Marine gets surprise reunion with old friend

Posted by helen - Monday 5/20/13

h/t Mara

“Digital Tattoos?”

Posted by helen - Thursday 5/2/13

What if Andy Warhol had it wrong, and instead of being famous for 15 minutes, we’re only anonymous for that long? In this short talk, Juan Enriquez looks at the surprisingly permanent effects of digital sharing on our personal privacy. He shares insight from the ancient Greeks to help us deal with our new “digital tattoos.” Full Story »

Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us by Steven Brill

Posted by helen - Wednesday 5/1/13

Many have weighed in on Time Magazines recent 36-page article by Steven Brill, titled “Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us” including his current employer, Yale University. The Yale Daily news reports – Full Story »

UPDATES:Unimaginable Devastation to Small Town After Fertilizer Plant Blew Up

Posted by helen - Thursday 4/18/13

UPDATE x2: Video of what looks to be a missle blowing up Fertilizer Plant that was on fire.

UPDATE x1: Aerial footage from the scene of the devastation in Texas plus notice of largest hospital drill ever held in the area.

Scenes from the devastation to the town where the West Fertilizer Co. plant that blew up yesterday evening is unimaginable. It is being reported that 15 have died, five being firefighters and one police officer, and a hundred more injured. These are preliminary reports and officials are expecting these numbers to increase as search and rescue teams go through the rubble. Full Story »

Mothers of Fukushima ~ “Will this nuke be stopped by an accident or by us?”

Posted by helen - Thursday 4/11/13

by Helen Tansey
The T-Room

Labor Video Project recently released Mothers of Fukushima.  A powerful short documentary that gives voice to “the mothers in Fukushima and refugees who left Fukushima to protect their children and families.” Full Story »

Sundown in America…

Posted by helen - Monday 4/8/13

by David A. Stockman
The New York Times

Artwork by Mark Pernice

GREENWICH, Conn.

The Dow Jones and Standard & Poor’s 500 indexes reached record highs on Thursday, having completely erased the losses since the stock market’s last peak, in 2007. But instead of cheering, we should be very afraid. Full Story »

To (All) the Colleges That Rejected Me If only I had a tiger mom or started a fake charity.

Posted by helen - Friday 4/5/13

This sassy young gal has written what so many young adults experience after working hard to get into the college of their choice. Suzy Lee Weiss’ academic record is stellar boasting a 4.25 GPA and a 2010 SAT score complimented by hours of community service, but none of that appeared solid enough to to get into several schools in which she applied. Full Story »

Reality Check – One Glaring Oversight in U.N. Arms Treaty?

Posted by helen - Thursday 4/4/13

Now why would the negotiators of the UN Arms Treaty omit governments from selling arms to non-state groups such as is happening right now in Syria? The US, Qatar, Saudi’s and Turkey are all selling weapons to “Al Qaeda led groups in the Free Syrian Army.” Why was the treaty leave this out?

Full Story »

Hitler Survivor Condemns Gun Control ‘KEEP YOUR GUNS, BUY MORE GUNS’ – Katie Worthman

Posted by helen - Friday 3/29/13

An Australian survivor of Hitler’s then the Soviet Communist’s Occupation says to an American audience “KEEP YOUR GUNS” and “BUG MORE GUNS!” Katie Worthman also speaks to Hitler’s “Gun Registration” program and why it is not only a back-door way to confiscate guns, but how Hitler’s Army did it. Full Story »

Can you say Corexit?

Posted by helen - Tuesday 3/26/13

A two-headed bull shark? What in the world is happening in our oceans?

Full Story »

Black conservative leaders discuss how the NRA was created to protect freed slaves

Posted by helen - Wednesday 3/20/13

On February 22nd the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) assembled prominent black conservative leaders to speak out against the Commies Democrat’s assault on the Second Amendment and highlighted the historical reasons the NRA was founded.

As CURE correctly noted in their press statement “gun control is an effort to control people.” Full Story »

Japan Professor: Fukushima release equivalent to 1,000 atomic bombs! (VIDEO)

Posted by helen - Wednesday 3/13/13

Daily updates coming out of Fukushima prefecture are alarming. Hiroaki Koide, Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering, Assistant Professor at the Kyoto University Research Institute, Nuclear Waste Management & Safety Expert, recently stated “The cesium-137 that was released into the atmosphere by Units 1 through 3 was 168 times that of the Hiroshima bomb, according to the Japanese government report to the IAEA, an international organization which promotes nuclear power.”

Professor Koide goes onto say Full Story »

Who does this?

Posted by helen - Tuesday 3/12/13

Seriously, who wastes their time photoshopping these photos? Oh, I forgot, those who are hellbent on stirring up, inflaming and just pissing off every Iranian Muslim.

Identical Photo's, eh?

h/t whatreallyhappened dot com

UPDATE: The Curia and Vatican Inc.

Posted by helen - Friday 3/8/13

UPDATE x1: The Telegraph is reporting “Scottish priests ‘out of control sexually’, says former abuse adviser. Roman Catholic priests in Scotland were “out of control sexually” under the leadership of the disgraced Cardinal Keith O’Brien, the Church’s former adviser on child abuse claims.” Obviously, Cardinal O’Brien was, emphasis being WAS, part of the Curia. Pope Benedict requested O’Brien’s immediate resignation when four men came forward accusing him of sexual abuse. He immediately offered his resignation.

by Helen Tansey
March 8, 2013

Recently retired Pope Benedict is the only person in the world who knows why he made what appears to be a sudden decision to retire stunning over a billion Catholic parishioners. It’s not like Pope’s just up and retire one day giving a month or so notice.   Full Story »

Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) Apartment Complex in Milan

Posted by helen - Thursday 2/28/13

Wow! Forests are going vertical in Milan. Boeri Studio architects Stefano Boeri, Gianandrea Barreca, and Giovanni La Varra, designed the project. The firm describes the project by stating – Full Story »

Sen. Warren Grills Fed’s Bernanke on “Too Big Too Fail” $83 BILLION Subsidy

Posted by helen - Wednesday 2/27/13

During the Senate’s Banking hearing held earlier this week, Sen. Warren (MA) grilled Fed Chairman Bernanke on the $83 Billion subsidy taxpayers are still paying out to the Too Big Too Fail banks. She asks Bernanke the simple question shouldn’t the Too Big Too Fail Banks pay back that $83 Billion subsidy they are receiving?

Why are they receiving it at all?

Watch Bernanke dance around answering her very specific question – Full Story »

Presumptive CIA Head John Brennan: Human Rights Denier, Torture Advocate and Obama’s Drone Hitman

Posted by helen - Tuesday 2/19/13

“Ben Swann Full Disclosure takes a look by CIA Director nominee John Brennan’s statements from the past about absolute human rights and his current role in coordinating U.S. drone strikes” -

Read the full story below the fold “Presumptive CIA Head John Brennan: Human Rights Denier, Torture Advocate and Obama’s Drone Hitman” Full Story »

UPDATE: So, Did Russia Shoot a Missile and/or Rocket at Incoming Meteor?

Posted by helen - Monday 2/18/13

It sure looks that way when watching the below video. Be sure to enlarge your screen when watching…

Full Story »

So, you wanna know what a meteorite landing looks and sounds like?

Posted by helen - Friday 2/15/13

Meteorite appearing out of the blue in the sky over Russia -

Video of impact of Meteorite landing in a lake near Chebarkul, Russia (turn your volume down) Full Story »

“Burn it down, Burn it down, Shoot the gas…Get the F—out”

Posted by helen - Thursday 2/14/13

“Burn it down” “Burn it down, shoot the gas” “Get the gas” “Burn the gas, burn the gas, burn the gas, Burn the gas.” “Hey, hold it, hold it. Get out. Get the f—out.”

This command made by San Bernardino police during Tuesday’s standoff with Christopher Dorner at Big Bear Lake in California is extremely disturbing. Full Story »

Wonder why this skit didn’t make it onto SNL?

Posted by helen - Tuesday 2/12/13

Not! Although tasteless, the underlying message is one a growing number of Americans are questioning.

h/t snardfarker.ning.com Full Story »

NDAA Appeal: Chris Hedges & Daniel Ellsberg Detail Potential Outcomes

Posted by helen - Saturday 2/9/13

We Are Change Sierra Adamson caught up with both Chris Hedges and Daniel Ellsberg outside the Second Circuit Court of Appeals last week after the Justices heard arguments in the Hedges v Obama NDAA appeal. Both Ellsberg and Hedges provide updates, next steps and what potential outcomes may be.

First up, Chris Hedges – Full Story »

PJTV: Chris Rock Wants You to Shut Up and Obey the President

Posted by helen - Friday 2/8/13

“Chris Rock thinks we should all support President Obama on gun control because the president is “our boss.” What does AlfonZo Rachel think of this? Find out on this Zo Nation.”

Full Story »

BRAVO, Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, Delivers a Message Americans need to hear…

Posted by helen - Friday 2/8/13

A huge applause goes out to Nuerosurgeon Dr. Benjamin S. Carson for his thoughtful, provocative and engaging speech at the National Prayer Breakfast held on February 7, 2012. We hope you’ll take 30 minutes of your time to listen to his eloquent words, his parables and his personal story. Trust us, you to will feel inspired and motivated – Full Story »

The Hon. Ann Bressington Exposes Agenda 21, Club of Rome

Posted by helen - Tuesday 2/5/13

The Hon. Ann Bressington from the Legislative Council of South Australia exposes the contrived Agenda 21 program stealthily being rolled out by the United Nations and the Club of Rome here in the United States and abroad. Bressington highlights the origins of this deceitful program and how it’s sponsors are incrementally rewriting land and water use laws while also unmasking it as a redistribution of wealth program to Third World nations. Full Story »

Help this good man…

Posted by helen - Monday 2/4/13

“This is a Constitutional battle, and we’re going to defend our rights,” says Aaron Sandusky, the owner of a medical marijuana dispensary in Upland, California who now faces federal drug trafficking charges even though he was operating within California state law.”

Full Story »

Kyle Bass Tells ‘Nominal’ Stock Market Cheerleaders: Remember Zimbabwe

Posted by helen - Monday 2/4/13

Zerohedge posted over the weekend this short interview with Kyle Bass, Hayman Capital. Bass offers investment insight ZH captures when teeing up the interview – Full Story »

James Corbett and The Last Word on Privacy

Posted by helen - Tuesday 1/22/13

To read the full transcript click – http://www.corbettreport.com/fisa-facebook-and-the-end-of-privacy/

Who lip syncs the Star Spangled Banner at a Presidential Inauguration?

Posted by helen - Tuesday 1/22/13

Say what?  Singer song-writer Beyonce belted out the Star Spangled Banner during yesterday’s inauguration receiving rave reviews from media pundits only to learn today from the Washingtonian that she lip synced the entire song and the Marine Corps band didn’t play the first note!

Here’s what the Washingtonian is reporting – Full Story »

Grand Funk Railroad – Don’t Let ‘Em Take Your Gun

Posted by helen - Wednesday 1/16/13

Democide “Murder by Government”

Posted by helen - Monday 1/7/13

You may have seen the vid with the Hollywood celebrities calling for a “Plan” to reign in guns and you may have seen the follow-up spoof where someone inserted scenes from a variety of movies where the majority of these same celebrities were more than happy to play their bad guy/gal “shoot ‘em dead” roles for entertainment purposes, of course. Full Story »

“Freedom is only for those who have the guts to defend it”

Posted by helen - Friday 12/21/12

Our friends from across the pond have a message for Americans – Full Story »

C.I.A. no al-qaeda ever existed – BBC documentary “The Power of Nightmares”

Posted by helen - Thursday 12/20/12

Why has this BBC documentary “The Power of Nightmares” been censored here in the United States? Could it be that it takes on the entire false edifice built around the neocon’s “War on Terror” which is built on phantom terrorist cells we know as Al Qaeda? Every American should watch this series and open their minds to learn how America’s state run media sold the public to support the so called “War on Terror” sending our greatest treasure, our young men and women, to fight these boogeymen. Full Story »

Prison labor booms in US as low-cost inmates bring billions

Posted by helen - Monday 12/10/12

Is this why America’s prison population has dramatically increased to a whopping two million inmates over the last decade? Is this why so many are locked up for selling a nickle of pot on the streets? Or why three strike laws were put in place? If so, then this judicial racket needs to be exposed and ended. This is appalling – Full Story »

UPDATE X1: Kung Fu Expert in China Beats Up Mob of 50 Trying to Evict Him

Posted by helen - Friday 11/30/12

Washington’s Blog

To understand the background of the incident – and the plight of Chinese homeowners attempting to resist eviction when the government wants to build something on their land – watch this short video:

Full Story »

GRTV: GMO Foods: Science, PR, and Public Backlash

Posted by helen - Monday 11/26/12

Why don’t we have the right to know whether food and beverages we buy at our local grocery store are “genetically modified?” More disturbingly, why are the companies who use GMO in their products spending untold millions and millions of dollars to make sure we never do? Full Story »

Ron Paul’s Congressional Farewell Speech

Posted by helen - Thursday 11/15/12

Full transcript of Congressman Ron Paul’s speech below. Full Story »

How’s That Hope & Change Workin’ Out For You?

Posted by helen - Tuesday 11/6/12

DOWNLOAD THE MP3!!! http://www.raintree.com/store || © 2011. All rights reserved. Full Story »

Conservatism is Calling

Posted by helen - Tuesday 11/6/12

Full Story »

Fort Hood Heroes ~ Workplace Violence or Act of Terrorism

Posted by helen - Friday 10/26/12

Workplace violence. Seriously?

The attack at Ft. Hood by Major Nidal-Malik Hasan was classified as “workplace violence” rather than what is was–a blatant act of terrorism. As Pamela Geller stated – Full Story »

Obama Supporters Actually Hate Obama’s Policies

Posted by helen - Friday 10/26/12

Luke Rudkowski of We Are Change strikes again and shows just how uninformed the Democratic voter is. Unbelievable! Where have these people been? They don’t even know what Obama has signed into Executive Orders let alone anything this man has signed into law, but they pretend to be informed. Full Story »

Modern Wheat a ‘Perfect, Chronic Poison’

Posted by helen - Monday 10/1/12

Via CBS News

h/t cryptogon Full Story »

How Crony Capitalism (Or The ‘Undiluted Lunacy’ Of The Fed) Corrupts The Free Markets

Posted by helen - Friday 9/28/12

h/t Zerohedge

“This is the final abomination” is how David Stockman begins his epic rant on the Federal Reserve and crony capitalism in this clip. The “undiluted lunacy” of their actions prompted him to address the Fed’s decision to “print ourselves to death” by saying Full Story »

GMO, Global Alert & GMO’s Head Lobbyist

Posted by helen - Tuesday 9/25/12

After two years of study, French researchers secretly studied the affects of transgenic maize (NK603) and Roundup pesticide, on 200 rats. The results of the study should set off alarms throughout the USDA, FDA, the farming community and the people of the United States. Full Story »

AFTER 9/11: TEN YEARS OF WAR

Posted by helen - Monday 9/10/12

A special production by James Corbett for GlobalResearchTV

Full Story »

RNC Pulling Out All Stops To Keep Ron Paul’s Name Out

Posted by helen - Sunday 8/26/12

Deja vu all over again. The DNC in 2008 pulled the same crap on Hillary delegates and now Romney has taken a page from the Obama theftbook and is putting the screws to Ron Paul.

Full Story »

Should Obama and Congress Be Arrested Under the NDAA?

Posted by helen - Monday 8/6/12

by Azizonomics

Should President Obama (alongside Lindsay Graham and John McCain) be wearing an orange jumpsuit?

Welcome to the beautiful and surreal reality of life under American corporatism, under a Congress that churns out thousands and thousands of pages of (often contradictory) legislation a year. Full Story »

Holme’s Family Military Connections Get Creepier…

Posted by helen - Tuesday 7/31/12

July 31, 2012

by Wayne Madsen
Wayne Madsen Report

WMR previously reported on the connections between accused Aurora movie theater shooter James Holmes and U.S. government-funded neuroscience research programs at the Anschutz Medical Campus at the University of Colorado and at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, in addition to his father’s research work on neural networks for the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Full Story »

The Syrian opposition: who’s doing the talking?

Posted by helen - Tuesday 7/17/12

The media have been too passive when it comes to Syrian opposition sources, without scrutinising their backgrounds and their political connections. Time for a closer look … Full Story »

The Sky is Pink by Josh Fox

Posted by helen - Tuesday 7/10/12

An emergency short film from Josh Fox, the Oscar-nominated director of GASLAND addressing the urgent crisis of drilling and fracking in New York state. Full Story »

American Nazi Secrets by John Loftus

Posted by helen - Monday 7/9/12

After receiving the green light from the feds, John Loftus updated his once highly “censored” book titled “American Nazi Secrets” which has been -

“fully revised and expanded, this stirring account reveals how the U.S. government permitted the illegal entry of Nazis into North America in the years following World War II. Full Story »

Warning: A Global Coup is Underway

Posted by helen - Tuesday 7/3/12

Full Story »

OBAMA SAYS OBAMACARE ‘IS NOT A TAX INCREASE’ … STILL……

Posted by helen - Thursday 6/28/12

Why on earth would any be surprised? What kind of bubble does this man dwell in? Seriously?

STEPHANOPOULOS: But you reject that it’s a tax increase?

OBAMA: I absolutely reject that notion.

Full Story »

Colorado Wildfires…

Posted by helen - Wednesday 6/27/12

h/t TheIntelHub.com Full Story »

Civil Rights (Voting Rights/Election Fraud) Republican Delegate Lawsuit

Posted by helen - Thursday 6/21/12

The following video explains a basic overview of the Civil Rights (Voting Rights/Election Fraud) Lawsuit being filed in Federal Court by Lawyers For Ron Paul on behalf of American voters. Full Story »

“The Obvious Stares You in the Face”

Posted by helen - Thursday 6/21/12

AE911 Truth debunks, once again, the so-called experts who claim whatever moronic theory for how World Trade Center’s towers 1, 2 and 7 collapsed, that is all but the correct theory – CONTROLLED DEMOLITION. Full Story »

Sheriff Joe Arpaio talks to ABC15 about Obama’s illegal immigration change

Posted by helen - Friday 6/15/12

PHOENIX – Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio sat down at ABC15 to talk about the new changes by the Obama administration to stop deporting younger illegal immigrants. Full Story »

AE911Truth World Premiere Tour & Introducing the International Translation Team

Posted by helen - Monday 6/11/12

The International Translations Team of AE911Truth would like people all over the world to know about the evidence of explosive demolition of the 3 high-rises on September 11th 2001. Full Story »

Fast & Furious Docs Show Holder’s Deputies Knew More Than They Say

Posted by helen - Thursday 6/7/12

He [Issa] says the wiretap applications — aurthorized by top DoJ officials — demonstrate a complete familiarity with the tactic, thus undermining the DoJ’s current posture that they had no idea what gun-walking was until after Brian Terry had been shot. Full Story »

If I wanted America to fail…

Posted by helen - Friday 6/1/12

h/t naturecons
Full Story »

Romney, the RNC and the AP are all lying! But wait, so is the Oklahoma Republican Party!!!

Posted by helen - Wednesday 5/30/12

Is David Axelrod Romney’s campaign manager? I don’t know about you but all the dirty tricks the Obama campaign played in 2008 are certainly being repeated by Romney’s team now.

Here is the Reality Check report clearly taking the time to explain the fact Romney didn’t win anything last night -

Full Story »

“Inside Job” Director Charles Ferguson: Wall Street Has Turned US Into a “Predatory Nation”

Posted by helen - Wednesday 5/30/12

Read author Simon Johnson’s review of Ferguson’s “Predator Nation” Full Story »

Chicago Indymedia Livestream from NATO Protests

Posted by helen - Monday 5/21/12

Livestreaming from Chicago Indymedia and HammerHard MediaWorks. Check us out | chicago.indymedia.org | hammerhard.org

Watch live streaming video from chicagoindymedia at livestream.com

Full Story »

Since when does America’s Military conduct drills in America’s cities?

Posted by helen - Thursday 5/10/12

May 10, 2012

What in the world is going on? Is the rogue federal government bringing to America what they’ve wrought in Libya, Egypt, Syria and soon Iran? Is the rogue federal government preparing to unleash mayhem in the cities of America to further their New World Order oligarchical utopia? Is this what the military training is all about seen in Chicago last month and now  in Miami, Florida? Full Story »

Nuclear “Security” and Nuclear Hypocrisy

Posted by helen - Thursday 5/3/12

James Corbett of the Corbett Report highlights in this week’s special report the sheer hypocrisy behind nuclear ‘security’.

Corbett states “contrary to their official position, these very governments are invested in the proliferation of nuclear materials and nuclear weapons around the globe.” Full Story »

Patriots or Profiteers?

Posted by helen - Tuesday 5/1/12

Full Story »

MPs’ phone hacking report: Rupert Murdoch not ‘fit person’ to run News Corp

Posted by helen - Tuesday 5/1/12

Rupert Murdoch is “not a fit person” to run an international company because he showed “wilful blindness” to the extent of phone-hacking at the News of the World, a devastating report by MPs has concluded.

Full Story »

Inside Story: Is Netanyahu misleading Israelis over Iran?

Posted by helen - Monday 4/30/12

Israeli security and military commanders have criticised Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, accusing him of misleading the Israeli people on important policy issues. Full Story »

National Security Agency Whistleblower William Binney on Growing State Surveillance

Posted by helen - Monday 4/23/12

This is a must see interview. The police state continues to grow at a rapid pace with unchecked power. Understanding what this means, former 30 year veteran of the NSA now whistleblower, William Binney, talks with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! Full Story »

Gulf seafood deformities alarm scientists

Posted by helen - Wednesday 4/18/12

Al Jazeera

New Orleans, LA – “The fishermen have never seen anything like this,” Dr Jim Cowan told Al Jazeera. “And in my 20 years working on red snapper, looking at somewhere between 20 and 30,000 fish, I’ve never seen anything like this either.” Full Story »

Blackhawk “Helos” Swoop into Chi-town

Posted by helen - Tuesday 4/17/12

City Hall stated in a press release that the city would be experiencing some “routine military exercise drills” but few see Blackhawks swooping into the city as being anything but routine -

Blackhawks Circle Low Through Chicago Skies as Secret Service Releases Security Details: MyFoxCHICAGO.com

Full Story »

Insanity 101! ~ NJ JUDGE DOESN’T ALLOW EVIDENCE YET RULES OBAMA IS A NBC

Posted by helen - Thursday 4/12/12

And people have the chutzpah to say the birthers are crazy? Ha! What a load of malarkey. Watch NJ’s Judge Masin and Obama’s attorney state the forged birth certificate sitting on a federally owned computer isn’t admissible to demonstrate proof of eligibility.

Now, after watching this, read the Judge’s ruling…your eyes are not deceiving you… Full Story »

Training Terrorists in Nevada: Seymour Hersh on U.S. Aid to Iranian Group

Posted by helen - Tuesday 4/10/12

New Yorker News Desk published “Our Men in Iran” by Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh on April 6, 2012. Democracy Now’s, Amy Goodman, interviewed Hersh today where he reveals “that the Bush administration secretly trained an Iranian opposition group on the State Department’s list of foreign terrorists. Hersh reports the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command trained operatives from Mujahideen-e-Khalq, or MEK, at a secret site in Nevada beginning in 2005.” Full Story »

First Tebow then Brady and now AG Eric Holder…

Posted by helen - Monday 4/9/12

James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas strikes again. O’Keefe sent a white guy into a DC voter precinct during the recent primary and requested Attorney General Eric Holder’s ballot and got it. Didn’t have to show a valid Driver’s License or any other form of identification to verify his identity. Watch the video below to see how easy it was. Full Story »

‘Soviet style’ rewriting of history: ‘Treatment’ of skeptics disappears from U. of Oregon press statement

Posted by helen - Tuesday 4/3/12

Kari, Kari, Kari – congratulations, you have earned your rightful place as the new poster child of climate change commies? I didn’t believe any could top Gleick, oh but how wrong I was. And now you’ve put your own employer, the University of Oregon, in such a glowing light…hahahaha! Full Story »

Compilation: Judge Napolitano Interviews This Week That Breaksdown SCOTUS & Obamacare Hearing

Posted by helen - Sunday 4/1/12

Interview breakdown is as follows: 3:26 7:47 11:35 15:54 21:33

http://RonPaul2012.com/ Full Story »

Agenda21 for Dummies

Posted by helen - Tuesday 3/27/12

Prince Gaia’s Charles Agenda 21 explained: including implications it will have on American’s here in the good old USA. Definitely worth ten minutes of your time.

h/t Silver Bear Cafe

Full Story »

Financial “Crisis” in Greece Explained…

Posted by helen - Saturday 3/24/12

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Greek bailout by Germany. Enjoy!

h/t zerohedge Full Story »

So, What’s Next Step Towards The Eurocalypse? by Reggie Middleton

Posted by helen - Tuesday 3/13/12

First up is UK’s Nigel Farage lambasting Van Rompuy for his duplicitous handling of the Greece bailout. Watch the full clip, there is a bit of Farage humor at the end…you won’t be disappointed –

Full Story »

The Fukushima Legacy – Dr. Helen Caldicott on GRTV

Posted by helen - Tuesday 3/13/12

Corbett Report: “One year after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan’s northeast began, details continue to emerge about how the crisis was much worse than the government and TEPCO originally let on. Joining us to discuss the legacy of Fukushima is Helen Caldicott, a physician, author and radio host who has spoken out for decades about the deadly effects of nuclear radiation.” Full Story »

Fifth Amendment is Dead…

Posted by helen - Friday 3/9/12

h/t Infowars.com

How To Get Anything Through TSA Nude Body Scanners

Posted by helen - Wednesday 3/7/12

A HUGE SHOUT OUT to the fella who produced this video. He clearly demonstrates the imbecile use of TSA body scanners used by the Fed’s to give you an utterly false sense of safety all the while infringing on your rights to privacy. Here’s a comment that nails this farce perpetrated by those who only want to scare and intimidate you – “It’s age restricted [the video] because of the scanner image, I’d guess. Which implies the image is pornographic, which thereby infers that the privacy rights of travelers are definitely being invaded.” Full Story »

Danger Zone: Ageing Nuclear Reactors ~ Is the US heading toward a nuclear catastrophe?

Posted by helen - Tuesday 3/6/12

I watched this extraordinarily powerful investigative report by Al Jazeera’s People & Power program last week and failed to post it. When I went back to get the embed coding the vid was gone. Did a bit of searching and found YT Channel World2Awakens captured it before it disappeared. Who knows why AJ removed the vid from YT. I guess one can surmise, but know the reporting done by AJ is outstanding and is a must see. Full Story »

CDR Kerchner (Ret) PA Ballot Challenge Post Hearing Interview

Posted by helen - Saturday 3/3/12

01 March 2012 Interview of CDR Charles Kerchner (Ret), Lead Plaintiff/Objector, in the Kerchner & Laudenslager v Obama PA Ballot Challenge/Objection, at the Commonwealth Court of PA in Harrisburg PA, after the scheduled hearing at which time the judge denied a hearing on the merits citing jurisdictional grounds. Full Story »

Pasteurized Milk Linked to Cancer: Infowars Nightly News

Posted by helen - Tuesday 2/28/12

Be certain to click the ‘Full Story’ link below the vid to read “Judge Sides With Monsanto Over Small Organic Farmers“.

Full Story »

What does the Corrections Corp of America & the 13th Amendment have in common?

Posted by helen - Thursday 2/23/12

h/t to BrasscheckTV for sending out this video. After watching it, I came across the release by the ACLU citing the fact that the Corrections Corp of America is trying to buy up state prisons, but to strike the deal the state has to ensure 90% capacity at all times. What in the world? Maybe this fella in this video has a point, especially in light of the recent letter from Corrections Corp of America to all 50 state Governors – Full Story »

BBC’s Panorama – Poor America

Posted by helen - Wednesday 2/15/12

Hilary Andersson reports

“With one and a half million (1.5 million) American children now homeless, reporter Hilary Andersson meets the school pupils who go hungry in the richest country on Earth. From those living in the storm drains under Las Vegas to the tent cities now springing up around the United States, P a n o r a m a finds out how the poor are surviving in America and asks whatever happened to the supposed ‘government’ and the Real People in charge – those who you ‘don’t see’ pulling on the strings; and their vision and welfare for the country.” Full Story »

Retired CIA Officer Ray McGovern: WW3 The Coming War with Israel & Iran

Posted by helen - Thursday 1/19/12

This is a great show by Alex Jones of Infowars/Prison Planet TV. He talks with Ray McGovern a retired CIA officer and founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, about Israel and the coming war with Iran. Jones stated “McGovern delivered daily security briefs for Reagan, Vice President George H.W. Bush, the National Security Advisor, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Cabinet.” Full Story »

Indefinite Detention: The NDAA and the Enemy Expatriation Act

Posted by helen - Monday 1/16/12

Click HERE for more information.

Keiser Report: Death by Thousand Revelations

Posted by helen - Thursday 1/12/12

Max and Stacy “discuss death by a thousand revelations and destroying the City to save the City” in the first half of today’s program. During the second half Max interviews Nomi Prins, former investment banker. The two of them talk about the “role of JP Morgan in Jon Corzine’s MF Global crime”. Full Story »

Guantanamo: Former Chief Prosecutor Call on Obama to Close Prison

Posted by helen - Tuesday 1/10/12

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! interviews former Gitmo Prosecutor Air Force Colonel Morris Davis on this the tenth anniversary of the Bush policy of “indefinite detention” and the gulag known as Guantanamo Bay. Full Story »

The Coca-Cola Case – A documentary film about Coke and labour rights in the bottling plants (trailer)

Posted by helen - Monday 1/9/12

A new documentary is being released that exposes Coca Cola and working conditions in their Colombia, Guatemala and Turkey plants. The short description of the film starts with ‘You’ll never look at a can of Coke the same way after seeing this documentary film.” Full Story »

Pentagon created ‘Arab Spring’ over a decade ago

Posted by helen - Monday 1/2/12

“William Engdahl, Geopolitics/Geoeconomics, breaks down the Arab Spring with absolute precision. For a documented history of the engineered 2011 Arab Spring, please see, “2011 – Year of the Dupe.” For more research and analysis by Engdahl, see his website Geopolitics-Geoeconomics” states Cartalucci –

h/t Land Destroyer Full Story »

THE SHOCKING TRUTH OF THE PENDING EU COLLAPSE!

Posted by helen - Wednesday 12/21/11

“When the hell do we the so called common people wake the hell up? Unlimited money supply is not enough for these people. They want all of our souls!!”

Full Story »

MF Global bankruptcy-On the Edge with Max Keiser

Posted by helen - Monday 12/19/11

Lord Christopher Monckton Skydives into Durban, South Africa Making a Grand Entrance to the UN’s Eco-Fascist Climategate Summit

Posted by helen - Saturday 12/10/11

I don’t even know where to begin with this post, so I guess I’ll start with Lord Monckton parachuting into the UN’s Eco-Fascist Climategate Summit in Durban, South Africa. Yep, he along with pals from the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, CFACT, skydived into the conference. You don’t believe me? Well, watch it for yourself – Full Story »

Newt Outed for Talking Out of Both Sides of His Mouth

Posted by helen - Wednesday 12/7/11

This is not an endorsement of any candidate, but it is an excellent video outing Newt for the serial hypocrite he is –

Constitutional Scholar Bruce Fein: American Empire Before The Fall

Posted by helen - Tuesday 12/6/11

Alex had Bruce Fein, expert in constitutional and international law and serves as candidate Ron Pauls advisor, on his show yesterday to discuss the state of our republic. The two of them cover a lot of ground starting with the most recent treasonous act by 60 members of congress bestowing tyrannical authority to the executive to arrest, detain and execute any American anywhere at anytime.

First a short history lesson – Full Story »

Fukushima 45 ton radioactive water leak poisons ocean

Posted by helen - Tuesday 12/6/11

Jon Stewart’s New Segment: How the F#@k is it that Martha Stewart Went to Jail

Posted by helen - Friday 12/2/11

Jon Stewart nailed it on last nights “The Daily Show” when opening his new series titled “How the F#@k is it that Martha Stewart went to jail” when not one Wall Street bankster has been held accountable for the 2008 meltdown that we are still suffering from today. So Martha goes to jail who made dough from an insider tip, yet the entire banking elite goes home to their families every night not feeling even a tiny bit of fear for being arrested for all of their illegal transactions all the while thrusting the entire economy into a meltdown. Unbelievable! Full Story »

The Light Bulb Conspiracy – The Untold Story of Planned Obsolescence

Posted by helen - Thursday 11/24/11

Finally somebody is telling this story. Have you ever wondered why tools, electronics, gardening/farming equipment, light bulbs and more go kapput forcing you to go buy a new one? Well, wonder no more. Here’s the story…

Full Story »

SEIU Michigan Raises Union Dues the Old Fashioned Way…Stealing it!

Posted by helen - Friday 11/18/11

This story gives every Union in the nation a black eye. Pro or anti Union doesn’t matter, but rather doing the right thing. And if this is happening in Michigan who knows what other state has turned a blind eye to this corrupt business model. Shame on SEIU! Full Story »

War Clouds Form Over Iran…

Posted by helen - Thursday 11/17/11

First, a Press TV interview with Jeffery Steinberg, the editor of Executive Intelligence Review, who articulates the purpose behind the fearmongering behind the invade Iran meme.

Now, click Full Story to read an essay by Wayne Madsen titled War Clouds Form over Iran Full Story »

OMG! What a lucky little guy…

Posted by helen - Thursday 11/17/11

Exactly What Is a Technocrat?

Posted by helen - Wednesday 11/16/11

RT’s definition “A technocrat is someone who is selected, through a bureaucratic processes, on the basis of specialized knowledge and performance, rather than democratic or popular election. In a technocracy, decision makers would be selected based upon how knowledgeable and skillful they are in their field.” Full Story »

Arab League Suspends Syria: What’s Next?

Posted by helen - Monday 11/14/11

Why is the Arab League suspending Syria? Russia’s foreign minister suggests Western countries aka the United States are trying to stir up opposition in Syria so as to topple President Bashar al-Assad. This strategy appears to be Clinton’s State Departments modus operandi, that is using Soros funded infiltrators to stir up opposition that leads to the overthrow of those who apparently are not kowtowing to the Council on Foreign Relations and Tri-Lateral Commissions “New World Order” goal. Full Story »

Where The Buffalo Roamed ~ How Far Can You Get From McDonald’s?

Posted by helen - Thursday 11/10/11

This summer, cruising down the I-5 through California’s Central Valley to the Los Angeles Basin, I unwittingly stumbled upon a most exasperating development: the country strip mall. First, let me state that I don’t hate. I’ve got nothing against Petco, Starbucks, OfficeMax, et al. When overcome by the desire for a cubic yard of kitty litter, a carafe of pre-Columbian frappasmoochino, or fifty gross of pink highlighter pens, I’m there in a jiffy!

But, Mr. Real Estate Tycoon, did you have to plop your shopping center smack dab in the middle of what was previously nowhere? Full Story »

James Corbett’s Fukushima Update – 2011/11/08

Posted by helen - Monday 11/7/11

James Corbett in this week’s Fukushima Update “highlight[s] an important Enformable dot com expose on how the nuclear lobby took over US radiation monitoring in the wake of the Fukushima crisis; note the Japanese government bailout of TEPCO; and watch an NHK video that notes the possibility of salt water corrosion of the walls of the spent fuel pool. Full Story »

This Story Speaks for Itself…60 Minutes Leslie Stahl & Jack Abramoff

Posted by helen - Monday 11/7/11

Click full story to watch in full view. Full Story »

Ventura Decries “Fascist” America After Judge Tosses TSA Case

Posted by helen - Friday 11/4/11

Federal Court rules former Governor Jesse Ventura threw out his lawsuit against the TSA’s unlawful search and seizure. The Judge ruled on the grounds that he lacked standing AND the suit should have been filed in a Circuit Court of Appeals. Ventura talks to Alex Jones detailing his frustration while also stating the ruling is secret due to national security… Full Story »

“Human Rights” Groups and the Pretext for War in Syria

Posted by helen - Thursday 11/3/11

In this RT interview independent journalist, James Corbett, details the fact that on Monday, November 1, 2011 the Arab League brokered a deal with Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s President “easing the country’s long-running political crisis.” As Corbett reports “the agreement urges Damascus to immediately withdraw security forces from the streets, release jailed demonstrators, and start dialogue with the opposition. Syria also agreed to allow rights groups and Arab League watchdogs into the country. But the U.S. still says it wants to see President Assad resign” and suggests Syria’s geographical location as strategic to the US to launch an offensive into Iran. Full Story »

Keiser Report: Make Love Not Debt

Posted by helen - Tuesday 11/1/11

Max promises in an upcoming show “Max & Stacey” will bring the Keiser Report from “bed” and soon. He also interviews Birgitta Jonsdottir, about the true state of transparency, banking and economy in the latest IMF poster child, Iceland. Full Story »

The Murder of Muammar Gaddafi – GRTV Backgrounder

Posted by helen - Tuesday 11/1/11

“The killing of Muammar Gaddafi at the hands of NATO-backed, Al Qaeda-linked forces marks the end of a campaign expressly aimed at the assassination of a head of state and overthrow of a sovereign country in direct violation of international standards that have held sway since the Nuremberg trials at the end of World War II and the establishment of the Geneva Conventions.”

And then there were reports like this one from the BBC where eyewitnesses saw Gaddafi’s convoy prominently showing “White Flags” a universally accepted principle of surrender. Now, ask yourself, why was Clinton in Libya on the very morning Gaddafi surrendered? Was Gaddafi led to believe he was surrendering to the US? Think about it.

Occupy Oakland – Rally & March 10/25/11

Posted by helen - Friday 10/28/11

It’s the last minute of this video that is most disturbing…a tear gas canister hit a protester and when comrades went to help him the cops threw in a “flash bang grenade“. Not good. The Mayor should immediately tender her resignation for condoning this kind of violence. Whether pro or con no American citizen should be harmed for simply expressing their first amendment rights peacefully.

Iraq Veterans Against the War, IVAW, Conference Part 1/5

Posted by helen - Friday 10/28/11

Click on full story below to watch Parts 2 thru 5 Full Story »

“19,000 Women & Men Are Raped In The US Military Every Year!” Congresswoman Speier

Posted by helen - Wednesday 10/26/11

StopMilitaryRape@mail.house.gov

Keiser Report: Fecal Alchemy

Posted by helen - Tuesday 10/25/11

Today’s Keiser Report ~ “this week Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert discuss the message from Sirte, “Today Libya, Tomorrow Wall Street”, and fecal alchemy and its two-tiered justice system. In the second half of the show, Max Keiser interviews Stephen Leeb, author of Red Alert: How China’s Growing Prosperity Threatens the American.”

KR on FB: http://www.facebook.com/KeiserReport

Will US Stay in Iraq To Protect Oil Interest? Why Not, Afterall It’s the Reason We Invaded in the First Place!

Posted by helen - Friday 10/14/11

Antonia Juhasz, author of “The Tyranny of Oil: The World’s Most Powerful Industry and What We Must Do to Stop It” provides an update to how Iraq’s oilfields, prior to the Iraq invasion, were once nationalized are now being divvied up to international oil conglomerates…the same ones who seem to be benefiting mightily from the recent NATO lead invasion in Libya.

Who are our nations treasure dying in Afghanistan and why did they sign up? New Report provides demographic details

Posted by helen - Thursday 10/13/11

From DemocracyNow! – “Nearly 1,800 U.S. military members have been killed in Afghanistan since the war began there 10 years ago — the longest war in U.S. history. A new report examines these deaths, based on information drawn from obituaries and tribute pages for all 1,446 U.S. military casualties since the war began in October 2001 until December 2010. We speak with the lead author of “American Military Deaths in Afghanistan, and the Communities from which These Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines Came.” Michael Zweig is a professor of economics and director of the Center for Study of Working Class Life at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. “In the United States, about 62 percent of the population are in the working class,” Zweig says. “But of the casualties, it’s 78 percent who are working-class people.” [includes rush transcript]

Link to full report by clicking American Military Deaths in Afghanistan, and the Communities from Which These Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines Came by Michael Zweig, Michael Porter, and Yuxiang Huang

Nigel Farage: United States of Europe insane politics

Posted by helen - Thursday 10/13/11

First Slovakia voted NO for the newest bailout, but then voted YES. Here’s Zerohedge’s latest on this continued saga…

Well, that’s that.

SLOVAK PARLIAMENT APPROVES EXPANSION OF EFSF RESCUE FUND, CONCLUDES RATIFICATION IN ALL EURO ZONE COUNTRIES -RTRS 114 voted for the EFSF, 30 against and 3 abstained from 147 present (out of 150)

Now: perhaps we can finally get some details of what will happen next instead of just blind short covering squeeze on rumor-based headfakes? Oh wait, we won’t? Because there are no real details and it is all just rhetoric?

And then there is this update “Van Rompuy And Barroso Announce €440 Billion EFSF Fully Functional; Now, How Do They Expand It To €3 Trillion?

Keiser Report: Dog & Pony Show

Posted by helen - Thursday 10/13/11

“This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, talk about the Sarkozy-Merkel dog and pony show announcing the plan without a plan and about when an asset isn’t really an asset. In the second half of the show, Max Keiser interviews Ellen Brown, author of Web of Debt, about the German Landesbanks and a Swiss community currency.”

Refreshing and Scarey ~ IMF advisor says we face a Worldwide Banking Meltdown

Posted by helen - Thursday 10/6/11

Zerohedge has this story over at their site, but to give this puppy more exposure we thought it wise to bring it over here. Here’s what ZH has to say -

“A week after the BBC exploded Alessio Rastani to the stage, it has just done it all over again. In an interview with IMF advisor Robert Shapiro, the bailout expert has pretty much said what, once again, is on everyone’s mind: “If they can not address [the financial crisis] in a credible way I believe within perhaps 2 to 3 weeks we will have a meltdown in sovereign debt which will produce a meltdown across the European banking system. We are not just talking about a relatively small Belgian bank, we are talking about the largest banks in the world, the largest banks in Germany, the largest banks in France, that will spread to the United Kingdom, it will spread everywhere because the global financial system is so interconnected. All those banks are counterparties to every significant bank in the United States, and in Britain, and in Japan, and around the world. This would be a crisis that would be in my view more serrious than the crisis in 2008…. What we don’t know the state of credit default swaps held by banks against sovereign debt and against European banks, nor do we know the state of CDS held by British banks, nor are we certain of how certain the exposure of British banks is to the Ireland sovereign debt problems.”

To read more from Zerohedge click HERE

Deutschmark & Drachma Revival? : Tobin Tax

Posted by helen - Wednesday 10/5/11

Max interviews Steve Woolfe to discuss Greece default and its impact on the

Naked Shorting and Gold Suppression – Ellen Brown on GRTV

Posted by helen - Sunday 10/2/11

To read or watch more of GRTV’s work click HERE

To watch or read more of James’ reports please click HERE

To read more of Ellen’s work please click HERE

Gov. Entrapment in Underwear Bomber Case: Eyewitness Kurt Haskell Reports

Posted by helen - Wednesday 9/21/11

Eyewitness to the 2009 Christmas Day “Underwear Bomber”, Kurt Haskell, retells his account as to what he witnessed on that fateful day and provides updates as to the Underwear Bomber’s firing of his attorney’s and is now representing himself in court, the recent evidence given to Umar’s “standby or helper” attorney, although the fed’s had more than 18 months to deliver said material and that from all appearances Umar is self sabotaging his own case…purposely. Remember, not one “terrist” incident occurred between 911 and Christmas Day 2009, yet an entire police state structure was resurrected as a result w/former head of FEMA, Michael Chertoff, and other Bush appointees handsomely financially benefiting from said event.

Part 2

Read Haskell’s full account and lingering questions no one in an official capacity seem to want to answer by clicking HERE

Haiti: After the Quake Al Jazeera’s Sebastian Walker asks why a system that was designed to help Haitians ended up exacerbating their misery

Posted by helen - Friday 9/16/11

This report by Al Jazeera’s correspondent, Sebastian Walker, from Haiti shows every well intentioned donor to disaster relief precisely how their donations are spent or not. To learn that more than a year after the devastating earthquake that rocked Haiti and her people that thousands upon thousands still have no “drinking” water is shameful. What the hell have these relief agencies spent donors money on? Running water, people, friggin running water! In a years time these agencies, especially the UN, have demonstrated their utter ineptness by not even successfully providing WATER!

Read full story by clicking HERE

Keiser Report: Debt Carpet Bombing

Posted by helen - Thursday 9/15/11

This week “Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss a tweet describing them as the Eldridge and Kathleen Cleaver of the financial war. With that in mind, they look at the modern equivalents to the carpet bombing, Agent Orange and Saigon prostitutes of the Vietnam war and observe that Christine Lagarde has ‘loved Arab Spring nations a long time.’ In the second half of the show Max talks to Zeus Yiamouyiannis of OfTwoMinds.com about the debt jubilee and Crash JP Morgan, Buy Silver.

KR on FB: www.facebook.com/KeiserReport

Call For New Investigations Into 9/11 Events! By 9/11 Inquiry co-Chair Bob Gramham

Posted by helen - Monday 9/12/11

If the Chairman of the 911 inquiry is bringing this information out 10 years friggin later what does this man and others know that we don’t? Answer, a helluvalot! This episode just really ticks me off!

Research Shows Rich Getting Richer Makes Poor Poorer

Posted by helen - Tuesday 9/6/11

From Washington’s Blog – “Jeffrey P. Thompson (Assistant Research Professor at the Political Economy Research Institute of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Elias Leight (Assistant Analyst Tax Analysis Division of the Congressional Budget Office) have demonstrated that when the wealthiest Americans get richer, everyone else becomes poorer.”

“For example, they demonstrate that when the wealthiest Americans get 10% richer, middle income Americans get 2% poorer.”

ATF Whistleblower: U.S. Gun Sting “Fast & Furious” Has Left Trail of “Crime Scenes and Dead Bodies”

Posted by helen - Thursday 9/1/11

Democracy Now! – “…Under the once-secret program known as “Operation Fast and Furious,” federal agents encouraged U.S. gun shops to sell thousands of weapons to middlemen for Mexican drug cartels. The program was meant to gain access to senior-level figures within Mexico’s criminal organizations, but agents lost track of as many as 2,500 guns. Last week, the Department of Justice acknowledged to Congress that firearms connected with the ATF’s controversial sting operation were used in at least 11 violent crimes in the United States, including the slaying of a U.S. Border Patrol agent. Meanwhile, the program has never led to any arrests, and three key ATF supervisors were promoted earlier this month. We’re joined by Vincent Cefalu, an ATF special agent who helped blow the whistle on Operation Fast and Furious and has since faced retaliation. “We allowed these guns to go, continue on, in the hopes of establishing some sort of chain, or this iron pipeline, which was so far from the truth,” Cefalu says…’

Peter Schiff: ‘QE2 is the reason for recession’

Posted by helen - Thursday 9/1/11

From RT – “On Friday new numbers are going reveal what is occurring in the employment sector, but many economists say the outlook is grim. The unemployment still lingers at around nine percent and Congress has fallen short of creating jobs for many Americans. The Federal Reserve is believed to step in again with more quantitative easing, but is this really the solution to the US’ economic problems? Peter Schiff, president at Euro Pacific Capital, will help answer some questions.”

Secret Exemptions Allowed Speculators to Distort Futures Markets

Posted by helen - Tuesday 8/30/11

Michael Greenberger (former Chief of Staff to Brooksley Born): Secret deals with CFTC staff led to futures markets with 80% speculation -

$30 billion stolen by US military contractors

Posted by helen - Tuesday 8/30/11

Wartime Contracting Commission warns of huge risk from unsustainable projects

“ARLINGTON, VA, June 3, 2011 – U.S.-funded projects that the Iraqi and Afghan governments can’t operate or pay for on their own threaten to create billions of dollars of new waste of American taxpayers’ money, according to a special report released today by the federal Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The report notes that “Potential waste from unsustainable projects exceeds $11 billion for just one program in Afghanistan, facilities construction for the national security forces.” The report points to other examples like a large power plant the Afghan government can’t afford to operate and an Iraqi water-treatment plant that is shut down much of the time and produces murky water when it does run.

Sustainability is a serious concern, the report says, because the U.S. military will be out of Iraq by the end of 2011, and the drawdown of U.S. troops from Afghanistan begins in July. Yet many of the programs and projects carried out under federal contracts in the countries lack plans for staffing, technical support, and funding for the long term.

Read the rest of release by clicking on the headline and look for the report on Wednesday at the same location.

Kevin Slavin: How Algorithms Shape Our World

Posted by helen - Thursday 8/25/11

h/t cryptogon and from TED – “Kevin Slavin argues that we’re living in a world designed for — and increasingly controlled by — algorithms. In this riveting talk from TEDGlobal, he shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture. And he warns that we are writing code we can’t understand, with implications we can’t control.”

Update X1 – Here’s a story covering Black Box Hedge Funds you might find interesting.

C-SPAN’s Communicators: Mark Rotenberg & Larry Clinton ~ Cyber Security v Privacy

Posted by helen - Monday 8/22/11

From C-Span –

This week on “The Communicators,” two critics of the Obama Administration’s proposals for reducing cyber threats against the U.S. discuss their objections — Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and Larry Clinton of the Internet Security Alliance.

Keiser Report: Crimogenic UK

Posted by helen - Friday 8/19/11

This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at how quantitative easing is good for the rich, bad for the poor and how sterling is offering no refuge. In the second half of the show Max talks to Richard Heinberg, author of The End of Growth, about the role of energy in the current debt crisis.

KR on FB: www.facebook.com/KeiserReport

Keiser Report: Looting – low-income/high-income – What’s the difference?

Posted by helen - Tuesday 8/16/11

Great show today. Stacy tee’s it up with several examples of how kid’s who are looting are punished vs the Ivy League banksters who looted all don’t even get investigated let alone charged of any crime. Two sets of laws – one for the peasants and another for the criminal “elite” class. Following Stacy’s piece, Max talks to former bank regulator, William K. Black, who made sure the Savings & Loan bankster thugs paid for their “looting” yours and my pocket.

TRILLIONS of Dollars Are Unaccounted in Pentagon Budget…

Posted by helen - Saturday 8/13/11

(Note: click on “full story” tab below video to see full screen.)

h/t Veteran’s Today

THE EMPEROR WEARS NO CLOTHES! Ratigan Spells-It-Out! PAY ATTENTION OBAMA!!!

Posted by helen - Wednesday 8/10/11

Dylan Ratigan for President! This man knows what he’s talking about and he’s got hellfire in his belly. We need a leader in the White House who refuses to be owned by the almighty dollar, but rather, to lead and be singularly focused on home. Re thinking…lol…

Not sure about Ratigan’s proposed “Infrastructure Bank” but for those that want to learn a bit about this idea, I suggest reading “The Bankster Plan to Hijack the Next Budget Deal” I”m not convinced this is the fix…

Here’s Cryptogon’s take on Ratigan’s rant – Dylan Ratigan Rant Over Political and Economic System Designed to “Extract America”

Keiser Report: Exorbitant Privilege of the Dollar

Posted by helen - Friday 8/5/11

Today, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, report from New York City. They discuss the exorbitant privilege America is about to lose. They look at football players with AAA credit ratings and at Apple’s cash stockpile bigger than Americas” -

KR on Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/KeiserReport

Truth from a “Banker”…

Posted by helen - Friday 8/5/11

h/t DannyDubber YouTube Channel

Sell Unpasteurized Milk and You’re Going to Jail…Oh, AND THEY WILL STEAL YOUR CASH!!!

Posted by helen - Friday 8/5/11

UPDATE X1 – Breaking News: Rawesome Foods raid victims stripped of First Amendment rights with court gag order

From Natural News –

“…By all indications, James Stewart will be out of jail Friday morning (if not sooner). A condition of his release is that he not engage in the sale of unpasteurized milk and cheese — a condition which is, by itself, completely unconstitutional and a violation of natural law. But nevertheless, this is the condition being set by the LA County courts…”

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/033234_Rawesome_Foods_news_update.html#ixzz1UAZSvsni

After Months of Partisan Wrangling, Wall Street & Pentagon Emerge Victorious on Debt Deal

Posted by helen - Tuesday 8/2/11

DemocracyNow! – “…The deal includes no new tax revenue from wealthy Americans, provides no additional stimulus for the lagging economy, and will cut more than $2.1 trillion in government spending over 10 years, while extending the borrowing authority of the Treasury Department. The debt deal was a victory of sorts for the Pentagon. Rather than cutting $400 billion in defense spending through 2023, as President Barack Obama had proposed in April, it trims just $350 billion through 2024, effectively giving the Pentagon $50 billion more than it had been expecting over the next decade. We speak with William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy, and Michael Hudson, professor of economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.”

Judge Napolitano Discusses the “Super Congress” Passed in Debt Bill

Posted by helen - Tuesday 8/2/11

Is it greed? Is it power? Why would any member of Congress EVER cede their power to a Super Congress? Are these men and women that friggin STUPID??? I think they are!

Super Congress: the final nail in the coffin of representative democracy and freedom as we know it

Madison Ruppert, Contributing Writer
Activist Post

Cloaked in the fear surrounding the debt ceiling and a possible default is the most dangerous legislation that America has ever faced. If this passes, the Super Congress will make the PATRIOT Act look like a just and fair law. When six Republicans, six Democrats and the President have complete control over the legislature, we need to be concerned.

The most frightening aspect of this proposed “committee”, inaccurate though the term may be, is the fact that lawmakers in Washington have already openly admitted the unprecedented power they will be afforded.

Referring to the Super Congress as a committee is a bit deceitful. Calling it a Supreme Council of Overlords would be a bit more accurate.

Click on the headline to read the rest of this post.

Hope you’re prepared…

Posted by helen - Friday 7/29/11

The American Dream Film

Posted by helen - Friday 7/29/11

Buy this film and distribute it widely…remember, it take’s $$$ to produce these films and any donation would be welcomed…visit http://www.theamericandreamfilm.com

h/t YouTube Channel NotforSale2NWO ~ Awesome channel for those who want to step outside the disinformation matrix and are seeking reliable alt news channels.

Keiser Report: Max and Stacey ask “Are You Psychotic”…Mass Psychosis?

Posted by helen - Wednesday 7/20/11

This week Max and Stacey cover the pharmaceutical industries pill pushing agenda targeting any who have the slightest hint of an emotional disorder. This includes our children who seem to be their number one target. Max also talks to Adrian Salbuchi about the similarities between the financial attack on Greece and what happened to Argentina in 2001/2002.

KR on FB: www.facebook.com/keiserreport

Another Oil Spill in Montana at Blackfeet Reservation

Posted by helen - Tuesday 7/12/11

Posted by Reed B. Perry

“A break in an oil collection pipeline on the eastern prairie of the Blackfeet Reservation has led to a seepage of crude that has been flowing approximately one mile over land and into the Cutbank river. Tribal officials received word of the spill on Tuesday, but it remains unclear when, or why the pipeline, which is managed by FX Drilling, actually began leaking oil.”

The full article can be found HERE

Drone Wars: US Ramping Up Unmanned Air Strikes and Domestic Surveillance

Posted by helen - Monday 7/11/11

“Unmanned aerial vehicles are once again grabbing headlines as the UK government was forced to admit last week that an RAF drone killed four Afghan civilians and injured two others in an air strike in Helmsland earlier this year.”

Click HERE to read full transcript and here to read more work at Global Research Center dot com

The EyeOpener: Who Watches the Watchdogs?

Posted by helen - Friday 7/8/11

Boiling Frogs Blog asks -

What influence do corporate foundation donors have over the organizations they are propping up?

Be sure to read the entire investigative report by click Boilingfrogs

Google, Yahoo & Facebook Are Hiding Things From You

Posted by helen - Wednesday 7/6/11

h/t Evelyn

Read more at TED.com

The Fed Under Fire

Posted by helen - Wednesday 7/6/11

h/t ‘The Daily Bail

“The Federal Reserve is one of the most powerful and secretive institutions in Washington, long considered beyond the reach of lawmakers. But now, as details emerge of how the Fed secretly doled out more than a trillion dollars during the financial crisis, a rare bipartisan movement in Congress demands that the Fed be held accountable.”

And if that’s not enough to convince you something is seriously wrong w/the Federal Reserve read Matt Taibbi’s article Real Housewives of Wall Street: Why is the Federal Reserve forking over $220 million in bailout money to the wives of two Morgan Stanley bigwigs?

Order Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country.

Keiser Report: Robbed and Securitised

Posted by helen - Tuesday 7/5/11

This week’s Keiser Report covers -

“This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, report on ‘no buyers’ at the firesale of Greek national income producing assets and on Ben Bernanke as the Taliban of finance. In the second half of the show, Max talks to economist Yanis Varoufakis about the bailout and austerity packages for Greece.”

Radiation Coverups Confirmed: Los Alamos, Fort Calhoun, Fukushima, TSA

Posted by helen - Sunday 7/3/11

“A series of disasters, potential disasters, bad news and worrying studies over the course of the past week have brought public attention back to the issue of radiation and its attendant health risks, and further exposed how governmental agencies that are supposed to protect the public have in fact knowingly put the public at risk and even colluded with the very industries they are supposed to be ‘regulating.’”

TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES:
http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=2365

Webster Tarpley from Tripoli: Million Man March Dares Obama, NATO to Invade!

Posted by helen - Saturday 7/2/11

Alex Jones talks with journalist and author Webster Tarpley, who is currently on a fact-finding mission to Libya.

 

 

 

http://tarpley.net/
http://www.infowars.com/
http://www.prisonplanet.tv/
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Gold accepted as collateral by EP-On the Edge with Max Keiser-07-01-2011

Posted by helen - Saturday 7/2/11

On the Edge w/Max Keiser -

In this edition of the show Max interviews J.S Kim from SmartKnowledgeU.com.

He talks about how countries and banks are evolving towards gold as money, even though they publicly may say it’s not but they know it’s an asset that they hold which is worth something.

 

 

 

Keiser Report: Waterboard Bernanke Again!

Posted by helen - Tuesday 6/28/11

Max and Stacy’s report this week cover -

“scrapyards being the new pawn shops, Chinese ground troops marching on D.C. and the real British bank exposure to bad Greek debt. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Leah McGrath Goodman about her new book: The Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked the World’s Oil Market.”

 

 

 

KR on FB: www.facebook.com/KeiserReport

American Independent Journalist in Tripoli: First Hand Account

Posted by helen - Saturday 6/25/11

 

 

 

Read investigative journalist, Wayne Madsen’s reporting from Libya b/w June 1 -- 20, 2011 by clicking on Libya: A Reporter’s War Diary

Torture Exposure: US sued for prison abuse legacy

Posted by helen - Friday 6/24/11

Not only has our military been stretched beyond madness, but America’s President’s should be arrested post haste for war crimes. This business of “empire” building is not what America was founded upon so why the hell are we Americans letting these thugs get away with these most heinous and despicable crimes against humanity?

 

 

 

Also read CCR: Spanish Judge Rules Case on US Torture Can Proceed AND “The message from civil society is clear – If you’re a torturer, be careful in your travel plans.”

Remember Me….

Posted by helen - Thursday 6/23/11

Received this in my inbox this morning and wanted to share --

“All I can say is WOW!!!!!!!This film was made by a 15 year old girl. It is the hottest thing on the internet… Lizzie Palmer who put thisYouTube program together, is 15 years old. There have been over 3,000,000 29,622,304 hits as of this morning. In case you missed it, here it is.”

“Watch all of it…….and, pass it on!!!”

 

 

 

A History of Spying

Posted by helen - Tuesday 6/21/11

 

 

 

Keiser Report: Financial No-Go Zone

Posted by helen - Tuesday 6/21/11

This weeks Keiser Report covers -

“This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, report on how to improve your self esteem with mountains of debt. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Demetri Kofinas in Athens about the global insurrection against banker occupation happening in Syntagma Square and the role of credit default swaps and mountains of debt in making that occupation possible in the first place.”

 

 

 

KR on FB: www.facebook.com/KeiserReport

BREAKING: Secret FBI Storage Drive to Shield Evidence from FOIA?

Posted by helen - Monday 6/20/11

 

 

 

Read more on this groundbreaking investigation by clicking Boiling Frogs or Corbett Report.

Obama Submits Legal Basis for Libyan War to Congress

Posted by helen - Saturday 6/18/11

 

 

 

C-SPAN – Operation “Fast and Furious” a “Catastrophic Disaster”

Posted by helen - Thursday 6/16/11

From C-Span -

“As a follow up to Monday’s hearing on a government program intended to track weapons and Mexican drug cartels, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee continued its inquiry today.

The Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) program “Operation Fast and Furious” allowed gun stores near the Mexican border to sell semiautomatic weapons in bulk to “straw purchasers” and then track their journey. Many of the guns were linked to crimes, including the killing of a Border Patrol agent.”

Click C-SPAN continues coverage of the House Government & Oversight Reform Committee’s hearings

Extension of Patriot Act spy powers – American Dream

Posted by helen - Wednesday 6/15/11

From PressTV -

“Domestic spying and the violation of democratic rights, experts believe this is what President Bush started and President Obama continued. This edition of American Dream reviews the issue and asks: Is the extension of Patriot Act spy on Americans or is it in the best interest of Americans?”

 

 

 

Part 2/2

 

 

 

Keiser Report: Economic Melt-Through

Posted by helen - Tuesday 6/14/11

Stacy Herbert and Max Keiser covers economic front throughout the world.

Arnie Gundersen – Nebraska Nuclear Plant: Emergency Level 4 & About to Get Worse

Posted by helen - Tuesday 6/14/11

 

 

 

Part 2/3 -- Note Part 3 loops to an unrelated interview. The author has been alerted and hope he’ll fix it soon.

Arnie Gundersen: Hot Particles From Japan to Seattle Virtually Undetectable When Inhaled or Swallowed

Posted by helen - Monday 6/13/11

Hot Particles From Japan to Seattle Virtually Undetectable when Inhaled or Swallowed from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.

h/t ex-skf

and from ex-skf –

“To defend TEPCO somewhat, though, it was not TEPCO who doubled the estimate of the radioactive materials released from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant; it was the government agency, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency.”

Inflation: Theory & reality-On the Edge with Max Keiser

Posted by helen - Saturday 6/11/11

Click on headline to watch the full video. We’re having challenges w/code this week and still trying to work out the kinks.

Watch Part 2/2 by clicking HERE

Visit Schiff Radio by clicking HERE.

Simply Amazing Solar Prominence Eruption! Plus thebarcarollers Earthquake Watch this week

Posted by helen - Tuesday 6/7/11

 

 

 

The T-Room follows the work of thebarcaroller who tracks solar flares, such as the one above and maps them to longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates on earth. This week’s post is titled “Planetary Alignment / Earthquake Watch Update June 13th 2011″ he plots the alignment of Earth, Mercury and Jupiter coupled with plotting of potential solar flares.

Max Keiser: The Private Federal Reserve Bank, “A Global Mafia Cartel”

Posted by helen - Monday 6/6/11

Alex talks with film-maker, broadcaster and former broker and options trader Max Keiser about the economy and other topics.

 

 

Part 2

 

 

 

Well, There’s Your Problem Right There … Insider Trading Rules Don’t Apply To Congress

http://www.maxkeiser.com/
http://www.infowars.com/

Sunday Update: Bilderberg 2011: Background, Preview and Predictions

Posted by helen - Sunday 6/5/11

 

 

 

Visit Corbett Report for transcript and sources by clicking HERE

For more news and information, please visit The Centre for Research on Globalization:
http://globalresearch.ca/

Nigel Farage: Europe Trapped Inside an Economic Prison

Posted by helen - Friday 6/3/11

Is presidential candidate Ron Paul America’s Nigel Farage? If so, you may want to start paying attention to all of Paul’s economic warning’s. In particular his position on the Federal Reserve.

 

 

h/t cryptogon

The Federal Reserve Cartel: The Eight Families -- you don’t think you are living in an economic prison as an American? Think again!

TSA Sexually Assaults My Mother

Posted by helen - Thursday 6/2/11

This is hard to watch. Why? Because if this was my mother I’d be all over the TSA and cops. It is obvious this woman felt extremely sexually violated by the TSA agent who felt her up, and rather than remaining silent, her immediate reaction was one only a victim would feel. This TSA crap is out of control and it’s way past time for the silent public to speak up. No one deserves to be humiliated and violated for simply getting on an airplane for a vacation, business trip or get away.

 

CNN Crew in Joplin, MO, refused entry to makeshift Morgue located at end of rural road in the middle of nowhere

Posted by helen - Tuesday 5/31/11

What on earth is going on in Joplin, MO?

Why would local law enforcement create such a huge perimeter around a makeshift morgue purposely designed to handle the growing number of victims resulting from the freak tornado’s that hit the area? Why would local law enforcement have a checkpoint on the road leading to the morgue and more importantly, why would these officials demand CNN’s camera be turned off and placed into the back seat of the car? Wierd?

Democracy Now! Exclusive Interview with Manuel Zelaya on the U.S. Role in Honduran Coup, WikiLeaks and Why He Was Ousted

Posted by helen - Tuesday 5/31/11

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!, interviews Manuel Zelaya who returned to Honduras over the weekend following the 2009 military coup d’etat.

Shortly after Manuel Zelaya returned to his home this weekend for the first time since the 2009 military coup d’état, he sat down with Democracy Now! for an exclusive interview. He talks about why he believes the United States was behind the coup, and what exactly happened on June 28, 2009, when hooded Honduran soldiers kidnapped him at gunpoint and put him on a plane to Costa Rica, stopping to refuel at Palmerola, the U.S. military base in Honduras. “This coup d’état was made by the right wing of the United States,” Zelaya says. “The U.S. State Department has always denied, and they continue to deny, any ties with the coup d’état. Nevertheless, all of the proof incriminates the U.S. government… [includes rush transcript]

See Democracy Now! interviews w/Zelaya’s daughter and son as well as a more in depth interview on Zelaya’s return.

Keiser Report: Gold Stands Rock Hard

Posted by helen - Thursday 5/26/11

“This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, report on American anger at gas prices, Middle East fears on wheat prices and the Chinese love for gold that has double in a year. In the second half of the show, Max talks to investment adviser, Ned Naylor-Leyland of Cheviot Asset Management in London, about thousand ounce silver bars and the precious metals market.”

Checkout Max at maxkeiser.com

101 East: Pacific paradise timebomb – Japanese shipwrecks destroyed during World War II could lead to an environmental disaster in the Pacific

Posted by helen - Monday 5/23/11

Al Jazeera’s 101 East program shines a bright spotlight on the impending environmental disaster quietly lying submersed in the pristine area known as Chuuk, Japan -- a Pacific Paradise.

From Al Jazeera -

It was a defining moment of World War II. In February 1944, the US Navy attacked Japan’s naval forces in the western Pacific.After 48 hours, 200,000 tonnes of Japanese ships, aircraft, trucks and tanks were sunk, creating a haunting undersea graveyard.

Today, the site is a marine wonderland, attracting scuba divers from across the world. But it has also become a ticking timebomb, threatening a fragile Pacific paradise.

Within the rapidly deteriorating shipwrecks lurk tens of millions of litres of thick black oil which scientists say will be released in the next few years, destroying a pristine environment and the island’s economy for generations to come.

If the Japanese and American governments do nothing to mitigate and resolve this troubling situation, an environmental disaster as big as the tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico will occur.

BREAKING: FBI Performs Damage Control for Big Pharma in Tylenol Case

Posted by helen - Sunday 5/22/11

The FBI wants to compare the Unabomber’s DNA to DNA “evidence” from the Tylenol murders?

ABC News posted a video on May 19, 2011 showing a lab worker handling Tylenol capsules in 1982.  He’s wearing gloves so as not to contaminate any possible DNA evidence – Right?

Read researcher, Scott Bartz’s work and The Tylenol Mafia, by clicking HERE

Keiser Report: Snow Globe of Denial

Posted by helen - Wednesday 5/18/11

Follow Reggie Middleton’s work at BoomBustBlog

“Getting Wise to Breitbart’s Lies”: Missouri Professors Survive Right-Wing Smear Campaign by Andrew Breitbart

Posted by helen - Tuesday 5/17/11

The T-Room is appalled by this kind of “GOTCHA” reporting that not only Brietbart is guilty, but so many others in the communications industry. Whatever happened to just reporting the facts? Oh, that’s right, silly me, I almost forgot – today’s political paradigm is designed to polarize and make people distrust and hate each other. To hell with people’s reputations and their livelihoods in the meantime!

Sunday Update: Meanwhile, in Fukushima

Posted by helen - Sunday 5/15/11

Visit the Corbett Report to hear this weeks podcast titled Philosophy of Freedom: The State of Nature

Sewage plants in Fukushima perplexed over how to dispose of highly radioactive sludge

Highly radioactive sludge found at sewage plants in Fukushima Prefecture will be temporarily kept at those plants, the central government has announced.

The move came after high levels of radioactive cesium were detected in sludge and other waste material at sewage plants in Fukushima Prefecture — home to the disaster-crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant.

To read full story click HERE

Noam Chomsky: “The U.S. and Its Allies Will Do Anything to Prevent Democracy in the Arab World”

Posted by helen - Friday 5/13/11

From Democracy Now! -

“Speaking at the 25th anniversary celebration of the national media watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, world-renowned political dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky analyzes the U.S. response to the popular uprisings sweeping the Middle East and North Africa. “Across the [Middle East], an overwhelming majority of the population regards the United States as the main threat to their interests,” Chomsky says. “The reason is very simple… Plainly, the U.S. and its allies are not going to want governments which are responsive to the will of the people. If that happens, not only will the U.S. not control the region, but it will be thrown out.”

Photographic Proof of Bin Laden’s Burial at Sea

Posted by helen - Wednesday 5/11/11

LOLOLOLOL.

Pretty much says it all, eh?

h/t fourwinds10.com

 

This isn’t good…Nuclear collapse looms? Fukushima No. 4 reactor ‘leaning’

Posted by helen - Tuesday 5/10/11

A small group of evacuees have briefly been allowed inside the exclusion zone around Japan’s damaged Fukushima nuclear plant. For the first time, the government gave permission for short visits so people could gather belongings and check on their properties. Meanwhile, a recent map of contamination released by Japan shows high levels of radiation well outside the evacuation zone. Dr Robert Jacobs helps shed more light on this. He’s a Research Associate Professor of Nuclear History and Culture at the Hiroshima Peace Institute.

Starsuckers – The celebrity obsessed media

Posted by helen - Tuesday 5/10/11

After watching the “Starsuckers” documentary, there is only one word that sums it up – “CHUTZPAH”. We’re all being played for fools by the magicians behind the screen and it’s shameful what these clowns are getting away with. Understand, you/we are the one allowing it and you/we are the one that feeds this insatiable monsters unquenching appetite. Take an hour and a half of your time and watch this documentary about how you are being suckered into a world full of illusion. What, you don’t have the time? Make the time. You’ll be doing yourself, your family, hell the entire world a big favor by educating yourself as to how the media plays you and the rest of us schmucks like a fiddle.

Sunday Update – The Osama Deception

Posted by helen - Monday 5/9/11

Apparently the gov thinks the people are stupid. Oh well. Big clue, we’re not!

To read the transcript and other Corbett Reports click HERE

Keiser Report: Banking Fee’s Smothering Restructuring, Bin Laden Bounce & Greek “Racketeering” Lawsuit

Posted by helen - Thursday 5/5/11

From RT -- “This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, report on talking up Greek debt fears, the short-lived Bin Laden bounce and buying gold if your government is trying to kill you. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Dr. Kiriakos Tobras about his lawsuit against investment banks and derivatives dealers for their crimes against Greece.”

And closer to home be sure to send a message to your congress critter to tell them to vote Yay to S. 575/H.R. 1081 -- a yes vote stops the banks from adding yet another fee to use your ATM card. Check it out and send a message!

Call to Action: Folks, those sneaky congress critters have given a green light to Banks to charge YOU greater fee’s to use your ATM cards -- LET’S TELL THEM NO!!!

BREAKING ALERT: Mass Arrests, Tear Gas, Sound Weapons used Against WIU Students

Posted by helen - Monday 5/2/11

“Annual year-end block party at Western Illinois University ends with riot police. Students attending the Wheeler Block Party were met by a Multi-Jurisdictional Task Force who used tear gas, LRAD sound weapons and crowd suppression tactics to force students into their homes. Gary Franchi is joined by eyewitness and victim of the raid, Julio Rausseo to review video footage and recount the abuses against the students. Establishment media and law enforcement have begun to spin the story ignoring the rights abuses. Please spread the word of this report and help get this story out.”

Read more -- http://RTR.org

UPDATE:  BREAKING UPDATE: Demonstration Planned, Provocateurs Suspected in WIU Police Action

 

Offshore Banking and Tax Havens Have Become Heart of Global Economy

Posted by helen - Sunday 5/1/11

Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales conducted this interview w/author Nicholas Shaxson, Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens, prior to tax day here in Uncle Sam’s US of A. Shaxson talks in detail about this hidden financial system stashing away trillions of trillions of corporate and personal wealth purposely evading their share of taxes. Great interview and very enlightening while explaining why the people of the world are carrying the load for basic services while that “rich” guy, well, just laughs all the way to the bank.

“Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens”

“An absolute gem that deserves to be read by anyone interested in the way contemporary globalization is undermining social justice. Give it to your sons, daughters, families, favorite legislators and anyone else needing stimulation of their thought buds. This masterpiece illuminates the dark places and shows the visible hand of governments, corporations, banks, accountants, lawyers and other pirates in creating fictitious offshore transactions and structures and picking our pockets. This financial engineering has enabled companies and the wealthy elites to dodge taxes. The result is poverty, erosion of social infrastructure and hard won welfare rights and higher taxes for ordinary people. Tax will be the decisive battleground of the twenty-first century as no democracy can function without it, or provide people with adequate educations, healthcare, security, housing, transport or pensions. Nicholas Shaxson has done a wonderful job in lifting the lid off the inbuilt corruption that has become so naturalized in the western world.”–Prem Sikka, Professor of Accounting, University of Essex, UK

The Injustice System – Sunday Update

Posted by helen - Sunday 5/1/11

Click Corbett Report to Listen to Podcast 184 “Lessons in Resistance”

Ken Cuccinelli On The Supreme Court Refusing To Fast Track His Healthcare Reform Lawsuit

Posted by helen - Tuesday 4/26/11

The Imperial Supreme Court refuses to take up Virginia’s Fast Track Healthcare Reform Lawsuit because of their scheduled THREE MONTH SUMMER VACATION!!! What a bunch of elitist schmucks! Small businesses, the states and the people be damned.

Mox News dot Com

Governor Bob McDonnell responded to the SCOTUS refusal with this statement -

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

April 25, 2011

Statement of Governor McDonnell on Supreme Court’s Refusal to Expedite Health Care Challenge

RICHMOND – Governor Bob McDonnell issued the following statement this morning following news that the U.S. Supreme Court refused to grant Virginia’s request for an expedited review of its constitutional challenge of the federal health care law.

“I am disappointed by the Supreme Court’s refusal to expedite the appeals of the federal health care law. The high court will undoubtedly become the venue for determining if the requirement for every citizen to purchase health insurance violates the Constitution. It would serve all sides better if that determination could be made sooner rather than later.

The court’s refusal to hear this case now will force states and businesses to incur increased costs and expend significant effort to begin preparations necessary to ensure compliance with this law, which ultimately may be ruled unconstitutional.

Supporters and opponents of this law should agree on one thing, we need a definitive answer to its constitutionality so that we can move forward in the appropriate manner.

While it is rare for the Supreme Court to expedite appeals, and therefore today’s decision is not a surprise, this decision nonetheless delays the inevitable and will ultimately impact taxpayers and states as they struggle to understand and come into compliance with the sweeping changes of this fundamentally flawed legislation.  I am grateful that the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals is moving quickly to resolve the appeal so it can proceed to the Supreme Court.”

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‘Untrackerd’ Stops Apple’s iOS 4.0+ Location Tracking in Its Tracks

Posted by helen - Saturday 4/23/11

Here’s a handy dandy tip from Jailbreakmovies for those of you who don’t want to be tracked by your government via your Droid, IPhones, I Pads or ITunes. The T-Room is always happy to help our friends protect their privacy.

h/t blogger Rockinrole

Hidden Tracking Files Found in iPhone, iPad

Apple faced questions on Wednesday about the security of its iPhone and iPad after a report that the devices regularly record their locations in a hidden file.

The report came from a technology conference in San Francisco, where two computer programmers presented research showing that the iPhone and 3G versions of the iPad began logging users’ locations a year ago, when Apple [AAPL  350.696  8.286  (+2.42%)   ] updated its mobile operating system.

Read the rest of the story by clicking HERE

Max Keiser Report – As Gold As Gold

Posted by helen - Friday 4/22/11

This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, report on downgrades, gold bars and third worlds. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Taki Oldham, director of The Billionaires Tea Party, about tea parties, astroturfing and Ayn Rand.

www.facebook.com/KeiserReport

Jail the Banksters; Libya Lies – Sunday update

Posted by helen - Monday 4/18/11

Transcript & Sunday’s Podcast w/Jesse Trentadue

and then there is this  -

BRICS Make Move to Shove Dollar Aside

“China and four other leading high-growth economies have taken landmark steps toward lowering the importance of the dollar in international financial transactions — part of a seminal shift in the move towards a multicurrency reserve and trading system.”

“Mind you, you wouldn’t get an idea of anything dramatic from reading the official Chinese press on the conclusion of a summit meeting of the so-called BRICS economies (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) in the southern resort twin of Sanya in southern China last week.”

Read the rest of the story HERE

Brother, Can You Spare A Trillion?: Government Gone Wild!

Posted by helen - Sunday 4/17/11

Our country is on the verge of financial Armageddon! Please forward this to everyone you know. This is the second video produced by Blaise Ingoglia.

Click “Government Gone Wild” to learn more.

Dr. Michio Kaku tells Amy Goodman Fukushima is a “ticking time bomb” AND Yoichi Shimatsu hypothesizes “Secret Weapons Program Inside Fukushima Nuclear Plant?

Posted by helen - Thursday 4/14/11

Expert: Despite Japanese Gov’t Claims of Decreasing Radiation, Fukushima a “Ticking Time Bomb”

The Japanese government is trying to calm fears about radiation levels and food safety in the region around the heavily damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility, even as it has raised the severity rating of the crisis to the highest possible level. “Radiation is continuing to leak out of the reactors. The situation is not stable at all,” says Dr. Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York and the City College of New York. “The slightest disturbance could set off a full-scale meltdown at three nuclear power stations, far beyond what we saw at Chernobyl.”

Secret Weapons Program Inside Fukushima Nuclear Plant?
U.S.-Japan security treaty fatally delayed nuclear workers’ fight against meltdown

by Yoichi Shimatsu

Confused and often conflicting reports out of Fukushima 1 nuclear plant cannot be solely the result of tsunami-caused breakdowns, bungling or miscommunication. Inexplicable delays and half-baked explanations from Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) seem to be driven by some unspoken factor.

The smoke and mirrors at Fukushima 1 seem to obscure a steady purpose, an iron will and a grim task unknown to outsiders. The most logical explanation: The nuclear industry and government agencies are scrambling to prevent the discovery of atomic-bomb research facilities hidden inside Japan’s civilian nuclear power plants.

A secret nuclear weapons program is a ghost in the machine, detectable only when the system of information control momentarily lapses or breaks down. A close look must be taken at the gap between the official account and unexpected events.

Conflicting Reports

TEPCO, Japan’s nuclear power operator, initially reported three reactors were operating at the time of the March 11 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Then a hydrogen explosion ripped Unit 3, run on plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (or MOX). Unit 6 immediately disappeared from the list of operational reactors, as highly lethal particles of plutonium billowed out of Unit 3. Plutonium is the stuff of smaller, more easily delivered warheads.A fire ignited inside the damaged housing of the Unit 4 reactor, reportedly due to overheating of spent uranium fuel rods in a dry cooling pool. But the size of the fire indicates that this reactor was running hot for some purpose other than electricity generation. Its omission from the list of electricity-generating operations raises the question of whether Unit 4 was being used to enrich uranium, the first step of the process leading to extraction of weapons-grade fissionable material.

The bloom of irradiated seawater across the Pacific comprises another piece of the puzzle, because its underground source is untraceable (or, perhaps, unmentionable). The flooded labyrinth of pipes, where the bodies of two missing nuclear workers—never before disclosed to the press— were found, could well contain the answer to the mystery: a lab that none dare name.

Read the rest of the story by clicking HERE

Is Depleted Uranium being used on the people of Libya? Conn Hallinan, columnist w/Foreign Policy in Focus discusses the likely possibility w/RT

Posted by helen - Wednesday 4/13/11

While NATO is establishing democracy in Libya with carpet bombardment, what will be the toxic toll on the people there? The US dropped thousands of depleted uranium bombs upon Fallujah, Iraq in 2003, and the aftermath since has been catastrophic. Are they repeating the action in Libya? Conn Hallinan is a columnist with Foreign Policy in Focus and says it’s just a very bad idea.

The T-Room invited Gar Smith, Environmentalists Against War to cross post his groundbreaking article back in February. In case you missed it, we encourage you to read and watch the videos to learn what your government is doing in your name.

America’s Legacy of Mutagenic War (News Analysis). h/t The Berkeley Daily Planet (VIDEO)

Gar Smith, Environmentalists Against War
Wednesday February 09, 2011

A series of disturbing reports from Iraq and Vietnam (backed up by a horrific collection of videos) have exposed a hidden legacy of war — weapons that continue to create victims years after the conflict has ended.

Thanks to the US military’s embrace of Mutagenic Weapons — technologies that can poison cell tissue and ransack the human DNA far into the future — babies and children have become the latest form of “collateral damage.” Today, in Vietnam and in Iraq (and in Kosovo and Afghanistan), children are being born with deadly cancers, grotesque tumors, twisted or missing limbs, freakishly enlarged heads, and a range of horrific mutations.

In Vietnam, the US sprayed an estimated 20 million gallons of chemical defoliants over the country to kill vegetation that provided cover for the insurgent armies. The Pentagon and the manufacturer (Dow Chemical) knew as early as the 1950s that Agent Orange contained dioxin, an intensely dangerous chemical that could poison the ground and water and kill animals and people long after application. Today, 35 years after the war’s end, three million Vietnamese live with compromised health and crippling deformities attributed to exposure to Dow’s long-lasting poisons. Every day, mothers give birth to deformed babies as the latest generation of Vietnamese children struggles to survive America’s legacy of Agent Orange.

Read this entire story by clicking HERE

Keiser Report: Banking XXX and The Real Housewives of Wall Street by Matt Taibbi

Posted by helen - Wednesday 4/13/11

The Real Housewives of Wall Street

Why is the Federal Reserve forking over $220 million in bailout money to the wives of two Morgan Stanley bigwigs?

By Matt Taibbi
April 12, 2011 9:55 AM ET

America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial. The official budget is public record and hotly debated: Money comes in as taxes and goes out as jet fighters, DEA agents, wheat subsidies and Medicare, plus pensions and bennies for that great untamed socialist menace called a unionized public-sector workforce that Republicans are always complaining about. According to popular legend, we’re broke and in so much debt that 40 years from now our granddaughters will still be hooking on weekends to pay the medical bills of this year’s retirees from the IRS, the SEC and the Department of Energy.Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail?

Most Americans know about that budget. What they don’t know is that there is another budget of roughly equal heft, traditionally maintained in complete secrecy. After the financial crash of 2008, it grew to monstrous dimensions, as the government attempted to unfreeze the credit markets by handing out trillions to banks and hedge funds. And thanks to a whole galaxy of obscure, acronym-laden bailout programs, it eventually rivaled the “official” budget in size — a huge roaring river of cash flowing out of the Federal Reserve to destinations neither chosen by the president nor reviewed by Congress, but instead handed out by fiat by unelected Fed officials using a seemingly nonsensical and apparently unknowable methodology.

Read the rest of this article HERE

The Global Economic Collapse – Sunday Update, The Corbett Report

Posted by helen - Sunday 4/10/11

Listen to this weeks Corbett Report Podcast by clicking HERE

Update on Iceland -Economy Mend Iceland Stuffs Bankers Second Time

“Icelanders have rejected a depositor claims agreement with Britain and Netherlands for a second time in as many years as voters signalled they did not want tax funds to cover foreign losses by a private bank.

Initial results showed 59.1 per cent of voters said ”no” to the so-called Icesave agreement, while 40.9 per cent said ”yes”, based on figures published by a regional electorate commission, with about 90 per cent of votes counted.

”This matter will now be settled in the European Free Trade Association’s court,” Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir said.

The government had hoped Icesave would restore investor relations and end the isolation that has stalled Iceland’s resurrection from its banking collapse.”

Click on headline to read the rest of this story.

h/t Cryptogon – The Budget Pie Illustrated

Posted by helen - Sunday 4/10/11

I think this cartoon pretty much says it all, don’t you? And to think the actors playing high drama roles last week thought they snookered you with their brilliant performances.

Budget Pie

Debt Jumped $54.1 Billion in 8 Days Preceding Boehner-Obama Deal to Cut $38.5 Billion for Rest of Year

(CNSNews.com) – The federal debt increased $54.1 billion in the eight days preceding the deal made by President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) and House Speaker John Boehner (R.-Ohio) to cut $38.5 billion in federal spending for the remainder of fiscal year 2011, which runs through September.

The debt was $14.2101 trillion on March 30, according to the Bureau of the Public Debt, and $14.2642 on April 7.

Read the full story HERE

 

Leuren Moret – Coverup – California Northwest USA BC Canada under radiation threat as high as Japan by Alfred Webre

Posted by helen - Thursday 4/7/11

Independent scientist Leuren Moret, MA, PhD (ABT) has stated in an exclusive April 4, 2011 interview with reporter Alfred Lambremont Webre that the effects of the tectonic nuclear war against the populations and breadbaskets of North America (Canada, United States, Hawaii, and Mexico) are being intentionally covered up by the administrations of Barack Obama in the United States and Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Canada.

The radiation effect of this false flag global radiation war intensified this week as radiation maps produced by the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU) now confirm that the Midwest of the United States, all of California, the states of Oregon and Washington and the western part of Canada are under a radiation threat with radiation levels as high as that in Japan in areas adjacent to the six units of the Fukushima nuclear power plant that started in melt-down on March 11, 2011.

Leuren Moret – Coverup – California Northwest USA BC Canada under radiation threat as high as Japan by Alfred Webre

Leuren Moret – Coverup – California Northwest USA BC Canada under radiation threat as high as Japan from Alfred Webre on Vimeo.

Leuren Moret – Scientists declare northern 1/3 of Japan uninhabitable and should be evacuated
by Alfred Webre

Leuren Moret – Scientists declare northern 1/3 of Japan uninhabitable and should be evacuated from Alfred Webre on Vimeo.

First Susan Lindauer tee’s up on RT and then Michael Scheuer brings it home ‘You’re Just Carrying the Water for Mr. Obama’

Posted by helen - Monday 4/4/11

First Susan Lindauer, former U.S. Intelligence Asset, who covered Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Syria/Hezbollah for a decade spelled out the real reasons the empire wants Qaddafi out -

Then Michael Scheuer, former head of CIA Bin Laden Unit, brought it home on CNN Sunday night ending his 10 minute interview with ‘You’re Just Carrying the Water for Mr. Obama’ to the anchor. Ouch! What’s that old saying about the truth hurts!

Refreshing! Between these stunningly truthful interviews, we now know the real reason the empire opened up a fourth military front -- OIL! Plain and simple. This is what our treasure is fighting for.

Now we learn American taxpayer’s are spending $4 Million a day on the Air Force in Libya -- this doesn’t include the Tomahawk Missiles we’ve already launched to protect the people of Libya at a cost of roughly $569,000 per missile.

Air Force spending $4 million a day for Libya war

LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press 1 hr 23 mins ago

WASHINGTON – The Air Force secretary says the service has been spending about $4 million a day to keep 50 fighter jets and nearly 40 support aircraft in the Libya conflict, including the cost of munitions.

Secretary Michael Donley tells reporters that the Air Force has spent $75 million as of Tuesday morning on the war. He says the U.S. decision to end its combat strike role in the conflict will cut costs, but he could not say by how much.

He says the Air Force has spent close to $50 million on the relief effort for the Japan earthquake, including $40 million to evacuate between 5,000-6,000 U.S. personnel.

The total U.S. costs for the Libya air campaign as of March 28 were $550 million, not counting normal deployment spending.

Hydrogen Blast at Fukushima Dai’Ichi Reactor #3 – the one w/lots of Plutonium

Posted by helen - Thursday 3/31/11

The T-Room reported last week that the Stuxnet virus launched by Israeli/US forces targeting Iran’s Nuclear Plant facilities slithered out of their control last year, and has been infecting thousands of computers worldwide including Japan. This virus targets the cooling system via the Siemen’s PLC software used in the majority of nuclear plants, and although plant operators “see” normal operations in their control rooms, the virus is eating away at the safety net completely without their knowledge. This is the havoc the Israelis and US intended to create for Iranians, but failed. Instead, it’s now a threat to every single nuclear facility worldwide who uses Siemen’s PLC software which means it is a very real threat to you and me no matter where you live in this world.

Due to this most reckless and insane not so “secret” cyberwar weaponry, the world is being held hostage by the events unfolding everyday at the Fukushima Dai’Ich Nuclear Power Plants. Today, March 31, 2011, Reactor #3 had it’s second hydrogen explosion which means the plutonium rods once embedded in the ceiling are destroyed and this extremely dangerous radioactive isotope is in the air and water. This second blast also means the “cooling” system is unrepairable and that a nuclear meltdown is occurring.

Yesterday, TEPCO confirmed Reactor #2 is in full meltdown. We’ll be learning any moment now that Reactors 1 and 4 are in full meltdown. This nuclear event is a MAJOR, MAJOR, MAJOR CATASTROPHE! One needs to stay on top of what is going on b/c the mainstream news sources are busy focusing their resource on material that is intended to distract you. Do not let them achieve this goal – click on this link for sources you can check in on anytime throughout the day to stay on top of this -RESOURCES FROM JAPAN TO HELP YOU STAY ON TOP OF THIS UNFOLDING CATASTROPHE -

Below is the latest from Fukushima – we will update throughout the day –

Another Fukushima nuclear plant blast injures 11

What appears to be another hydrogen blast has occurred at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima. No damage to the reactor chamber has been reported, but 11 people have been injured.

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency says what it believes was a hydrogen blast occurred at 11:01 AM on Monday at the No.3 reactor of Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant. The agency says it has so far observed no abnormal rise in radiation around the compound of the plant.

The company says the blast injured 11 people, including 4 of its employees and 4 Self-Defense Force members.

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency has advised anyone remaining within 20 kilometers of the power plant to take shelter inside buildings as soon as possible. About 500 people are thought to be still in the area.

A similar hydrogen blast occurred at the No.1 reactor at the same plant on Saturday.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told reporters that he has received a report that the latest blast has left the container of No.3 reactor intact. He said the likelihood of large volumes of radioactive materials being dispersed in the air is low.

Video footage shows that the top of the building housing the reactor has been blown off, as in Saturday’s blast.

Fears of an explosion grew when the water level of the No. 3 reactor dropped, exposing fuel rods, and a reaction with the steam generated a large amount of hydrogen. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency says that even if the top of the building has blown off, the reactor chamber will not be affected.

Monday, March 14, 2011 12:30 +0900 (JST)

Radioactivity Found in Puddles in Ohio

OAK HARBOR, OHIO — Trace amounts of radiation from Japan has found its way into more than 100 puddles of rainwater near the Davis Besse power plant in Oak Harbor.  First Energy reports that the iodine was present in 131 puddles.

Carrolyn O’neal is a long time Oak Harbor resident.  She had no idea that the iodine isotope had made it into her backyard.  “Well we weren’t aware of anything popping up from Japan,” said O’neal.

It was the same isotope found in a snow sample collected in Perrysburg on Saturday by University of Toledo professor Hans Gottgens.  “Iodine 131 is not occurring in the environment under normal circumstances it is a fission product.”

Read the rest of the story by clicking on the headline.

h/t to Silvija (Diaspora)
A few links below… 

Radioactivity found in grass clippings in Illinois

Radioactive iodine in the air in Israel

Radiation detected in Washington milk

Radiation found in Boise

South Korea finds radioactivity in food imports from Japan

Radioactivity spreads across Korea

Radioactivity found in Vermont

Japanese radioactive particles in numerous locations in Scotland

Three Mile Island still has dangerous levels of radiation

Highest US levels of radiation found in Dutch Harbor, Alaska

German ports unsure how to deal with radioactive contamination on ships from Japan

Netherlands steps up check for radioactivity in ships from Japan

Physicists detect radiation from Japan in Seattle

Seawater radiation soars to 3355 times limit

Radiation from plant in Japan seeping into ocean

Government says don’t worry about radiation detected in NY

Radioactive rain in Massachusetts

Radioactive rain from Japan found in Russia

Iowa official unfazed by elevation in radiation

Radiation in rainwater in PA “not a threat”

Radioactive material from Japan found in Maryland

Japan urges trading partners not to “overreact” on food safety

Radioactive contamination reaches Ireland

Iodine-131 and Xenon-133 reach Las Vegas

Radioactive rainwater in Michigan

Radioactive iodine in China

Scientists measure radiation absorption in California soil

Radioactive iodine found in NH

Twenty of EPA’s radiation detectors in key areas do not work

Obama: “We Do not Expect” Harmful Radiation in U.S.”

Ann Coulter: “Liberals blinded us with science”….Radiation is good for you.

LINK: Lisa Jackson tours leafy greens in Fresno, declares radiation is “nothing for people here to worry about”

Keep going, folks. Nothing to see!

Radioactive substance 10,000 times the limit detected from groundwater at troubled plant

Japan’s Nuclear Rescuers: ‘Inevitable Some of Them May Die Within Weeks’

Radiation Fears Leave 1,000 Bodies Unclaimed Near Japan Plant

The NEW RememberBuilding7 Television Ad – Help get the ad on air

Posted by helen - Monday 3/28/11

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Highly possible core has been ruptured – Iodine 134 detected

Posted by helen - Sunday 3/27/11

Drudge is reporting radiation detected in Nevada and China which by the way has detected Iodine -- 131, a by product of nuclear fission.

Tokyo Electric Power Company says it has detected radioactive materials 10-million-times normal levels in water at the No.2 reactor complex of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

The plant operator, known as TEPCO, says it measured 2.9-billion becquerels of radiation per one cubic centimeter of water from the basement of the turbine building attached to the Number 2 reactor.

The level of contamination is about 1,000 times that of the leaked water already found in the basements of the Number 1 and 3 reactor turbine buildings.

The company says the latest reading is 10-million times the usual radioactivity of water circulating within a normally operating reactor.
TEPCO says the radioactive materials include 2.9-billion becquerels of iodine-134, 13-million becquerels of iodine-131, and 2.3-million becquerels each for cesium 134 and 137.

These substances are emitted during nuclear fission inside a reactor core.

The company says the extremely contaminated water may stem from damaged fuel in the reactor, and are trying to determine how the leakage occurred.

University of Tokyo graduate school professor Naoto Sekimura says the leak may come from the suppression chamber of the Number 2 reactor, which is known to be damaged. The chamber is designed to contain overflows of radioactive substances from the reactor.

Sunday, March 27, 2011 13:44 +0900 (JST)

UPDATE: Fukushima plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. claims that an earlier measurement showing a huge spike in radiation levels at the stricken Japanese nuclear complex was ‘a mistake’. According to TEPCO spokesman, water testing showing 10 million times higher in radioactivity than normal was ‘not credible’.

Meanwhile, three workers have already been exposed to dangerous materials in the continuing battle to avert catastrophe in the wake of the earthquake tragedy which destroyed large parts of the country. The official number of those killed by the quake and tsunami stands at over 10,000, with many more homeless or missing. But Fukushima remains the biggest concern -- with the ongoing possibility of nuclear meltdown.

Nigel Farage and Gerald Celente on the “It’s not a war” in Libya

Posted by helen - Friday 3/25/11

Gerald Celente of Trends Research Institute asks “would the United States be in Iraq if their major export was broccoli or would they be in Libya if they weren’t holding on to the sweetest of sweet crude oil on the planet?”

So, we know Libya doesn’t grow broccoli, plus Sr. aka the Godfather loathes the green veggie, so, we must be over there for the oil AND maybe to steal the billions in gold bullion Gaddafi has on hand.

Here’s Nigel Farage giving his thoughts to this NOT war -

AP via Yahoo is reporting Canadian General will lead NATO actions in Libya

TORONTO – A Canadian general will take over command of the NATO mission in Libya.

Canadian Defense Minister Peter MacKay said Friday that Lt. Gen. Charles Bouchard has been designated to lead the alliance’s military campaign in Libya.

Bouchard is stationed in Naples, Italy, at the Allied Joint Force Command.

Bouchard’s recent job was deputy commander of NORAD, reporting to an American general.

“He will be commander of the NATO operations, yet to be fully defined NATO operations,” MacKay said.

The international coalition confronting Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has agreed to put NATO in charge of enforcing the no-fly zone. It was still trying to hammer out a deal to relieve U.S. forces of command of all military operations in the country.

U.S. President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Robert Gates have both said that American command of the operations would last only a few days.

Banksters & Government Exposed. IMF Prepares for Threat to Monetary System. Plosser on Fed’s Exit

Posted by helen - Thursday 3/24/11

BELOW ARE TWO MUST READ ARTICLES BY ZEROHEDGE

IMF Prepares For “Threat To International Monetary System”

Back in April 2010, before Waddell and Reed sold a few shares of ES, effectively destroying the market on news that Europe was insolvent, we made the following observation: “The IMF has just announced that it is expanding its New Arrangement to Borrow (NAB) multilateral facility from its existing $50 billion by a whopping $500 billion (SDR333.5 billion), to $550 billion.” Little did we know that our conclusion “something big must be coming” would prove spot on just a month later after Greece, then Ireland, then Portgual, and soon Spain, Italy, Belgium, and pretty much all other European countries would topple like dominoes tethered together by a flawed monetary regime. Well, based on news from Dow Jones we can now safely predict the following: “something bigger must be coming.” As if the IMF’s trillions in open lending facilities (many of which have recently been adjusted to uncapped) were not enough, we now learn that the world lender of last resort (which in theory is the Fed, but apparently Bernanke has been getting a little shy lately so is offsetting his direct lending directives to secondary organizations like the IMF, leaving the Fed with only USD liquidity swaps) is about to activate a “Special Funding Pool” -- Dow Jones explains: “The International Monetary Fund is expected to soon activate a special funding pool that will boost the fund’s ability to prevent or resolve economic crises, two people familiar with the situation said Thursday. One of the people said the activation of the funding--which can only be made by a special request from the IMF managing director to the board--was in anticipation of an expected wave of new IMF programs, including the possible expansion of the Greek bailout package.” Wonderful. Global financial cataclysm rinse repeat all over again…

More from Dow Jones:

Read the rest of the post and comments by clicking HERE

Charles Plosser Speaks On The Fed’s “Exit”

Highlights from the just released speech by Philly Fed hawk Charles Plosser:

  • Fed’s Plosser says would want to make explicit the Fed’s commitment to a numerical inflation objective
  • Says important to communicate a systemic plan that describes where Fed is going, how it will get there
  • Says his proposed strategy would tie pace of asset sales to size of interest rate increases
  • Says his preferred exit strategy would raise rates, shrink balance sheet concurrently
  • Says failure to exit in timely manner will have serious consequences on inflation, economic stability in future
  • Says monetary policy will have to reverse course in the not too distant future
  • Says consumer spending continues to expand at reasonably robust rate
  • Says US economy seems to be on much firmer foundation
  • Says labor market conditions are improving

In other words, an attempt to return confusion over the fate of QE3. As for the Fed existing anything…. good luck. As part of his exit proposals, Plosser proposes two exit plans (12 and 18 months) both of which sees a dramatic reduction in reserves, a hike in IOER, and asset sell offs. Should the Fed indeed proceed to do this, the market will prolapse.

Read Posser’s full statement and comments by clicking HERE

Scowcroft & Brzezinski on Libya – Coalition isn’t as it appears. Arab League changes its mind

Posted by helen - Tuesday 3/22/11

America has been sending their treasure to War for decades. Why? Is America engaged in Empire building? Similar to Hitler’s vision of One World under his dictatorship? You tell me.

Every President since LBJ has sent our kids, your kids, to fight wars with countries that posed little to no threat to America. So, who the hell are we really fighting these endless wars/occupation for?

Then there is this nugget from AnsaMed-

ANSAmed) -- ROME, MARCH 1 -- With approval from the government in Tel Aviv, an Israeli security firm is responsible for sending groups of African mercenaries to Libya to fight the protestors who have been calling for the fall of the Gaddafi regime for the last two weeks, reports Al Jazeera’s website, citing a source in the Israeli press. The journalist from Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot, who prefers to remain anonymous, said that according to speculation in the security sector, Israel looks at Libya from a strategic perspective and in terms of security. The fall of Gaddafi would open the door for an Islamic regime in Libya, according to speculation. In a meeting on February 18, Prime Minister Netanyahu, Defence Minister Barak and Foreign Minister Lieberman decided to recruit African mercenaries to fight alongside Gaddafi, according to the journalist. During the meeting, they decided to let General Isarel Zef, the director of security firm Global CST, which is active in many African countries, to make a group of paramilitary mercenaries from Guinea, Nigeria, Central Africa, Mali, Senegal, Darfur and Southern Sudan available to Abdullah Assinousi, one of the heads of Libya’s intelligence agency.

Let’s see if we have this straight -- Israel sends 50,000 African mercenaries at the rate of $200 a day to crush Libya’s anti-protestors. The United States then goes before the International Court and demands immunity for the mercenaries. They get it. Then Obama sends our treasure to fight the freakin mercenaries! How sick is that? These 50k African’s will be slaughtered by American forces.

Oh but wait, read the above paragraph again -- Libya is seen as “strategic to Israel’s security”. So are we fighting this war for Israel? Where the hell are their military forces in Libya? Why are they not seen anywhere on the battleground? Why isn’t Israel listed as a coalition partner? Hello? How many kids does America have to lose to these wars people?

Are you starting to see a pattern here?

Army apologizes but US Army “Kill Team” Photos Enrage Afghanistans

Posted by helen - Tuesday 3/22/11

03/21/2011

The ‘Kill Team’ Images

US Army Apologizes for Horrific Photos from Afghanistan

By Matthias Gebauer and Hasnain Kazim

Major Public Backlash

At NATO headquarters, there are fears that the coming days could see angry protests in Afghanistan or even potential attacks against NATO units. “The images have an enormous potential here in Afghanistan,” one NATO general told SPIEGEL ONLINE. “Experience shows that it might take a couple of days, but then people’s anger will be vented.”

NATO, under the leadership of the US Army, has been preparing for possible publication of the photos for close to 100 days. In dozens of high-level talks with their Afghan partners, military leaders have sought to pursue the same strategy used by the US diplomatic corps in the case of the sensitive diplomatic cables released late last year by WikiLeaks. They warned those most directly affected and made preparations for the photos’ appearance in the public sphere. This “strategic communication” was aimed at preventing a major public backlash.

The high ranks of those involved in the talks show just how seriously Washington has taken the problem. US Vice President Joe Biden recently spoke about the case with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The head of all NATO troops in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, likewise met with Karzai.

By apologizing and by promising that those responsible will be prosecuted, the US is hoping to prevent Karzai from making any angry public statements on the case.

Whether the effort will ultimately be successful remains to be seen. On Tuesday, Karzai is scheduled to address his country to talk about the transfer of responsibility for his country’s security from NATO to Afghanistan. With him will be members of the NATO leadership and the US ambassador to Afghanistan. Karzai’s address contains no mention of the so-called “kill team,” but the Afghan president is notorious for being unpredictable.

Read the original story HERE

MARCH 20, 2011 UPDATES – JAPAN AND WEST COAST OF US

Posted by helen - Sunday 3/20/11

TODAY’S UPDATE BEGINS BELOW THE APPEAL --

OUR PRAYERS CONTINUE FOR ALL THOSE WHO ARE AFFECTED BY THIS UNFOLDING TRAGEDY.

Appeal:

WMR’s Japanese friends and colleagues report massive shortages of basic staples and disaster supplies in Japan. If you know anyone in the greater Tokyo area and the northeast coast, small parcels — to avoid customs problems — are appreciated. WMR will soon post a mailing address for these staples to get to our WMR circle of friends and colleagues who need them the most. Money is not what is primarily needed right now since money is fairly useless when there is nothing to buy.

The following are what are in short supply or not available:

Ramen-type noodles, rice, tea bags, powdered soup packets or bouillon cubes, powdered milk, beef or other types of jerky, water filters, Pampers, facial masks, crackers, batteries (AA and AAA), canned corn beef, toilet paper, rubber gloves, crackers.

h/t Silvia -

Note when you collect stuff for Japan: It is only possible to airmail things to what the post office considers “overseas” -- they have gotten rid of all other shipping methods 2 years ago. It will cost A LOT to mail thigns if you are not careful. So pick items wisely. A 2-pound bag of rice will cost you $40 to mail (yes, it’s that bad).So a few suggestions: Pick light-weight items and make it go as far as you can -- rice noodles are very light-weight, ramen, remove bulky packaging and put contents in a Ziploc bag to get net weight, etc. Bew mindful of weight when you do this or your donations will stay at home due to ridiculous cost of shipping when the post office tells you how bad it is. 

Another suggestions -- take up a collection at work and ask your employer to spring for the shipping of what you collect to match your donation and make it a company effort -- many will do so if asked -- or ask your church or any corporate or charitable entity -- and resist their suggestions to hand it to the Red Cross or any of these other bozos bewcause it will not go where you want it to go -- just get a sponsor for shipping fees. Most employers have FedEx or UPS accounts and can put it on their tab. If you take shipping out of the equation, you can get a lot of stuff sent without the redundant high cost.

If you want to help please click HERE

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As Pressure In Reactor 3 Builds Again, Here Are The Downstream Effects From The Fukushima Catastrophe

As the world awakes, Japan discloses another round of good news/bad news about the Fukushima crisis. The good news: Reactors 5 and 6 went into stable condition on Sunday, after a successful cold shutdown, authorities said. The reactors at the power plant went into cold shutdown following restoration of cooling functions late Saturday. Alas, 5 and 6 were never the issue to begin with. The same came not be said about reactors 1 through 4, where the bad news comes from this morning. According to the Japan Times, a risky venting of Reactor 3, which saw its pressure rising yet again, was being considered, which would see another release of radioactive gas into the environment. “Pressure within the No. 3 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant was rising at one point and Tepco considered releasing more radioactive gas into the environment to avert serious damage to the containment vessel, the nuclear safety agency said Sunday afternoon. Tokyo Electric Power Co. had considered releasing the contaminated steam directly into the environment, not through a “suppression pool” as it did earlier in the crisis. The pressure needs to be lowered to protect the structural integrity of the reactor, and the first step is to open the valve on a pipe connected to the suppression pool. By going through the suppression pool, the reactor’s gas would liquefy and thus lower the pressure.” And here is where the recent Operation Irrigation is now backfiring: “But if the pool is already filled with water, a valve on the reactor itself would need to be opened and the radiation level of the released gas would be higher than with the first method, explained Hidehiko Nishiyama of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency. “Without water, there would be more radioactive substances in the gas released into the environment.“” In other words, the attempt (which some say is futile) to fill the containment pool with water is about to lead to another round of irradiation of the environment. And while all that is going on, here is what the already certain chain of downstream events is going to look like for the region, for Japan, and for the world.

Read the full article HERE

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FOOD SUPPLY THREATENED AND MASSIVE MILITARY EVACUATION CONTINUE IN JAPAN

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20 March 2011

Workers on site have succeeded in increasing the stability of the Fukushima Daiichi reactor units. Pressure built up within unit 3 but a more significant venting now seems unnecessary.

External power has now been connected to unit 5 and 6, allowing them to use their residual heat removal systems and transfer heat to the sea. This is being used to cool the fuel ponds and bring the units towards cold shutdown status. Fuel pond temperatures have reduced from 68ºC to 43ºC at unit 5 and from 57ºC to 52ºC at unit 6, compared to normal operating temperatures of about 25ºC.

An extended operation to refill the fuel pond took place at unit 3, with the Hyper Rescue crew spraying for over 13 hours. Radiation levels 500 metres north of the reactor showed a decrease from 3.44 millisieverts per hour to 2.75 millisieverts per hour, indicating a measure of success in refilling the pond. A similar operation is planned for later today at unit 4 and the surface temperatures of the buildings appear to be below 100ºC.

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FIREFIGHTERS RESUME HOSING REACTOR NO. 3 AT FUKUSHIMA

The Tokyo Fire Department resumed high-pressure hosing of the Number 3 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant at 9:30 PM on Sunday.

The operation is expected to continue for about 6 hours.

Water was discharged into the facility’s spent fuel-rod pool for 13-and-a-half hours until 3:40 AM on Sunday.

Sunday, March 20, 2011 20:48 +0900 (JST)

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NO GASES TO BE RELEASED FROM NO. 3 REACTOR

The Tokyo Electric Power Company has decided against releasing gases from the overheating No. 3 reactor in an attempt to reduce pressure inside the containment vessel.

TEPCO officials in Fukushima said on Sunday afternoon that pressure within the reactor containment vessel has begun to stabilize, and gases don’t need to be released for the time being.

They say they will closely monitor the situation.

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency announced earlier on Sunday that pressure inside the vessel is rising despite efforts to cool the reactor by spraying seawater inside it.

The agency said the pressure must be reduced to protect the containment vessel, which holds radioactive materials inside in the event of an accident.

A release of gases could lead to radioactive substances being released into the environment.

Power company officials in Fukushima also say work to restore electricity to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant by connecting the damaged reactors to external power sources is continuing.

Sunday, March 20, 2011 17:42 +0900 (JST)

MARCH 19, 2011 UPDATES – JAPAN AND US WEST COAST

Posted by helen - Saturday 3/19/11

OUR PRAYERS CONTINUE FOR ALL THOSE WHO ARE AFFECTED BY THIS UNFOLDING TRAGEDY.

Appeal: 

WMR’s Japanese friends and colleagues report massive shortages of basic staples and disaster supplies in Japan. If you know anyone in the greater Tokyo area and the northeast coast, small parcels — to avoid customs problems — are appreciated. WMR will soon post a mailing address for these staples to get to our WMR circle of friends and colleagues who need them the most. Money is not what is primarily needed right now since money is fairly useless when there is nothing to buy.

The following are what are in short supply or not available:

Ramen-type noodles, rice, tea bags, powdered soup packets or bouillon cubes, powdered milk, beef or other types of jerky, water filters, Pampers, facial masks, crackers, batteries (AA and AAA), canned corn beef, toilet paper, rubber gloves, crackers.

h/t Silvia -

Note when you collect stuff for Japan: It is only possible to airmail things to what the post office considers “overseas” -- they have gotten rid of all other shipping methods 2 years ago. It will cost A LOT to mail thigns if you are not careful. So pick items wisely. A 2-pound bag of rice will cost you $40 to mail (yes, it’s that bad). 

So a few suggestions: Pick light-weight items and make it go as far as you can -- rice noodles are very light-weight, ramen, remove bulky packaging and put contents in a Ziploc bag to get net weight, etc. Bew mindful of weight when you do this or your donations will stay at home due to ridiculous cost of shipping when the post office tells you how bad it is.

Another suggestions -- take up a collection at work and ask your employer to spring for the shipping of what you collect to match your donation and make it a company effort -- many will do so if asked -- or ask your church or any corporate or charitable entity -- and resist their suggestions to hand it to the Red Cross or any of these other bozos bewcause it will not go where you want it to go -- just get a sponsor for shipping fees. Most employers have FedEx or UPS accounts and can put it on their tab. If you take shipping out of the equation, you can get a lot of stuff sent without the redundant high cost.

If you want to help please click HERE

Radioactive Plume - Wind Direction

The Amount of Radioactive Fuel at Fukushima DWARFS Chernobyl

 

 

6.1 quake hits south of stricken Japan nuclear plant

 

 

ReadRadioactive Plume Heads for Britian

Read -Tokyo water sample shows radioactive iodine: government

Read - Water temperature drops at No.5 reactor

The water temperature is dropping in the spent fuel rod pool of the No.5 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

Tokyo Electric Power Company restored a power generator at the No.6 reactor on Saturday morning.

One of the 2 generators at the No. 6 reactor has been used since the quake to cool the spent fuel rod pools of the No.5 and No.6 reactors.

But water temperatures rose as the generator could not supply enough power by itself.

The newly restored generator is being used to activate a cooling pump in the No.5 reactor.

The 2 generators can now generate enough power to maintain the cooling functions of the No.5 and No.6 reactors.

The power company measured the water temperature of the No.5 reactor and found it had decreased from 68.5 degrees Celsius at 5 AM, local time, to 63.8 degrees at 2 PM.

The company said the partial recovery of the cooling functions will bring a sense of safety.

It hopes to fully restore connections to external power sources and stably cool down the reactors.

The company also said it made holes in the roofs of the No.5 and No.6 reactors to remove hydrogen to prevent the explosions that occurred at the No.1 and No. 3 reactors.

Saturday, March 19, 2011 22:11 +0900 (JST)

No. 1 and 2 reactors connected to external power sources

Two of the damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are likely to have power again after engineers managed to install cables.

Tokyo Electric Power Company says it will do its best to resume the reactors’ cooling function by Sunday, but as many parts of the facilities are soaked in seawater. It is not known if this can be done quickly.

Power company engineers finished connecting the No.1 and No.2 reactors to external sources on Saturday evening.

The nuclear plant lost its cooling function for the reactors and the spent fuel rod pool due to malfunctions of emergency power generators after the quake.

The situation could lead to a massive leakage of radioactive substances.

The power company will check the reactors’ cooling equipment before deciding whether to use electricity.

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency says the power company will turn on meters to check the condition of the reactors and then work on the cooling function of the reactors and the spent fuel rod pool.

The agency says the company aims to restore power for the remaining 4 reactors by Sunday.

Saturday, March 19, 2011 21:07 +0900 (JST)

Food samples show raised radiation
19 March 2011

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 12.52pm GMT

Radiation levels exceeding the Japanese government-set level have been detected in samples of milk and spinach collected in the region of the Fukushima nuclear power plant. However, the levels measured are said to pose no immediate threat to health.

Higher than limit levels of radiation were detected in samples of milk by authorities yesterday evening, chief cabinet secretary Yukiyo Edano reported. The milk samples had been collected within Fukushima Prefecture at a location more than 30 kilometres from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant.

This morning, six samples of spinach collected in Ibaraki Prefecture, neighbouring to the south of Fukushima Prefecture, were found to have higher levels of radiation. The prefectural boundary is some 65 km from the nuclear power plant.

Edano said that the levels of radiation detected exceed the limits stipulated as provisional regulation values under the national Food Sanitation Law. These limits have been set in accordance with International Committee on Radiation Protection’s recommendations.

From Wayne Madsen Reports - March 18,2011 -- TEPCO, Japanese regulator stonewalling on nuclear plant crisis

WMR has learned of a concerted campaign of the stonewalling of key Japanese government officials by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, and Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) nuclear regulatory watchdog. WMR has been told by informed Japanese sources that the close relationship between TEPCO and NISA neutered effective oversight of TEPCO’s safety problem-ridden reactors for a number of years. The lack of effective contingency planning and TEPCO’s overriding interest in it’s corporate bottom led to the post-quake/tsunami Level 5 nuclear crisis at the Fukushima plant. The lack of effective NISA oversight is a direct result of the cozy relationship between the Japanese nuclear regulatory agency, according to our sources.

One of the major reasons why the Japanese Cabinet of Prime Minister Naoto Kan has not been fully informed of the dire situation at the Fukushima reactor facilities is that Chief Cabinet Secretary, attorney Yukio Edano, cut his teeth in politics as an outspoken opponent of Japan’s nuclear power industry.

WMR has been told that TEPCO and NISA, skeptical of Edano’s past anti-nuclear stance, feared that Edano stands to amplify the threat posed by the current nuclear disaster at Fukushima. TEPCO and NISA has, therefore, acted to limit what information has been passed to Edano to avoid the Cabinet Secretary heightening fears during his many news conferences. Edano has been the chief Japanese government’s face in televised news conferences on Fukushima’s nuclear meltdown and radiation release.

Edano’s past anti-nuclear stance also extended to his opposition to nuclear-powered U.S. Navy ships from being homeported in Japanese ports. There are some indications that the Obama administration, which fully supports the U.S. nuclear power industry, has also quietly supported TEPCO and NISA from providing Edano with too much information, especially since Edano also holds the portfolio of Minister of State for Okinawa Affairs. The people of Okinawa have been adamant about the need for the U.S. to pull its military bases off the island.

Re posting from March 17, 2011 Update thread --

DO NOT TRUST THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA TO TELL YOU SAFE or NOT SAFE LEVELS OF RADIATION. TRUST THE GEIGER COUNTERS TRACKING THE LEVELS FOR YOURSELF. HERE IS ONE SUCH LINK THAT IS STREAMING LIVE.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-radiation-monitoring-from-west-la#utm_campaigne=synclickback&source=http://www.enviroreporter.com/2011/03/enviroreporter-coms-radiation-station/&medium=7558036

HERE IS ANOTHER LINK -

ttp://www.blackcatsystems.com/RadMap/map.html

AND ANOTHER -

http://www.radiationnetwork.com

AND ANOTHER -

http://www.ctbto.org/map/#ims_

To get today’s wind/jet stream forecasts, check out Dr. Master’s update at Wunder Blog -- http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html

MARCH 18, 2011: UPDATES – JAPAN AND US

Posted by helen - Friday 3/18/11

OUR PRAYERS CONTINUE FOR ALL THOSE WHO ARE AFFECTED BY THIS UNFOLDING TRAGEDY.

Prepare folks. This is not a false alarm. This is the real deal. See March 16 Updates, below this post, to learn how you need, must prepare for this fallout. It is not going to be a one-day event, but rather several days if not weeks.

From Wayne Madsen Reports - March 18,2011 -- TEPCO, Japanese regulator stonewalling on nuclear plant crisis

WMR has learned of a concerted campaign of the stonewalling of key Japanese government officials by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, and Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) nuclear regulatory watchdog. WMR has been told by informed Japanese sources that the close relationship between TEPCO and NISA neutered effective oversight of TEPCO’s safety problem-ridden reactors for a number of years. The lack of effective contingency planning and TEPCO’s overriding interest in it’s corporate bottom led to the post-quake/tsunami Level 5 nuclear crisis at the Fukushima plant. The lack of effective NISA oversight is a direct result of the cozy relationship between the Japanese nuclear regulatory agency, according to our sources.

One of the major reasons why the Japanese Cabinet of Prime Minister Naoto Kan has not been fully informed of the dire situation at the Fukushima reactor facilities is that Chief Cabinet Secretary, attorney Yukio Edano, cut his teeth in politics as an outspoken opponent of Japan’s nuclear power industry.

WMR has been told that TEPCO and NISA, skeptical of Edano’s past anti-nuclear stance, feared that Edano stands to amplify the threat posed by the current nuclear disaster at Fukushima. TEPCO and NISA has, therefore, acted to limit what information has been passed to Edano to avoid the Cabinet Secretary heightening fears during his many news conferences. Edano has been the chief Japanese government’s face in televised news conferences on Fukushima’s nuclear meltdown and radiation release.

Edano’s past anti-nuclear stance also extended to his opposition to nuclear-powered U.S. Navy ships from being homeported in Japanese ports. There are some indications that the Obama administration, which fully supports the U.S. nuclear power industry, has also quietly supported TEPCO and NISA from providing Edano with too much information, especially since Edano also holds the portfolio of Minister of State for Okinawa Affairs. The people of Okinawa have been adamant about the need for the U.S. to pull its military bases off the island.

Re posting from March 17, 2011 Update thread --

DO NOT TRUST THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA TO TELL YOU SAFE or NOT SAFE LEVELS OF RADIATION. TRUST THE GEIGER COUNTERS TRACKING THE LEVELS FOR YOURSELF. HERE IS ONE SUCH LINK THAT IS STREAMING LIVE.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-radiation-monitoring-from-west-la#utm_campaigne=synclickback&source=http://www.enviroreporter.com/2011/03/enviroreporter-coms-radiation-station/&medium=7558036

HERE IS ANOTHER LINK -

ttp://www.blackcatsystems.com/RadMap/map.html

AND ANOTHER -

http://www.radiationnetwork.com

AND ANOTHER -

http://www.ctbto.org/map/#ims_

To get today’s wind/jet stream forecasts, check out Dr. Master’s update at Wunder Blog -- http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html

SEVEN DAYS LATER -- The moment nuclear plant chief WEPT as Japanese finally admit that radiation leak is serious enough to kill people

  • Officials admit they may have to bury reactors under concrete -- as happened at Chernobyl
  • Government says it was overwhelmed by the scale of twin disasters
  • Japanese upgrade accident from level four to five -- the same as Three Mile Island
  • We will rebuild from scratch says Japanese prime minister
  • Particles spewed from wrecked Fukushima power station arrive in California
  • Military trucks tackle reactors with tons of water for second day
Overwhelmed: Tokyo Electric Power Company Managing Director Akio Komiri cries as he leaves after a press conference in FukushimaOverwhelmed: Tokyo Electric Power Company Managing Director Akio Komiri cries as he leaves after a press conference in Fukushima 

The boss of the company behind the devastated Japanese nuclear reactor today broke down in tears -- as his country finally acknowledged the radiation spewing from the over-heating reactors and fuel rods was enough to kill some citizens

Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency admitted that the disaster was a level 5, which is classified as a crisis causing ‘several radiation deaths’ by the UN International Atomic Energy.

Officials said the rating was raised after they realised the full extent of the radiation leaking from the plant. They also said that 3 per cent of the fuel in three of the reactors at the Fukushima plant had been severely damaged, suggesting those reactor cores have partially melted down.

After Tokyo Electric Power Company Managing Director Akio Komiri cried as he left a conference to brief journalists on the situation at Fukushima, a senior Japanese minister also admitted that the country was overwhelmed by the scale of the tsunami and nuclear crisis.

He said officials should have admitted earlier how serious the radiation leaks were.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said: ‘The unprecedented scale of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan, frankly speaking, were among many things that happened that had not been anticipated under our disaster management contingency plans.

‘In hindsight, we could have moved a little quicker in assessing the situation and coordinating all that information and provided it faster.’

Nuclear experts have been saying for days that Japan was underplaying the crisis’ severity.

It is now officially on a par with the Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania in 1979. Only the explosion at Chernobyl in 1986 has topped the scale.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1367684/Nuclear-plant-chief-weeps-Japanese-finally-admit-radiation-leak-kill-people.html

Intel Hub Analysis: Mainstream Experts Predict Radiation In United States Will Be Harmless

The radiation that is expected to reach California tomorrow is from the initial problems faced on Friday [a week ago today]. Radiation from the explosion at reactor #3 is not expected to reach the west coast until Sunday or Monday. Whether the radiation from reactor 3 will be as low as the levels expected tomorrow is, at this time, unknown.

For those on the west coast: Prepare, stay level headed, and do NOT panic.

Nuke plant disaster rating raised to Level 5

The Japanese government raised its rating on Friday of the problems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to the same level as the 1979 Three Mile Island accident.

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency revised upward its evaluation of the severity of the disaster by one notch to Level 5 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale.

Level 5 is the third highest on the 8-notch scale and the worst for any nuclear accident to have happened in Japan.

The agency says it raised the rating because more than 3 percent of the nuclear fuel has been damaged and radioactive material is leaking from the plant.

The disaster’s initial rating of Level 4 was the same as the fatal criticality accident that occurred at a nuclear fuel plant in Ibaraki Prefecture in 1999.

Friday, March 18, 2011 20:01 +0900 (JST)

Update from zerohedge blog

  • Officials remain committed to cooling down overheated nuclear fuel rods and keep spraying reactor No.3 at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant. But the plant’s operator, Tokyo electric Power Co., says encasing reactors in concrete may prove the only way to prevent a catastrophic radiation leak, the method used at Chernobyl in Ukraine in 1986.
  • Electricity could be restored on Saturday morning to reactors 1 and 2, the nuclear safety agency said, which would restart pumps needed to pour cold water on the fuel rods. Priority is to get water into spent fuel pools, particularly in reactor No. 3, which contains plutonium.
  • he agency also raised the incident level at the striken power plant to a 5 on a 1-7 scale. That would suggest a level of seriousness on par with the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in the United States in 1979. But it said there was no need to expand the evacuation area beyond 30 km at this point.
  • The head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Gregory Jaczko, says it could take weeks to cool the reactors.
  • G7 industrialised countries agreed, after a teleconference of finance ministers, on concerted intervention, the first since 2000, to restrain the yen, hoping to calm global markets.

And updated timeline:

FRIDAY, MARCH 18

17:53 -- Electricity could be restored on Saturday morning at the No.1 and No.2 reactors, the country’s nuclear safety agency said on Friday. The agency also raised the incident level at reactors No.1, No.2, and No.3 at the Daiichi plant to level 5 from level 4.

10:04 -- Japan’s nuclear safety agency said it was aware of the ultimate “Chernobyl solution” to contain the nuclear disaster at the quake-hit plant by covering it in sand and encasing it in concrete, but added that it was currently focusing on efforts to restore power and cool down the reactors.

09:20 -- White smoke or steam was rising from reactors 2, 3 and 4, the nuclear safety agency said on Friday. It said it believed there was still water in the spent fuel pool at reactor No.3.

Read the full update at zerohedges blog by clicking on the hyperlink embedded in the headline of this post.

Folks, Reactor No. 3 is the reactor that has spent fuel rods carrying pounds of plutonium. Although the other 3 Reactors carry lethal radioactivity it is No. 3 many are watching closely. FYI -

The fuel rods at all six reactors at the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi complex contain plutonium — better known as fuel for nuclear weapons. While plutonium is more toxic than uranium, other radioactive elements leaking out are likely to be of greater danger to the general public.

Only six percent of the fuel rods at the plant’s Unit 3 were a mixture of plutonium-239 and uranium-235 when first put into operation. The fuel in other reactors is only uranium, but even there, plutonium is created during the fission process.

This means the fuel in all of the stricken reactors and spent fuel pools contain plutonium.

Plutonium is indeed nasty stuff, especially damaging to lungs and kidneys. It is also less stable than uranium and can more easily spark a dangerous nuclear chain reaction.

Nuclear experts have said the men are on a suicide mission and that not even their airtight suits can save them from contamination.And if they survive, they will face a lifetime of health problems.

But the Fukushima Fifty, named as they are on a rotation of 50 at a time, are working around the clock to stop the plant’s reactors from overheating by taking it in turns to cool them with water.

The group, whose identities remain a mystery, stayed at the plant after 700 of their colleagues fled when radiation levels peaked at lethal levels.

Of those who decided to stay, five are known to have already died. A further two are missing and at least 21 others have been injured.

Military assisted voluntary departure of American citizens and personnel in Japan -- women and children first

Japan raises accident severity level to 5 in nuclear crisis

Japan raised the severity level of crisis-hit reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to 5 on an international scale of 7, the same level as the Three Mile Island accident in the United States in 1979, Japan’s nuclear safety agency said Friday.The provisional evaluation stands at level 5 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale for the plant’s No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 reactors as their cores are believed to have partially melted and radiation leaks are continuing, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said.

A NETWORK OF INTERNATIONAL MONITORING STATIONS HAS BEGUN TO PICK UP THE SIGNATURES OF RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS -- IODINE AND CESIUM -- DANGEROUS TO HUMAN HEALTH

A network of international monitoring stations has begun to pick up the signatures of radioactive elements emitted by Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, a Swedish official said Thursday.

At high, sustained doses, these radioactive elements—including iodine and cesium—can be dangerous to human health.

However, the amounts released from the plant so far are small, and are largely being dispersed over the Pacific.

Currently, “they don’t pose a danger” to the U.S. or even other Asian countries, said Lars-Erik De Geer, research director at the Swedish Defense Research Institute, who has seen the data from the monitoring stations.

The several dozen workers now attempting to cool the overheating nuclear fuel at the Fukushima plant face the gravest danger from radiation sickness. The closer people are to the source, the greater their risk. Residents of Tokyo and other populated centers south of the plant also face little immediate danger, since even the low level of radiation is being blown eastward across the ocean, scientists say.

Japan Nuclear Disaster Caps Decades of Faked Reports

the unfolding disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant follows decades of falsified safety reports, fatal accidents and underestimated earthquake risk in Japan’s atomic power industry.

The destruction caused by last week’s 9.0 earthquake and tsunami comes less than four years after a 6.8 quake shut the world’s biggest atomic plant, also run by Tokyo Electric Power Co. In 2002 and 2007, revelations the utility had faked repair records forced the resignation of the company’s chairman and president, and a three-week shutdown of all 17 of its reactors.

With almost no oil or gas reserves of its own, nuclear power has been a national priority for Japan since the end of World War II, a conflict the country fought partly to secure oil supplies. Japan has 54 operating nuclear reactors — more than any other country except the U.S. and France — to power its industries, pitting economic demands against safety concerns in the world’s most earthquake-prone country.

Nuclear engineers and academics who have worked in Japan’s atomic power industry spoke in interviews of a history of accidents, faked reports and inaction by a succession of Liberal Democratic Party governments that ran Japan for nearly all of the postwar period.

High radiation level detected 30km from nuke plant

Japan’s science ministry says radiation levels of up to 0.17 millisieverts per hour have been detected about 30 kilometers northwest of the quake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Experts say exposure to those levels for 6 hours would result in absorption of the maximum level considered safe for 1 year.

The government has instructed residents living within a 20 to 30 kilometer radius of the plant to stay indoors.

The ministry gauged radiation from 9:20 AM to 3:00 PM on Thursday at 28 spots, in areas 20 to 60 kilometers from the plant.

The ministry also observed radiation levels of 0.0183 to 0.0011 millisieverts per hour at most of the observation points.

It says these levels are higher than normal but pose no immediate threat to health.

Thursday, March 17, 2011 21:20 +0900 (JST)

MARCH 17, 2011 UPDATES – JAPAN AND US

Posted by helen - Thursday 3/17/11

OUR PRAYERS CONTINUE FOR ALL THOSE WHO ARE AFFECTED BY THIS UNFOLDING TRAGEDY.

Prepare folks. This is not a false alarm. This is the real deal. See March 16 Updates, below this post, to learn how you need, must prepare for this fallout. It is not going to be a one-day event, but rather several days if not weeks.

High radiation level detected 30km from nuke plant

Japan’s science ministry says radiation levels of up to 0.17 millisieverts per hour have been detected about 30 kilometers northwest of the quake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Experts say exposure to those levels for 6 hours would result in absorption of the maximum level considered safe for 1 year.

The government has instructed residents living within a 20 to 30 kilometer radius of the plant to stay indoors.

The ministry gauged radiation from 9:20 AM to 3:00 PM on Thursday at 28 spots, in areas 20 to 60 kilometers from the plant.

The ministry also observed radiation levels of 0.0183 to 0.0011 millisieverts per hour at most of the observation points.

It says these levels are higher than normal but pose no immediate threat to health.

Thursday, March 17, 2011 21:20 +0900 (JST)

Some progress being made by on-site workers

US begins to evacuate American’s on a voluntary basis

Big Sis putting all in bound passengers from Japan through radiation screening

Tokyo Government Orders local government to test for radioactive food

Flights from Tokyo into Chicago O’hare show radiation levels

NUCLEAR AND INDUSTRIAL SAFETY -- RESPONDING TO A NUCLEAR EMERGENCY -- A HELPFUL GUIDE FOR ALL WHO WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE RADIATION FALLOUT FROM JAPAN

DR. CAROLYN DEAN -- RADIATION THERAPIES

Japan Admits Nuclear Problem Is ‘Severe’

4:04pm UK, Thursday March 17, 2011

A spokesman for the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan has admitted the situation is now considered to be “severe”.

This is a severe incident that is occurring right now,” the spokesman said at a news conference.”We have vented and used seawater as cooling, followed the accident management plan but this is a very severe operation.”

The admission comes as plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) continues attempts to stop the six-reactor Fukushima 1 complex from going into nuclear meltdown.

“We have to keep cooling the fuel so it doesn’t reach criticality,” the Tepco spokesman said, adding that radiation levels have barely fallen at the site.

Read the rest of the story at Sky News

HUGE RADIATION PLUME TO HIT WEST COAST TOMORROW -- FRIDAY

A United Nations forecast of the possible movement of the radioactive plume coming from crippled Japanese reactors shows it churning across the Pacific, and touching the Aleutian Islands on Thursday before hitting Southern California late Friday.Health and nuclear experts emphasize that radiation in the plume will be diluted as it travels and, at worst, would have extremely minor health consequences in the United States, even if hints of it are ultimately detectable. In a similar way, radiation from the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 spread around the globe and reached the West Coast of the United States in 10 days, its levels measurable but minuscule.

The projection, by the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, an arm of the United Nations in Vienna, gives no information about actual radiation levels but only shows how a radioactive plume would probably move and disperse.

DO NOT TRUST THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA TO TELL YOU SAFE or NOT SAFE LEVELS OF RADIATION. TRUST THE GEIGER COUNTERS TRACKING THE LEVELS FOR YOURSELF. HERE IS ONE SUCH LINK THAT IS STREAMING LIVE.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-radiation-monitoring-from-west-la#utm_campaigne=synclickback&source=http://www.enviroreporter.com/2011/03/enviroreporter-coms-radiation-station/&medium=7558036

HERE IS ANOTHER LINK -

ttp://www.blackcatsystems.com/RadMap/map.html

AND ANOTHER -

http://www.radiationnetwork.com

AND ANOTHER -

http://www.ctbto.org/map/#ims__________________

Radioactivity to High -- Aide workers are leaving -- Japanese leadership, likely taking direction from the USAID aka CIA propagandists, rather than telling their people the truth -

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Nuclear Specialist calls into the Alex Jones show and details the four different types of radiation -

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The people of Japan want the truth from their government -- here is a video posted by a French man who shows the world what is happening in Japan w/their network news. They want the truth about the very real radiation meltdown occurring in real time in their country. The T-Room stands in solidarity with all citizens of Japan. Excuse the language. Watch this. And spread this far and wide as this gentlemen is asking of us.

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Status of quake-stricken reactors at Fukushima nuclear power plants

TOKYO, March 17, Kyodo

The following is the known status as of Thursday night of each of the six reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant and the four reactors at the Fukushima No. 2 plant, both in Fukushima Prefecture, which were crippled by Friday’s magnitude 9.0 earthquake and the ensuing tsunami.

Fukushima No. 1 plant

-- Reactor No. 1 -- Operation suspended after quake, cooling failure, partial melting of core, vapor vented, building housing reactor damaged Saturday by hydrogen explosion, seawater being pumped in.

-- Reactor No. 2 -- Operation suspended after quake, cooling failure, seawater being pumped in, fuel rods fully exposed temporarily, vapor vented, building housing reactor damaged Monday by blast at reactor No. 3, damage to containment vessel feared, potential meltdown feared.

-- Reactor No. 3 -- Operation suspended after quake, cooling failure, partial melting of core feared, vapor vented, seawater being pumped in, building housing reactor damaged Monday by hydrogen explosion, high-level radiation measured nearby on Tuesday, plume of smoke observed Wednesday and presumed to have come from spent-fuel storage pool, severe damage to containment vessel unlikely, seawater dumped over pool by helicopter on Thursday, water sprayed at it from ground.

-- Reactor No. 4 -- Under maintenance when quake struck, fire Tuesday possibly caused by hydrogen explosion at pool holding spent fuel rods, abnormal temperature rise in spent-fuel storage pool, fire observed Wednesday at building housing reactor, pool water level feared receding, renewed nuclear chain reaction feared.

-- Reactors No. 5, 6 -- Under maintenance when quake struck, water temperatures in spent-fuel storage pools increased to about 64 C on Thursday.

-- Spent-fuel storage pools at all reactors — Cooling functions lost, water temperatures or levels unobservable at reactors No. 1 to 4.

Fukushima No. 2 plant

-- Reactors No. 1, 2, 4 -- Operation suspended after quake, cooling failure, then cold shutdown.

-- Reactor No. 3 -- Operation suspended after quake, cold shutdown.

==Kyodo

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Attempts to refill fuel ponds
17 March 2011

FIRST PUBLISHED: 4.25am GMT

UPDATE 1: 9.29am GMT Additional temperature, radiation data and context
UPDATE 2: 10.00am GMT Further temperature data
UPDATE 3: 1.41pm GMT Fire trucks in action

A major struggle is underway to maintain cooling of used nuclear fuel at Fukushima Daiichi 3 and 4. Helicopters have made water drops and large fire trucks are showering the buildings.

While unit 3 was in operation when the earthquake struck on 11 March, and has been in trouble since the tsunami took out emergency diesel generators, unit 4 was fully shut down at that time and had appeared to remain safe until 16 March when an explosion led to fires.

The explosion at unit 4 is thought to have been from a build-up of hydrogen in the area near the used nuclear fuel pond. It severely damaged the building, as well as that of adjacent unit 3, with which it shares a central control room.

Read the rest HERE

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Injuries or Contamination at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

Based on a press release from the Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary dated 16 March 2011, the IAEA can confirm the following information about human injuries or contamination at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Please note that this list provides a snapshot of the latest information made available to the IAEA by Japanese authorities. Given the fluid situation at the plant, this information is subject to change.

Injuries

* 2 TEPCO employees have minor injuries
* 2 subcontractor employees are injured, one person suffered broken legs and one person whose condition is unknown was transported to the hospital
* 2 people are missing
* 2 people were ’suddenly taken ill’
* 2 TEPCO employees were transported to hospital during the time of donning respiratory protection in the control centre
* 4 people (2 TEPCO employees, 2 subcontractor employees) sustained minor injuries due to the explosion at unit 1 on 11 March and were transported to the hospital
* 11 people (4 TEPCO employees, 3 subcontractor employees and 4 Japanese civil defense workers) were injured due to the explosion at unit 3 on 14 March

Radiological Contamination

* 17 people (9 TEPCO employees, 8 subcontractor employees) suffered from deposition of radioactive material to their faces, but were not taken to the hospital because of low levels of exposure
* One worker suffered from significant exposure during ‘vent work,’ and was transported to an offsite center
* 2 policemen who were exposed to radiation were decontaminated
* Firemen who were exposed to radiation are under investigation

The IAEA continues to seek information from Japanese authorities about all aspects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

IAEA

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NEWS ADVISORY: Japan plans to pour water onto No. 3 reactor on Fri.: Edano -- Kyodo News

POSSIBLE FULL SCALE MELTDOWN IN JAPAN’S NUCLEAR FACILITIES -- LIVE UPDATES POSTED T/O THE DAY

NUCLEAR PLANT DESIGNER SAYS JAPANESE GOVERNMENT SUPPRESSING SCALE OF CRISIS

FED DEPLOYS MORE RADIATION MONITORS TO THE WEST COAST

PRIVATE COMPANY -- RADIATION MONITORING THROUGHOUT THE WEST COAST -- CLICK LINK TO FOLLOW GEIGER COUNTERS

UPDATE MARCH 16, 2011 – BREAKING NEWS OUT OF JAPAN AND US

Posted by helen - Tuesday 3/15/11

UPDATE MARCH 16, 2011

Praying for all who have been affected by the horrible tragedy unfolding in Japan.

FEDS DEPLOY MORE RADIATION MONITORS IN WESTERN US

NATIONAL REGULATORY AGENCY -- NO WATER LEFT IN FUEL SYSTEM -- NOTHING TO STOP NUCLEAR MELTDOWN

Just in -- Fukushima Dai’Ichi Reactor 4 is on fire -- this particular plant was closed for inspection but due to lack of water to cool the rods it is once again on fire

by Dr. Sircus, Treatments for Nuclear Contamination

Checkout Dr. Jeff Masters Wunder Blog models on air flow from Japan eastward by clicking HERE

Here we go again, IAEA says fuel rods exposed units 4, 5 and 6 total of 4 units have core damage, situation is VERY SERIOUS

IAEA SAYS CORE DAMAGE AT UNITS 1-3 CONFIRMED, SITUATION “VERY SERIOUS”
IAEA SAYS FUEL RODS EXPOSED IN UNITS 4, 5 AND 6
IAEA SAYS HIGHER RADIATION LEVELS FROM DAMAGED JAPAN REACTORS
IAEA SAYS TOTAL OF 4 JAPAN UNITS HAVE CORE DAMAGE

SDF gives up on dousing No.3 reactor

Japan’s Self-Defense Forces have postponed a mission to dump water by helicopter on the No.3 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, because radiation above the facility has climbed too high for such work.

White plumes started rising from the reactor on Wednesday morning. Tokyo Electric Power Company says the vapor was steam caused by water evaporating from the reactor’s storage pool for spent fuel rods, which is heating up.

In an effort to avert the fuel rods’ exposure, a Self Defense Force CH47 helicopter took off from the Sendai base hauling a large container of water on Wednesday afternoon.

But the plan was aborted after radiation levels above the plant were found to have largely exceeded 50 millisieverts — the maximum permissible for SDF personnel on a mission.

The Self-Defense Forces say it is ready to recommence work when radiation levels and other conditions allow.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 19:06 +0900 (JST)

ALERT: RADIATION FROM STRICKEN JAPANESE PLANT REACHES ALASKA

Radiation from the Fukishima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster has reached Alaska, according to the state commissioner of health and social services in that state. He said the state has detected a “very small increase in radiation levels – well below levels that would be a health concern.”

Read the rest of the story HERE

From Drudge: ‘Military flying in US Navy pumping equipment in a last ditch effort to cool those rods in the nuke plant. Flying out of Yokota Air Base. Wish us luck!'

Stay safe and Godspeed.

World Nuclear News

Problems for units 3 and 4
16 March 2011

FIRST PUBLISHED 0.25am GMT
UPDATE 1:14am GMT Information from TEPCO spokesman and video feed

UPDATE 2: 4:10am GMT Update title from ‘Second fire reported at unit 4′ and information on Unit 3 and 4 from Chief Cabinet Secretary Edano

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano has described problems that occurred on the morning of 16 March with Fukushima Daiichi 3 and 4. He also outlined plans to pump water into unit 4.

At 8:34am local time white smoke was seen billowing out of Fukushima Daiichi 3. Efforts to determine the cause of this development were interrupted as all workers had evacuated to a safe area due to rising radiation readings. Readings from a sensor near the front gate had fluctuated for some time, although Edano said that on the whole there was no health hazard. Earlier in the morning readings had ranged between 600-800 microsieverts per hour, but at 10am readings rose to 1000 microsieverts per hour. Readings began to fall again from around 10:54.

Read the rest of the story HERE

Earthquake and Tsunami damage-Dai Ichi Power Plant, Japan

Stunning overhead digital photos of Fukushima’s Dai Ichi Power Plant -- Before and After photos w/analysis

The Fukushima 50 need our prayers, folks, they are battling this beast for all of us

Wind to blow towards Pacific from quake-hit Japan plant

TOKYO (Reuters) – The wind near a quake-damaged nuclear complex in northeast Japan, which has released radiation into the atmosphere, will blow from the northwest and out into the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, a weather official said.

The wind speed will get stronger in the afternoon, blowing as fast as at 12 meters (39.4 ft) per second, said the official at the Japan Meteorological Agency in Fukushima prefecture where the plant is based.

Can You Explain It In Layman’s Terms? “It’s Bad! IT”S BAD!!! And It’s Getting Worst! How’s That!”

NPR: Workers Evacuated From Nuclear Reactor

High levels of radiation were blamed for the evacuation. Japan’s chief Cabinet secretary said white smoke was rising from the No. 3 reactor at the crippled Fukushima Daichi power plant. He said there may be a problem with the reactor’s containment vessel. The developments follow a new fire at an already fire-damaged No. 4 reactor.

NHK World News

TEPCO releases photo of No.4 reactor

Tokyo Electric Power Company has released a photograph of the No.4 reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant where fires were reported on Tuesday and Wednesday.

It shows that a large portion of the building’s outer wall has collapsed.

The company produced the photo at a news conference on Wednesday.

The photo, shot the day before from the northwestern side of the reactor, shows that a large portion of the building’s outer wall has collapsed. There is an 8-meter hole on the 4th floor, and the interior is visible.

Another 8-meter square hole was also confirmed on the outer wall of the building. Both appeared after an explosion early on Tuesday.

An ensuing fire near the 4th floor reportedly later went out on its own.

Flames were also found spewing from the building early Wednesday, but the utility company said they were no longer visible half-an-hour later.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:57 +0900 (JST)

Anderson, the answer is it is unstoppable. The meltdown is a done deal! These men have families suffering from the tragedy of an earthquake, volcano and tsunami. Moreover, these men valiantly fought the impossible and finally accepted the fact that this beast was bigger and mightier then a mere human being. Humility is an honorable trait, Anderson.

Animated map of 300+ Japan earthquake aftershocks

Breaking News Alert: Japanese officials pulling all workers from damaged nuclear plant

Reactor 3, w/MOX rods, on fire billowing a white smoke

Another fire at No.4 reactor

Tokyo Electric Power Company said early on Wednesday that a fire had broken out at one of the reactor buildings at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The same building was the scene of a fire the day before.

The utility says a worker spotted flames at around 5:45 AM near the northwestern corner of the building that houses the No. 4 reactor.

It says, however, that the flames could not be confirmed half an hour later from several dozen meters away.

The fire broke out at around the same spot in the building as Tuesday’s fire, where an instrument that adjusts the speed of a pump sending water to the reactor is located.

The company says workers cannot get any closer to the spot because the radiation level is higher there.

Continued – Breaking news out of Japan

Posted by helen - Monday 3/14/11

UPDATE 3/15/2011

US Surgeon General: Buying Iodine Appropriate

Level 6 Event – Radiation Levels Soar As Radioactive Winds Sweep Toward Tokyo

The Intel Hub
Shepard Ambellas
March 15, 2011

According to our sources this is now a Level 6 event and readings will be fluctuating and rising rapidly.

At this time it is openly admitted that readings are 400 mR/hr at 20 miles out from the source.

It is now openly admitted that radioactivity has reached dangerous levels in the area. There is now a 20 mile diameter perimeter (HIGH-RAD AREA) established around the Fukushima reactor.

ocal weather patterns are reported to have now changed course to a southerly direction sweeping nuclear winds toward Tokyo as locals fear radiation poisoning.

Read the rest of the story HERE

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CONFIRMED -- RADIOACTIVITY BEING RELEASED DIRECTLY INTO ATMOSPHERE

(Reuters) -- Japan has told the U.N. nuclear watchdog radioactivity was being released “directly” into the atmosphere from the site of an earthquake-stricken reactor and that it had put out a fire at a spent fuel storage pond there.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), citing information it had received from Japanese authorities at 0350 GMT, said on Tuesday dose rates of up to 400 millisievert per hour have been reported at the Fukushima power plant site.

It did not give details or comparisons on the radiation level but exposure to over 100 millisieverts a year is a level which can lead to cancer, according to the World Nuclear Association. The Vienna-based IAEA uses the unit to measure doses of radiation received by people.

“The Japanese authorities are saying that there is a possibility that the fire was caused by a hydrogen explosion,” the IAEA said in a statement. It later said that the fire had been extinguished at Unit 4 of the plant.

Read the rest of the story HERE

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Radiation can spread to the West Coast -

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Democracy Now! This Could Become Chernobyl on Steroids”: Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen on Japan’s Growing Nuclear Crisis

Click HERE to catch up on all of the news items Democracy Now! is covering
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Radiation detected in Russia -- Panic selling on Nikkei Market

Director General of IAEA Says New Information About Reactor Core is “Worrying”

Radiation level soars after Japan nuke plant fire

Japanese officials told the International Atomic Energy Agency that the reactor fire was in a fuel storage pond — an area where used nuclear fuel is kept cool — and that “radioactivity is being released directly into the atmosphere.” Long after the fire was extinguished, a Japanese official said the pool might still be boiling, though the reported levels of radiation had dropped dramatically by the end of the day.

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POWERFUL 6.O 6.4 EARTHQUAKE RATTLES SHIZUKA REGION OF JAPAN + LIVE FEED FROM JAPAN’S NHK

A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 jolted central Japan on Tuesday night.

The Japan Meteorological Agency says the quake with an intensity of 6 plus on the Japanese seismic scale zero to 7 hit at 10:31 PM.

The focus of the quake is in the eastern part of Shizuoka Prefecture and is estimated to be at a depth of 10 kilometers.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 23:05 +0900 (JST)

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LIVE TOKOYO GEIGER COUNTER

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TEPCO UNABLE TO POUR WATER INTO REACTOR #4′s STORAGE POOL FOR SPENT FUEL

Update 10:45: According to Reuters, TEPCO’s new plan is to dump water by helicopter, which sounds incredibly desperate. And some minor good news: All of the TEPCO power plants OTHER than the main one are fine, according to the IAEA.

Update 9:36: To add insult to injury, Japan was just hit with another 6.2 earthquake, and buildings in Tokyo are said to be shaking.

Update 9:14: Another horrible headline from Kyodo Wire: TEPCO unable to pour water into No. 4 reactor’s storage pool for spent fuel

Update 8:35: Via ForexLive, TEPCO is saying that spent fuel rods in reactor #4 are exposed to the air. That sounds horrible.

Update 8:16: The radiation is too high for TEPCO workers to stay in the control room says KYODO WIRE.

Update 7:47 AM: France: The nuclear crisis is now a level-6 crisis on a scale of 7.

Click HERE to read the full article

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Radiation decreasing, fuel ponds warming

Japanese authorities told the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that radiation levels at the plant site between units 3 and 4 reached a peak of some 400 millisieverts per hour. “This is a high dose-level value,” said the body, “but it is a local value at a single location and at a certain point in time.”

Later readings were 11.9 millisieverts per hour, followed six hours later by 0.6 millisieverts, which the IAEA said “indicate the level of radioactivity has been decreasing.”

Almost all people living within 20 kilometres of the plant have already been evacuated and supplied with potassium-iodide pills that will protect them effectively against the effects of iodine-131 that could conceivably be emitted in the future. The pills saturate the thyroid gland and prevent the radioactive iodine-131 from being absorbed, dramatically reducing the risk of thyroid cancers, which are the major potential health effect from the possible progression of the accident.

The IAEA said 150 people from around the site have been monitored. The results of some people have been reported and 23 have undergone decontamination.

Click HERE to read the latest update from World Nuclear News

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Nearly 500 quakes/aftershocks have occurred in Japan since the 9.0 quake. 500!

Click HERE to see the USGS Data and click HERE to see the data mapped

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Forbes Blog-- Rad levels three times normal level in Tokyo
TOKYO LEVEL

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Attention Verizon Customers --

Japan News will be carried on Channel 1770 for free until 3/17

Verizon customers can call Japan free through 4/10

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Dramatic escalation in Japan

FIRST PUBLISHED 1.22am GMT
UPDATE 1: 1.58am GMT Information from TV appearance, change of headline from ‘Possible damage to Fukushima Daiichi 2′
CORRECTION: 1.58am GMT Removal of potential inaccuracy on torus’ status in containment
UPDATE 2: 2.19am GMT Information from government, change of headline from ‘Damage to Fukushima Daiichi 2′

Loud noises were heard at Fukushima Daiichi 2 at 6.10am this morning. A major component beneath the reactor is confirmed to be damaged. A fire is burning at unit 4 and evacuation to 30 kilometres is being urged.

Confirmation of loud sounds at unit 2 this morning came from the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA). It noted that “the suppression chamber may be damaged.” It is not clear that the sounds were explosions.

READ UPDATE HERE

The Plain Truth on State Power … First they came…

Posted by helen - Wednesday 3/9/11

First they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984)

The Truth Behind Quantico Brig’s Decision to Strip PFC Manning & Anonymous Targets Manning’s Jailers

Posted by helen - Tuesday 3/8/11

UPDATE X1 -- “If George W. Bush Were Torturing Bradley Manning Would the Left Rollover the Way They Do for Obama -- see the video below -- questions reach the President

By David E. Coombs

The Brig has stripped PFC Manning of all of his clothing for the past three nights, and they intend to continue this practice indefinitely.  Each night, Brig guards force PFC Manning to relinquish all of his clothing.  He then lies in a cold jail cell naked until the following morning, when he is required to endure the humiliation of standing naked at attention for the morning roll call.  According to Marine spokesperson, First Lieutenant Brian Villiard, the decision to strip him naked every night is for PFC Manning’s own protection.  Villiard stated that it would be “inappropriate” to explain what prompted these actions ”because to discuss the details would be a violation of PFC Manning’s privacy.”

The defense communicated with both PFC Manning and the Brig forensic psychiatrist and learned more about the decision to strip PFC Manning of his clothing every night.  On Wednesday March 2, 2011, PFC Manning was told that his Article 138 complaint requesting that he be removed from Maximum custody and Prevention of Injury (POI) Watch had been denied by the Quantico commander, Colonel Daniel J. Choike.  Understandably frustrated by this decision after enduring over seven months of unduly harsh confinement conditions, PFC Manning inquired of the Brig operations officer what he needed to do in order to be downgraded from Maximum custody and POI.  As even Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell has stated, PFC Manning has been nothing short of “exemplary” as a detainee.  Additionally, Brig forensic psychiatrists have consistently maintained that there is no mental health justification for the POI Watch imposed on PFC Manning.  In response to PFC Manning’s question, he was told that there was nothing he could do to downgrade his detainee status and that the Brig simply considered him a risk of self-harm.  PFC Manning then remarked that the POI restrictions were “absurd” and sarcastically stated that if he wanted to harm himself, he could conceivably do so with the elastic waistband of his underwear or with his flip-flops.

Without consulting any Brig mental health provider, Chief Warrant Officer Denise Barnes used PFC’s Manning’s sarcastic quip as justification to increase the restrictions imposed upon him under the guise of being concerned that PFC Manning was a suicide risk.  PFC Manning was not, however, placed under the designation of Suicide Risk Watch.  This is because Suicide Risk Watch would have required a Brig mental health provider’s recommendation, which the Brig commander did not have.  In response to this specific incident, the Brig psychiatrist assessed PFC Manning as “low risk and requiring only routine outpatient followup [with] no need for … closer clinical observation.”  In particular, he indicated that PFC Manning’s statement about the waist band of his underwear was in no way prompted by “a psychiatric condition.”

While the commander needed the Brig psychiatrist’s recommendation to place PFC Manning on Suicide Risk Watch, no such recommendation was needed in order to increase his restrictions under POI Watch.  The conditions of POI Watch require only psychiatric input, but ultimately remain the decision of the commander.

Given these circumstances, the decision to strip PFC Manning of his clothing every night for an indefinite period of time is clearly punitive in nature.  There is no mental health justification for the decision.  There is no basis in logic for this decision.  PFC Manning is under 24 hour surveillance, with guards never being more than a few feet away from his cell.  PFC Manning is permitted to have his underwear and clothing during the day, with no apparent concern that he will harm himself during this time period.  Moreover, if Brig officials were genuinely concerned about PFC Manning using either his underwear or flip-flops to harm himself (despite the recommendation of the Brig’s psychiatrist) they could undoubtedly provide him with clothing that would not, in their view, present a risk of self-harm.  Indeed, Brig officials have provided him other items such as tear-resistant blankets and a mattress with a built-in pillow due to their purported concerns.

The Brig’s treatment of PFC Manning is shameful.  It is made even more so by the Brig hiding behind concerns for “[PFC] Manning’s privacy.”  There is no justification, and there can be no justification, for treating a detainee in this degrading and humiliating manner.

Learn more about PFC Manning’s court martial HERE

Anonymous Hackers Target Alleged WikiLeaker Bradley Manning’s Jailers

As army private Bradley Manning suffers for his alleged megaleak of secret documents to WikiLeaks, one group of hackers seems determined to make sure that others feel his pain.

Over the weekend, the loose hacker collective Anonymous declared that it will go on the offensive against those who are currently detaining Manning in a Quantico military brig, keeping him in solitary confinement and forcing him to strip nightly and stand at attention naked each morning.

In a crowdsourced document used to coordinate the group’s actions, Anonymous hackers name Department of Defense Press Secretary Geoff Morell and chief warrant officer Denise Barnes as targets and call on members to dig up personal information on both, including phone numbers, personal histories and home addresses. The goal of the operation, for now, is to “dox” the two officials, the typical Anonymous method of publishing personal information of victims and using it for mass harassment.

“Targets established,” reads the document, before naming Morell and Barnes. “We’re in the ruining business. And business is good.”

The group, which is calling its attack “Operation Bradical,” also lists demands as follows:

“Manning must be given sheets, blankets, any religious texts he desires, adequate reading material, clothes, and a ball. One week. Otherwise, we continue to dox and ruin those responsible for keeeping him naked, without bedding, without any of the basic amenities that were provided even to captured Nazis in WWII.”

Read the rest of the story HERE

UPDATE X1 -- Dylan Ratigan points out the hypocrisy of the left “power base” regarding PFC Bradley Manning --

Millions of dead ‘sardines’ floating in Redondo Beach Harbour

Posted by helen - Tuesday 3/8/11

This Fox reporter blames the Red Tide on the fish kill, but I beg to differ.  First let’s watch this quick report -

Now let’s watch this earthquake alert issued last week -

We know Redondo Beach is nearby Baja and that they share the same tectonic plates. Given the fact lots of seismic activity was occurring in this part of California last week, it is reasonable to correlate this earthquake activity with this massive fish kill.

See US Volcano and earthquake update -- Washington State Geyser -- Baja California -- Arkansas and Yellowstone post.

Al Jazeera: Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters adds his voice to the calls for Israel to remove its separation wall

Posted by helen - Saturday 3/5/11

Click full story link below vid to watch in full screen.

Full Story »

US Volcano and Earthquake update: Washington State – Geyser and Baja CA – Arkansas – Yellowstone

Posted by helen - Thursday 3/3/11

SEE UPDATE BELOW -

And to further show evidence of earthquake swarms check this short presentation out -- Earthquake Watch thru March 6th -- AV-2011-03-03

UPDATE X1 -- From the Extinction Protocol blog -

Tectonic plates stressed across the planet – awaiting a trigger?

Quakes along the Kamchatka subduction zone have increased in the last 48 hours

Above- Chile (left) and massive seismic wave under Antarctica (right). Tectonic plate stresses are building across the globe. Earth has been reeling under an accelerated solar wind stream that has been blasting the planet and sheering the magnetosphere for 6 consecutive days. Seismic vibrations have been rippling across the Antarctica seismic stations non-stop for the past few days. Recent quakes today along tectonic plate boundaries in Kamchatka, Chile, the Bonin Islands in Japan, Guatemala (Cocos plate), the South Island of New Zealand, the Loyalty Islands in the South Pacific, near Eureka California, and Myanmar are all indications we are nearing a tipping point for another sizeable jolt. A magnitude 6.2 earthquake jolted northern Chile on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but there were no reports of any damage and the linchpin copper mining sector was not affected- though this quake in Chile will do little to alleviate the stresses.

Read full story HERE

Board Member of Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble Charged in Insider Trading Scheme

Posted by helen - Wednesday 3/2/11

See Updates Below

(As of last evening, Gupta resigned his lucrative board seat at Procter & Gamble.)

Washington, D.C., March 1, 2011 – The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced insider trading charges against a Westport, Conn.-based business consultant who has served on the boards of directors at Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble for illegally tipping Galleon Management founder and hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam with inside information about the quarterly earnings at both firms as well as an impending $5 billion investment by Berkshire Hathaway in Goldman.

The SEC’s Division of Enforcement alleges that Rajat K. Gupta, a friend and business associate of Rajaratnam, provided him with confidential information learned during board calls and in other aspects of his duties on the Goldman and P&G boards. Rajaratnam used the inside information to trade on behalf of some of Galleon’s hedge funds, or shared the information with others at his firm who then traded on it ahead of public announcements by the firms. The insider trading by Rajaratnam and others generated more than $18 million in illicit profits and loss avoidance. Gupta was at the time a direct or indirect investor in at least some of these Galleon hedge funds, and had other potentially lucrative business interests with Rajaratnam. (press release continues below CNBC News Report)

The SEC has previously charged Rajaratnam and others in the widespread insider trading scheme involving the Galleon hedge funds.

“Gupta was honored with the highest trust of leading public companies, and he betrayed that trust by disclosing their most sensitive and valuable secrets,” said Robert Khuzami, Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement. “Directors who violate the sanctity of board room confidences for private gain will be held to account for their illegal actions.”

In the order that institutes administrative and cease-and-desist proceedings against Gupta, the SEC’s Division of Enforcement alleges that, while a member of Goldman’s Board of Directors, Gupta tipped Rajaratnam about Berkshire Hathaway’s $5 billion investment in Goldman and Goldman’s upcoming public equity offering before that information was publicly announced on Sept. 23, 2008. Gupta called Rajaratnam immediately after a special telephonic meeting at which Goldman’s Board considered and approved Berkshire’s investment in Goldman Sachs and the public equity offering. Within a minute after the Gupta-Rajaratnam call and just minutes before the close of the markets, Rajaratnam arranged for Galleon funds to purchase more than 175,000 Goldman shares. Rajaratnam later informed another participant in the scheme that he received the tip on which he traded only minutes before the market close. Rajaratnam caused the Galleon funds to liquidate their Goldman holdings the following day after the information became public, making illicit profits of more than $900,000.

The SEC’s Division of Enforcement alleges that Gupta also illegally disclosed to Rajaratnam inside information about Goldman Sachs’s positive financial results for the second quarter of 2008. Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein called Gupta and various other Goldman outside directors on June 10, when the company’s financial performance was significantly better than analysts’ consensus estimates. Blankfein knew the earnings numbers and discussed them with Gupta during the call. Between that night and the following morning, there was a flurry of calls between Gupta and Rajaratnam. Shortly after the last of these calls and within minutes after the markets opened on June 11, Rajaratnam caused certain Galleon funds to purchase more than 5,500 out-of-the-money Goldman call options and more than 350,000 Goldman shares. Rajaratnam liquidated these positions on or around June 17, when Goldman made its quarterly earnings announcement. These transactions generated illicit profits of more than $13.6 million for the Galleon funds.

The Division of Enforcement further alleges that Gupta tipped Rajaratnam with confidential information that he learned during a board posting call about Goldman’s impending negative financial results for the fourth quarter of 2008. The call ended after the close of the market on October 23, with senior executives informing the board of the company’s financial situation. Mere seconds after the board call, Gupta called Rajaratnam, who then arranged for certain Galleon funds to begin selling their Goldman holdings shortly after the financial markets opened the following day until the funds finished selling off their holdings, which had consisted of more than 120,000 shares. In discussing trading and market information that day with another participant in the insider trading scheme, Rajaratnam explained that while Wall Street expected Goldman Sachs to earn $2.50 per share, he had heard the prior day from a Goldman Sachs board member that the company was actually going to lose $2 per share. As a result of Rajaratnam’s trades based on the inside information that Gupta provided, the Galleon funds avoided losses of more than $3 million.

Gupta served as a Goldman board member from November 2006 to May 2010, and has been serving on Procter & Gamble’s board since 2007.

As it pertains to insider trades by the Galleon funds in the securities of Procter & Gamble, the Division of Enforcement alleges that Gupta illegally disclosed to Rajaratnam inside information about the company financial results for the quarter ending December 2008. Gupta participated in a telephonic meeting of P&G’s Audit Committee at 9 a.m. on Jan. 29, 2009, to discuss the planned release of P&G’s quarterly earnings the next day. A draft of the earnings release, which had been mailed to Gupta and the other committee members two days before the meeting, indicated that P&G’s expected organic sales would be less than previously publicly predicted. Gupta called Rajaratnam in the early afternoon on January 29, and Rajaratnam shortly afterward advised another participant in the insider trading conspiracy that he had learned from a contact on P&G’s board that the company’s organic sales growth would be lower than expected. Galleon funds then sold short approximately 180,000 P&G shares, making illicit profits of more than $570,000.

The Division of Enforcement alleges that by engaging in the misconduct described in the SEC’s order, Gupta willfully violated Section 17(a) of the Securities Act and Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act and Rule 10b-5 thereunder. The administrative proceedings will determine what relief, if any, is in the public interest against Gupta, including disgorgement of ill-gotten gains, prejudgment interest, financial penalties, an officer or director bar, and other remedial relief.

Sanjay Wadhwa, Jason Friedman and John Henderson – members of the SEC’s Market Abuse Unit in New York – together with Diego Brucculeri and James D’Avino of the New York Regional Office conducted the agency’s investigation, which is continuing. The SEC’s litigation effort will be led by Kevin McGrath and Valerie Szczepanik of the New York Regional Office.

To read more click HERE

UPDATE X1 -- From Taibbi’s recent article -Rajat Gupta and Goldman Sachs: SEC After Big Fish?

“I’ve been getting a lot of calls about the recent decision by the SEC to pursue insider trading charges against Rajat Gupta, a Goldman Sachs board member who was also the former head of McKinsey, one of the most important corporate consulting firms in the world.

It’s been very interesting to watch the media reaction to this case. The spin, overwhelmingly, has been that this is proof that the SEC is more serious than ever. Business Week came out with an article whose headline blared, “The SEC Goes After Big Game.” CNBC’s take was “Rajat Gupta: Bigger than Madoff?” I’m sure by the time this news cycle ends, Rajat Gupta will be the single most important figure in the history of Wall Street.

There’s no doubt that Gupta is a big fish and this is a good case. The evidence is remarkable and is eerily similar to the non-case that was non-made against Morgan Stanley chairman John Mack years ago. In that case, a hedgie named Art Samberg bought the hell out of a company called Heller Capital shortly after a call from Mack, who had just had a meeting with CSFB, Heller’s investment banker, which was in a position to know that Heller was about the bought by GE.”

Rolling Stone, by Matt Taibbi, Rajat Gupta and Goldman Sachs: SEC After Big Fish?

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From Business Insider -- Lloyd Blankfein Might Testify in the [upcoming] Galleon Trial

Lloyd Blankfein might testify as a government witness at Raj Rajaratnam’s criminal trial, the Wall Street Journal reported.Rajaratnam’s long-awaited criminal trial begins next week. The former Galleon chief faces a series of insider trading charges including 14 counts of securities fraud and conspiracy.

Israeli occupation: Calling A Spade A Spade

Posted by helen - Monday 2/28/11

An Interview with Gilad Atzmon

Israeli occupation: Calling A Spade A Spade

by Silvia Cattori*

Gilad Atzmon is an outstandingly charming man. He is often described by music critics as one of the finest contemporary jazz saxophonists. But Atzmon is more than just a musician: for those who follow events in the Middle East, he is considered to be one of the most credible voices amongst Israeli opponents. In the last decade he has relentlessly exposed and denounced barbarian Israeli policies. Just before his departure on a European Spring Tour, “The Tide Has Changed “, with his band the Orient House Ensemble, he spoke to Silvia Cattori.

Silvia Cattori: As a jazz musician, what brought you to use your pen as a weapon against the country where you were born and against your people?

Gilad Atzmon: For many years my music and writings were not integrated at all. I became a musician when I was seventeen and I took it up as a profession when I was twenty four. Though I was not involved with, or interested in politics when I lived in Israel, I was very much against Israel’s imperial wars. I identified somehow with the left, but later, when I started to grasp what the Israeli left was all about, I could not find myself in agreement with anything it claimed to believe in, and that is when I realised the crime that was taking place in Palestine.

For me the Oslo Accord was the end of it because I realised that Israel was not aiming towards reconciliation, or even integration in the region, and that it completely dismissed the Palestinian cause. I understood then that I had to leave Israel. It wasn’t even a political decision — I just didn’t want to be part of the Israeli crime anymore. In 1994 I moved to the UK and I studied philosophy.

In 2001, at the time of the second Intifada, I began to understand that Israel was the ultimate aggressor and was also the biggest threat to world peace. I realised the extent of the involvement and the role of world Jewry as I analysed the relationships between Israel and the Jewish State, between Israel and the Jewish people around the world, and between Jews and Jewishness.

I then realised that the Jewish “left” was not very different at all from the Israeli “left”. I should make it clear here that I differentiate between “Left ideology”— a concept that is inspired by universal ethics and a genuine vision of equality – and the “Jewish Left”, a tendency or grouping that is there solely to maintain tribal interests that have very little, if anything, to do with universalism, tolerance and equality.

The Tide Has Changed by Gilad Atzmon

(Beautiful jazz. Click on either of the two hyperlinks above to listen to more. You won’t be disappointed.)

Silvia Cattori: Would you argue that there is a discrepancy between Jews and left?

Gilad Atzmon: Not at all. I should explain here that I never talk about Jews as a people. I differentiate between Jews (the people) Judaism (the religion) and Jewishness (the culture). In my work, I am only elaborating on the third category, i.e. Jewishness. Also it should be understood that I differentiate between the tribal “Jewish Left”, and Leftists who simply happen to be Jewish. Indeed, I would be the first to admit that there are many great leftists and humanists who happen to be of Jewish origin. However those Jews who operate under a “Jewish banner” seem to me to be Zionist fig leafs: they are solely there to convey an image of “Jewish pluralism”. In fact, when I grasped the full role of the “Jewish left” I realised that I may end up fighting alone against the strongest power around.

Silvia Cattori: Do you fight alone?

Gilad Atzmon: More or less alone. I like to fight alone; I take responsibility. Along the years, there have been a lot attempts to destroy the few of us who have stood up against Jewish power. I found myself in trouble for supporting people like Israel Shamir and Paul Eisen, for standing up for their right to think freely and to express their opinions and ideas openly. I remember one of those infamous “Jewish Left” activists telling me, “listen Gilad, once you shun Shamir we will let you be”. My answer was simple: I was not about to bargain with intellectual integrity. For me, freedom of speech is an iron rule — I would never silence anyone.

Within the liberation movement and the solidarity movement, I do not actually believe that we have any intellectuals. And why we do not have intellectuals? Because in the name of “Political Correctness”, we have managed to destroy every single English speaking creative mind within our movement.

What we see here may be an endemic problem with “the Left”. To speak in broad (or rather Germanic philosophical) terms, “the Left” is “forgetful of Being” — Instead of understanding what Being in the world is all about, it tries to suggest to us what being in the world ought to be. “The Left” has adopted a preaching mode that has led to a severe form of alienation, and this is probably why “the Left” has failed to come to terms with, fully understand, and grasp the significance and power of Islam. And this is why “the Left” is totally irrelevant to the current revolution in the Middle East. As we know by now, “the Left’s’ tolerance”, somehow evaporates when it comes to Islam and Muslims. I find it very problematic.

Read the rest of Gilad’s interview by clicking HERE

Corbett Report – False Flags Unraveling – Sunday Update

Posted by helen - Sunday 2/27/11

Sunday Update – 2011/02/27

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 06:55 AM PST

False Flags Unraveling

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TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES:

This is James Corbett of corbettreport.com with your Sunday Update for this 27th day of February, 2011. And now for the real news.

In a series of breaking stories this month, more information is coming out exposing the true nature of the false flag attacks in Oklahoma City in 1995, in New York and Washington in 2001, and in London in 2005.

Earlier this month, the UK’s Guardian newspaper revealed that Mohammed Junaid Babar, the American-raised Muslim who set up training camps in north-west Pakistan where he taught bomb making to supposed 7/7 bombing mastermind Mohammed Sidique Khan, was in fact an American informant who was cooperating with American authorities even before he was arrested in 2004.

According to court documents obtained by The Guardian, the court, respresented by District Judge Victor Marrero, ruled that Babar “began cooperating even before his arrest and worked with the FBI and foreign governments” to investigate the London bombings. He was then sentenced to time served and 10 years probation meaning that the man who helped plot the deadliest terror attack in the UK, an attack that killed 52 people and injured hundreds of others, was let off with a slap on the wrists.

Reaction has been swift, with British MPs from across the political spectrum criticizing the decision as a travesty of justice. As bereaved 7/7 family members struggled to understand what happened, experts pointed out that the logical conclusion is that the supposed trainer of the London underground bombing was in fact working for American intelligence.

Graham Foulke, father of David Foulke, one of the 52 people to die in the London bombings, gave his view on the story to the Guardian newspaper.

In related news, new bombshell evidence has emerged that the FBI received a phone call warning them the day before the explosion at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

Jesse Trentadue, the Salt Lake City lawyer who has been working on the case since 1995 to discover the killer of his brother, obtained documents from the FBI under the Freedom of Information Act showing how Michael Selby, an attorney who claimed to be working “off the books” in representing the federal government, attempted to make a deal with convicted OKC co-conspirator Terry Nichols to admit to making a call on April 18, 1995, warning the FBI of the tapes. A separate affidavit filed in Utah US District court by Nichols confirms the meeting with Selby, stating that Nichols had never heard of the call before and that he had not placed the call.

Jesse Trentadue appeared on the Bill Deagle Nutrimedical Report earlier this week to discuss the new revelations and their significance.

Finally this week, We Are Change has just released footage of their questions to Donald Rumsfeld at this years CPAC conference in Washington, D.C. where they asked the former Secretary of Defense about the $2.3 trillion dollars that he admitted to being lost from the Pentagon’s coffers on September 10, 2001.

What is surprising is not that Rumsfeld attempted to dismiss the question by claiming that the money had always been there, a startling claim that would launch full-scale investigative reports in a free country with an independent press, but that it took 10 years for a group of volunteer citizen journalists to finally pose this question to Rumsfeld and receive any type of official explanation for the greatest accounting “blunder” in the history of the world.

Rumsfeld’s answer is unlikely given Cynthia McKinney’s famous 2006 assertion that the total missing funds had actually increased to $3.5 trillion at that time, and that Rumsfeld made no such attempt at that time to explain that the money was there, but somehow invisible to the Pentagon budget analysts whose offices were blown up in the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.

Equally incredible is the fact that Rumsfeld, appearing on the radio show of conservative talk show host Mancow Muller earlier this week, was questioned about the controlled demolition of World Trade Center Building 7 on the afternoon of September 11, 2001, and that he claimed not to know what the building even was.

That the former Secretary of Defense did not know about the destruction of a 47-story office tower, one of the largest buildings in New York, on the day of the worst attack on American soil in recent history, did not make international headlines is newsworthy in and of itself, but if Mr. Rumsfeld was sincere in his ignorance of what happened on 9/11, he is encouraged to begin his research by visiting the website of BuildingWhat.org along with the tens of millions of other Americans who know nothing about the controlled demolition of Building 7.

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Interview 296 – Eric Shine

Posted: 26 Feb 2011 05:39 PM PST

Lt. Eric Shine joins us once again to discuss the latest developments of his case, including a brief from the NTSB regarding his appellate brief on the Coast Guard commandant’s decision. We also discuss Lt. Shine’s “greater Germania” concept and discuss the royal families who have been puppeteering world geopolitics for generations.

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Alex talks to Charlie Sheen today – Full interview – “I got magic and I got poetry at my fingertips”

Posted by helen - Friday 2/25/11

Below is the full interview Alex Jones, Prison Planet/Infowars owner, had with actor Charlie Sheen. The interview rocked the cloistered Hollywood elite who live in a bubble which Sheen burst yesterday. I guess the Hollywood Master’s don’t appreciate their false world being pierced by the likes of a man who has simply reclaimed his personal honor and freedom -- Deadline Hollywood reports CBS and Warner Bros pull the plug on number one ratings hit ‘Two and a Half Men’ for the season.

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Press TV – US air raids kill 64 civilians in Afghan village

Posted by helen - Thursday 2/24/11

The village of Heelgal in the eastern Afghan province of Kunar was once filled with joyful cheers of children, but now it is nothing more than a graveyard after being bombed by U.S. air raids.

Read the full story HERE

MSNBC Breaks Rolling Stone Exclusive – Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators

Posted by helen - Thursday 2/24/11

(Note: replaced original vid w/Rolling Stone Editor and replaced w/Michael Hastings, the author of the article)

Rolling Stone  -Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on US Senators

by Michael Hastings

February 23, 2011 11:55 PM ET

The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in “psychological operations” to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war, Rolling Stone has learned – and when an officer tried to stop the operation, he was railroaded by military investigators.

The Runaway General: The Rolling Stone Profile of Stanley McChrystal That Changed History

The orders came from the command of Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, a three-star general in charge of training Afghan troops – the linchpin of U.S. strategy in the war. Over a four-month period last year, a military cell devoted to what is known as “information operations” at Camp Eggers in Kabul was repeatedly pressured to target visiting senators and other VIPs who met with Caldwell. When the unit resisted the order, arguing that it violated U.S. laws prohibiting the use of propaganda against American citizens, it was subjected to a campaign of retaliation.

“My job in psy-ops is to play with people’s heads, to get the enemy to behave the way we want them to behave,” says Lt. Colonel Michael Holmes, the leader of the IO unit, who received an official reprimand after bucking orders. “I’m prohibited from doing that to our own people. When you ask me to try to use these skills on senators and congressman, you’re crossing a line.”

Read full story HERE

The “Real” Tea Party Patriots are Paying Dearly for Trusting the Snakes Again!

Posted by helen - Wednesday 2/23/11

This Wisconsin show down b/w Gov Walker and the Unions is now spreading to Indiana, Ohio and… The Koch Brothers were welcomed with open arms from the self-anointed leader of the Tea Party Movement, the one and only Dick Armey, who purposely hijacked and infiltrated this young threatening movement early on. Although TP voters were warned time and again throughout 2010, especially by the very patriots who started the Tea Party groundswell, that you were being used, you instead chose to ignore their wisdom and placed your trust in the same old rattler snakes and you’ve been bitten.

These greedy charlatans out of Wall Street’s Corporate America cleverly hid in the shadows, all the while feeding their million-dollar mouthpieces -- Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh their daily talking points -- polled and time tested -- to stir your patriotic fervor. These guys don’t get paid the mega bucks for being bad salesmen. No. They get paid the big bucks to sell you their illusory pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, and they are very good salesmen. Don’t blame them for how you voted, it was you who bought their propaganda hook, line and sinker.

As a result, what is unfolding in Wisconsin serves as a startling example of just how badly Tea Party voters were mislead. Think about it. Did any Tea Party voters ask the Koch brothers hand picked leadership of the Tea Party movement what they really meant when they ran on a platform to cut their state budgets and trim the fat? No. You trusted them. Let me be abundantly clear -- it is one thing for a Governor to demand his union employee’s pay more into their pensions and healthcare, take pay cuts and put off their cost of living increases, but it’s an entirely different policy matter demanding unions give up the right to negotiate on their members behalf. But, this is what you, the Tea Party voter, are now being blamed for and having to defend.

Ask yourself -- was my vote for Tea Party candidate A a vote to eliminate my neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, friends right to negotiate a fair wage? I don’t think so. Your vote was to cut the budget and trim the fat. But the big boys are telling the world you voted to end collective bargaining, and they are winning the message war, hands down. Crickets from the Tea Party voters. Are you going to let them get away with this? Hello? Where is your honor? Your integrity? Your fighting spirit?

These charlatans are using you, and your patriotism as cover for their deceit, underhandedness and dishonesty. Are you going to allow it? Are you going to give up and let these thugs steel your patriotic thunder! Or are you going to accept the facts of these hard lessons, stand up to the deceit and rip your power back?

h/t Wayne Madsen Reports --

  • Scheduled protests in support of labor:

Juneau, AK
Tuesday, February 22 . 12:00pm, Contact AFSCME for details

Little Rock, AR
Wednesday, February 23 . 11:30am, State Capitol

Phoenix, AZ
Tuesday, February 22 . Contact AFSCME for details

Sacramento, CA
Tuesday, February 22 . 5:30pm. State Capitol, West steps

San Diego, CA
Tuesday, February 22 . 4:30pm. 3737 Camino del Rio South

Denver, CO
Tuesday, February 22 . 12:00pm, Colorado State House

Hartford, CT
Wednesday, February 23 . 12:00pm, State Capitol West Steps

Des Moines, IA
Tuesday, February 22 . 1:00pm, State Capitol west steps

Boston, MA
Tuesday, February 22 · 4:00pm – 6:00pm, Massachusetts State House

Springfield, MA
Tuesday, February 22 · 4:00pm, City Hall, W. Mass JwJ for more info

Annapolis, MD
Tuesday, February 22 . 12:00pm, Lawyer’s Mall. MD AFL-CIO for more info

Lansing, MI
Tuesday, February 22 . 9:00am . 215 N. Capitol (corner of Ottawa) Central United Methodist Church

Saint Paul, MN
Tuesday, February 22 · 4:00pm – 5:00pm. Minnesota State Capitol Rotunda

Trenton, NJ
Friday, Feb. 25. New Jersey members of the AFL-CIO and the Communication Workers of America, among other groups, are calling on people to gather at Noon on Friday (2/25) at the Statehouse in Trenton.

Santa Fe, NM
Tuesday, February 22 . 12:15pm. State House East side

New York, NY
Tuesday, Feb. 22. 5:00 pm. Fox News, FOX News at 6th Ave. and 48th St., during Glenn Beck’s program.

Canton, OH
Tuesday, February 22 . 4:00pm. Rally against SB5 at the Civic Center, 1101 Market Ave. N.

Cleveland, OH
Tuesday, February 22 . various. Buses to Columbus for Ohio’s SB5 hearing. Contact Cleveland JwJ for details.

Columbus, OH
Tuesday, February 22 . 4:00pm, Ohio State House. This is a hearing on Ohio’s Senate Bill 5 which would ban collective bargaining for public workers.

Scranton, PA
Wednesday, February 23 . 12:00pm, Lackawanna Court House

Providence, RI
Tuesday, February 22 · 4:30pm – 7:30pm, Rhode Island State House

Salt Lake City, UT
Tuesday, February 22. State Capitol, contact UT AFL-CIO for details

Montpelier, VT
Tuesday, February 22 . 12:00pm. State Capitol

Madison, WI
Rallies at the Statehouse continues — Last count 80,000 people at protest.

This Mom Deserves Justice. Will she get it?

Posted by helen - Monday 2/21/11

From Democracy Now --

Pennsylvania Judge Convicted in Kids-For-Cash Scheme

A federal jury has found a former Pennsylvania judge guilty in a so-called “kids-for-cash” scheme, in which he took money in exchange for sending juvenile offenders to for-profit detention centers. Former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella, Jr. was accused of taking $2.8 million in bribes and kickbacks for putting juveniles into detention centers owned by friends. The former judge faces a maximum sentence of 157 years in prison. He is free on bail. On Friday, a woman confronted the judge outside the courtroom and blamed him for her son’s suicide.

Sandy Fonzo: “My kid’s not here anymore! He’s dead! Because of him! He ruined my … life! I’d like him to go to hell and rot there forever!”

The woman, Sandy Fonzo, said her son Edward Kenzakoski was never the same after Judge Ciavarella sentenced him for a first-time offense of possession of drug paraphernalia. In 2009 Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw out thousands of juvenile convictions handed down by Ciavarella.

Happy Revolution Baby! – FKN Newz

Posted by helen - Saturday 2/19/11

We love this guy! A no mincing of the words with this fella, tells ya like it is and with passionate flare.

Obama crisis team …

Posted by helen - Friday 2/18/11

h/t WMR

Cass Sunstein – Cognitive Dissonance, Obama has Kill Switch and KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND CIRCLE: Eric Schmidt, Mark Zuckerberg, Immelt to Meet With Obama Thursday…

Posted by helen - Thursday 2/17/11

h/t Drudge - KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND CIRCLE: Eric Schmidt, Mark Zuckerberg, Immelt to Meet With Obama Thursday...

Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who recently took a medical leave of absence from his company, and Google chief executive Eric Schmidt will be among the attendees of President Obama’s event with business leaders in San Francisco Thursday evening, a source familiar with the event tells ABC News.

Earlier today, ABC News reported that one attendee would be 26-year-old founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, according to a source familiar with the meeting.

Jobs has been the subject of tabloid rumors and rampant speculation about his health since announcing last month that was taking a medical leave for undisclosed reasons.

Read the rest of the story HERE

RT: Madison, Wisconsin ROARS!!!

Posted by helen - Wednesday 2/16/11

See update below -

The middle class -- school teachers, prison guards, healthcare providers, firefighters, police officers, daycare providers and more pounce on Capitol in Madison Wisconsin to defeat the Governor’s proposal to end “collective bargaining”. Me thinks the Republican newbie bit off more than he can chew -- learn more HERE

UPDATE X1:  “The aide spoke on condition of anonymity, because she was not authorized to speak on behalf of her boss. Legislative assistants answering the phones at the offices of Sen. Jon Erpenbach of Middleton, Sen. Mark Miller of Monona and Sen. Fred Risser of Madison all insisted they knew nothing about the walkout.

However, at 11:30 a.m., when the session began — 30 minutes late — a roll call revealed that most if not all 14 Senate Democrats were absent. At 11:35, Republican Senate President Mike Ellis announced a “call of the house” to send police to force errant Democrats to return to the chamber.

“The Senate is now under a call of the house, and we will try to find the members who decided not to come to work today,” Ellis said as loud protesters sought to disrupt the session.

The Senate then adjourned, lacking enough of its 33 senators to act. Twenty are required and there are just 19 Republican Senators.

The Capitol was crowded shoulder to shoulder with protesters late Thursday morning especially near the Senate chambers chanting “Kill this bill,” and “Walker must go.”

Dem’s leave Capitol before vote on budget

CNN: Egypt is Free

Posted by helen - Friday 2/11/11

RT – Madsen – The Patriot Act is Unconstitutional! Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee tells it like it is! And where is the Tea Party?

Posted by helen - Tuesday 2/8/11

And here’s TX Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee -

New Study Warns on Effects of Gulf Oil Spill

Posted by helen - Monday 2/7/11

Revolutionary Politics – Renewing the Patriot Act while America Sleeps

Posted by helen - Sunday 2/6/11

h/t Infowars

And then there is this from Main Justice -

GOP Senators Back Permanent Extension of Patriot Act

Three Republican Senate leaders introduced a measure late Thursday that would permanently extend three key provisions of the Patriot Act, rather than let them expire not quite three years from now, as an alternative Democratic proposal would do.

The Republicans — Sens. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the minority leader; Charles Grassley of Iowa, the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, the top GOP member on the Intelligence Committee — described the changes as vital to national security.

“These three provisions are essential tools for our counterterrorism agents in the field.  The threat of terrorism isn’t going away so we must provide our agents with the tools they need to get the job done,” Grassley said in a prepared statement.  “Given that terrorist threats, including those from self-radicalized individuals, continue to evolve, we must ensure that our law enforcement agents are not burdened with new restrictions on existing authorities.  We can’t afford to go back to a pre-9/11 mindset and tie the hands of our agents in the field.”

The measures at issue are roving wiretaps of terrorism suspects through phone and Internet records, the “lone wolf” provisions that can track a target regardless of affiliation with a specific group, and Section 215 orders allowing investigators to freely gather a suspect’s business records.

The provisions would otherwise expire on Feb. 28. Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) introduced an extension that would last until December 2013 for these three provisions last Wednesday.

The Senate will now debate which approach it will take on the Patriot Act, which has been at the center of a debate over how to balance national security against the right of privacy since it was enacted just weeks after the terrorist acts of Sept. 11, 2001.

RT: The Keiser Report – Silver Stake for JP Vampire

Posted by helen - Thursday 2/3/11

Kind warning, Max is on fire and he’s loaded for bear. Enjoy!

Fox: Would you eat meat grown in a petri dish?

Posted by helen - Wednesday 2/2/11

RT: Egypt protests baffle mainstream media outlets in the US

Posted by helen - Monday 1/31/11

A better way to put it -- Lamestream media is doesn’t want American’s to wake up to the fact that our country is knee deep in empire building and people across the globe have had enough! If you are still watching lamestream media outlets to get your news, well, enjoy the propaganda.

Egypt Protests, NBC/Comcast, Big Brother Corporation – New World Next Week

Posted by helen - Thursday 1/27/11

Check out Media Monarchy by clicking HERE  and The Corbett Report HERE

RT: Keiser Report – China + Yuppies = Chuppies + Reggie Middleton talks w/Max about Goldman Sachs

Posted by helen - Wednesday 1/26/11

Check out Reggie’s BoomBustBlog by clicking HERE

BaahStuds! Love it…

Posted by helen - Tuesday 1/25/11

The Hidden Crisis in the Gulf AND A REAL SOLUTION + Ltr from La. State Senator to President Obama

Posted by helen - Saturday 1/22/11

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The letter below the fold from Louisiana’s State Senator, A.G. Crowe, to President Obama, needs to be copied and sent to your own US Senator and Congressional member along w/a personal note asap! We, the citizens, can, should and need to support our neighbors living day in and day out with the consequences of the BP Oil Spill. Please let’s make this Senator’s letter go viral. To learn more about this video, the State Senator’s letter and current studies, please click HERE

The Senator’s letter can be read below the fold. Full Story »

Honor at last for Roy P. Benavidez

Posted by helen - Tuesday 1/18/11

Corbett Report: Tunisian Uprising, Homeland Stupidity

Posted by helen - Sunday 1/16/11

Wedeman: Tunisia’s military putting a boot on “Jasmine Revolution and as Wayne Madsen always does, he adds editorial comment to his posts. Here is what he had to say about this “Jasmine Revolution” -- “Now we see the actual purpose of Julian Assange, his “leaks,” and George Soros. Another themed revolution brought about by leaked cables about Tunisian regime from US embassy in Tunis. Once again, Assange is outed as a tool of Soros and the CIA and Mossad — the Unholy Trinity. But Assange and his master Soros will not touch Israel at all — the one country in the Middle East in need of a revolution (and a bath and a shave).”

Amen.

CNN: Two million dead fish wash ashore on Eastern Shore in Maryland

Posted by helen - Thursday 1/6/11

Wildlife officials say the cause of death was due to a sudden drop in temperature. Bullshit! This is not an isolated incident when you take in one takes in the totality of the massive bird/fish deaths all occuring  during the same time across the globe.

WTH is going on in Arkansas? 5,000 black birds and counting die of massive internal bleeding AND 100,000 drum fish found floating on Arkansas River 125 miles away

Posted by helen - Monday 1/3/11

(CNN) — The thousands of birds that fell from the sky just before midnight New Year’s Eve in Arkansas likely died from massive trauma, according to a preliminary report released Monday.

The birds, most of which were dead when they were found, were red-winged blackbirds and starlings. They were found within a one-mile area of Beebe, about 40 miles northeast of Little Rock, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said.

Keith Stephens, a spokesman for the commission, said the birds showed evidence of trauma in the breast tissue, with blood clots in the body cavity and a lot of internal bleeding. All major organs were normal.

He cited a preliminary report conducted by the Arkansas Livestock and Poultry Commission.

Read the rest of the story HERE

Fish Kill story HERE

Al Jazeera: With $850 BILLION in Outstanding Tuition Costs, Student Debt outpaces Credit Card liabilities!

Posted by helen - Sunday 1/2/11

From Al Jazeera -

“American university students are beginning the new year with a mountain of debt. There is now $850bn owed in outstanding tuition costs and paying back the money is an ongoing challenge.

Two in every three American students graduate with loans outstanding and the current debt is 11 times the total it was just two decades ago.

Experts say a college degree is an important investment, but in a difficult job market it is an investment that could take a lifetime to pay off.

Al Jazeera’s Tom Ackerman reports.

London and Edinburgh celebrate 2011

Posted by helen - Friday 12/31/10

Taipei Celebrate’s 2011

Posted by helen - Friday 12/31/10

New Year’s Eve in Red Square – Moscow, Russia

Posted by helen - Friday 12/31/10

A message from our Leader & the tea boy – WAIT – Fresh humiliation for eurozone as China says it will bail them out

Posted by helen - Thursday 12/23/10

Fresh humiliation for eurozone as China says it will bail out debt-ridden nations

Portugal’s credit rating downgraded by Fitch

China has said it is willing to bail out debt-ridden countries in the euro zone using its $2.7trillion overseas investment fund.

In a fresh humiliation for Europe, Foreign Ministry spokesman Jiang Yu said it was one of the most important areas for China’s foreign exchange investments.

The country has already approached struggling European countries with financial aid, including offering to buy Greece’s debt in October and promising to buy $4billion of Portuguese government debt.

Today Portugal had its credit rating downgraded by the Fitch Ratings agency amid mounting concerns over the country’s ability to raise money in the markets to finance its hefty borrowings.

Fitch said it was reducing its rating on the country’s debt by one notch to A+ from AA- and warned that further downgrades may be in the offing by maintaining its negative outlook.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1341110/Fresh-humiliation-euro-zone-China-says-bail-debt-ridden-nations.html#ixzz18yKJpTBo

Dylan Ratigan Show: Interview w/Julian Assange & Gordon Duff – WIKILEAKS A FRAUD – ASSANGE

Posted by helen - Thursday 12/23/10

And then there is this post by Gordon Duff -- WIKILEAKS A FRAUD  -- Assange 

RUN BY PRESS FOR ISRAEL

CHUTZPAH:  PROMISE TO STOP WORKING FOR ISRAEL

“FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU, FOOL ME TWICE….”

By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/SeniorEditor

Today, Julian Assange admitted that Wikileak material had been chosen by the press, not an independent organization after all.  Wikileaks, in effect, admitted that it has always been a front for what Helen Thomas refers to as the Zionist controlled media.  Assange, in a childish attempt at “spin” blamed the press for having too many “sensitivities ” Israel and making Wikileaks look bad.

HELLO!

The only reason we needed Wikileaks in the first place is that the press failed so utterly.  Is it any secret that Assange turned total control of Wikileaks over to the press, the people who gave him “rock star” status?  How utterly sick.

Read the full story HERE

RT News: Fake Foods – Help yourself to GM treats!

Posted by helen - Wednesday 12/22/10

Keiser Report – JP Morgue

Posted by helen - Tuesday 12/21/10

Is JP Morgan Shifting Its Silver And Gold Shorts To Non-US

Domiciled, And Thus Unregulatable, Banks?

Tyler Durden's picture

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/20/2010 22:07 -0500

Going through recent bullion bank shorting information, Adrian Douglas has stumbled across a nugget that may explain the sudden willingness of JPM to admit to the FT, via proxies as obviously the bank would never expose itself to even remote market manipulation claims, that it has collapsed its silver short. The reason: even as US bank silver (and gold) shorts by US banks have been gradually declining, those positions established by non-US bank, and thus entities not under the CFTC’s control, have seen their silver shorts surge, increasing by orders of magnitude over the past several months. Is there a stealthy transfer of precious metals market manipulation taking place, one that exonerates the domestic, and therefore regulatable, suspects, while making foreign banks carry the burden of suppressing silver and gold prices? The reason: hand over the silver shorts to entities that would not be subject to the CFTC’s upcoming size limit rules. Per Douglas: “The sudden and massive increase in their short positions in both metals is conspicuous when compared with historical trading patterns. The fact that it occurs at a time when the US banks that are mega-short appear to be covering makes it doubly intriguing. It looks like a strategy to shift suppression and manipulation of the market to banks that are not under the direct supervision of the CFTC. Will these non-US banks be expecting to receive an exemption to position limits where US banks might not be successful?” We hope to get an answer to all these questions soon -- Douglas has sent out the following letter to the only honest man at the CFTC, Bart Chilton, which explains Douglas’ findings, and demands an inquiry into just who these foreign banks are that are suddenly shorting silver and gold on the margin at alarming rates.

Read full story HERE

Corbett Report – Sunday Update – Hollbrooke Dies, Lisbon Treaty Lives, People Riot

Posted by helen - Sunday 12/19/10

Click Corbett Report to order your copy of Corbett Report’s 2009 Video Archive

Here’s Corbett Report  ”New World Next Week”  Media Monarchy -

Medieval Climate Change, ObamaCare Unconstitutional, Gootube Censorship

Sunday, December 19, 2010

corbett report: episode167 - social engineering & youfrom corbett report: The technocrats have been in the labs for years crafting their science of societal control. Now, after decades of experimentation the public is under all-out psychological assault. From learned helplessness to brain implants, this ain’t your grandaddy’s social engineering…

Refreshing candor from Secretary Clinton

Posted by helen - Friday 12/17/10

Real Zionist News: Brother Nathaniel – The Zionist’s Behind the FEMA Camps

Posted by helen - Sunday 12/12/10

Click here Real Zionist News    Brother Nathaniel always has interesting news and information on the Zionist infiltrator’s wielding power in the halls of Congress.

AIPAC the Voice of America – Part 1 the Pea and the Orange

Posted by helen - Friday 12/10/10

Part 1 (Part 2 is below the fold)

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CounterFire.org – This 15 year old lad blasts the London establishment

Posted by helen - Thursday 12/9/10

Yowza! What passion. What an incredible vocabulary. What a shining star. And he didn’t even use a teleprompter…

RT News: More from Madsen on Assange and Wikileaks

Posted by helen - Wednesday 12/8/10

A Nation of Sheep WILL Beget a Government of Wolves

Posted by helen - Wednesday 12/8/10

h/t BrassCheck TV: Full Disclosure reports Airport Insecurity Persists

Posted by helen - Wednesday 12/8/10

Questionnaire and more info can be found by clicking HERE.

We all know how the NWO love’s anniversaries…one is just a couple of month’s away

Posted by helen - Monday 12/6/10

CON Plan 3502 PowerPoint Presentation Reveals Secret Plan for Domestic Military Crackdown -- Here’s the PowerPoint Presentation put together by http://femalefaust.blogspot.com/2010/12/update-power-point-presentation-reveals.html  Look’s like earthquakes will be just one of the triggers for domestic upheavel.

Watch the video on earthquakes over at FemaleFaust … think Tesla and HAARP…btw, tried to embed the training video and could not get a decent code.

More news of Fed Doc Dump – Fed was liquefying the world’s banks – and we the American taxpayer pay the debt on gazillions

Posted by helen - Wednesday 12/1/10

As more details of the Fed’s dump are revealed by those who study this for a living, the more obscene it gets. What peeves me is the fact that every American taxpayer is on the hook to pay the debt on gazillions the privately owned Federal Reserve gave to banks all over the world.

Where are the handcuffs? Deputize me and I’ll arrest all of these banksters alone if I have too!!!!

Sick to death of the damned lies.

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Y/t thesolidonyx – Farrakhan Exposes Bankers & America’s Hidden Agenda – Part 1/2

Posted by helen - Friday 11/19/10

Farrakhan has been called many things over the years, but he nails the elites criminal banking system during this two-part speech. The beauty of this speech is our black brothers and sisters are too waking up to the elites New World Order fascist agenda which gives me great hope “together” American’s can turn back this dispicable enslavement agenda.

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Corbett Report: Climategate TV – Climategate is still the issue

Posted by helen - Friday 11/19/10

TRANSCRIPT: This week marks the one year anniversary of the release of emails and documents from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia that we now know as Climategate.

Sitting here now, one year later, it’s becoming difficult to remember the importance of that release of information, or even what information was actually released. Many were only introduced to the scandal through commentary in the blogosphere and many more came to know about it only weeks later, after the establishment media had a chance to assess the damage and fine tune the spin that would help allay their audience’s concern that something important had just happened. Very few have actually bothered to read the emails and documents for themselves. Full Story »

Rep. Duncan (TN) tells Congress TSA Scanners are about enriching Chertoff’s bank account than protecting flyers

Posted by helen - Wednesday 11/17/10

Are you as sick to death as I am about former political operatives using “terrorism” as the excuse to steal our privacy rights away? Chertoff and et al are making $300 MILLION on these scanners while you and I, the little people, are forced to go be radiated all in the name of security. Well, I say BULLSHIT!!! It’s way past time we little people stand up to these thugs and tell them to take their scanners and put them where the sun doesn’t shine!!! Enough of the fearmongering.

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h/t WMR/RT News: Rats jumping sinking ship

Posted by helen - Saturday 10/30/10

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The Illuminati and 911 Truth – recently released film footage

Posted by helen - Friday 10/29/10

Why were first responders reporting secondary explosions minutes before and after the first plane hit the WTC tower? Why, if a plane hit nearly 100 stories above did the all of the windows in the lobby below blow out? No fire. No smoke. But three inch glass windows were blown out! How did this happen?  

Part 1

Part 2 #!  

Again, American’s have been asked to believe the utterly unbelievable. Why is that? Why hasn’t any of this information been in the public domain for nearly 10 years? Why did it take a lawsuit to release this footage? Remember, Republican’s were in control of the federal corporation aka government. Why would they hide this information from the public? What were/are they afraid of? If it happened the way NIST stated then why withhold such information from Americans? Time to clean house -- ALL INCUMBENTS MUST BE FIRED NEXT TUESDAY!!!

New World Next Week: Mid-term sElections Special

Posted by helen - Friday 10/29/10

Yes. The Sequoia voting machines are going to decide next Tuesday’s election. Not you or me. But remember, Republicans, Democrats and Indpependents made sure your state bought these fraudulent machines following the 2000 Florida election debacle. Make sure you thank them all by voting ALL OF THEM OUT NEXT TUESDAY!!! Let’s clean house and start over.

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h/t Big Government: Eyeblast TV asks DC voters about next Tuesday’s election

Posted by helen - Friday 10/29/10

Unfortunately, many in our nation’s Capitol are clueless about what’s at stake in next weeks elections. Sad but true. But anyone visiting The T-Room knows we want the whole entire lot of incumbents FIRED next TUESDAY!

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Flight 93 rare footage – no engines, no fire, no smoke, no plane seats, no luggage, nothing

Posted by helen - Friday 10/29/10

On September 11, 2001, the American public was told that Flight 93 crashed a farm in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing all on board. After watching the video below, any sober mind can see and hear for themselves that the crater was a mere 20′ long and 10′ wide as the photographer described it and eyewitness reports stated there was no fire, no smoke, no plane debris, no luggage, no bodies, no nothing. Yet the gullible American public has bought this lie hook, line and sinker. Why? Because the federal corporation aka government told us too and they would never lie. Say what?  That’s all they know how to do is lie. All of them. This murder happened on the Republican’s watch. Why wasn’t there a thorough investigation done? Why are we left to believe a 20′ x 10′ crater with no debris field is evidence that it was Flight 93? Why is Congress ignoring the preponderence of evidence and not demanding a new investigation into 911?

It’s past time to clean house. We American’s deserve better, don’t we? VOTE ALL INCUMBENTS OUT NEXT TUESDAY -- ALL OF THEM!!! Full Story »

h/t Rense – Unemployed real numbers as high as 17% in California 22%

Posted by helen - Tuesday 10/26/10

In a world of honesty and truthfulness, the D’s, R’s and I’s currently sitting in Congress WOULD TELL US THE FRIGGIN TRUTH! But not today, b/c these yahoo’s serve AIPAC, the Banking Cartels aka CRIMINAL CABAL’S or their corporate masters. NONE OF THEM WILL TELL YOU AND ME THE TRUTH. Get it!!!

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Ruh Roh – Carter, Clinton and Obama royally s*3^^! well, EVERYONE!

Posted by helen - Monday 10/18/10

Well, at least they are equal opportunists -- watch how these three brilliant, NOT, men brought all of us to the impending foreclosuregate! Thanks Guys. Now that you have brought about America’s economic collapse, what’s your plan to get us the hell out of it! The NWO? Rubbish.

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Happy Birthday, Prairie, We love ya!!!

Posted by helen - Sunday 10/17/10

A toast to our magnificent Prairie! May sunshine fill your world!!!

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InfoWars: Cheyenne goes home Part 1/2

Posted by helen - Friday 10/15/10

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InfoWars: Infant Cheyenne rushed to Hospital w/vaginal bleeding, swelling

Posted by helen - Friday 10/15/10

What on God’s earth did the New Hampshire Child Protective Services do to this infant?

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InfoWars: Part 2 of Cheyenne update

Posted by helen - Friday 10/15/10

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So if you read or post at Oathkeeper’s site your kids will be taken away???

Posted by helen - Saturday 10/9/10

WTH is going on here? Sad. So very sad.

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RT: Wayne Madsen – CIA behind failed Ecuador Coup

Posted by helen - Sunday 10/3/10

Hey President Obama -- why are you handing over the US foreign policy to Kissinger? Just askin.

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Corbett Report: Sunday Update, September 26, 2010

Posted by helen - Monday 9/27/10

At UN, French President Sarkozy Demands Financial Transaction Tax on Banks; Tobin Genie Now Out of the Bottle Worldwide; Time to Mobilize Against Finance Capital on This Issue

Posted by helen - Friday 9/24/10

Webster G. Tarpley
TARPLEY.net
September 22, 2010

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has spoken the magic words: “Tax the banks,” and this is the big news from the opening day of this year’s UN General Assembly plenary session in New York. For reasons which have much to do with internal French political struggles, Sarkozy has thus placed the central question of the age on the international agenda: Who will pay the costs of the world economic depression? Will it be the bankers, speculators, derivatives mongers, asset strippers, and hedge fund hyenas who have created the current depression through the bubble economy of the last decades? Or, as the Koch-headed dupes of the Tea Party demand, will the cost of the depression be taken out of the hide of average working people around the globe under the banner of “free-market” swindles once again?

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h/t Transparency News: Librarian’s in Rappahannock Virginia Will Survive

Posted by helen - Thursday 9/23/10

Proud to be a Virginian. Go all Librarian’s!!! We the public remain in awe of you. Now sing it ladies and gentlemen!

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“BuildingWhat?” TV Ad

Posted by helen - Monday 9/20/10

Help broadcast this TV Ad to millions of New Yorkers with a donation.

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h/t Rense – I’m Free!!!

Posted by helen - Wednesday 9/15/10

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Robin Young, Gulf Coast resident, Describes toxic poisoning health symptoms

Posted by helen - Tuesday 9/14/10

by Glynn Wilson

ORANGE BEACH, Ala. — Wherever disaster strikes, there’s always an associated crud.

There was the Exxon Valdez Crud. The Nine Eleven Crud. The Katrina Cough, and then the TVA coal ash cough.

Now, along the entire coast of the Gulf of Mexico, there is the BP Crud, afflicting workers and the general population from Louisiana to Florida. Full Story »

Thomas Wood’s at ‘Nullify Now!”

Posted by helen - Monday 9/13/10

Woods is the author of the best seller, Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century:

States Rights Not Necessary to Reinvent the Wheel

by Devvy Kidd

I try to send out notification of events throughout the country that are dealing with top priority issues and providing constitutional solutions instead of more Band Aids.

 
Millions of Americans suddenly had their comfort zones blind sided in August 2008, when their 401(k)’s began to hemorrhage. Now that there are tens of millions of angry Americans, we have to do our best to present them with accurate facts about the long list of issues plaguing this nation and keep them from unknowingly being led to support more Band Aids.  Full Story »

Press TV: Part 1 of 3, Interview w/retired Lt. Col Karen U. Kwiatkowski – Pentagon Whistleblower

Posted by helen - Tuesday 9/7/10

This interview with Pentagon Whistleblower retired AF Lt. Col. Karen U. Kwiatkowski is a must see. She offers a first hand account of the discussions taking place within the Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans prior to and after 911. Part 2 and 3 are below.  

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Get outdoors this weekend and Visit a State Park near you! Some fresh air will do your soul some good

Posted by helen - Thursday 9/2/10

I love America’s national and state park system. Here is a friendly reminder to those of you cooped up in the office all week. Take some time this upcoming Labor Day Weekend to get outside and enjoy your state’s parks and all her amenities.  Stay safe and enjoy your holiday.

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Corbett Report: JFK Truth, Drug War: The People Strike Back

Posted by helen - Wednesday 9/1/10

Once again, 41′s shadow CIA is implicated in JFK’s assisination. Fascinating to see the factual information being reported on mainstream media. There is no question 41′s shadow CIA interfered with the investigation and no question 41 was in Dallas on the morning of the fatal shooting. Full Story »

Press TV – Reports Madsen’s BOMBSHELL Report – All in the Company

Posted by helen - Sunday 8/29/10

To read investigative journalist Wayne Madsen’s full series to date click here 

Also, The T-Room will be posting a new series of who was behind Obama’s meteoric rise, why he was their man and how they made sure he was put in power using Madsen’s series as well as other first sources as supporting material. Stay tuned. Full Story »

h/t Rense: Illness is spreading among Gulf Coast residents

Posted by helen - Friday 8/27/10

Everyday new fish kills, flocks of birds and more continue to haunt the innocent residents of the entire Gulf Coast region. In the meantime, our EPA makes headlines about banning the ingredients that make up ammunition. What a joke!

http://www.datelinezero.com/?p=2333 Full Story »

RT News: Madsen, The Obama-Patreaus Afghanistan shell game

Posted by helen - Tuesday 8/17/10

War is about resources and with the new oil find in northern Afghanistan, it looks like American’s will lingering and dying in the desert for years to come. Full Story »

Al Jazeera: Electric Cars race around the globe

Posted by helen - Tuesday 8/17/10

Now, if they could only build wings into these birds, I’d buy one. Full Story »

h/t WMR: Wayne Madsen & Ray McGovern on Israeli attack on Iran

Posted by helen - Saturday 8/14/10

President Obama, the last thing America needs today is to be bullied into a war by any ally. Enough of our treasure dying over paranoid despots and/or empire building. Enough already! Tell Israel NO!!! Full Story »

Andrew Lawson presents – Double Vendetta: The insanity behind an Iran confrontation

Posted by helen - Thursday 8/12/10

How long can we allow the maniacs who are driving us to the brink of World War Three to stay in power? We’d better do something soon, or we will all be done for. Full Story »

CNN: Fareed Zakaria: ADL’s Mosque Opposition Is “Bizarre”

Posted by helen - Sunday 8/8/10

From Gothamist -

Fareed Zakaria: ADL’s Mosque Opposition Is

“Bizarre”

Newsweek columnist (and Newsweek International editor) and CNN host Fareed Zakaria announced he would return a prize from the Anti-Defamation League because he was upset by the group’s decision to oppose the mosque proposed for Lower Manhattan. Zakaria said last night on his CNN show, “I have to say I was personally and deeply saddened by the ADL’s stand because five years ago, the organization honored me with its Hubert Humphrey Award for First Amendment Freedoms. Given the position that they have taken on a core issue of religious freedom in America, I cannot in good conscience keep that award.” Full Story »

Rense: A Tale of TWO ‘BP’ Wells

Posted by helen - Sunday 8/8/10

The T-Room has believed all along there were two wells that blew out. This video, along with the Lamber Coordinates, asks the same question we’ve been asking -- which well have they been showing the world as being repaired vs the well that is truly gushing oil into the Gulf? Full Story »

My Catbird’s Seat: PHILIP GIRALDI and RAY MCGOVERN CALL ON PRESIDENT TO PREEMPT ISRAELI ATTACK ON IRAN

Posted by helen - Thursday 8/5/10

MEMORANDUM FOR: The President
FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
SUBJECT: War With Iran

We write to alert you to the likelihood that Israel will attack Iran as early as this month. This would likely lead to a wider war. Israel’s leaders would calculate that once the battle is joined, it will be politically untenable for you to give anything less than unstinting support to Israel, no matter how the war started, and that U.S. troops and weaponry would flow freely. Wider war could eventually result in destruction of the state of Israel. This can be stopped, but only if you move quickly to preempt an Israeli attack by publicly condemning such a move before it happens. Full Story »

Former KGB operative talks on film 25 years ago about the Communist takeover of America

Posted by helen - Friday 7/30/10

Please bother yourself for ten minutes and watch this video.

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Congressman Markey – Gulf used as a huge lab test to learn more about “dispersants”

Posted by helen - Wednesday 7/28/10

Is it really alright with you that BP and this Administration used the Gulf spill as a scientific testing ground for the toxic dispersant Corexit 9500? Full Story »

BP Oil – Enough is Enough!

Posted by helen - Monday 7/26/10

A “Call to Action” is posted at the end of this excellent video -- No More Cover Up -- the group that sponsored the production of this video is looking for volunteer camera/videographer’s -- spread the word far and wide.  

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Jewish Voice for Peace: TIAA CREF Divest from Israeli Occupation

Posted by helen - Friday 7/23/10

The T-Room endorses JVP’s efforts to end the Zionist occupation of Palestine. Full Story »

h/t RBO: PolitiZoid ‘Same as it Ever Was’

Posted by helen - Thursday 7/22/10

IMHO, it’s much, much, much worse. Just sayin. Full Story »

h/t RBO: Obama Bumper Sticker Removal Kit

Posted by helen - Saturday 7/17/10

Love the very end…

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Oil Spill Update; Hopedale, LA

Posted by helen - Wednesday 7/14/10

Gigi Gaston’s documentary “We will not be silenced”

Posted by helen - Tuesday 7/13/10

For the record, this documentary has been available, on line, for nearly two years now. Some have asked why is it re surfacing now; especially since ALL MAJOR MAINSTREAM MEDIA OUTLETS ignored it and wouldn’t go near it. The answer, politics.

Just a hunch but, the R’s and Indy’s are polling and have learned, I’m confident, that Obama and his administration, if that’s what you want to call it, will be the target for campaign messaging. All campaigns send out or plant seeds during the slow summer months to galvanize their base. This documentary will galvanize Rs, D’s and especially Indy’s b/c many of us middle of the road or conservative D’s have left the Party. We left b/c we witnessed first hand the caucus fraud, the election fraud and the DNCs implosion on May 31, 2008. Full Story »

BP Whistleblower: What this company doesn’t want you to know

Posted by helen - Monday 7/12/10

Spread this far and wide folks. Get it out there to protect this man and his family. The more folks see it the safer he is! Now do your part and spread it far and wide!!! Full Story »

RT News: Out of Control Spending by Military Empire Building Cabal

Posted by helen - Saturday 7/10/10

Let’s see, America is in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Costa Rica and Southern Africa and these are the wars we are currently engaged in. Iran is in the neocons sites where War will likely break out in the coming months. I thought Obama ran on an anti-war plank. Did I miss something here? Full Story »

Knowing the toxicity level of Corexit, why is the Coast Guard spraying it under the cloak of darkness in the Gulf? Is it money?

Posted by helen - Saturday 7/10/10

We already know Obama’s Vanguard accounts were heavily invested in the company that makes Corexit. Some have stated he has made over $80 MILLION from this investment. What’s wrong with this picture? Why is the US government determined to kill the Gulf and her people? Is this mega disaster heading up the East Coast as was predicted months ago? You betcha!

h/t Prairie – Israeli Border Police Destroy Vegetable Fields in Al Baqa’as Valley

Posted by helen - Friday 7/9/10

SEE UPDATE BELOW THE FOLD -- MUCH MORE TO THE STORY THAN DESTRUCTION OF VEGETABLE GARDENS.

Why would Border Patrol destroy vegetable gardens? Were they actually following orders and if so, who is in Command? Full Story »

Al Jazeera “Inside Story” The Russian Spy Case

Posted by helen - Thursday 7/8/10

It’s quite amazing that when one reads or watches such a story like the Russian Spy Case in America’s Daily’s or evening news, how different they are when covered by foreign press. To get some balance to this particular “non-story” The T-Room looked to Al Jazeera and found what we were looking for – candidness rather than spin. Full Story »

GRTV: Senate Republican’s block BP’s Deepwater Horizon investigation

Posted by helen - Thursday 7/8/10

I don’t know if the Republican Senator’s are just stupid OR if they are just really, really, really stupid? You pick which one it is. This isn’t even a roll of the di. Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!

h/t JustMe: Get Ready for President Mike

Posted by helen - Thursday 7/8/10

He’s the patriots kinda President!!! Full Story »

Fox: Megan Kelly talks w/Ashley Taylor, Member of US Commission on Civil Rights

Posted by helen - Wednesday 7/7/10

Mr. Taylor discusses the Commission’s investigation into the Black Panther intimidation case the DOJs Civil Rights Division dropped several months ago. Former DOJ attorney J. Christian Adams testified before the Commission yesterday.

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National Geographic: Oil gusher threatens Native Indian “Water” Village Way of Life

Posted by helen - Friday 7/2/10

From NG – “The town of Grand Bayou, Louisiana, has no streets and no cars, just water and boats. And now the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico threatens the very existence of the Atakapa-Ishak Indians who live there. “We’re facing the potential for cultural genocide,” says one tribe member.”

© 2010 National Geographic; videographer and field producer: Fritz Faerber

Learning how entire cultures of people may very well be wiped out by this BP/Transocean/Halliburton Gulf Gusher is heartbreaking. This catastrophy is hand made which means it was entirely preventable. To compare it to Katrina is a mistake, b/c on scale, this man made disaster is so much bigger and more threatening to generations and generations of the people.

h/t Prison Planet TV: Alex talks w/Judge Napolitano about Impeachment, First Amendment Rights, Kill Switch and more

Posted by helen - Thursday 7/1/10

Great interview and several others available at the end of the segment. Full Story »

h/t nierika: BBC World News, Hard Talk with Ken O’Keefe, former Marine who survived the Mavi Marmara

Posted by helen - Thursday 7/1/10

“Israel says it was in self defense” -- what is it about this country and their insane logic -- blame the victim! It’s their fault we had to kill some of them. They made us do it. WTH?

Loved this quote by O’Keefe, “Orwellian doublespeak -- the peacenik is the terrorist and the terrorist is a peacenik.” Full Story »

h/t The Intelhub: Coast to Coast AM Radio w/Richard Hoagland

Posted by helen - Thursday 7/1/10

We need to demand the “Mud Logs” which are the vital record of the drilling of all of the Rigs around the Gulf. Please listen and learn how you can help -

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h/t Jacqlyn Smith @ Greg Goss’s blog – Ron Pollard’s ‘The Blue Hawaii’

Posted by helen - Tuesday 6/29/10

I love a person that remains focused. I’ll bet all of this research is about all the Dr. has had any time for. Anyhoo, we love it!!!! Full Story »

Culture of Resistance: Israeli Navy Attacks Gaza Freedom Flotilla

Posted by helen - Sunday 6/13/10

The following one hour video shows us the mood on the MV Mavi Marmara of the activists prior to spotting lights from boats heading for their vessel. The film then clearly shows the Commando attack, Canadian Neish showing the pamphlet he found on a soldier identifying targets, and the make shift medic area in the hull. 

From the Culture of Resistance website:  

On the night of Sunday, May 30, showing a terrifying disregard for human life, Israeli naval forces surrounded and boarded ships sailing to bring humanitarian aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip. On the largest ship, the Mavi Marmara, Israeli commandos opened fire on civilian passengers, killing at least 9 passengers and wounding dozens more. Others are still missing. The final death toll is yet to be determined. Cultures of Resistance director Iara Lee was aboard the besieged ship and has since returned home safely.

Despite the Israeli government’s thorough efforts to confiscate all footage taken during the attack, Iara Lee was able to retain some of her video recordings. Below is the unedited footage from the moments leading up to and during the Israeli commandos’ assault on the Mavi Marmara. You can also download this footage by clicking here.

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h/t Fredsback-Alabama: Day 50 Grand Isle LA view from plane

Posted by helen - Sunday 6/13/10

This is such a tragedy of mega proportions. Bless all of those in harms way. Full Story »

InfoWars: Lindsey Williams begging people to listen to Gulf War Gusher & deadly danger

Posted by helen - Friday 6/11/10

Part 1 of interview w/Alex Jones and Lindsey Williams

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John Pina Craven’s job, Chief Scientist of US Naval Projects Office, was solving problems deep under the Ocean for the Navy including an OIL LEAK OFF THE COAST OF SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA

Posted by helen - Tuesday 6/8/10

PART 2

“Craven talks about the role of the media in helping to find solutions”

Honolulu, Hawaii

FORMER CHIEF SCIENTIST OF US NAVY SPECIAL PROJECTS OFFICE HAS SUGGESTIONS FOR BP—WHY ISN’T THIS RESOURCE BEING EXPLOITED?

JUNE 8, 2010— JOHN PINA CRAVEN’S JOB WAS SOLVING PROBLEMS DEEP UNDER THE OCEAN FOR THE NAVY INCLUDING AN OIL WELL LEAK OFF THE COAST OF SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA.–Craven’s  job as the Director of the Navy’s Office of Special Projects required him to deal with many challenges. Despite his history of solving problems as intractable as the current BP oil leak, nobody has contacted Craven. In an interview with independent investigative journalist, Glenn Murphy, Craven said that maybe BP’s officials think that he is dead because he had a serious accident about two years ago. Full Story »

A former Marine sings to us all

Posted by helen - Tuesday 6/8/10

Bless him. Full Story »

RT News: Daniel Estulin, Bilderberg Secret Society expert, speaks to Italian Parliament

Posted by helen - Thursday 6/3/10


On 2 June 2010, Daniel Estulin, investigative reporter, addressed the Italian Parliament highlighting the Bilderberg Secret Society. He informed them of this Socieities origins, membership and stated goals – the New World Company, Ltd.

RT News: Wayne Madsen discusses Blago Trial and potential bombshells

Posted by helen - Thursday 6/3/10

Also visit CitizenWells.wordpress.com if you want to chime in on the trial. In the meantime, pop some popcorn and pour yourself a soda and watch the fireworks of the Trial. Something tells me it’s going to be a doozie. Btw, Wayne also reported today a bit more about Rhambo’s “love condo” in DC. Apparently the condo was wired for audio and video…LOL…and it’s being reported that Obama and Clinton enjoyed afternoon trysts there as well. Oh my. You just can’t make this stuff up!!! Full Story »

AIPAC Part 1: Since when did AIPAC become the Voice of America – The tale about a Pea and an Orange

Posted by helen - Tuesday 6/1/10

Part 2 is embedded below. Bother yourself to learn who is blackmailing the President and Congress. The sooner all of us American’s understand who and what AIPAC is, the sooner We American’s can kick them out! Now, self educate. Full Story »

N.I.S.T Gross 9/11 federal investigator denies molten steel found at ground zero

Posted by helen - Thursday 5/27/10

Why is NIST investigator Mr. Gross denying there was molten steel at ground zero? Why does he say there were no witnesses and no such evidence to indicate molten steel? Why were temperatures as high as 2800 degrees fahrenheit eight weeks after the tragedy? What’s wrong with this picture? Full Story »

h/t Prairie – MSNBC: Dylan Ratigan, Guests discuss a second and possibly even more leaks in Gulf Oil disaster

Posted by helen - Thursday 5/27/10

So the live feed at the Deepwater oil leak isn’t a live feed of the Deepwater oil gusher? And the dispersants BP was using, causing workers to become ill was used to try and disperse the plume of oil that has now grown to the size of the state of Delaware? You have got to be kidding me? And don’t bother trying to convince me that the Obama White House, EPA and the Interior Department didn’t know anything about this ruse. Two different pipe blowouts but only one is being blamed? Full Story »

Eye witness, La. Parish President, tells America how the Obama Administration is intentionally disengaged from Oil Spill in the Gulf

Posted by helen - Wednesday 5/26/10

The most frightening thing this President said was how this oil spill will slowly kill those in the area. Full Story »

RT News: Madsen talks about NSA spying on all American’s via the web, email, twitter and more

Posted by helen - Tuesday 5/25/10

Privacy be damned! When are American’s going to realize and accept the fact that the three branches of the federal government are absolutely out of control? Erosion of American’s privacy started under Bush and continues unabated under the Obama regime. Is what Madsen talks about in this video really okay with you? Full Story »

Ch, ch, ch, changes – Blair & Cameron’s ventriloquist is very good.

Posted by helen - Monday 5/24/10

This video reminds me of some other candidate, hhhmmmm, who was that, thinking, aha, Obama and DuVall. I can’t help but wonder if Axelrod and company played a role as a consultant on Cameron’s campaign. Full Story »

Roubini interviewed today on CNBC

Posted by helen - Friday 5/21/10


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The Rachel Corrie sets sail on May 14, 2010 to deliver materials to the Palestinians

Posted by helen - Friday 5/21/10

As a proud Irish Woman, I salute and stand with my brothers and sisters abroad who organized the Gazan Freedom Flotilla. Godspeed and stay safe. The Egypt and Israeli governments should be made to feel ashamed by entire world for the cowardice act of  genocide toward the Palestinian people.  You’re policy is doing a helluva job creating future enemies to your states. Something happens to the mind and soul when children witness intentional and deliberate starvation, death, no water and electricity for three long years. You get what you ask for. Peace. Full Story »

I want my country back! Prof. Russ Roberts Testifies Before House Oversight Committee!

Posted by helen - Wednesday 5/19/10

Thank you, Professor Roberts, you certainly speak for me. Full Story »

h/t RBO: PolitiZoid – Money for Nothing

Posted by helen - Wednesday 5/19/10

Mark Knockoffler sings the ObamaCare blues with his band Dem Strait. Turn the collar up on your iZod and rock out like it’s 1985. Full Story »

Quick ten-minute history of the Rothschild’s and the Federal Reserve

Posted by helen - Tuesday 5/18/10

This is one of the most informative video’s I’ve seen yet on the Rothschild’s Banking empire and their influence on America’s financial well being. Brings us back to the very beginning of our American roots. Sincerely, I hope you’ll take the time to watch it and learn. Full Story »

Rising CO2 levels threaten crops and food quality in the most amazing way

Posted by helen - Saturday 5/15/10

Rising CO2 levels threaten crops and food quality -- UC Davis Press Release Full Story »

BP releases film footage of oil gusher

Posted by helen - Friday 5/14/10

Full Story »

Pastor Manning, May 13, 2010, WE THE PEOPLE

Posted by helen - Thursday 5/13/10

See Opinion section to read “What the World Needs Now is Love Sweet Love” a tribute to Pastor Manning and the entire Atlah community. Full Story »

Overhead visual of Gulf Spill filmed by Creekkeepers

Posted by helen - Wednesday 5/12/10

This is stunning video footage of the spill and to have it narrated by a professional environmentalist from Creekkeepers adds depth to this enormous tragedy. Full Story »

Retired Major General Albert Stubblebine – Head of ALL American Intelligence says 911 was a fraud.

Posted by helen - Monday 5/10/10

Will you believe a Major General? If not, who then? Full Story »

Hay, Farmer’s demonstrate how Hay can clean up oil in Gulf – BP, farmers are your heroes!

Posted by helen - Friday 5/7/10

This demonstration has to go viral. Found it over at GodLikeProductions who got it from Canada Free Press. Between Hay and Dawn, we just might be able to save our shores and wildlife. If you don’t believe me, watch it! Full Story »

30 Little Known Facts About America

Posted by helen - Thursday 5/6/10

See Opinion Archives for posts offering educational background on several of these 30 items. Full Story »

RT – Update on Greek Debt and riots

Posted by helen - Wednesday 5/5/10

Full Story »

A Nation’s Silence of Mass Genocide

Posted by helen - Friday 4/30/10

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300 Members of US Congress Commit Treason

Posted by helen - Monday 4/26/10

I wonder what members of Virginia’s Congressional delegation signed this letter? Any of you want to fess up? Especially since no one can get their hands on the letter with the 300 Congressional signatures on it. Nope. We’ve just been told they signed it. The T-Room patrons would love to see the letter to learn if their Congressional leaders signed the letter thereby committing treason. Just post it here. Full Story »

Pastor Manning mentions Patrice Lumumba on 4/22/10 show

Posted by helen - Saturday 4/24/10

Who is Patrice Lumumba? Full Story »

MSNBC: Dylan Ratigan blows the Goldman Sachs Fraud WIDE OPEN

Posted by helen - Sunday 4/18/10

This is Part 1 of his show last week. It is a must see if you want to know how the bankers stole your savings, pensions and so much more. Full Story »

AUDIT THE FED – BANNER BOMB

Posted by helen - Thursday 4/15/10

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JFK’s Speech Before the National Press Club on the Danger of Secret Societies

Posted by helen - Wednesday 4/14/10

As a former Democrat, John F. Kennedy is one of my most admired President’s. I can remember the day he was murdered in Texas. My parents kept telling me to go to bed, I was all of four years old then, but I snuck back down the stairs to listen to the news events that transpired on that most fateful day. JFK was telling us then that their were Secret Societies on our college campuses that maintained the bloodline of the privileged class. Listen to his words if you don’t believe me. They are most profound and telling. Full Story »

Tarpley on the Men Behind President Barack H. Obama

Posted by helen - Wednesday 4/14/10

Those men would be Rockefeller, Soros, Rothschild, Brzezinski to name a few. Webster Tarpley discusses Obama’s role to start WWIII so his puppet masters can depopulate and make a lot of money. Watch the short youtube. It’s worth your time. Full Story »

Poland’s President and Cabinet who may have survived were murdered by gunmen

Posted by helen - Tuesday 4/13/10

Following the plane crash of Poland’s President and his cabinet, a brave videographer went in to film immediate wreckage. You can clearly hear gunshots in the background. These bastards murdered the survivors of the wreckage. Please watch this video before it’s scrubbed. OMG!!! I heard the gunshots. Very clear on the video’s recording. Full Story »

Fox Producer, Jesse Watters, catches up with Gore – ruh roh …

Posted by helen - Tuesday 4/13/10

Ouch! Fox Produce Jesse Waters asks the BIG Question – do you stand to make money on cap and trade. Yawooza!!! Full Story »

MSNBC: Dylan Ratigan – The Great Con – Federal Reserve

Posted by helen - Friday 4/9/10

Wow! Dylan Ratigan is telling American public the truth about the Federal Reserve. Unbelievable! See the Opinion Section to learn precisely how these con artists stole our money. You’re in for a real eye opener. Full Story »

h/t The South: Two kinds of laws – one few know anything about

Posted by helen - Thursday 4/8/10

Ahhhh, refreshing, the truth. Two sets of laws, eh. One for you and me and one for the Federal Reserve CORPORATE CABAL. I don’t say! Full Story »

h/t Kim – T Room blogger greets the Tea Party Express

Posted by helen - Thursday 4/8/10

Go Kim! Love Marcus and his music. Looks like all you extremists were peaceful and happy. Shame on you! Where’s your gun? LOL. Full Story »

Vortho’s Forum – PSA – Black Genocide

Posted by helen - Wednesday 4/7/10

Watch this short clip and then head over to the documentary posted at Maafa 21. You’ll never look at Planned Parenthood in the same light again. Full Story »

RT News: Webster Tarpley – China Confronts the US over Iran Sanctions

Posted by helen - Monday 4/5/10

The T-Room will be keeping an eye on this situation and will provide updates as we learn them. Full Story »

h/t Prairie – What the hell, this was in 1958!!!!

Posted by helen - Saturday 4/3/10

Enough of your petty excuses! The T-Room could give a aats rass! We only want to inform you of the truth and what in the hell we can do to turn back the tide. Wake Up people! This guy was telling us the truth in 1958!!! Geddit! 1958!!!! Full Story »

Sabato disagrees w/Judge Napolitano & Walter E. Williams about 2010 Census

Posted by helen - Monday 3/29/10

“I think it’s more intense than I’ve seen it before,” Sabato said of concerns about the census. “People are deeply skeptical and cynical. I don’t think there’s any justification for being skeptical or cynical, and it’s the law” to provide all information requested for the census.”

Everyone not falling for in line for 2010 Census

Sage advice from two U.S. Constitutional attorneys about the US Census that recently arrived in your mail. Full Story »

What racial slur? Watch the video for yourself. I hear nothing but Kill the Bill!

Posted by helen - Wednesday 3/24/10

Why are certain members of the Black Caucus stirring up racial disharmony? Tea Partiers aren’t racist. They are activists, constitutionalists, patriots, the elderly, middle class, black, white, young and old. Why are Democrat’s so afraid of us? Full Story »

Congressman Stupak said back in November 2009 he’d vote for healthcare

Posted by helen - Tuesday 3/23/10

No matter what the outcome was on abortion funding. Wow! Did he ever play American’s. Full Story »

EXCLUSIVE ABC: Plouffe and Rove Battle it out over healthcare reform

Posted by helen - Sunday 3/21/10

Let’s see one evades and hurls ridicule, been there done that, while the other attempts to raise awareness about the facts. I think I’ll go with the guy raising the facts, for once, I actually agree with him. Full Story »

Fox: Census Answers, Judge Napolitano and Prof Walter Williams inform you of your rights under the US Constitution

Posted by helen - Sunday 3/21/10

Sage advice from two U.S. Constitutional attorneys about the US Census that recently arrived in your mail. Full Story »