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U.S.
Army ‘Kill Team’ in Afghanistan Posed for ‘Trophy’ Photos with Murdered
Civilians
Senior officials at Nato’s
International Security Assistance Force in Kabul have compared the
pictures published by the German news weekly Der
Spiegel to the images of US soldiers abusing prisoners in Abu Ghraib in Iraq which sparked waves of anti-US
protests around the world.
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Radioactive
iodine at 126.7 times allowed limit in sea samples
Global anxiety rose over radiation from Japan’s
earthquake-damaged nuclear plant even as engineers had some success in
the battle to avert disaster from the world’s worst atomic crisis since
Chernobyl.
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Libya:
NATO's African War: The Role of US Africa Command (AFRICOM)
Following similar developments in neighboring
Tunisia and Egypt, anti-government protests began in Libya on February
15. On March 19 the U.S., France and Britain delivered air and cruise
missile attacks against targets in Libya: 112 Tomahawk missile strikes
from U.S. and British submarines and warships in the Mediterranean Sea
and attacks by French warplanes on what were identified as government
military vehicles on the ground.
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BP set to begin oil
drilling off Libya
It also follows claims, denied by BP, that it lobbied
for Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi's release.
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PIMCO Buys Government Debt Outside the U.S., Citing
Inflation
PIMCO, the
world's biggest bond fund, who recently announced it was dumping their U.S.
Treasury holdings, now says it is buying foreign debt in 'Rising
Star' nations. Stating that the "pipeline of inflation is
starting to hit globally," PIMCO said
emerging markets can best weather the inflation storm.
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Supreme
Court Rules The Fed Has 5 Days to Release Records to Bloomberg
In a crushing blow against the Fed and the banks that
own it, in this case represented by the Clearing House Association, the
Supreme Court rejected an industry appeal set forth by the CHA, that
sought to keep critical bailout data from going public. The lawsuit was
originally started by the great and late Mark Pittman, who tragically
passed away around Thanksgiving 2009: we are confident we would be
delighted to learn that his unprecedented act of suing the Fed in order
to generate more transparency has finally succeeded.
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Shaken:
10 Economic Disasters Which Threaten To Rip World Financial Markets To
Shreds
2011 has already been the most memorable year in ages
and we haven’t even reached April yet. Revolutions have swept the
Middle East, an unprecedented earthquake and tsunami have hit Japan,
civil war has erupted in Libya, the price of oil has been soaring and the
entire globe is teetering on the brink of economic collapse. It
seems like almost everything that can be shaken is being shaken.
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Neo-Cons
Applaud Obama’s War, Call For Occupation Of Libya
Kristol and
McCain brazenly admit “humanitarian mission” in Libya is about
neo-colonial regime change
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Libyan War:
Globalists Bluffing their way to Victory
In a war the globalists dared not even debate
domestically amongst their bankrupt, imploding societies, they are now
oafishly extending their litany
of verifiable lies, and unverified accusations over the combat phase
of their meddling in Libya.
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Japan:
Food Contamination Worse Than Previously Thought
The World Health Organization said on Monday that the
detection of radiation in food after an earthquake damaged a Japanese
nuclear plant was a more serious problem than it had first expected.
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Obama Budget to
Produce $9.5 Trillion Deficit
The estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget
Office says that if Obama's February budget submission is enacted into
law it would produce deficits totaling $9.5
trillion over 10 years — an average of almost $1 trillion a year.
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Arab League
criticizes allied airstrikes on Libya
The head of the Arab League has criticized
international strikes on Libya, saying they caused civilian deaths.
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As
U.S. Regime Fights Three Wars, Obama Pushes F-18 Fighter Jets on Brazil
"The F-18 issue did come up. President Rousseff raised it," White House aide Dan Restrepo told reporters in Rio de Janeiro, referring
to the leaders' bilateral meeting in Brasilia on Saturday that kicked off
Obama's five-day Latin American tour.
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A
democratic Mediterranean emerging from the maelstrom
A new Mediterranean union could be a framework for a
new moral vibrancy, informed by the same universal values that mobilised
the young in Tunisia, Egypt, and beyond – freedom, individual
responsibility and accountability, transparency, tolerance, solidarity
with the weak and oppressed, justice, gender equality, and other
fundamental human and democratic rights.
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Why California
should quit the 'dollar zone'
If it makes sense, as Paul Krugman
and others argue, for Greece to ditch the euro, then Jerry Brown should
think about it
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India found EU ‘intrusive
and preachy'
CHENNAI: In private, New Delhi looks down its nose at
the ability of its largest trading partner, the European Union, to coordinate
on policy and conduct effective diplomacy, classified U.S. Embassy cables
charting the progress of the strategic partnership, and accessed by The
Hindu through WikiLeaks, shows. The cables,
sent between 2004 and 2008 ( 22519, 40254, 82606, 130916, 171651: all
confidential) showed reservations among policymakers at the level of the
Ministry of External Affairs and in intellectual circles about
cooperating on a strategy beyond economics. Instead, New Delhi preferred
to negotiate with the big countries of Europe separately
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Yemen's
president declares state of emergency following bloodbath
Tens of thousands of anti-government demonstrators
continued to gather in Taghyeer Square in
Sana'a on Saturday, a day after President Ali Abdullah Saleh announced a nationwide state of emergency. This
followed the bloodiest outbreak of violence since anti-government
protests began.
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Burma
Psychological Warfare unit to launch newspaper
The Burmese regime’s psychological warfare department
is soon to launch a daily newspaper in what one analyst said could be a
move to counter the growing influence of the internet. The launch of The Myawaddy, which will be headquartered in Naypyidaw, brings to four the number of state-run
daily newspapers in Burma, all of which act as mouthpieces for the ruling
junta. Political analyst Aung Naing Oo told DVB that the move was yet another attempt by the
junta to counter the flow of independent media in Burma that has spread
as more Burmese log on to the internet.
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China
Expresses Regret over Allied Strike on Libya
China has registered disapproval over Operation Odyssey
Dawn, the military action launched by the U.S. and its European allies
against targets in Libya:
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3 Ways To
Protect Yourself From Radiation NATURALLY
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Obama
Starts Another Illegal War, Rangel Calls For Draft
What balls! What hubris! What hypocrisy! What happened
to America?
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Attempts
to Replace Confetti Currency Federal Reserve Notes with Precious Metals
Are, ‘A Unique Form of Domestic Terrorism’
The case was investigated by the FBI, Buncombe County
Sheriff’s Department, and the U.S. Secret Service, in cooperation with
and invaluable assistance of the United States Mint. The case was
prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Jill Westmoreland Rose and
Craig D. Randall, and the forfeiture trial is being prosecuted by
Assistant United States Attorneys Tom Ascik and
Ben Bain Creed.
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WAR NO. 3: US FIRES MISSILES INTO LIBYA
MARCH 19, 2011
OBAMA: 'Today we are part of a broad coalition. We are answering the
calls of a threatened people. And we are acting in the interests of the
United States and the world'...
MARCH 19, 2003
BUSH: 'American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military
operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world
from grave danger'...
Wires: U.S., allies
launch broadest international military effort since Iraq war...
Fire
112 Tomahawk missiles into Tripoli, Misrata...
LIVE:
'Operation Odyssey Dawn'...
Gadhafi to defend against 'colonial,
crusader' aggression...
Pledges
long war...
Deploys
human shield at compound...
REPORT:
Libya to arm 1 million people...
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Governments
Have Been Covering Up Nuclear Meltdowns for Fifty Years to Protect the
Nuclear Power Industry
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Food,
water now radioactive in Japan; sales halted while governments play the
radiation doublespeak game
As the situation in Fukushima continues to deteriorate,
radiation levels keep rising. Now the food and water near (and inside)
Tokyo is becoming irradiated. Reuters reports that the water in Tokyo
is now contaminated with radioactive iodine (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011…
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Oil Spill Near Deepwater Drilling Site in Gulf
The
Coast Guard is investigating reports of a potentially large oil
slick in the Gulf of Mexico not far from the Deepwater Horizon site.
According to a knowledgeable source, the slick was sighted by a
helicopter pilot on Friday and is about 100 miles long. A fishing boat
captain said he went through the slick yesterday and it was strong enough
to make his eyes burn.
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Bush bombed Iraq 19 March 2003, Obama bombed Libya 19
March 2011: Change we can believe in
Pentagon:
112 cruise missiles launched from US and UK ships and subs, hitting 20
sites
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Anonymous Indicates Widespread Insurance Fraud; Bank
Of America Owns A Force Placed Insurance Subsidiary; Other Banks Earn
Commissions
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US, Coalition Attack Libya Air-Defense
Systems With 'Operation Odyssey
President
Barack Obama said he’s authorized
U.S. armed forces to begin “limited” operations to enforce a no-fly zone
over Libya, as U.S. and coalition ships and aircraft hit the North African
nation’s air defenses.
U.S. Launches Cruise Missiles Against Qaddafi's Air Defenses
US begins assault against Libyan air defenses:
The Pentagon says U.S. and British ships and submarines have launched the
first phase of a missile assault on Libyan air defenses,
firing 112 Tomahawk cruise missiles at more than 20 targets along the
coast.
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Buffett banks another $3.7 billion from Goldman Sachs
investment in the depths of economic crisis
Warren
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A) has
made about $3.7 billion, including paper profits, from its $5 billion
investment in Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) at the depths of the
financial crisis in 2008.
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French warplanes strike against Gaddafi
Rebels Shoot Down Own Plane...
LIBYAN TANKS TARGETED...
20 Warplanes Take to Skies, Open Fire...
US forces not involved 'at this point'...
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World War III: One Nation at a Time
Look past the puppets and above
the globalists' stage.
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US sending more warships to Mediterranean
The USS Bataan, a
helicopter-carrying amphibious assault ship, and two other vessels were
deployed ahead of schedule, the navy said after the UN Security Council
approved action to stop Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's offensive against rebels.
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Debt Problem: Who In The World Is Going To Buy The
Billions Of Dollars Of Debt The U.S. Government Is Constantly Pumping Out
Now?
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Bernard von NotHaus 'Liberty
Dollar' Founder Convicted On Federal Charges
Liberty
Dollar founder Bernard von NotHaus was
convicted today on federal charges in Statesville. The case has local
implications, because Asheville Liberty Dollar head Kevin Innes also
faces trial. Innes has asserted that he is innocent of any wrongdoing,
and sought local support.
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US Cost of Living Hits Record, Passing Pre-Crisis High
One
would think that after the worst financial crisis since the Great
Depression, Americans could at least catch a break for a while with
deflationary forces keeping the cost of living relatively low. That’s not
the case.
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Japan earthquake: Radiation found in food near nuclear
plant
Radiation
in milk and spinach has been found to exceed safe levels near the
stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
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Operation Ellamy: Designed
to strike Libya from air and sea
The
extent to which Britain's military is to be drawn into another conflict
was a matter of heated debate last night as jets were being deployed to
the Mediterranean in preparation for possible air strikes
against the Libyan regime.
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Nigel Farage Blasts Eurocouncil President Van Rompuy
For Cozying With Gaddafi As Recently As December
That
our politicians are unbearable hypocrites without borders is no secret.
After all, Gaddafi himself was among Europe's best arms clients for a
long time having to recycle billions of petrodollars into something
tangible.
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Michigan passes 'financial martial law' bill
It
gives emergency financial managers broad authority to end employee union
contracts, and to nullify elected boards and councils
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Pakistan’s Musharraf: U.K.
never told me not to torture
Former
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf
said he believes Britain gave Pakistan “tacit approval” of its
interrogation techniques on terror suspects.
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Worried Californians Purchase Gas Masks and Chemical
Suits
The owner
of a military supply company in Maine says he’s been inundated with
orders from people in California buying gas masks and chemical suits.
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Announcement: Comments Section Now Added To BLN
After
much debate, and many requests, we have decided to see how it works out.
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'Radiation is good for you,' says Ann Coulter as she
weighs in on Japan's nuclear crisis
The Media Side Show Continues....
And so does the tragedy pimping...
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Egypt Arming Libyan Rebels
After the corporate owned
media's failed attempt in February 2011 to portray the Libyan unrest as
"unarmed protesters" being brutalized by Qaddafi, reports
began trickling in of what was actually a full-scale rebellion with weapons
coming across the border from Egypt. These
reports are now confirmed, as large scale operations to supply the rebels
with weapons have now been admitted by both the US and Egyptian
governments.
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Did Scientists Use Secret Tesla Tech to Make Rain in
the Desert?
It was
rainy in the Middle East last summer. Like, super rainy, which is unusual
for a desert. A company called Meteo Systems is
boasting that they caused all that rain, using a secret weather control
system based on technology first developed by Nikola Tesla in 1890.
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Narco-capitalism grips North Korea
In early March, the United
States State Department made a statement that attracted surprisingly
little attention worldwide, estimating that government-sponsored narcotic
production in North Korea seemed to have decreased considerably. At the
same time, the statement made clear that the private production of drugs
was on the rise.
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Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social
media
The US
military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate
social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet
conversations and spread pro-American propaganda. A Californian
corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central
Command (Centcom), which oversees US armed
operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, to develop what is
described as an "online persona management service" that will
allow one US serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities
based all over the world.
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Libya To Halt All Military Action, Announces Immediate
Ceasefire
Libya announces it accepts the UN resolution,
encourages opening of all dialogue with all sides, according to Libyan
Foreign Minister. Also, the country has agreed to an immediate ceasefire.
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US Cost of Living Hits Record, Passing Pre-Crisis High
One
would think that after the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression,
Americans could at least catch a break for a while with deflationary
forces keeping the cost of living relatively low. That’s not the case.
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Debt Problem: Who In The World Is Going To Buy The
Billions Of Dollars Of Debt The U.S. Government Is Constantly Pumping Out
Now?
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G-7 Sells Yen in First Joint Intervention in More Than
Decade
The
Group of Seven will jointly intervene in the foreign exchange market for
the first time in more than a decade after Japan’s currency soared,
threatening its recovery from the March 11 earthquake.
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Saving Money? Not In This Economy – 22 Facts That
Prove Middle Class Families Are Being Savagely Crushed
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War with Libya: Globalist crimes against humanity
expanded over Libya
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UN OKs Libya airstrikes, no-fly zone
The U.N. Security Council
authorized a no-fly zone over Libya and called for Arab states and others
to use "all necessary measures" to protect civilians from
attacks by Moammar Gadhafi's
forces.
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US Fleet Commander Met Head of Bahrain Defense Forces Before Crackdown; Opposition Leaders
Arrested
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Tokyo Passengers Trigger U.S. Airport Detectors, N.Y.
Post Says
Radiation
detectors at Dallas-Fort Worth and Chicago O’Hare airports were triggered
when passengers from flights that started in Tokyo passed through
customs, the New York Post reported.
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Jury Nullification Activist Can't Get Arrested in Orlando
Feisty
jury nullification activist Julian Heicklen, a
79-year-old former chemistry professor, is facing federal charges of jury
tampering up in New York for the act of handing out pamphlets advocating
the power and responsibility of juries to judge the law as well as the
facts (that is, to acquit if they think a law is unjust even if they
think a defendent violated that law). But his
attempts to get arrested again for violating Judge Belvin
Perry's ban on nullification pamphleteering near his courthouse in Orlando have so far failed. He's violated the order,
but no one's arrested him.
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Roubini Calls for IMF-Led "Marshal Plan" for
Mideast, I Say Nonsense
In an
interview posted on Al Jazeera, Nouriel Roubini Calls for
"Marshal Plan" for Mideast. Please consider Global stakes of
Mideast turmoil We don’t know yet whether political contagion in the
Middle East will spread to other countries. The turmoil may yet be
contained and recede, sending oil prices back to lower levels. But there
is a serious chance that the uprisings will spread, destabilizing
Bahrain, Algeria, Oman, Jordan, Yemen, and eventually even Saudi Arabia.
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RIP Shadow Banking System - Long Live QEx
We have unwittingly
become trapped in the snarled net of years of bad Public Policy. Like
corporations that look no further than this quarter's results, our
politicos never stop campaigning to start the tough task of ruling responsibly.
A winning election simply represents 'rewards' and 'spoils' to all before
quickly resuming the next campaign. Image has become reality! As a result
the never ending political pandering has led to false expectations,
undeliverable entitlements and false optimism in the electorate that
rejects the immediate and obvious realities.
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U.S.-trained forces arrested in bloody slaying of kids
Two
members of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud
Abbas' official security forces were arrested
in conjunction with this past weekend's bloody massacre in which five
family members were brutally stabbed to death inside their home in the
Jewish village of Itamar, WND
has learned.
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US Starts Evacuating Some Americans out of Japan
The
Obama administration has authorized the first evacuations of Americans
out of Japan, and said it will charter aircraft to help U.S. citizens
wishing to escape elevated radiation levels in the country.
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Bahrain: U.S. Backs Saudi Military Intervention,
Conflict With Iran
On
March 14 Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Cooperation Council partner the United
Arab Emirates deployed 1,000 troops, 500 security personnel and armored troop carriers across the 25-mile King Fahd
Causeway to Bahrain to shore up their fellow monarchy after a month of
protests against the Al Khalifa dynasty.
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Tokyo Exodus Part 3: ATM Shutdowns, Power Outages Put
Citizens On Edge, Gold Hoarded In Evacuation Preparations
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Western Response to Japan:The
real crime against humanity
Western
Response to Japan
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Let The Bombing Commence: UN Set To Impose “No Fly
Zone” Over Libya
The
endgame in Libya begins. The UN has agreed on a draft resolution to
implement a no fly zone over Libya, which means the bombing may commence
as soon as the vote passes later today.
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Nasa to shoot lasers at space junk around Earth to prevent
collisions with satellites
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Forecast for Plume's Path Is a Function of Wind and
Weather
A forecast by the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban
Treaty Organization shows how weather patterns this week might disperse
radiation from a continuous source in Fukushima, Japan.
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Steepest Rise in Food Prices in 36 Years
Wholesale prices
jumped last month by the most in nearly two years due to higher energy
costs and the steepest rise in food prices in 36 years. Excluding those
volatile categories, inflation was tame.
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‘Blood Money’ Frees CIA Contractor in Pakistan
An
American CIA contractor detained on suspicion of murder was released on
Wednesday after families of the two Pakistanis he killed were given
“blood money” and the case was dropped, Pakistani officials said.
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Foreign bankers flee Tokyo as nuclear crisis deepens
Foreign
bankers are fleeing Tokyo as Japan's nuclear crisis worsens, scrambling
for commercial and charter flights out of the country and into other
major cities in the region.
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Fukushima: Mark 1 Nuclear Reactor Design Caused GE
Scientist To Quit In Protest
"The
problems we identified in 1975 were that, in doing the design of the
containment, they did not take into account the dynamic loads that could
be experienced with a loss of coolant," Bridenbaugh
told ABC News in an interview. "The impact loads the containment
would receive by this very rapid release of energy could tear the
containment apart and create an uncontrolled release."
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Egypt's ElBaradei: Con-man
in Chief?
Globalist stooge ElBaradei is prying his way into the presidency.
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Panicked residents start to flee Tokyo as radiation
levels rise after THIRD blast at stricken nuclear power plant
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White House wants new copyright law crackdown
The
White House today proposed sweeping revisions to U.S. copyright law,
including making "illegal streaming" of audio or video a
federal felony and allowing FBI agents to wiretap suspected infringers.
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Logical Assessment of Japan’s Nuke Disaster – FAQ
There has been a lot of speculation about Japan’s
ongoing, and ever widening Nuclear Reactor Disaster. Maybe to put your
mind at ease, or to give some hope for those who might be effected by
this event… We have put together some best and worst case scenarios, and
in doing so hope to answer questions that the Media has either forgotten
to address, or is outright avoiding.
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New York Stock Exchange Invokes Rule To Speed Market's
Open
NYSE Euronext (NYX) invoked
"Rule 48" for its New York Stock Exchange and NYSE Amex cash
markets half an hour before the market's open on Tuesday as the specter of a nuclear power crisis in Japan and
heightened radiation risks sent global markets plunging. Dow Jones
Industrial Average futures recently were down 227 points at 11699 in
premarket trading.
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Japan Has History of Nuclear Cover-ups
A documentary filmmaker who has spent much of his
career focusing on the Japanese nuclear industry says it has a long
history of cover-ups.
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Japan jolted by new earthquakes as fears of radiation
exposure take hold
Earthquakes of magnitude 6.1 and 6.2 strike areas
south of Tokyo. As Japan holds it breath over radiation leaks at the
Fukushima nuclear complex, the latest quakes raise fears about another
nuclear facility. But the International Atomic Energy Agency says the Hamaoka plant is operating normally.
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Expanding U.S.-Mexico Economic and Security
Cooperation
There
were growing concerns over drug violence prior to the recent U.S.-Mexico
summit, along with other issues which have been a source of friction
between the two countries. Despite any perceived tension, both leaders
showcased their bilateral partnership and vowed to enhance collaboration.
They focused on immigration, along with economic issues and took steps to
end the long-standing dispute over cross-border trucking. The leaders
also agreed to further deepen their cooperation in combating drug
cartels.
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Chip Prices Jump; Global Manufacturing Chain Disrupted
Prices
for key technology components extended gains on Tuesday, as damage at
Japanese plants and infrastructure caused by Friday’s devastating
earthquake and tsunami threatens to disrupt the global manufacturing
chain longer than many had expected.
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Nuclear Disaster ‘Will Have Political Impact as Great
as 9/11′
The
nuclear disaster in Fukushima makes it hard to ignore the vulnurabilities of the technology. It could spell the
end of nuclear power, German commentators argue on Monday. The government
in Berlin may now cave in to mounting pressure to suspend its 12-year
extension of reactor lifetimes, they say.
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Japan's radiation nightmare: Third explosion at
nuclear plant raises cancer fears as 140,000 told 'seal yourself indoors'
There was growing panic in Japan today as a massive
explosion and a fire at a nuclear power station destroyed by the tsunami
spewed radiation into the atmosphere.
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Plan for martial law in Bahrain
A parliament group has asked
Bahrain's king to impose martial law after a month of unrest which has
left the tiny Gulf nation sharply divided between minority Sunni Muslims
backing the ruling system and Shiites demanding sweeping changes.
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Market Meltdown Nikkei Plummets
Asian shares tumbled Tuesday as
Tokyo's stock benchmark plunged 11% on panic selling amid worries that a
possible nuclear catastrophe in Japan would further complicate and
endanger the nation's recovery from its worst earthquake on record.
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Michigan bill would impose financial martial law
Michigan
lawmakers are on the verge of approving a bill that would enable the
governor to appoint "emergency managers" -- officials with
unilateral power to make sweeping changes to cities facing financial
troubles.
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TSA Cooked The Books For Years On Costs, Federal Vs
Private Screening
The
U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)
released a letter to Transportation Committee Chairman John L. Mica
(R-FL) that confirms the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has used faulty data and withheld information
when evaluating and comparing the costs of the all-federal screening
model and an alternative federal-private screening program.
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Japan's nightmare gets even WORSE: All THREE damaged
nuclear reactors now in 'meltdown' at tsunami-hit power station
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BofA Leak Exposes Possible Force-Placed Insurance Fraud
OperationLeakS has now released the first
batch of Bank of America fraud documents. What has been
disseminated so far consists mostly of emails between the hacker group
Anonymous and a former employee at Balboa Insurance Co. which was
acquired by BofA with their acquisition of
Countrywide.
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US Fed to meet as global crises loom large
The
Federal Reserve's top policymakers meet Tuesday with an upbeat US
economic outlook clouded by a devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan
and unrest in the Middle East.
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Carbon tax protesters gather in Victoria of Australia
A
carbon tax battle has extended from political field onto the streets of
Melbourne, Australia on Saturday. On Saturday, 400 protesters gathered with
Liberal Victorian senators Mitch Fifield and
Scott Ryan to protest against the price on carbon outside Prime Minister
Julia Gillard's electorate office in Werribee,
Victoria.
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Is Azerbaijan Ready For Its Own Revolution?
Inspired
by last month's Egyptian uprising, young activists in Azerbaijan were
calling for antigovernment demonstrations today -- and using Facebook to spread the word. Originally planned as a
"virtual protest," in which supporters could express their
solidarity with a simple click of the mouse, the March 11 movement has
since morphed into calls for a flesh-and-blood demonstration of growing
disenchantment with the country's autocratic regime. It is a move that
has rattled Baku.
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The Latest In Eco-Funerals: Terminator-Style Nitrogen
Shattering
A
Swedish company wants to make burials more eco-friendly, and they're
doing it by freezing dead people in liquid nitrogen, shattering them into
dust with focused sound waves, and then sucking all the leftover moisture
out with a vacuum.
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Saudi Arabia Prepares To Enter Bahrain
And just when oil was tapering
off on hopes that the Middle East supply situation may actually
normalize, we get this from The Guardian: “Saudi forces are preparing to
intervene in neighbouring Bahrain,”
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Hackers Just Released What They Say Is A Damning Trove
Of Emails About Bank Of America And Its Mortgage Practice
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Update: Make That 15 Trillion; BOJ Raises Liquidity
Injection To JPY12 Trillion ($146 Billion)
We have
since learned that the extra 3 trillion will be use to buy government
bonds. Hello QE, my old friend.
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Nuclear Plant Designer: Japanese Government
Suppressing Scale Of Crisis
A
former nuclear power plant designer has said Japan is facing an extremely
grave crisis and called on the government to release more information,
which he said was being suppressed. Masashi Goto
told a news conference in Tokyo that one of the reactors at the
Fukushima-Daiichi plant was “highly unstable”, and that if there was a
meltdown the “consequences would be tremendous”. He said such an event
might be very likely indeed. So far, the government has said a meltdown would
not lead to a sizeable leak of radioactive materials.
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Japan Earthquake: before and after
Aerial photos taken over Japan have revealed the
scale of devastation across dozens of suburbs and tens of thousands of
homes and businesses.
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Gordon Brown’s Government arranged a meeting with
Prince Andrew’s convicted pedophile friend Jeffrey Epstein
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Derry Brownfield Dies
Derry first entered the world of broadcasting
when he and a friend established the Brownfield Network in 1972. In 1994
he established his own radio show, the Derry Brownfield Show. In 1997 Learfield Communications purchased the Brownfield
Network but Derry remained on the air until 2008 when a dispute with
major advertiser Monsanto resulted in cancelation of his show. Never
one to give up, Derry continued broadcasting his show via webcast.
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