Archive for April 18th, 2012

By ENENews April 18th, 2012 Title: TEPCO says no water leaks found at No.2 reactor Source: NHK Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 20:56 +0900 (JST) The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says inspections using a robot have yet to find serious damage or water leaks at the facility’s No. 2 reactor. ... »

Alexander Furnas TheAtlantic.com APR 17 2012 Chances are, you’ll snag the wrong people, and when you do, how can you tell? How do you clear suspects of crimes that haven’t happened? Pre-crime prevention is a terrible idea. Here is a quiz for you. Is predicting crime before it happens: (a) something out of Philip... »

By Brent Daggett theintelhub.com April 17, 2012 “I believe there are more instances of abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments than violent and sudden usurpations.” — James Madison at the Virginia Ratification debates. When one analyzes Madison’s logic, it seems prophetic, especially if one applies it to executive... »

Reuters Tue, Apr 17, 2012 MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican authorities raised the alert level for the Popocatepetl volcano near to Mexico City on Monday after it started spewing red-hot fragments of rock. The lava dome of Popocatepetl, some 50 miles to the southeast of the capital, started to expand on Friday, Mexico’s National... »

by Charles Hugh Smith ZeroHedge.com 04/18/2012 Crony Capitalism flourishes in an economy dominated and controlled by a Central State. Crony capitalism arises when an expansive Central State dominates the economy. The Central State can then protect crony-capitalist perquisites, cartels, quasi-monopolies and financialization skimming operations of the sort which now dominate the U.S. economy’s primary... »

Financial terrorists have exploited chaos they created to seize complete control Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, April 18, 2012 Speculation that Canadian Central Bank head Mark Carney has been tapped to become the next Governor of the Bank of England brings with it the possibility of virtually complete domination of Europe by Goldman... »

by Phoenix Capital Research ZeroHedge.com 04/18/2012 As I’ve noted in previous articles, there is a growing tension between the ECB, the central bank backstop for Europe, and Germany, the de facto sovereign EU backstop. In brief, the ECB has wanted to monetize and bailout needy EU members aggressively while the inflation-phobic Germany has wanted... »

The rate of people taking their own lives is soaring in Europe at such a clip that the trend has given birth to a new media term: “Suicide by economic crisis.” By Lynn Parramore AlterNet.org If suicide is a measure of a society’s health, the Eurozone is getting sicker by the minute. The rate... »

Another day, another TSA travel nightmare Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Wednesday, April 18, 2012 Wheelchair-bound 95-year-old veteran Omer Petti and his 85-year-old partner Madge Woodward were treated like terrorists by TSA agents at San Diego International airport, ostensibly so TSA workers could separate them from $300 dollars in cash which subsequently went missing.... »

By ENENews April 18th, 2012 Yomiuri: “The worst-case scenario is a China syndrome” A China syndrome refers to a situation in which nuclear fuel in a reactor melts and goes through a containment vessel -Masao Yoshida, former chief of the Fukushima Daiichi plant Title: Fukushima: Probability theory is unsafe Source: The Japan Times... »