NHK, June 6, 2014: [TEPCO] says more than 3 tons of radioactive water may have leaked from barriers surrounding storage tanks. [TEPCO] made the announcement on Friday […] TEPCO found that regular patrols have not been conducted in the area near the tanks since March, and that the leakage may have begun then. […] It detected higher levels of radiation around the area than at other locations in the complex. […] TEPCO officials say regular patrols did not cover the area […]
Month: June 2014
Awkward Friday: Obama And Putin On The Big Screen (Video)
– Awkward Friday: Obama And Putin On The Big Screen (ZeroHedge, June 6, 2014):
There was a moment of awkward levity during today’s D-Day celebration when a cruel TV producer decided to show both Obama and Putin on the big screen at the same time. And the crowd goes wild.
And as covered by CNN:
EPIC: Stand-Up Comedian Volker Pispers On The USA (Video – English Subtitles)
H/t reader U. W.
Added: Jan 28, 2012
‘Stress Test’ Reviewed: Tim Geithner Is ‘A Grifter, A Petty Con Artist’
– “Stress Test” Reviewed: Tim Geithner Is “A Grifter, A Petty Con Artist” (Liberty Blitzkrieg, June 5, 2014):
Geithner is at heart a grifter, a petty con artist with the right manners and breeding to lie at the top echelons of American finance at a moment when the government and financial services industry needed someone to be the face of their multi-trillion dollar three card monte. He’s going to make his money, now that he’s done living his life of fantastic power after his upbringing of remarkable mysterious privilege. After reading this book and documenting lie after lie after lie, I’m convinced that there’s more here than just a self-serving corrupt official. There’s an entire culture, of figures at Treasury, the Federal Reserve, in the entire Democratic Party elite structure, and in the world of journalism, a culture in which Geithner is seen as some sort of role model.
– From Matt Stoller’s fantastic article published yesterday, The Con-Artist Wing of the Democratic Party
Timothy Geithner is likely to go down in American history as one of the most dangerous, destructive cronies to have ever wielded government power. The man is so completely and totally full of shit it’s almost impossible not to notice.
The last thing I’d ever want to do in my free time is read a lengthy book filled with Geithner lies and propaganda, so I owe a large debt of gratitude to former Congressional staffer Matt Stoller for doing it for me. Stoller simply tears Geither apart limb from limb, detailing obvious lies about the financial crisis, and even more interestingly, Geithner’s bizarre bio, replete with mysterious and inexplicable promotions into positions of power.
So without further ado, here are some excerpts from this excellent article.
Read more‘Stress Test’ Reviewed: Tim Geithner Is ‘A Grifter, A Petty Con Artist’
NIRP Has Arrived: Europe Officially Enters The ‘Monetary Twilight Zone’
– NIRP Has Arrived: Europe Officially Enters The “Monetary Twilight Zone” (ZeroHedge, June 5, 2014):
Goodbye ZIRP, hello NIRP. Today’s decision by the ECB to officially lower the deposit facility rate to negative (as in you pay the bank to hold your deposits) is shocking, but not surprising: we previewed just this outcome precisely two years ago in “Europe’s “Monetary Twilight Zone” Neutron Bomb: NIRP”
Here is what we wrote in June 2012 about Europe’s unprecedented NIRP monetary experiment.
Just because ZIRP is so 2009 (and will be until the end of central planning as the Fed can not afford to hike rates ever again), the ECB is now contemplating something far more drastic: charging depositors for the privilege of holding money. Enter NIRP, aka Negative Interest Rate Policy.
Read moreNIRP Has Arrived: Europe Officially Enters The ‘Monetary Twilight Zone’
Greed Is Good? Where Will America’s Sick Obsession With Wealth And Money End?
– Greed Is Good? Where Will America’s Sick Obsession With Wealth And Money End? (Economic Collapse, June 5, 2014):
Everywhere you look, Americans appear to be extremely obsessed with wealth and money. These days, networks such as CNN endlessly run “news stories” with titles such as “Best cars for the super rich“. We have television shows where people proudly show off how wealthy they are, and it seems like Hollywood is putting out an endless parade of movies that glorify the lifestyles of the elite. We have hordes of motivational speakers and “life coaches” that will teach you how to be “more successful” in life, and every small movement in the stock market is carefully monitored by the mainstream news media. Even in the world of faith, we have an entire class of ministers known as “prosperity preachers”, and many of those ministers wear that label quite proudly. Yes, those that grew up in the 1980s may have been the “greed is good” generation, but the truth is that they didn’t have anything on us. As a society we love money, and we are not ashamed to admit it. In fact, there are times we absolutely revel in it. For example, Time Magazine published an article this year entitled “Science Proves It: Greed Is Good” and hardly anyone even raised an eyebrow. But where will America’s sick obsession with wealth and money end? Could it end up destroying us?
Read moreGreed Is Good? Where Will America’s Sick Obsession With Wealth And Money End?
Half The Country Makes Less Than $27,520 A Year And 15 Other Signs The Middle Class Is Dying
– Half The Country Makes Less Than $27,520 A Year And 15 Other Signs The Middle Class Is Dying (ZeroHedge, June 4, 2014):
If you make more than $27,520 a year at your job, you are doing better than half the country is. But you don’t have to take my word for it, you can check out the latest wage statistics from the Social Security administration right here. But of course $27,520 a year will not allow you to live “the American Dream” in this day and age. After taxes, that breaks down to a good bit less than $2,000 a month. You can’t realistically pay a mortgage, make a car payment, afford health insurance and provide food, clothing and everything else your family needs for that much money. That is one of the reasons why both parents are working in most families today. In fact, sometimes both parents are working multiple jobs in a desperate attempt to make ends meet. Over the years, the cost of living has risen steadily but our paychecks have not. This has resulted in a steady erosion of the middle class. Once upon a time, most American families could afford a nice home, a couple of cars and a nice vacation every year. When I was growing up, it seemed like almost everyone was middle class. But now “the American Dream” is out of reach for more Americans than ever, and the middle class is dying right in front of our eyes.
The Purchase Of Our Republic
– The Purchase of Our Republic (guest essay) (OfTwoMinds, June 4, 2014):
The massive consolidation of wealth, combined with the removal of any limits on money in campaigns, has allowed for the purchase of our government.
Today I am publishing a comprehensive and important guest essay, The Purchase of Our Republic, by longtime correspondent Y. Falkson.
Americans know that something is wrong, deeply wrong. They see signs of the problem everywhere: income inequality, growing concentration and power of mega corporations, political donations/corruption, the absence of jobs with decent salaries, the explosion of the US prison population, healthcare costs, student loan debt, homelessness, etc. etc.
However, the true causes and benefactors behind these problems are purposely hidden from view. What Americans see is Kabuki Theater of a functioning form of capitalism and democracy, but beyond this veneer our country has devolved into the exact opposite.
Elephant Predicts 2014 World Cup Matches (Video)
H/t reader squodgy.
2001-2014 NOAHS FLOOD TIMELINE ENDING JUNE 2014! (Video)
H/t reader U. B.
Want to go a little bit crazy?
The Gold Conspiracy (History Channel Video)
– The Gold Conspiracy (ZeroHedge, June 5, 2014):
As increasingly more conspiracy ‘theories’ become conspiracy ‘facts’, The History Channel discusses “The Gold Conspiracy” in this brief documentary.
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As The History Channel introduces:
Gold. It is one of the most precious metals in the world. A glittering commodity so rare that people will go to great lengths to obtain it. But who sets the price? And what are the secret methods to control its value? Uncover the clandestine world surrounding the highly prized precious metal. How much gold does the United States really have–and where is it locked away? Is the American government overstating the amount of gold in its reserves to create the mystique of financial superiority?
China’s ‘Missing Commodity’ Scandal: Fallout Spreads As Banks Get Involved
– More On China’s “Missing Commodity” Scandal: Fallout Spreads As Banks Get Involved (ZeroHedge, June 5, 2014):
While we have warned about the problem with near-infinitely rehypothecated physical/funding commodities/metals, be they gold or copper, many times in the past, and most recently here, it was only yesterday that China finally admitted it has a major problem involving not just the commodities participating in funding deals – in this case copper and aluminum – but specifically their infinite rehypothecation, which usually results in the actual underlying metal mysteriously “disappearing”, as in it never was there to begin with.
And disappearing commodities is exactly what we reported yesterday the third largest Chinese port of Qingdao is being investigated for after a source at a local warehouse said that “it appears there is a discrepancy in metal that should be there and metal that is actually there… We hear the discrepancy is 80,000 tonnes of aluminium and 20,000 tonnes of copper, but we hear that the volumes will actually be higher. It’s either missing or it was never there – there have been triple issuing of documentation.”
Read moreChina’s ‘Missing Commodity’ Scandal: Fallout Spreads As Banks Get Involved
Thailand Coup 2014 – Message To John Kerry And The World (Video)
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Added: Jun 2, 2014
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This video explains why the coup took place. Why it was well accepted by the Thai people. Some western governments and politicians like the U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, condemned the action and called for the Army to return to democracy and arrange early election without thinking about the sustainable solution for Thailand and its people. The video ends with the confession of a former U.S. Economic Hit Man, John Perkins, who shared to the world what the US government has done to other countries and there is nothing Democratic about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CofEb… John Perkins’ Confession – Economic Hitman reveals shocking truths about the Government
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhNK2M… CCTV, CNTV News on Thai farmer suicides
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBBDgO… Channel 3 news on Rice Scheme corruption
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlPC8w… Thai PBS news — Thai Coup
It’s Coming: ‘We Are Seeing A Very Material Slow-Down Across The Economy’
– It’s Coming: “We Are Seeing a Very Material Slow-down Across the Economy” (SHFTplan, June 4, 2014):
Remember back in early 2008 when the Presidential election was in full swing and the majority of financial and political pundits were hailing the booming American economy, record home ownership and never ending growth?
By the end of the year everyone had changed their tune and the United States of America was, as former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said, “on the brink” of an unprecedented collapse.
When the stock exchanges turned, credit markets froze up and the U.S. was in the midst of its worst recessionary environment since the Great Depression the oft repeated phrase “nobody saw it coming” was being peddled by the mainstream on every front in an attempt to convince Americans that the crash simply came out of nowhere.
The following analysis from The Market Ticker is a blaring alarm.
This time no one can say we didn’t see it coming.
Read moreIt’s Coming: ‘We Are Seeing A Very Material Slow-Down Across The Economy’
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: Guest Column By Russian President Vladimir Putin
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during President Reagan’s first term. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal. He has held numerous academic appointments, including the William E. Simon Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
– Guest Column by Russian President Vladimir Putin (Paul Craig Roberts, June 4, 2014):
Guest Column by Russian President Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin is the only extant leader in the West. He has some things to tell you
that are different from the lies emanating from Washington.
(NEW 2014) Anonymous: Warning To Americans! USD Collapse, Martial Law, FEMA Camps, And RFIDs! – The Coming Ammo Shortage (Video)
H/t reader squodgy.
Don’t miss the executive orders!
Added: Mar 29, 2014
Related info:
– What’s behind the national ammo shortage? (CBS, May 21, 2014)
ECB Cuts Interest Rates, Introduces Negative Deposit Rate
H/t reader J. S.:
“The EU is getting desperate,
I didn’t really think they would do it but they did.”
– Updated: ECB Cuts Interest Rates, Introduces Negative Deposit Rate (Kitco News, June 5, 2014):
Following its monthly monetary-policy meeting Thursday, the European Central Bank cut interest rates on its main refinancing operation at by 10 basis points, bringing it down to 0.15%. As expected the central bank introduced a negative deposit facility rate with a 10 basis point cut, bringing it to minus 0.10%
The ECB also dropped its marginal lending facility rate by 35 basis points to 0.45%.
Read moreECB Cuts Interest Rates, Introduces Negative Deposit Rate
Gold Created Through ‘Advanced Metallurgy’?
H/t reader J.S.:
“What if gold became worthless?
Talk about a game changer.
– Gold Created Through ‘Advanced Metallurgy’? (Kitco, June 4, 2014)
Senior Scientist: Fukushima is not under control; It has ‘alarm bells’ going off on West Coast – Former Official: I’m humiliated Japan lies to world about how much contamination is entering Pacific
Nuclear Hotseat, May 21, 2014:
- 31:00 in — Katsutaka Idogawa, Former Mayor of Futaba, Fukushima: In the midst of all this sorrow, Prime Minister Abe is facing outward and promoting exports of nuclear power plants. […] As a Japanese citizen I am truly ashamed […] The contaminated water from the plant is polluting the Pacific Ocean more and more. I feel humiliated when Abe lies to the world, when he says the radioactive contamination is completely blocked from spreading further into the ocean. […] I urge the people of the world to take a look at us […] We’re living in conditions that punish us for what happened. Our dreams, our children’s futures, out towns have all been destroyed. We’ve been swept to the very margins of Japanese society and told to live there in silence. […] Nuclear facilities bring misfortune on human kind. We all need to raise our voices and demand a safe environment where we can live and children can have dreams. We inherited a clean environment from our parents, but I as a parent cannot pass along a clean and beautiful town to my own children. This sad situation can never happen again. Please, don’t just help us, please help human kind.
- Listen to the complete interview here
US Experts: Fukushima Melted Fuel ‘A Concern For Millennia’
The longest-lived are plutonium-244, with a half-life of 80.8 million years, plutonium-242, with a half-life of 373,300 years, and plutonium-239, with a half-life of 24,110 years.
Related info:
– US Experts: Fukushima melted fuel “a concern for millennia”; Risk of criticality from corium moving, redistributing — Tepco Chief: Certainly a difficult path ahead… we’ll be able to move forward if we can find damaged fuel (VIDEO) (ENENews, June 4, 2014)
Obama Kills Top Mob Boss Linked To JFK Assassination
H/t reader squodgy:
“I know your thoughts about Sorcha Faal, or whatever it is called, but occasionally they latch on to something.
The following is interesting, especially the referenced link to the OUTFIT.”
FYI.
(WhatDoesItMean.com = Sorcha Faal is a well known disinformation site, so be careful.)
Flashback:
– John F. Kennedy’s New World Order Speech (Video – FULL & UNEDITED)
– Obama Kills Top Mob Boss Linked To JFK Assassination (Total Collapse, June 3, 2014):
A new report prepared by the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) circulating in the Kremlin today states that Israel’s Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations (MOSSAD) was “stunned” this past week after the Obama regime killed Jewish billionaire philanthropist Lewis Katz in a fiery plane crash due to his plans to “release explosive materials” relating to the 22 November 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
According to this report, the Federal Security Services (FSB) had long identified Lewis Katz as being one of the most powerful members of the Philadelphia mobster organization linked to the Chicago Mafia many Russian intelligence experts had previously linked to the killing of President Kennedy and his accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
Read moreObama Kills Top Mob Boss Linked To JFK Assassination
Putin On Hillary: ‘It’s Better Not To Argue With Women’
– Putin On Hillary: “It’s Better Not To Argue With Women” (ZeroHedge, June 4, 2014):
Earlier today, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, absent from the latest G-7 soiree (where he is so sorely missed everyone spoke about him), made waves of his own during an interview which was taken on June 3 in Sochi with anchors from Radio Europe 1 and the TF1 TV channel. It was, in a word, hilariously accurate, concise and without the usual prevarications and lies we are so used to when listening to US politicians. Here are some of the excerpts:
On Hillary:
QUESTION (via interpreter): Mr President, it is very convenient that you are meeting with Mr Obama on June 6. Perhaps, it would be worse if you were meeting with Hillary Clinton. Only a few days ago, she said that what Russia is doing in Eastern Europe resembles what Hitler was doing in the 1930s.
VLADIMIR PUTIN:It’s better not to argue with women. But Ms Clinton has never been too graceful in her statements. Still, we always met afterwards and had cordial conversations at various international events. I think even in this case we could reach an agreement. When people push boundaries too far, it’s not because they are strong but because they are weak. But maybe weakness is not the worst quality for a woman.
Lucky for him, he has that option. Some more on Hillary and US bases around the globe:
Read morePutin On Hillary: ‘It’s Better Not To Argue With Women’