Plutonium (The Deadliest Substance On The Planet) Detected In Fish Samples 54 Km From Fukushima Nuclear Plant

Plutonium measured from marine products fished offshore Fukushima (Fukushima Diary, June 26, 2012):

Plutonium 239+240 were measured from fish samples taken on 6/21/2011. They were preserved being frozen. Analysis was done by National institute of radiological sciences. Data about Plutonium 238 and 241 are not published.

They fished the fish offshore Onahama port, where is about 54km from Fukushima plants. (120 ~ 300m deep under sea.)

Because none of the other nuclides exceed the safety limit of food, they were probably distributed to the markets.

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Fukushima Reactor No. 4 Foundation So Soft It Needs Soil Stabilization – [LIVE] Tepco Removing Upper Part Of Reactor No. 4

Reactor4 foundation is so soft that they need soil stabilization (Fukushima Diary, June 26, 2012)

[LIVE] Tepco is removing the upper part of reactor4 (Fukushima Diary, June 25, 2012):

I recommend people in Tokyo to wear mask. The wind is blowing toward Tokyo.[LINK]

Japan Reactor Building Is Tilting But Not a Risk, Says (Lying Scum) TEPCO

See also:

Japan Government To Start Fukushima Reactor No. 4 SFP Fuel Rod Removal This Year (A Year Ahead Of Schedule), Cites Buckling Building And Earthquake Concerns To Be Behind Change

New TEPCO Report Admits Fukushima Reactor No. 4 Suffered One Explosion And 2 Fires In March 2011

Fukushima Residents Blast TEPCO Nuke Disaster Report: Mayor: ‘This Report Is Not Just Sloppy In Content — It Includes Falsified Information’ – Official: ‘We Still Don’t Know What Happened In The Cores Of The No. 1, 2 And 3 Reactors’

Fukushima Plant Faces Typhoon Summer With Added Tornado Threat – Nuclear Expert Prof. Kazuhiko Kudo: ‘Reactor No. 3 And No. 4 SFP’s Are Currently Naked’

More info on reactor No. 4 SFP down below.


Japan Reactor Building Is Tilting but Not a Risk, Operator Says (New York Times, June 26, 2012):

TOKYO — A heavily damaged reactor building at the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has a slight tilt, but the tilt does not pose a risk to the integrity of the building, according to the plant’s operator.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company, or Tepco, said in a report on Monday to Japanese nuclear regulators that at least two of the walls of the No. 4 reactor building are bulging outward at various points and that the building is tilting. The biggest bulge measured about 1.8 inches about a third of the way up the building, the report said.

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Meet The New Greek Finance Minister

Meet The New Greek Finance Minister (ZeroHedge, June 26, 2012):

Since the last Greek FinMin came and went before anyone could even learn how many syllables are in his last name, here is an advance peek at the man who is tasked with the world’s worst transitory job imaginable: that of being the new Greek finance minister. His complete profile below is courtesy of Athens News. Feel free not to learn it by heart: something tells us when he too sees the inside of the Greek finance ministry he too may developed a mysterious illness and be promptly “replaced.”

As a reminder, behold the interior of the Greek finance ministry:

In the meantime, enter Yannis Stournaras… however briefly.
Economist Yannis Stournaras, 55, will be the country’s next finance minister.

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Stockton To File For Bankruptcy, Will Be Largest U.S. City To Fail

Stockton to file for bankruptcy, will be largest U.S. city to fail (Los Angeles Times, June 26, 2012):

STOCKTON — This Gold Rush-era port city, an epicenter of California’s agricultural exports, will become the nation’s largest city to seek protection under the U.S. bankruptcy code after its City Council on Tuesday stopped bond payments, slashed employee health and retirement benefits and adopted a day-to-day survival budget.

City Manager Bob Deis likened the process to cutting off an arm to save the body. He is expected to file bankruptcy papers immediately.

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Must See: Greece Explained In One Picture (Taken At The Ministry of Finance)

Must See: Greece Explained In One Picture (ZeroHedge, June 14, 2012):

We were going to do a caption contest out of this image, but unfortunately this is not funny. It is tragic. Many people will lose all their money, savings, livelihood, and more because of this…

What is it? It is a picture taken at the Athens ministry of finance.

It is part of a full documentary (go to 24 minutes in for the lack of money shot) released a few days ago by German TV station ZDF called The Greek Lie. It is self-explanatory, and shows where 2 years of bailout funds went, or rather didn’t, and why 2 years to the day after the first bailout, not only is Greece not fixed, but is days away from leaving the Eurozone, but at a cost to taxpayers of nearly half a trillion.

We urge anyone, even non-German speakers, to set aside 45 minutes and view the clip below. It is unsettling at best.

Chinese Children Suffering Lead Poisoning From Polluting Smelters And Factories Have Been Denied Testing, Effective Treatment And Even Basic Information By Officials Who Downplay Health Threats

China downplays risk to children from lead poisoning: report (Reuters, June 15, 2012):

Chinese children suffering lead poisoning from polluting smelters and factories have been denied testing, effective treatment and even basic information by officials who downplayed health threats, a human rights advocacy group said on Wednesday.

The report from Human Rights Watch comes after China’s latest lead pollution outbreak, when 103 children and scores of adults were poisoned by tinfoil-making workshops in eastern Zhejiang province.

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Chinese GMO Cows Churn Out ‘Human Breast Milk’

See also:

The Chinese Food-Safety Mess: Mercury In Baby Formula, Cabbages Sprayed With Formaldehyde, Soy Sauce Made From Hair Clippings, Cooking Oil Scooped Out Of Gutters For Recycling, Artificial Green Peas, Grilled Kebabs From Cat Meat, …

Flashback:

In China, What You Eat Tells Who You Are … And Organic Food Is Only For The Power Elite

I ate Hu Jintao’s dinner; China’s president, and the rest of the politburo eat only organic food


Cows churn out “human breast milk” (Reuters, June 16, 2012):

Moo-ove over, Mum.

Chinese scientists have produced a herd of genetically modified cows that make milk that could substitute for human breast milk — a possible alternative to formula in a nation rocked by tainted milk powder scandals.

Researchers at the State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology of the China Agricultural University introduced human genetic coding into the DNA of Holstein dairy cow embryos, then transferred the embryos into cow surrogates.

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TSA Agent Spills Grandpa’s Ashes On The Floor, Starts Laughing

Confrontation With TSA Agent Leaves Grandpa’s Ashes On Floor (WRTV, June 25, 2012):

“They opened up my bag, and I told them, ‘Please, be careful. These are my grandpa’s ashes,'” Gross told RTV6’s Norman Cox. “She picked up the jar. She opened it up.

“I was told later on that she had no right to even open it, that they could have used other devices, like an X-ray machine. So she opened it up. She used her finger and was sifting through it. And then she accidentally spilled it.”

Gross says about a quarter to a third of the contents spilled on the floor, leaving him frantically trying to gather up as much as he could while anxious passengers waited behind him.

“She didn’t apologize. She started laughing. I was on my hands and knees picking up bone fragments. I couldn’t pick up all, everything that was lost. I mean, there was a long line behind me.”

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Obama Regime Ends States Right To Enforce Immigration Laws

Obama Administration Ends States Right to Enforce Immigration Laws, ICE Mostly Won’t Respond (Intel Hub, June 25, 2012):

On the same day that a Supreme Court ruling stroke down key provisions of the controversial Arizona immigration law, President Obama has ended a federal program that allowed state and local police to deputize officers in order to make federal immigration arrests.

With a stroke of his pen Obama has effectively ended state immigration enforcement, forcing states to now call upon the infamous Department of Homeland Security’s Immigrations and Custom Enforcement (ICE) wing in order to deport ANY illegal.

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Roche Ignores 80,000 Adverse Reaction Complaints And 15,000 Death Reports

Regulators visiting a Roche ($RHHBY) facility in the U.K. found a surprise lurking in the company’s computer system: 80,000 uninvestigated adverse reaction reports from the U.S. The reports are on a hodgepodge of drugs made by the Swiss company and include more than 15,000 reports of deaths, with some of the notices dating back 5 years.

In a statement meant to reassure anyone taking a Roche drug, the European Medicines Agency says there is no evidence of any negative effect on patients, yet, and that no action is needed to be taken by doctors or patients. Roche is the world’s largest maker of cancer drugs.

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MSM Cover Up: ‘Don’t Be Alarmed’ … As US Military Trains For Martial Law With Tanks On The Streets Of America (Video)

Don’t Be Alarmed: Troops Train For Martial Law With Tanks on the Streets of America As Corporate Media Runs Cover Up (Intel Hub, June 25, 2012):

In a move that many have seen as yet another sign of the continued push towards martial law and the normal use of troops on the streets of America, the U.S. Army is currently “training” throughout St. Louis, complete with 100?s of heavily armored military vehicles driving through St Louis neighborhoods.

The exercise, part of a program to train military police to drive heavily armored vehicles through highways and city streets, has drawn widespread criticism throughout the alternative media while the corporate media has essentially worshiped it, going out of their way to distort the facts in their numerous propaganda pieces on the subject.

In an initial report by a local corporate news outlet that was prompted by hundreds of calls from concerned citizens who had, in a scene more reminiscent of North Korea than a supposed free country, seen the military rolling through their neighborhood, the media simply told the citizens to not be alarmed.


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The absurd reporting by the corporate media is simply a continuation of their shilling for the military industrial complex and the globalist takeover of America.

To add to this absurdity, the military officer in the report basically told U.S. citizens to not film armored vehicles rolling through THEIR neighborhoods.

Now, in a report by another corporate media lackey, those that have spoken out against this martial law type training have been attacked and labeled as cooky conspiracy theorists even though there are literally dozens of open admissions by the military that they are planning to use troops on American streets.

Nearly every local news outlet has reported the story:

Read moreMSM Cover Up: ‘Don’t Be Alarmed’ … As US Military Trains For Martial Law With Tanks On The Streets Of America (Video)

Paraguay’s President Fernando Lugo Ousted, Venezuela Stops Oil Shipments

‘Fake government’: Paraguay’s ousted President Fernando Lugo defiant after ‘coup’ (MSNBC, June 25, 2012):

ASUNCION, Paraguay – Ousted Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo branded the country’s new government illegitimate on Sunday and called for democracy to be restored as neighboring countries intensified criticism of his sudden impeachment.

Lugo, a leftist former Roman Catholic bishop, said his removal from office was “a parliamentary coup against the will of the people” and said he would back any peaceful effort to restore democracy in the South American nation.

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AND NOW: Maine Prepares For Zombie Apocalypse

Drills of the dead: Maine prepares for zombie attack (RT, June 25, 2012):

Emergency officials in Maine have taken part in a training exercise in preparation for a zombie apocalypse. This comes just weeks after the federal government publicly denied the existence of zombies.

­Around 100 emergency responders from eight different counties participated in the event in the quiet city of Bangor.

The premise: an unknown virus originating from Jamaica has reached Maine, turning the infected into zombies. Once infected, the virus quickly spreads to the brain, and turns the host into a full-fledged zombie, who has only one thing on its mind: biting other people.

The officials were armed with two would-be vaccines – one to prevent the infection from reaching the brain, and one to bring the zombies back to life.

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Iraq Orders Closure Of 44 Media Outlets, Including The BBC And Voice Of America

Confirmed: Iraq orders closure of BBC and 43 other media outlets (RT, June 25, 2012):

Iraq’s communications and media commission announced the impending closure of several media outlets, including the BBC and Voice of America. While officials chalk the matter up to expired license fees, press freedom groups fear a looming crackdown.

RT was one of the first to publish reports of the potential closures – and can now confirm that Iraqi officials from the media commission have forwarded the list of 44 outlets to the Interior Ministry. They will be the ones responsible for the actual closures once they begin.

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Army Called In To Stop Parade In Hartford Connecticut During Puertio Rican Day Festival (Video)


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Patrick Henningson was sent video from a listener which shows the Army National Guard wielding wooden batons on the streets of Hartford Connecticut during Puerto Rican day celebrations.

The Global Warming Sea Level Rise Scam Exposed

Peer Review To Be Underwater By The Year 2008 (Real Science, June 25, 2012):

Like the West Side Highway in Manhattan, the peer review process in climate science had drowned by the year 2008.

A new article in Nature claims that sea level is rising much faster in the Northeastern US than on the rest of the planet.

WASHINGTON — From Cape Hatteras, N.C., to just north of Boston, sea levels are rising much faster than around the globe, putting one of the world’s most costly coasts in danger of flooding, government researchers report.

U.S. Geological Survey scientists call the 600-mile swath a “hot spot” for climbing sea levels caused by global warming. Along the region, the Atlantic Ocean has risen at an annual rate three to four times faster than the global average since 1990, according to the study published Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Rise in E. Coast sea levels exceeds global average | Nation | News from Fort Worth, Dall…

Had anyone with half a brain peer-reviewed this paper, they would have looked at the satellite data and realized that there has been little or no sea level rise in that region over the last decade. Much of the rise in sea level which the authors think they are seeing, is actually due to subsidence of the land.

Egypt’s New President Mohamed Morsi Calls For 9/11 Investigation

Egypt’s New President Mohamed Morsi Has Called For New 9/11 Investigation (Intel Hub, June 25, 2012):

From the Washington Post:

Egypt’s new president, Mohamed Morsi has long called for the U.S. to hold a “scientific conference” to determine the real culprits of the Sept. 11 attacks, having cast doubt on al Qaeda’s role in 9/11 for years.

“The U.S. administration has never presented any evidences on the identity of those who committed that incident,” longtime Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi is quoted as saying in a 2007 posting on Ikhwanweb, the Islamist group’s official English website.

“The Muslim Brotherhood and others demanded a transparent trial with clear evidence and to have court rulings,” he said after the sixth anniversary of the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. “We confirm that this isn’t a defense to those who committed these actions, but we only seek the truth.”

A report from noted neocon and Israeli firster John Bolton on Fox News immediately went to the attack:


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More on 9/11:

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Moody’s Downgrades Credit Ratings Of 28 Spanish Banks By 1-4 Notches

Moody’s cuts ratings of 28 Spanish banks (RT, June 25, 2012):

Ratings agency Moody’s has cut the ratings of 28 Spanish banks following a June 13 downgrade of Spain’s sovereign rating by three notches.

The banks’ long-term debt and deposit ratings have been downgraded by one to four notches. The rating of Bankia, one the country’s largest banks, has been cut to junk status.

Moody’s Downgrades Spanish Banking Sector By 1-4 Notches (ZeroHedge, June 25, 2012):

The long anticipated downgrade of the recently bailed out Spanish banking sector has arrived. Moody’s just brought the hammer down on 28 Spanish banks. Also apparently in Spain banks are now more stable than the country: “The ratings of both Banco Santander and Santander Consumer Finance are one notch higher than the sovereign’s rating, due to the high degree of geographical diversification of their balance sheet and income sources, and a manageable level of direct exposure to Spanish sovereign debt relative to their Tier 1 capital, including under stress scenarios. All the rest of the affected banks’ standalone ratings are now at or below Spain’s Baa3 rating.” Can Spain borrow from Santander then? They don’t need the ECB.

Full Spanish Bank downgrade Matrix (pdf source):

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DER SPIEGEL: Imagining The Unthinkable: Part 1: The Disastrous Consequences Of A Euro Crash – Part 2: Companies Envision Possible Scenarios – Part 3: ‘Consequences of Disaster Would Spread Like A Tidal Wave’


The article you are reading originally appeared in German in issue 26/2012 (June 25, 2012) of DER SPIEGEL.

Imagining the Unthinkable – The Disastrous Consequences of a Euro Crash (Der Spiegel, June 25. 2012):

Part 1: The Disastrous Consequences of a Euro Crash

As the debt crisis worsens in Spain and Italy, financial experts are warning of the catastrophic consequences of a crash of the euro: the destruction of trillions in assets and record high unemployment levels, even in Germany.

It wasn’t long ago that Mario Draghi was spreading confidence and good cheer. “The worst is over,” the head of the European Central Bank (ECB) told Germany’s Bild newspaper only a few weeks ago. The situation in the euro zone had “stabilized,” Draghi said, and “investor confidence was returning.” And because everything seemed to be on track, Draghi even accepted a Prussian spiked helmet from the reporters. Hurrah.

Last week, however, Europe’s chief monetary watchdog wasn’t looking nearly as happy in photos taken in front of a circle of blue-and-yellow stars inside the Euro Tower, the ECB’s Frankfurt headquarters, where he was congratulating the winners of an international student contest. He smiled, shook hands and handed out certificates. But what he had to tell his listeners no longer sounded optimistic. Instead, Draghi sounded deeply concerned and even displayed a touch of resignation. “You are the first generation that has grown up with the euro and is no longer familiar with the old currencies,” he said. “I hope we won’t experience them again.”

The fact that Europe’s top central banker is no longer willing to rule out a return to the old national currencies shows how serious the situation is. Until recently, it was seen as a sign of political correctness to not even consider the possibility of a euro collapse. But now that the currency dispute has escalated in Europe, the inconceivable is becoming conceivable, at all levels of politics and the economy.

Collapse of Currency a ‘Very Likely Scenario’

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The Full ‘Three-Days-To-Eurocalypse’ George Soros Interview (Video)

The Full “Three-Days-To-Eurocalypse” Soros Interview (ZeroHedge, June 25, 2012):

In a no-holds-barred interview with Bloomberg TV’s Francine Lacqua, the increasingly droopy-faced George Soros remains as sprite-minded as ever in his clarifying thoughts on Europe. His diagnosis is spot on: “Basically there is an interrelated problem of the banking system and the excessive risk premium on sovereign debt – they are Siamese twins, tied together and you have to tackle both” and summarizes the forthcoming Summit ‘fiasco’ as fatal if the fiscal disagreements are not resolved (and as of this afternoon, we know Germany’s constant position on this). His solution, however, is unlikely to prove tenable in the short-term as he notes “Merkel has emerged as a strong leader”, but “unfortunately, she has been leading Europe in the wrong direction”. His extensive interview covers what Europe needs, the Bund bubble, GRexit, post-summit contagion, and Mario Monti’s impotence.

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The Two Scariest Charts In Europe Got Scarier

The Two Scariest Charts In Europe (Got Scarier) (ZeroHedge, June 25, 2012):

It seems, as JPMorgan’s CIO Michael Cembalest notes, that ahead of yet another EU Summit; everyone understands now why Europe matters (even the once-bloviating decoupling diehards). The summit is likely to focus on bank recapitalization, easier repayment timetables for Greece, bank deposit guarantees and an alleged “roadmap” for EU integration. The challenge, Cembalest confirms, is that Germany cannot afford a blank check given debt levels already over 80% of GDP. However, if policymakers don’t do something about growth in the Periphery (bailouts primarily designed to aid German and French banks don’t count), the North-South divide will continue to widen, putting pressure on the ECB and EU taxpayers. Sometimes there are no easy answers. Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal are contracting at a 2%-5% annualized pace, and unemployment in Spain and Greece is sky-rocketing (1st chart). These levels are notable from an historical perspective. As shown in the 2nd chart, 20%+ unemployment was the level at which National Socialists in Germany began to take seats away from liberal democratic parties during the 1930’s. If the jobs picture does not improve, other EU policy decisions may not matter much (as we noted six months ago)!

Spanish and Greek Unemployment

Unemployment and The End of Liberal Capitalism 1930s

Source: JPMorgan

Finally for all those who vehemently claim this can never happen in Europe, feel free to click on the logo below:

Ron Paul Supporter Attacked Trying To Retrieve Stolen Ballots (Video)

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Oregon Congressional District 4, Saturday June 23, 2012, Roseburg, Oregon. The convention was shut down improperly by Oregon Republican leaders. The convention was not adjourned and previous motions adopted by the body stated the convention would complete all voting before adjourning for the night. But Republican leaders had their own agenda to complete the voting process of Alternate Delegates by dictatorship of the executive committee. People became furious of the news that the ballots had been stolen from the building, prompting a hunt for the ballots outside. When the ballots were found being loaded into a vehicle a Ron Paul supporter was attacked trying to return the ballots to the building for completion of the voting process.

SPIEGEL Interview With Daniel Barenboim: ‘The Germans Are Prisoners Of Their Past’

SPIEGEL Interview with Daniel Barenboim: ‘The Germans Are Prisoners of Their Past’ (Der Spiegel, June 22, 2012):

World-famous Argentine-Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim is noted for his strong views on the Middle East peace process and for performing Wagner’s music in Israel. In a SPIEGEL interview, he explains why the Israeli antipathy toward Wagner is grotesque and argues that Israel shouldn’t depend too much on Germany and the US for support.

Part 1: ‘The Germans Are Prisoners of Their Past’

SPIEGEL: Mr. Barenboim, why are you fighting to perform the music of Richard Wagner in Israel? No other composer is as hated there as this anti-Semitic German composer.

Barenboim: It saddens me that official Israel so doggedly refuses to allow Wagner to be performed — as was the case, once again, at the University of Tel Aviv two weeks ago — because I see it as a symptom of a disease. The words I’m about to use are harsh, but I choose them deliberately: There is a politicization of the remembrance of the Holocaust in Israel, and that’s terrible.

SPIEGEL: Please explain what you mean.

Barenboim: When I came to Israel from Argentina in 1952, as a 10-year-old, no one talked about the Holocaust. The catastrophe was still much too close for the survivors, and young Israelis wanted to create a new Judaism. They wanted to show that Jews were not only able to be artists and bankers, but could also pursue farming and sports. They looked forward and didn’t want to talk about the suffering of their parents.

SPIEGEL: When did that change?

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