Nature, May 28, 2014: Nuclear-waste facility on high alert over risk of new explosions — US repository scrambles to seal off barrels […] Time bombs may be ticking at the United States’ only deep geological repository for nuclear waste. US authorities concluded last week that at least 368 drums of waste at the site could be susceptible to the chemical reaction suspected to have caused a drum to rupture there in February. That accident caused radioactive material to spill into the repository and leak into the environment above ground. […] To mitigate the threat of further exploding drums, the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) in Santa Fe issued an order on 20 May giving the US Department of Energy […] until 30 May to come up with a plan to “expedite” the sealing of panel 6 and part of panel 7. [A reaction] blew the lid off of the container [an official cautioned,] “It is not yet known how, or if, the reaction created the rupture in the drum(s)” […] The DOE added that current assumptions and precautions about the hazards of operating the WIPP are being “evaluated and revised”.
Slavyansk Kids And Women Cross Russian Border On Foot After Ukraine Seizes Bus
– Slavyansk kids and women cross Russian border on foot after Ukraine seizes bus (RT, May 31, 2014):
A bus carrying women and children from Slavyansk, including toddlers, was stopped at a border checkpoint by Ukrainian guards. The refugees managed to cross into Russia on foot and find new transport.
The incident happened on Friday night at a border crossing between Ukraine’s Donetsk region and Russia’s Rostov region. The bus was carrying people from Slavyansk, the city that has become the scene of constant battles between local militia and troops loyal to Kiev.
There were 38 refugees on board, including 21 children aged between 2 months and 12 years, and 17 women, Rostov region spokesman Aleksandr Titov told Itar-Tass. As the vehicle was seized, they went across the border on foot with the help of Russian border guards.
Read moreSlavyansk Kids And Women Cross Russian Border On Foot After Ukraine Seizes Bus
New Massive Federal Database To Hold Financial Information On HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS
– New Massive Federal Database to Hold Financial Information on Hundreds of Millions of Americans (Liberty Blitzkrieg, May 30, 2014):
The war on privacy continues unabated, as the U.S. government continues to prove time and time again that it views the citizenry as a bunch of cattle to be branded, herded and dealt with at will. It doesn’t seem to bother anyone in the establishment that the public has lost all faith in institutions and so-called “authority” (a concept which I do not believe in to begin with). The evidence of a growing number of Orwellian databases being created has been available for quite some time. Most recently, I covered this topic in the following articles:
FBI Plans to Have 52 Million Photos in Facial Recognition Database by 2015
Guess What’s Hidden in the Immigration Bill? A National Biometric Database for Citizens
Moving along, the public faces another sinister and unacceptable invasion to our privacy. A national financial database is being planned, which would contain the most intimate details of our entire financial lives. It may apply to as many as 227 million Americans.
We learn from the Washington Examiner that:
The Global Death Cross Just Got Deathier
– The Global Death Cross Just Got Deathier (ZeroHedge, May 30, 2014):
In the immortal words of Cher – “Do you believe in life after QE; I can feel something inside me say, “I really don’t think you’re strong enough, Now.”
How does this end well?
Official in Fukushima: “Please Please HELP US!” – Hot particles of melted fuel are inhaled by children everyday – We are forced to have it in our bodies – “Please let all people in the world know the life we are living”
– Official in Fukushima: “Please Please HELP US!” — Hot particles of melted fuel are inhaled by children everyday — We are forced to have it in our bodies — “Please let all people in the world know the life we are living” (ENENews, May 30, 2014):
Excerpts from Oyama Koichi of the Minamisoma City Council, May 13, 2014 — Translation by Dissensus Japan, May 25, 2014:
- I want to shout for all the people in this world: “Please Please HELP US!”
Japan Scientist: We gave butterflies food from Fukushima… then, they died; Deformities get worse with each generation — TV: “Truly horrifying… it doesn’t really even look like a butterfly anymore”
– Japan Scientist: We gave butterflies food from Fukushima… then, they died; Deformities get worse with each generation — TV: “Truly horrifying… it doesn’t really even look like a butterfly anymore” (ENENews, May 29, 2014):
Vice on HBO, Season 2 Episode 10, May 24, 2014 (at 5:30 in):
- Dr. Joji Otaki, lead researcher, University of Ryukyus: We collected houseplant leaves from Fukushima, and those leaves are given to [butterfly] larvae collected from Okinawa… Those larvae aresupposed to be healthy. But they ate contaminated food from Fukushima. Then we see what happens.
- Vikram Ghandi, Vice: What happened?
- Otaki: They died.
Pepe Escobar: ?Brave Old (Exceptionalist) World
FYI.
Pepe Escobar is the roving correspondent for Asia Times/Hong Kong, an analyst for RT and TomDispatch, and a frequent contributor to websites and radio shows ranging from the US to East Asia.
– ?Brave old (exceptionalist) world (RT, May 30, 2014):
By Pepe Escobar
“I believe in American exceptionalism with every fiber of my being.” So there it is, straight from the lion’s mouth, as in US President Barack Obama.
The rest are details: deadly details, as in the US military remaining “at the core” of the exceptional worldview; the Pentagon reserving for itself “the power to launch unilateral attacks when America’s interests are directly threatened”; eight or nine proxy wars deployed in the immediate future with no end in sight; and the most startling admission – that the “fulcrum” of US foreign policy from now on will be to curb “aggression” by Russia and China.
Military op to continue in E. Ukraine until ‘stability’ restored – defense minister
– Military op to continue in E. Ukraine until ‘stability’ restored – defense minister (RT, May 30, 2014):
Kiev army will continue military operation against the country’s east until the situation in the region stabilizes, says Ukraine’s Defense Minister.
Read RT’s live updates on the violence in Ukraine
Kiev government has launched a massive military offensive in the east of Ukraine which claimed dozens of lives, both among the militias and local civilians. Schools, kindergarten and hospitals in several cities came under fire.
Read moreMilitary op to continue in E. Ukraine until ‘stability’ restored – defense minister
Toddler Critically Burned When SWAT Team Throws Flashbang In Crib
– Toddler critically burned when SWAT team throws flashbang in crib (RT, May 30, 2014):
A toddler is in a medically induced coma after a SWAT team raided the family’s home and threw a flashbang grenade into his crib, the boy’s mother said. With a 50 percent chance of survival, it could be weeks before it’s known if he will even live.
Bounkham “Bou Bou” Phonesavanhs, a 19-month-old, was asleep in his portable crib in the same room as his parents and three older sisters, when police opened the door to the converted garage and threw the stun grenade in. It landed in the crib with Bou Bou.
“Everyone’s sleeping. There’s a loud bang and a bright light,” the boy’s mother, Alecia Phonesavanh, told WSB-TV. “The cops threw that grenade in the door without looking first, and it landed right in the playpen and exploded on his pillow right in his face.”
Read moreToddler Critically Burned When SWAT Team Throws Flashbang In Crib
Steve Marsh GM Contamination Case Fails In Australian Supreme Court
– Steve Marsh GM Contamination Case Fails in Australian Supreme Court (Global GMO Free Coalition, May 29, 2014):
Global GMO Free Coalition Media Comment: 28/05/2014
Western Australian farmer Steve Marsh (#IamSteveMarsh) has lost a landmark case which could have protected his organic status, after his property was contaminated by GM canola from a neighbouring farm.
The verdict was handed down Wednesday and can be found here: http://www.supremecourt.wa.gov.au/_files/Judgment%20Summary%20-%20Marsh%20v%20Baxter%20(CIV%201561%20of%202012)%2028%20May%202014.pdf
Marsh, an organic farmer from Kojonup, south of Perth, Western Australia, lost organic certification for most of his farm when GM canola contaminated his crop. He took action by suing his neighbour Michael Baxter in the Supreme Court of WA, in a landmark world’s first trial which started earlier this year.
Read moreSteve Marsh GM Contamination Case Fails In Australian Supreme Court
Bilderberg 2014 Agenda And Attendee’s Announced (Video)
Added: May 28, 2014
Couple Fined $746 For The Crime Of Feeding Homeless People In Florida Park
– Couple Fined $746 for the Crime of Feeding Homeless People in Florida Park (ZeroHedge, May 30, 2014):
It is a well known historical trend that as discontent and dissent spread within a society, the power structure will look to demonize unpopular or weak minorities in order to deflect frustrations away from the true culprit, the power structure itself. Many feared in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 that Muslims would serve as such a scapegoat, and indeed in many ways this occurred, although not to the extent that many feared. In my opinion, it is homeless people that are being increasingly demonized and treated as subhuman. I think that if we want to see how the state and crony corporate status quo will treat everyone in the future, all you have to do is look at the current “war on the homeless.”
Read moreCouple Fined $746 For The Crime Of Feeding Homeless People In Florida Park
500% Rise In Spain’s Long-Term Unemployment
– 500% Rise in Spain’s Long-Term Unemployment (ZeroHedge, May 30, 2014):
With yields at record lows and stocks soaring, is it any wonder that the politicians of Europe’s periphery are proclaiming victory over the crisis (and yet oddly imploring Draghi to do moar?). Perhaps, just perhaps, they are keeping one eye on the ‘real’ economic progress that is being made (or un-made) in their nations… such as Spain, where there are now 1.26 million people who have been jobless since 2010 and the long-term unemployment rate has risen by more than 500% since 2007.
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3 WTF Charts
– 3 WTF Charts (ZeroHedge, May 29, 2014)
Bush’s Anti-Terror Chief: Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld Can Be Tried at the Hague for War Crimes They Committed In Iraq
– Bush’s Anti-Terror Chief: Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld Can Be Tried at the Hague for War Crimes They Committed In Iraq (Washington’s Blog, May 30, 2014):
Obama Has Also Committed War Crimes
Bush’s top counter-terrorism official for his first year as president – Richard Clarke – tells Democracy Now that Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld committed war crimes in Iraq … and that they can be tried at the Hague:
(Clarke retired in protest at the start of the Iraq war.)
Clarke is right:
Read Snowden’s Comments On 9/11 That NBC Didn’t Broadcast
– Read Snowden’s comments on 9/11 that NBC didn’t broadcast (RT, May 30, 2014):
Only around a quarter of the recent NBC News interview with former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden made it to broadcast, but unaired excerpts now online show that the network neglected to air critical statements about the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
When the four-hour sit-down between journalist Brian Williams and Snowden made it to air on Wednesday night, NBC condensed roughly four hours of conversation into a 60-minute time slot. During an analysis of the full interview afterwards, however, the network showed portions of the interview that didn’t make it into the primetime broadcast, including remarks from the former National Security Agency contractor in which he questioned the American intelligence community’s inability to stop the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Read moreRead Snowden’s Comments On 9/11 That NBC Didn’t Broadcast
Humor: GDP – Grossly Dubious Projections
– Thursday Humor: GDP – Grossly Dubious Projections (ZeroHedge, May 29, 2014):
In the middle of the last great financial crisis, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) proclaimed that Q1 2008 was the US economy grow at a modest 0.6%. This was met with hockey-stick prognosticators looking to the heavens for the next few quarters and bleeting about transitory factors affecting the economy. However, as the following chart shows, five years later (and after numerous adjustments) the +0.6% growth for Q1 2008 had somehow morphed into a clench-worthy 2.7% collapse in the economy…
Trade accordingly…
U.S. Justice Department Slams BNP With Multi-Billion Dollar Penalty
– No Holders Barred: DOJ Slams BNP With Multi-Billion Dollar Penalty (Zerohedge, May 29, 2014):
Francois Hollande is not having a good week – disastrous elections over the weekend, followed by record high numbers of jobseekers (destroying his promise to deliver jobs), and now his banking system is under attack; as the WSJ reports:
- *US JUSTICE DEPT SEEKS >$10B BNP PENALTY FOR SANCTIONS EVASION: WSJ
A final resolution (and a guilty plea) of the years long investigation of the French bank is likely weeks away, WSJ notes but it does remain ironic that in flexing his enforcement muscles, DoJ’s Eric Holder is about to crucify yet another non-US bank.
The U.S. Justice Department is pushing BNP Paribas SA to pay more than $10 billion to resolve a criminal probe into allegations it evaded U.S. sanctions against Iran and other countries for years, which would represent one of the largest penalties ever imposed on a bank, according to people familiar with the negotiations.
Read moreU.S. Justice Department Slams BNP With Multi-Billion Dollar Penalty
WH Speaker Jay Carney Says ‘Short Russia’; Russia Says ‘Goodbye Carney’
– WH Speaker Jay Carney Says “Short Russia”; Russia Says “Goodbye Carney” (ZeroHedge, May 30, 2014):
Having failed dismally in his global macro forecasts, the White House’ press secretary Jay Carney is stepping down…
- *OBAMA SAYS SPOKESMAN JAY CARNEY STEPPING DOWN
- *OBAMA SAYS JOSH EARNEST TO BECOME PRESS SECRETARY
Perhaps it is time for him to take a role on Wall Street? His accuracy makes him a shoe-in.
Still Think the Fed Isn’t Fueling Inflation? Check Out This Chart
– Still Think the Fed Isn’t Fueling Inflation? Check Out This Chart (Washington’s Blog, May 30, 2014)
Edward Snowden Censored 9/11 & Boston Bombing Segment On NBC (Video)
FYI.
Air Date: May 28th, 2014
More info on 9/11:
– 9/11 Conspiracy Solved (Documentary)
– Bush & Cheney Asked Several Times NOT To Investigate 9/11 AT ALL (Video)
– The U.S. And Its Allies Had Contact With Bin Laden And The 9/11 Hijackers Many Times Before 9/11
– ‘Mossad, Bush Planned, Executed 9/11’ (Veterans Today)
– U.S. Court Revives 9/11 Victims’ Case Against Saudi Arabia
– An Act of War: CIA Leak Gives ‘Incontrovertible Evidence’ That 9/11 Was State Sponsored
Read moreEdward Snowden Censored 9/11 & Boston Bombing Segment On NBC (Video)
First-Quarter Economic Slowdown Blamed On Winter Weather
Sure!
Related info:
– RECOVERY: Excluding Obamacare, US Economy Contracted By 2% In The First Quarter
– First-quarter economic slowdown blamed on winter weather (Al Jazeera, May 29, 2014):
The U.S. economy contracted at an annual rate of 1 percent in the first three months of 2014, official data showed on Thursday. The last time the world’s largest economy shrank was the first quarter of 2011, but economists said they still expect a rebound from the latest figure.
Read moreFirst-Quarter Economic Slowdown Blamed On Winter Weather
Directive 3025.18 … Granting Obama Authority To Use Military Force Against Civilians
– Meet Directive 3025.18 Granting Obama Authority To Use Military Force Against Civilians (ZeroHedge, May 29, 2014):
While the “use of armed [unmanned aircraft systems] is not authorized,” The Washington Times uncovering of a 2010 Pentagon directive on military support to civilian authorities details what critics say is a troubling policy that envisions the Obama administration’s potential use of military force against Americans. As one defense official proclaimed, “this appears to be the latest step in the administration’s decision to use force within the United States against its citizens.” Meet Directive 3025.18 and all its “quelling civil disturbances” totalitarianism…
As The Washington Times reports,
Read moreDirective 3025.18 … Granting Obama Authority To Use Military Force Against Civilians
Over A Thousand Soldiers Killed As Ukraine Fighting Escalates, Russian Media Reports
– Over A Thousand Soldiers Killed As Ukraine Fighting Escalates, Russian Media Reports (ZeroHedge, May 29, 2014):
While one should take locally sourced news on the volatile situation in Ukraine, reported by media that is ideologically close to the source, with a grain of salt, Russian press agency RIA has generally had a good track record in reporting news regarding the Ukraine civil war. In which case if the following report of what may have happened overnight during the latest escalation of fighting in the eastern Ukraine city of Slavyansk, and which certainly doesn’t paint the Ukraine army in a favorable light, is even partially correct one can see why suddenly western media news coverage of the civil war in Ukraine has become somewhat sparse.
According to RIA, quoting Slaviansk people’s mayor Vyacheslav Ponomaryov, about 1,200 Ukrainian army soldiers have been killed during a special operation in Slaviansk, and eight helicopters and 15 armored vehicles were destroyed. Supposedly this includes the 1 helicopter whose crash was reported previously.
“According to our information, the Ukrainian army has the following losses and damages: 1,200-1,300 people were killed, eight helicopters, 15 armored transport vehicles, and three [artillery] weapons destroyed. They are suffering huge losses. I’m speaking only about Slaviansk,” Ponomaryov said in an interview with the Latvian radio station Baltkom.
Read moreOver A Thousand Soldiers Killed As Ukraine Fighting Escalates, Russian Media Reports
