Archive for October 16th, 2011

3.NHK.com Oct. 16 High concentrations of radioactive cesium have been found in plankton from the sea near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Researchers from Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology collected plankton in waters up to 60 kilometers from the coast of Iwaki City in July. They found 669 becquerels per kilogram... »

Citizens’ Testing Finds 20 Hot Spots Around Tokyo HIROKO TABUCHI The-Dispatch.com Saturday, October 15, 2011 TOKYO — Takeo Hayashida signed on with a citizens’ group to test for radiation near his son’s baseball field in Tokyo after government officials told him they had no plans to check for fallout from the devastated Fukushima Daiichi... »

RT.com The expanded bailout fund will not help if Italy or Spain is dragged into the economic crisis, and the austerity packages are driving Greece and Portugal to revolutions, warned British European Parliament member Nigel Farage. “They are having austerity packages pushed upon them, which is forcing them into downward deflation, which in my... »

DEBKA.com October 16, 2011 The United States launches a large-scale exercise over the Middle East deploying 41 giant transports of the 22nds Airlift Squadron Monday Oct. 17, the day before the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is scheduled to be released by Hamas. The US Transportation Command and its Air Forces Transportation will be testing... »

WashingtonsBlog.com October 16, 2011 Big Banks Try to Stop Customers From Moving Their Money I’ve long supported the campaign to “Move Your Money” from the giant, insolvent banks who take billions in bailouts and use the money to speculate and to corrupt the system to smaller banks. See this and this. The Occupy Wall... »

by Keith Fitz-Gerald Global Research October 16, 2011 Do you want to know the real reason banks aren’t lending and the PIIGS have control of the barnyard in Europe? It’s because risk in the $600 trillion derivatives market isn’t evening out. To the contrary, it’s growing increasingly concentrated among a select few banks, especially... »

By: Bob Chapman GoldSeek.com Sunday, 16 October 2011 The big question is will Greece succumb to insolvency in November? Our answer is probably not. It should take 3 to 6 months but it is coming no matter how much money and credit is thrown at the problem. The markets on the short-term basis believe... »

By: John Mauldin Market Oracle Oct 16, 2011 “Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.” – R.H. Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, 1926 “By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth... »

by George Washington ZeroHedge.com 10/16/2011 Economics Professor and monetary expert Randall Wray told me thatwe should end the regional Federal Reserve banks, as they have such terrible conflicts of interest, strip out all regulatory power from the Fed (since it doesn’t believe ine regulation, anyway), and implement monetary policy with a very small staff.... »

Mainchi.jp October 17, 2011 TOKYO (Kyodo) — People took to the streets Saturday in Tokyo as the “Occupy Wall Street” movement to protest widening income disparities spread across the world, with similar rallies being held in Australia and Taiwan the same day. Further demonstrations were expected to take place in other parts of Asia... »