By Gonzalo Lira FinancialSense.com 04/01/2011 Right now, we’re in that weird in-between time of financial crises: The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 is behind us, while the next global crisis is not here yet—but it’s on its way. We can feel how it’s on its way. Most everyone plugged into the macro-economic zeitgeist can... »
Archive for April 1st, 2011
Bernanke Provided Billions In Loans to Gaddafi
by George Washington ZeroHedge.com 04/01/2011 Documents produced by the Federal Reserve in response to an order from the Supreme Court show that Bernanke loaned billions to foreign banks through its discount window. As Bloomberg – which brought the lawsuit which resulted in the document release – notes: The biggest borrowers from the 97-year-old discount... »
Earthquake preparedness important for residents along New Madrid Fault
By GLENDA CAUDLE NWTNToday.com Thursday, March 31, 2011 The earth is moving. And it’s not simply spinning through space. It’s also moving from the inside out. Just ask the residents of Japan. Or New Zealand. Or Haiti. Or check with the Central United States Earthquake Consortium. Brian Blake, a CUSEC spokesman from Memphis, addressed... »
A 100-year battle awaits Fukushima while suicide workers are needed to keep up the rescue efforts
by Mike Adams NaturalNews.com Friday, April 01, 2011 he unfolding of the Fukushima catastrophe continues to worsen. Here are today’s most important developments: • A nuclear expert is now warning that it will take 50 to 100 years before the spent nuclear rods at Fukushima will cool enough to be removed from the site.... »
Fukushima meltdown update: Cesium in the soil, ocean waters contaminated and fuel core meltdown now under way
by Mike Adams NaturalNews.com March 31, 2011 Here are the latest developments on the Fukushima catastrophe, including quotes from a well-known physicist who is now raising the alarm over “three raging meltdowns” at the Fukushima complex. • As the Wall Street Journal reports (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100…), the U.S. government has now admitted that radiation is being... »
Here Come “The Boots On The Ground”: EU Approves “Possible” Military Operation For Libya
by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 04/01/2011 While it has been made very clear that no US “boots” would be on the ground in Libya, except for those beloning to CIA operatives of course, no such stigma applies to Europe. Which is why we were not surprised to read the following from RIA Novosti: “The European... »
Apocalypse Now? — Mark Sircus
Dr. Mark Sircus IMVA ActivistPost.com The ultimate disaster scenario would see the Tokyo region heavily contaminated by radioactivity following an explosion and radioactive fallout at the Fukushima plant. Such a situation would lead to the creation of an exclusion zone affecting thirty million inhabitants of a city that is at the heart of the... »
Neocons and Democrats Work to Squelch Anti-war Measures in Congress
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com April 1, 2011 As the mad bombers at NATO engage in a public relations stunt in response to the fallout from the slaughter of innocent Libyan civilians, here in the United States a few dignified members of Congress are attempting to put a halt to the illegal war. Obama’s order to... »
Fukushima Fallout Reaches U.S.A.
Mike Whitney Infowars.com April 1, 2011 Three of the six nuclear reactors at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have partially melted down and highly toxic plutonium is seeping into the soil outside. Plutonium is less volatile than other radioactive elements like iodine or cesium, but it’s also more deadly. According to Businessweek, “When plutonium decays,... »
Foreign Banks Tapped Fed’s Secret Lifeline Most at Crisis Peak
Bradley Keoun and Craig Torres Bloomberg April 1, 2011 U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s two-year fight to shield crisis-squeezed banks from the stigma of revealing their public loans protected a lender to local governments in Belgium, a Japanese fishing-cooperative financier and a company part-owned by the Central Bank of Libya. Dexia SA... »