriate data series. As John Lohman so kindly demonstrates, the two month implosion has been beyond epic, and while certainly the biggest drop in the past decade.
Greenhouses lined with genetically modified marijuana sit on a mountainside just an hour ride from Cali, Colombia, where farmers say the enhanced plants are more powerful and profitable.
Wall Street Develops Schizophrenia Saying A Greek Default Will Be "No Big Deal" As European Leaders Prepare For Greek Default And Hedge Fund Manager George Soros Warns Wold Is On Verge of Global Economic Collapse.
Our main concern is that the Las Conchas fire is about 3 1/2 miles from Area G, the dumpsite that has been in operation since the late 1950s/early 1960s. There are 20,000 to 30,000 55-gallons drums of plutonium contaminated waste (containing solvents, chemicals and toxic materials) sitting in fabric tents above ground. These drums are destined for WIPP.
“We will warn them first, we will explain, we will try to prevent friction, but in the final analysis the flotilla cannot pass through to Gaza. We are therefore calling for the flotilla to be canceled, and are saying that if there is any kind of friction or damage, the responsibility will rest with the participants and the organizers,” Barak said.
Not much loyalty among the money-junkies, is there? And all those Goldman Sachs employees, who helped loot America? Think anyone in this country is going to feel like giving them a job?