– Isotopic evidence of plutonium release into the environment from the Fukushima DNPP accident (Nature, Mar 8, 2012)
See also:
– Scientists Detect Plutonium From Fukushima In Lithuania
– Huge Amounts Of Neptunium 239 Detected 60 Km From Fukushima!!!
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Justice Department May Sue Apple, Publishers On E-Books For Colluding To Raise Prices
– Justice Department May Sue Apple, Publishers On E-Books (Reuters, Mar 8, 2012):
The Justice Department has warned Apple and five major publishers that it plans to sue them, accusing them of colluding to raise the prices of electronic books, a person familiar with the probe said on Thursday.
Several parties have held talks to settle the potential antitrust case, said the person, who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.
The five publishers facing possible Justice Department action are Simon & Schuster Inc, a unit of CBS Corp; Lagardere SCA’s Hachette Book Group; Pearson Plc’s Penguin Group (USA); Macmillan, a unit of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH; and HarperCollins Publishers Inc, a unit of News Corp.
U.S. and European officials have been investigating whether e-book publishers and Apple fixed prices in the growing electronic book industry, blocking rivals and hurting consumers.
Read moreJustice Department May Sue Apple, Publishers On E-Books For Colluding To Raise Prices
Former US Ambassador: ‘Israeli Spies Warn Against Military Strike On Iran’ (Video)
And you have to enrich uranium over 90% to get nuclear weapons material.
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Despite Israel’s rulers pushing for an attack on Iran, intelligence does not recommend it, Thomas R. Pickering, former US Ambassador to Israel, told RT. It is mutual distrust between Iran and the US that stalls the diplomatic settlement, he believes.
Flashback:
– Heads Of Mossad And Shin Bet May Have Leaked Plans For Attack On Iran, PM Netanyahu Orders An Investigation (Guardian, Nov. 3, 2011):
… the main suspects are the former heads of the Mossad and the Shin Bet, respectively Israel’s foreign and domestic intelligence agencies.Netanyahu is said to believe that the two, Meir Dagan and Yuval Diskin, wanted to torpedo plans being drawn up by him and Ehud Barak, the defence minister, to hit Iranian nuclear sites.
In January the recently retired Dagan, a hawk when he was running the Mossad, called an attack on Iran “the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard“.
Haaretz Poll: Most Of The Public Opposes An Israeli Strike On Iran
– Haaretz poll: Most of the public opposes an Israeli strike on Iran (Haaretz, Mar 8, 2012):
Support for Netanyahu’s Likud party is at all-time high, but Israelis still skeptical regarding attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities without U.S. backing.
Most Israelis believe that if the United States does not attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, Israel must no try to do so alone, according to a Haaretz poll.
The Haaretz-Dialog poll, conducted under the supervision of Prof. Camil Fuchs of Tel Aviv University on Sunday and Monday during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington, also showed that the prime minister’s Likud party would win big in the next election, taking between 35 and 37 seats.
Likud, the rest of the right wing and the ultra-Orthodox parties would get between 71 and 74 mandates. Under such a scenario, only Netanyahu would be able to form a government.
However, Netanyahu, who returned to Israel on Wednesday, is facing a complex political situation.
On the one hand, he and his party seem to be in top political form. On the other, 58 percent of those polled opposed an Israeli strike on Iran, without U.S. backing.
Read moreHaaretz Poll: Most Of The Public Opposes An Israeli Strike On Iran
Obama Denies Promising Bunker Busters To Netanyahu (Haaretz) – US ‘Offers To Supply Israel With Military Means To Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Plants’ (Telegraph)
– U.S. denies Obama promised bunker busters to Netanyahu (Haaretz, Mar 8, 2012):
White House statement comes after Israeli media reports claim U.S. President agreed to give Israel the GBU-28 bombs; Netanyahu: Strike on Iran isn’t a matter of weeks, but also ‘not of years.’
President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not discuss in their meetings this week a reported Israeli request for advanced U.S. military technology that could be used against Iran, the White House said on Thursday.
“In meetings the president had there was no such agreement proposed or reached,” White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters. Obama and Netanyahu meet in the Oval office for two hours on Monday and then had lunch together.
– US ‘offers to supply Israel with military means to destroy Iran’s nuclear plants’ (Telegraph, Mar 8, 2012):
The United States has offered to supply Israel with the military means of destroying Iran’s nuclear facilities, but only if it agrees to delay an attack until next year, an Israeli newspaper has claimed.
Under the terms of the deal, Israel would be provided with “the latest bunker busting bombs developed by the US army” and air-to-air refuelling planes, the Maariv newspaper quoted diplomatic sources and Western intelligence officials as saying.
How To Become An American Extremist In Style!
“Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality.”
– Michael Ellner
– How To Become An American Extremist In Style! (ZeroHedge, Mar 8, 2012):
For most of us in America today, childhood was a time of vast and unassailable dreams. What we could become, what the world could become, was limited only by the strength of spirit setting aloft our ideas, and this strength, as all young people instinctively know, is infinite. While the possibilities of the future seemed boundless, few of us, including myself, ever considered “political extremism” as a viable lifestyle decision. Astronaut? Maybe. Filmmaker? Sure. Enemy Belligerent? Not so much…
While each of us is ultimately a product of our own decisions and internal choices, even beyond the influences of our environment, the cultural atmosphere of our age certainly determines the manner in which we are able to express our individual character. The brilliant and talented are sometimes cast into roles of poverty and obscurity. The obscene and devious often ascend to positions of righteous reverence. Good men are often painted as villains for centuries, while evil men are regarded as saints for just as long. The point is, the times in which we live rarely express in an honest way who we really are, unless, of course, we take hold of them tight, and cut out a new path for history to travel…
iPass Away – Do My Digital Downloads Die With Me?
– iPass away – do my digital downloads die with me? (Which Conversation, Feb. 20, 2012):
If you’ve built up a proud collection of books, records and DVDs, you’d expect to be able to pass them on to your next of kin. But what happens to all of the downloads you’ve paid for during your life?
The digital afterlife is an uncertain business, it seems. We challenged both Apple and Amazon on whether digital downloads could be passed on after death, and neither could give us a definitive answer.
As more and more purchases are made in a digital, rather than physical form, we think it’s time for the main digital retailers to clear up our rights to pass on property we’ve paid for.
Purchasing a product, or renting a licence?
As it stands, the rights of iTunes and Amazon customers look pretty shaky when it comes to passing on downloads. If you buy a music track from a digital store, you’re essentially buying a licence to play that track – a licence granted to you only, which isn’t transferable upon death.
Legally you’re essentially just renting tracks – you don’t actually own them, as Matthew Strain of law firm Strain-Keville pointed out to us in the latest issue of Which? Computing:
‘We do not “own” what we purchase on iTunes, we only have the right to use it. The right to the “product” is therefore limited and passing it on to someone else is not likely to be accepted by Apple.’
Plutonium-241 Found 32 Kilometers From Fukushima Nuclear Plant, Says National Institute Of Radiological Sciences After Nearly One Year
– Plutonium-241 of Fukushima Origin Found 32 Kilometers from the Plant, Says National Institute of Radiological Sciences After Nearly One Year (EX-SKF, Mar 8, 2012):
The National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS) knew about it since May last year, but decided to keep quiet. Why? It’s yet another case of the researchers waiting until their data collection is published in a peer-review scientific magazine (the paper is linked at the bottom of the post).
For the NIRS researchers, their data has just been published in the UK’s Scientific Reports (electronic version), reports Kyodo News (3/8/2012):
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The National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS, in Chiba City, Chiba) published the result of their measurement of plutonium-241 at three locations in Fukushima Prefecture 20 to 32 kilometers northwest and south of Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant in the electronic version of the UK’s science magazine “Scientific Reports” issued on March 8, 2012.
US Offers Israel Advanced Weaponry In Return For Not Attacking Iran THIS YEAR
See also:
– Senior Israeli Official: Netanyahu Considers Missiles On Tel Aviv Preferable To Nukes In Iran
– US arms offer to Israel to delay hit (The Australian/AFP, Mar 9, 2012):
THE US offered Israel advanced weaponry in return for it committing not to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities this year, according to an Israeli report last night.
Citing unnamed Western diplomats and intelligence sources, the report in the Maariv daily said that during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington this week, the US administration offered to supply Israel with advanced bunker-busting bombs and long-range refuelling planes.
In return, Israel would agree to put off a possible attack on Iran until next year, after the US elections in November.
Read moreUS Offers Israel Advanced Weaponry In Return For Not Attacking Iran THIS YEAR
Wind Farms: Even Worse Than We Thought …
The face of the enemy
– Wind farms: even worse than we thought… (Telegraph, Mar 8, 2012):
The Global Warming Policy Foundation has produced yet another devastating report: this time on the economics of wind farms. Turns out they’re even worse than we thought.
Not only do the Bat Chomping Eco-Crucifixes (TM) ruin views, kill birds, cause bats to implode, destroy the British film industry, frighten horses, enrich rent-seeking toffs like David Cameron’s father-in-law Sir Reginald Sheffield Bt, drive up electricity bills, kill jobs, create fuel poverty, cause old people to die of hypothermia, wipe out property values, drive people mad with strobing and noise pollution and enable smug liberal idiots to spout rubbish like “Oh, I don’t mind them. Actually I think they’re rather beautiful”, but also by 2020 they’re set to drive up consumer bills in the UK alone by £120 billion.
This is about ten times more than it would cost if we stuck to gas. (Which we have in abundance, just waiting to be exploited, in places like the Bowland Shale).
In the latest Spectator, Matt Ridley delivers the coup-de-grace. Here’s a taste:
UK ‘Must Plan For Euro Collapse’ (BBC News)
– Security: UK ‘must plan for euro collapse’ (BBC News, Mar 8, 2012):
Ministers should draw up plans to deal with a break-up of the eurozone “as a matter of urgency”, a committee of MPs and peers has warned.
The joint committee on the government’s National Security Strategy (NSS) said the full or partial collapse of the single currency was “plausible”.
Did Greek Bond And CDS Traders Just Ring The Bell? – Greek Reports Peg PSI Participation At ‘Over 75%’
– Did Greek Bond And CDS Traders Just Ring The Bell? (ZeroHedge, Mar 8, 2012)
– Greek Reports Peg PSI Participation At “Over 75%”(ZeroHedge, Mar 8, 2012)
With $700 Billion In QE3 Already Priced In, Who Will Blink First?
– With $700 Billion In QE3 Already Priced In, Who Will Blink First? (ZeroHedge, Mar 6, 2012)
Something interesting happened when the ECB announced last week that its balance sheet was about to rise by €1 trillion gross, and hit a record €3 trillion net earlier today: the EURUSD barely budged. Why? Because as a reminder, the key driving relationship for relative risk performance of 2012 as we forecast back in December is the correlation of the Fed and the ECB’s balance sheets, and the EURUSD, respectively, because while we may pretend that there is still alpha in this joke of a market, the truth is that in this new normal only beta matters (the more lever the better), and the only beta that matters is that generated by relative USD strength/weakness.
In this context, we bring back readers to the chart that may be the only one that matters: the cross-correlation of the Fed/ECB total assets, and the EURUSD spot, where the first thing that stands out is that the pair should be 1000 pips lower at least. And yet it isn’t. The reason for that is that the FX market is actively expecting, despite all rhetoric otherwise, an injection from the Fed. What is convenient is that the chart allows us to calculate how much the expected QE3 will be: since the absolute value of the Fed/ECB size (currency invariant) is now 0.9685m or the lowest in history, the ratio would have to raise to 1.18 for EURUSD asset implied parity. Which means the Fed’s balance sheet would have to increase by about $650-700 billion promptly.
Read moreWith $700 Billion In QE3 Already Priced In, Who Will Blink First?
US: Radiation Readings Soar At Rocketdyne
– Radiation Readings Soar At Rocketdyne (EnviroReporter, Mar 6, 2012)
LulzSec Leader Sabu Was Working For Us, Says FBI
– LulzSec leader Sabu was working for us, says FBI (Guardian, Mar 7, 2012):
Hacker – real name Hector Xavier Monsegur – helped US authorities bring charges against five others
The world’s most notorious computer hacker has been working as an informer for the FBI for at least the last six months, it emerged on Tuesday, providing information that has helped contribute to the charging of five others, including two Britons, for computer hacking offences.
Hector Xavier Monsegur, an unemployed 28-year-old Puerto Rican living in New York, was unmasked as “Sabu”, the leader of the LulzSec hacking group that has been behind a wave of cyber raids against American corporations including Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, the intelligence consultancy Stratfor, British and American law enforcement bodies, and the Irish political party Fine Gael.
Turkish Newspaper Editor: Zionism The Invisible Force Behind All Upheavals (Video)
Prime Ministers and Presidents are not elected, they are selected by the elitists.
See also:
– Albert Pike Predicted Three World Wars In 1871
– Joe Biden on Shalom TV: ‘I am a ZIONIST’ (Video)
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Japan Government To Create ‘Global Warming Tax’
– Bill That Will Create “Global Warming Tax” Wil Pass in Japan by the End of March (EX-SKF, Mar 7, 2012):
In case you are not aware, Japan is one of the last bastions of people who believe in anthropogenic (man-made) global warming. The majority of the population in Japan are quite willing to sacrifice their well-being if that reduces CO2 emission and save the mother earth.
From Yomiuri Shinbun (3/7/2012):
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Secretaries-general and Diet policy committee chairmen of the Liberal Democratic Party and the New Komeito Party met on March 7, and confirmed their parties’ policy to agree to 4 tax bills [submitted by the Noda administration] in the bills related to the fiscal 2012 budget including the one that will create the tax for countermeasures against global warming (environmental tax).
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With their agreement, the 4 bills are likely to be passed within this month.
Jon Corzine’s Family Responds To Accusations Against The Patriarch
– Jon Corzine’s Family Responds To Accusations Against The Patriarch (ZeroHedge, Mar 6, 2012):
First appearing in Vanity Fair:, in response to Jon Corzine’s riskiest business.The sweeping negative narrative the authors use to describe our family in “Jon Corzine’s Riskiest Business” [by Bryan Burrough, William D. Cohan, and Bethany McLean, February] completely contradicts our firsthand experience of events and people.
Read moreJon Corzine’s Family Responds To Accusations Against The Patriarch
National Debt: Washington’s $5 Trillion Interest Bill
– National debt: Washington’s $5 trillion interest bill (CNN Money, Mar 5, 2012):
Interest rates on U.S. bonds may be ridiculously low, but that doesn’t mean the country’s future interest payments on the national debt will be.
Uncle Sam will shell out more than $5 trillion in interest payments over the next decade, according to the latest projections from the Congressional Budget Office.
That’s more than half of the projected $11 trillion increase in debt held by the public during that period. Those figures assume that a host of expensive policies such as the Bush-era tax cuts are extended.
Read moreNational Debt: Washington’s $5 Trillion Interest Bill
Cash-Strapped Greece To Raise Funds … By Selling Island Of Corfu
– Cash-strapped Greece begins its bid to raise funds… by selling off Corfu (Daily Mail, Mar 7, 2012):
Greece is trying to sell off a huge slab of land on the holiday island of Corfu to raise cash to tackle its debts, it emerged today.
Government officials revealed a tender has been launched for the exploitation of a large seaside plot on the western resort island.
The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund said it is seeking to sell the ‘right of surface’ for the 120-acre, forested property at Kassiopi for up to 100 years.
The tender is part of Greece’s bid to raise 50billion euro ($66billion) through an open-ended program of privatisations and concession sales, half of which will involve real estate.
The country has committed to raise 19billion euro ($25billion) of that sum by 2015.
Read moreCash-Strapped Greece To Raise Funds … By Selling Island Of Corfu
Blogger Exposes Loophole In TSA Body Scanners – How To Get Anything Through TSA Nude Body Scanners (Video)
Flashback:
– Israeli Airport Security Expert: Full-Body Scanners Are Waste of Money (Vancouver Sun, Apr 23, 2010)
A leading Israeli airport security expert says the Canadian government has wasted millions of dollars to install “useless” imaging machines at airports across the country.
“I don’t know why everybody is running to buy these expensive and useless machines. I can overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to bring down a Boeing 747,” Rafi Sela told parliamentarians probing the state of aviation safety in Canada.
“That’s why we haven’t put them in our airport,” Sela said, referring to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport, which has some of the toughest security in the world.
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This video is here to demonstrate that the TSA’s insistence that the nude body scanner program is effective and necessary is nothing but a fraud, just like their claims that the program is safe (radiation what?) and non-invasive (nude pictures who?). This video is not intended to teach anyone how to commit criminal acts, nor is intended to help “the terrorists” — if I could figure this out, I’m sure they’ve long figured it out, and by exposing it to the public, we now have an opportunity to correct it. The scanners are now effectively worthless, as anyone can beat them with virtually no effort. The TSA has been provided this video in advance of it being made public to give them an opportunity to turn off the scanners and revert to the metal detectors. I personally believe they now have no choice but to turn them off.
Please share this video with your family, friends, and most importantly, elected officials in federal government. Make sure they understand that your vote is contingent on them fixing the abuse that 200,000 passengers face from the TSA on a daily basis.
– ??How to get ANYTHING through TSA nude body scanners: Blogger exposes loophole in $1billion fleet (Daily Mail, Mar 7, 2012):
Controversial nude body scanners used at U.S. airports have come under fire again – after a blogger claimed he could easily smuggle explosives through them onto a plane.
Engineer Jonathan Corbett has published a video where he shows how he took a small metal case through two of the TSA’s $1billion fleet in a special side pocket stitched into his shirt.
This is because, he suggests, the scanners blend metallic areas into the dark background – so if an object is not directly placed on the body, it will not show up on the scan.
The metallic box, he claims, would have set off an alarm had he passed through the old detecting system.
His revelation comes just weeks after Europe banned the ‘airport strip-searches’ over fears the X-ray technology could cause cancer.
Senior Israeli Official: Netanyahu Considers Missiles On Tel Aviv Preferable To Nukes In Iran
Nuclear Duck – Bibi Netanyahu ft. Daffy Duck & Duck Sauce
In other news:
– Tel Aviv readies bomb shelter amid Iran tensions (CBS News)
– Netanyahu, Obama divided on price of Israeli strike against Iran (Haaretz, Mar 7, 2012):
Netanyahu considers missiles on Tel Aviv preferable to nukes in Iran, says senior Israeli official.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented one central question during his meetings in Washington in the past few days: “What will be the price of not acting against Iran?” he asked at every opportunity.
Must Watch: Jim Grant: ‘Capitalism Is An Alternative For What We Have Now’
– Jim Grant Must Watch: “Capitalism Is An Alternative For What We Have Now” (ZeroHedge, Mar 7, 2012):
Jim Grant is simply brilliant in this must watch interview with CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo, which we won’t spoil with commentary, suffice to provide the following pearl of an exchange:
Maria Bartiromo: “What are the alternatives?”
Jim Grant: “Capitalism is an alternative for what we have now. I highly recommend it.”
Maria: “We all do.”
Grant: “No we don’t.”
Maria: “The Federal Reserve may not.”
Grant: “We ought to be discussing an intelligent move to a sound currency by which i mean a currency that is based on a standard and not at the whim and the discretion of a bunch of mandarins sitting around Washington D.C.”
In other news, Joseph Stalin has never been happier in his grave that Ben Bernanke has decided to shoulder the legacy of central planning and is firmly committed to proving that where Vissarionovich failed, the ChairSatan will succeed. At any cost.
Former Deutsche Bank Chief Economist Prof. Norbert Walter: Germany Will Have ‘An Old Age Poverty Problem’ Close To 10 Years From Now
– Germany’s Time as Paymaster Is Running Out: Economist (CNNBC, Mar 5, 2012):
??As the euro zone’s biggest economy, and one of its most successful in recent years, Germany has shouldered the burden of helping to bail out more troubled euro zone nations
This can only last for another few years, as the country’s aging population will need to be looked after, Norbert Walter, chief economist emeritus for Deutsche Bank and managing director of Walter & Daughters Consulting, told CNBC Monday.