New Homeland Security Terror Report: American Al-Qaeda Recruit Employed At Five Different US Nuclear Plants! (ABC NEWS – Video)

And how is that possible?

“The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaeda. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the ‘devil’ only in order to drive the TV watcher to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US.”
– Robin Cook, Former British Foreign Secretary

Al Qaeda Doesn’t Exist or How The US Created Al Qaeda (Documentary)


New Terror Report Warns of Insider Threat to Utilities (ABC NEWS. July 20, 2011):

Sabotage by an insider at a major utility facility, including a chemical or oil refinery, could provide al Qaeda with its best opportunity for the kind of massive Sept. 11 anniversary attack Osama bin Laden was planning, according to U.S. officials.

A new intelligence report from the Department of Homeland Security issued Tuesday, titled Insider Threat to Utilities, warns “violent extremists have, in fact, obtained insider positions,” and that “outsiders have attempted to solicit utility-sector employees” for damaging physical and cyber attacks.

Read moreNew Homeland Security Terror Report: American Al-Qaeda Recruit Employed At Five Different US Nuclear Plants! (ABC NEWS – Video)

Greece Defaults; Krugman Screams It’s 1937; Maastricht Treaty Needs Revisions; ‘European Monetary Fund’ Created; German Taxpayers on the Hook

What are these clowns thinking?

Not to forget…

Bankrupting Germany: German Bundesbank Financed ECB and National Central Banks With €338 Billion, ifo-Institute President Prof. Hans-Werner Sinn Stunned

And if those €338 Billion are not paid back German taxpayers are on the hook!

And now…


Greece Defaults; Krugman Screams It’s 1937; Maastricht Treaty Needs Revisions; “European Monetary Fund” Created; German Taxpayers on the Hook (Global Economic Analysis, July 21, 2011):

The EU summit hammered out yet another temporary fix today, albeit a complicated one.

The proposal involves the creation of a “European Monetary Fund” and it will require changes to the Maastricht Treaty. Paul Krugman does not like the austerity measures and ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet had to eat his words regarding defaults and acceptance of defaulted bonds as collateral. German taxpayers may potentially be screwed big time on this bailout.

Can this agreement hold together? Before deciding let’s look at some details.

“European Monetary Fund” Created

In what French President Nicolas Sarkozy likens to a “European Monetary Fund”, EU Leaders Offer $229 Billion in New Greek Aid

After eight hours of talks in Brussels, leaders announced 159 billion euro ($229 billion) in new aid for Greece late yesterday and cajoled bondholders into footing part of the bill. They also empowered their 440-billion euro rescue fund to buy debt across stressed euro nations after a market rout last week sparked concern the crisis was spreading. The fund can also aid troubled banks and offer credit-lines to repel speculators.

Read moreGreece Defaults; Krugman Screams It’s 1937; Maastricht Treaty Needs Revisions; ‘European Monetary Fund’ Created; German Taxpayers on the Hook

US Taxpayers Lost $1.3 Billion In Government Bailout Of Chrysler

U.S. loses $1.3 billion in exiting Chrysler (CNNMoney, July 21, 2011):

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — U.S. taxpayers likely lost $1.3 billion in the government bailout of Chrysler, the Treasury Department announced Thursday.

The government recently sold its remaining 6% stake in the company to Italian automaker Fiat. It wrapped up the 2009 bailout that was part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program six years early.

Read moreUS Taxpayers Lost $1.3 Billion In Government Bailout Of Chrysler

External Power Supply Cut At Fukushima Reactors No. 3 and 4

External power supply cut at 2 Fukushima reactors (NHK, July 22, 2011):

Tokyo Electric Power Company says part of the external power supply has been cut at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant due to a problem in the transmission lines.

TEPCO said on Friday that a current breaker was tripped by a sudden surge in the external power lines, cutting off electricity to the No. 3 and 4 reactors.

The operator was forced to suspend a system treating radioactive water. Another system cooling the No.3 reactor’s spent fuel storage pool was also shut down.
TEPCO says the pool’s temperature remains stable at around 30 degrees Celsius.

Read moreExternal Power Supply Cut At Fukushima Reactors No. 3 and 4

Typhoon Ma-on Increases Level Of Radioactive Water In Reactor No. 1 Basement By 44 Centimeters In One Day

Rain increases contaminated water at plant (NHK, July 21, 2011):

Heavy rain brought by a tropical storm has increased the level of radioactive contaminated water at the basements of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Typhoon Ma-on moved east off the southern coast of Japan’s main island of Honshu. 115 millimeters of precipitation was recorded in Namie Town, north of the plant, between Tuesday and Thursday.

Rain has been gathering in the buildings housing the reactors because the roofs were severely damaged by hydrogen explosions that occurred after the initial March 11th disaster.

Tokyo Electric Power Company or TEPCO, the plant’s operator, says that at 7 AM local time on Thursday, the level of contaminated water pooled at the basement of the building of the No. 1 reactor was 44 centimeters up from the previous day.

Read moreTyphoon Ma-on Increases Level Of Radioactive Water In Reactor No. 1 Basement By 44 Centimeters In One Day

CBS Watts Bar Nuclear Reactor Investigation Part II: Whistleblowers ‘Terrified’ At TVA Nuke Plants (Video)

See also:

CBS Investigation Regarding New Watts Bar Nuclear Reactor: Whistleblower Ann Harris: ‘The Books Are Being Cooked’ – ‘You Can See A Fukushima Happening Here In The US’ – ‘They Wired My Car For Firebombing’ (VIDEO)

Chief Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen: Why Fukushima Can Happen In The US: What the NRC and Nuclear Industry Dont Want You to Know


Whistleblowers “terrified” at TVA nuke plants? (CBS News, July 20, 2011):

In the wake of the Fukushima disaster in Japan, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has released a task force report on the safety of America’s 104 nuclear reactors.

And on “The Early Show” Wednesday, CBS News Chief Investigative Correspondent Armen Keteyian offered Part Two of his investigation into one troubled nuclear power plant, in Spring City, Tenn.

On Tuesday, he reported on whistleblower Ann Harris, a 71-year-old great-grandmother who’s made it her life’s calling to hold those operating the plant accountable when it comes to safety.

On Wednesday, he looked into the culture war at the facility known as Watts Bar.

Linda Nadeau worked for more than 20 years as a security guard for the Tennessee Valley Authority, the government-owned electricity corporation, patrolling the most secure areas of its nuclear power plants, including Watts Bar.

“I want people to know how we were treated,” she told Keteyian. “I’m not the only one. There was other people.”

Over the years, hundreds of such *people* have found their way to Harris’s home — long a safe haven for insiders seeking counsel from the former Watts Bar employee who has won a record six whistleblower lawsuits against the TVA.

“Not on anybody’s life,” says Harris, “would I let anybody know who come through here.”

She’s not alone.

A 1986 report documents what investigators called “widespread intimidation, harassment and discrimination by TVA management,” along with “widespread mistrust.”

A crying Janice Overall told CBS News her husband, Curtis, “paid the ultimate price.”

In the comfort of Harris’s kitchen, Overall spoke of Curtis, an award-winning employee who helped run Watts Bar’s unique ice containment system, designed to prevent a nuclear meltdown.

But in 1995, after Overall discovered what he believed were problems with the system on the eve of Watts Bar’s long-delayed startup, he got harassed with threatening notes, and even a fake bomb discovered in the back of his pickup. Battling a bad heart and deep depression, Overall died in 2007 at the age of 56, without any proof of who had harassed him.

Read moreCBS Watts Bar Nuclear Reactor Investigation Part II: Whistleblowers ‘Terrified’ At TVA Nuke Plants (Video)

State of Florida Made $63 Million Last Year Selling Personal Drivers’ Information (Incl. People’s Names, Addresses, Dates Of Birth, List Of Vehicles They Drive)

Florida Makes $63M Selling Drivers’ Info (Local 10, UPDATED: 12:41 am EDT July 20, 2011):

MIAMI — The state of Florida made $63 million last year selling what many think is personal information.

Local 10 has learned the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles is selling people’s names, addresses, dates of birth, a list of the vehicles they drive, and it’s legal.

“Per federal mandate, there are companies that are entitled to this information. Insurance companies, for example, are entitled to this information. Employers are entitled to this information,” said Ann Howard of the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.

The state is currently selling this information to companies including Lexus Nexus and Shadow Soft. Those companies gather data on people and then sell that data. The companies must sign contracts with state claiming they won’t harass people.

Read moreState of Florida Made $63 Million Last Year Selling Personal Drivers’ Information (Incl. People’s Names, Addresses, Dates Of Birth, List Of Vehicles They Drive)

Global Physical Gold & Silver Reserves Race Is The New Nuclear Arms Race

The Global Physical Gold & Silver Reserves Race is the New Nuclear Arms Race (ZeroHedge, July 21, 2011):

The old Cold War USA-USSR nuclear arms race has been replaced by the new East-West Central Bank battle to accumulate physical gold and physical silver reserves. While Western Central Banks and their puppet bullion banks have distracted and goaded private citizens with the invention of fraudulent bogus paper gold and paper silver derivative products, including ETFs more recently, and paper futures contracts for a much longer period of time, they themselves have been making sure to avoid the very fraudulent paper products they have invented and have been diving headfirst into real physical precious metals.

As Central Banks continue to significantly devalue all major global currencies through excessive creation of new supply out of thin air in a digital world where “new money” is never even printed into paper/cotton form but only is created as digital bytes that are sent across international borders, the private families that are the majority shareholders in the world’s most powerful Central Banks have engaged in heavy buying of physical gold in particular, and to a lesser degree, physical silver. In 2010, Central Banks as a group, became net buyers of physical gold after two decades as net sellers. EU Central Bankers became net buyers of physical gold for the first time during the 1st Quarter 2011 since their introduction of the heavily flawed Euro into circulation in January of 2002.

As of April 2011, China was, according to “officially reported” statistics, the sixth-largest official holder of gold, with 1,054.1 tonness, according to World Gold Council estimates. The U.S. was still reported to possess the largest gold reserves at 8,133.5 tonnes. However, all of you know by now that I believe all “officially reported” statistics, whether the statistic is GDP, unemployment, inflation, or gold reserves, to be a charade and mockery of the truth. To this day I am highly skeptical of the US reported reserves of 8,133.5 tonnes, especially since these reserves have neither been independently audited nor independently tested to ensure that they meet good-for-delivery bar status since Dwight D. Eisenhower was the US President in the 1950s. As for China’s “officially reported” holdings of only 1,054.1 tonnes, anyone that takes these reported stats at face value as the truth is a fool for any number of logical reasons. One, China reported that its “official” gold holdings were a constant 600 tonnes from 2003 to 2009 and then reported that it had increased its holdings to more than 1,000 tonnes overnight in 2009. Since China lied about its gold reserve holdings for more than 6 years, one cannot and should not assume that their “officially” announced 1,054.1 tonne level was truthful. Since China made that announcement in 2009, their “official” gold reserve level has not increased at all.

Read moreGlobal Physical Gold & Silver Reserves Race Is The New Nuclear Arms Race

U.N. Declares Famine In Somalia

Explainer: Famine in Somalia (Guardian, July 20, 2011)

By officially declaring parts of Somalia to be in the grip of famine, the UN will be hoping to galvanise governments and the public into action to address the food crisis in east Africa. The UN estimates that 12 million in the region are now in need of emergency help and warns that thousands will die unless aid arrives quickly.

Where is the famine?

The UN declared on Wednesday that famine now exists in two regions of southern Somalia: southern Bakool and Lower Shabelle. Across the country, nearly half of the Somali population – 3.7 million people – are now facing severe food shortages, of whom an estimated 2.8 million people are in the south. The Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU), funded by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), warns that in the next one or two months famine will become widespread throughout southern Somalia unless help arrives. It says the crisis represents the most serious food insecurity situation in the world today and that the current humanitarian response is inadequate. Although Somalia is the worst-affected country, the crisis affects a much wider region, including the northern part of Kenya and southern parts of Ethiopia, Djibouti, the northern Karamoja region of Uganda, and parts of South and North Sudan, where large areas are classified as being in a state of humanitarian emergency.

Read moreU.N. Declares Famine In Somalia

UNPRECEDENTED Scalar Square And ‘HAARP Ring’ Outbreak (07/20/2011)


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This is the most activity I have seen with Scalar square and HAARP ring.. as well as ghost storm activity all in one single shot !

BEWARE at the locations shown to be the center of the rings..

Read moreUNPRECEDENTED Scalar Square And ‘HAARP Ring’ Outbreak (07/20/2011)

If You STILL Haven’t Bought Any Physical Gold Yet …

… not to forget physical silver!!!


If You Haven’t Bought Any Gold Yet… (ZeroHedge, July 21, 2011):

If You Haven’t Bought Any Gold Yet…

Print. Lie. Borrow. Deceive. Deny. These are a the principal tenants of the Greek restructuring plan that were released today from Brussels… it’s as if EU policymakers put it together after shaking a Magic 8-ball.

The whole world knows that Greece is bankrupt and has been living bailout to bailout for over a year. Deep in debt and devoid of cash, the country has completely forsaken its sovereignty in exchange for becoming a ward of the European Union; Prime Minister George Papandreou is now a hapless stooge awaiting instructions from Germany.

It’s ironic that the Greek proposal released today calls for a ‘Marshall Plan’ of investment across Europe… given that the last time Greece was being controlled by Germany was during the country’s occupation by Nazi forces after being vanquished by Hitler’s 12th Army in April 1941.

And so, with limited debate and even less fanfare, Europe has just officially signed on to destroy its own currency. Utterly worthless, quasi-defaulted Greek debt will become perfectly acceptable collateral, much in the same way that the US Federal Reserve took every scrap of toxic paper it could find off banks in 2008 and 2009.

Given the favorable market reaction, European politicians must be feeling pretty proud of themselves. The euro is up. The stock market is up. Oil is up. Well, never mind about oil, they’ll blame that on evil speculators… just like food prices.

Read moreIf You STILL Haven’t Bought Any Physical Gold Yet …

Gun-Smuggling Cartel Figures Possibly Were Paid FBI Informants

Flashback:

Big US Bank Laundered Billions From Mexico’s Murderous Drug Gangs

Second ATF Agent Speaks Out: ATF Allowed And Encouraged Gun Trafficking To Mexican Drug Cartels

Former Assistant Secretary of Housing: The U.S. is the Global Leader in Illegal Money Laundering


Gun-smuggling cartel figures possibly were paid FBI informants (Los Angeles Times, July 17, 2011):

Probe reveals that the U.S. agency running the ‘Fast and Furious’ anti-gun-trafficking operation didn’t know about the alleged FBI informants. Congressional investigators are looking into the matter.

Congressional investigators probing the controversial “Fast and Furious” anti-gun-trafficking operation on the border with Mexico believe at least six Mexican drug cartel figures involved in gun smuggling also were paid FBI informants, officials said Saturday.

The investigators have asked the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration for details about the alleged informants, as well as why agents at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which ran the Fast and Furious operation, were not told about them.

The development raises further doubts about the now-shuttered program, which was created in November 2009 in an effort to track guns across the border and unravel the cartels’ gun smuggling networks. The gun tracing largely failed, however, and hundreds of weapons purchased in U.S. shops later were found at crime scenes in Mexico.

The scandal has angered Mexican officials and some members of Congress. Investigators say nearly 2,500 guns were allowed to flow illegally into Mexico under the ATF program, fueling the drug violence ravaging that country and leading to the shooting death of a U.S. border agent.

In a letter to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, the investigators asked why U.S. taxpayers’ money apparently was paid to Mexican cartel members who have terrorized the border region for years in their efforts to smuggle drugs into this country, and to ship U.S. firearms into Mexico.

“We have learned of the possible involvement of paid FBI informants in Operation Fast and Furious,” wrote Rep. Darrel Issa (R-Vista), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee. The two have been the leading congressional critics of the program.

“At least one individual who is allegedly an FBI informant might have been in communication with, and was perhaps even conspiring with, at least one suspect whom ATF was monitoring,” they wrote.

Read moreGun-Smuggling Cartel Figures Possibly Were Paid FBI Informants

Message From ‘Anonymous’: What Are We Capable Of?

For your information…

I would not trust WikiCIAleaks nor do I think that anything has changed in Egypt (Meet the new leader, same as the old one!).

BUT peaceful resistance is working and growing your own food is an excellent suggestion.

Greetings Anonymous! How about these targets?

Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer, Pioneer (All environmental terrorists which are totally contaminating our future.)

… or …

the financial terrorists JP Morgue, Government Sachs etc.



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High Levels Of Radioactivity Found Extensively (NHK): Japan Gov. Says Air 150 Km From Fukushima Nuclear Plant As Radioactive As Areas 50 Km From Meltdown

Watch the video here.

High levels of radioactivity found extensively (NHK, July 21, 2011):

Japan’s science ministry says air above the ground about 150 kilometers from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is as radioactive as areas 50 kilometers from the source of radioactivity.

The ministry on Wednesday released a map showing radiation levels at locations one meter above the ground in Miyagi Prefecture, north of Fukushima, based on the results of an aerial survey from June 22nd through 30th.

Read moreHigh Levels Of Radioactivity Found Extensively (NHK): Japan Gov. Says Air 150 Km From Fukushima Nuclear Plant As Radioactive As Areas 50 Km From Meltdown

S&P: Likelihood US Is Downgraded To AA As Soon As Early August Is 50-50

S&P Says Likelihood US Is Downgraded To AA As Soon As Early August Is 50-50 (ZeroHedge, July 21, 2011):

A rather sobering report out from S&P, which has no other function than to tighten the screws even more on those who prudently are holding out against extending the debt ceiling. As for S&P: please explain to US how 120% debt/GDP is better than 100% debt/GDP, and thus more worthy of a AAA rating? Please. Because we must be bloody stupid.

The U.S. Debt Ceiling Standoff Could Reverberate Around The Globe–With Or Without A Deal

As the Obama Administration and congressional Republicans continue to struggle over raising the government’s debt ceiling, Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services believes that the reverberations of the showdown may be deep and wide–particularly if Washington does not come to a timely agreement on the debt ceiling.

Our analysts have considered three hypothetical scenarios that could emerge, and we plan to publish articles today detailing our views on the potential effects of each on the financial services industry, corporate borrowers, structured finance, public finance borrowers, as well as economies and markets around the world. The scenarios are as follows:

  • Scenario 1–The White House and Congress agree to raise the debt ceiling and collaborate on a long-term framework for fiscal consolidation;
  • Scenario 2–The White House and Congress agree to raise the debt ceiling to avoid potential default but are not able to formulate what we consider to be a realistic and credible fiscal consolidation plan;
  • Scenario 3–The White House and Congress cannot agree to raise the debt ceiling by their Aug. 2 deadline, and the Treasury begins to sharply reduce spending to preserve cash for debt service and to try to keep within the debt ceiling. Such measures could conclude, if the standoff persisted for just a short while, with the Treasury missing an interest payment or failing to pay off maturing debt, i.e. a default.

Read moreS&P: Likelihood US Is Downgraded To AA As Soon As Early August Is 50-50

It Has Started: Wall Street Prepares For Doomsday Scenario (Business Insider)

Flashback:

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine depicts the destruction of New York & Wall Street as described in the Book of Revelation


It Has Started: Wall Street Is Preparing For A Doomsday Scenario (Business Insider, July 21, 2011):

If you’re simply looking at their public statements, Wall Streeters seem to be alarmed about the debt crisis, but don’t appear to be sliding into panic mode.

In fact, they’re just really good actors.

Read moreIt Has Started: Wall Street Prepares For Doomsday Scenario (Business Insider)

Citi’s Top Economist Willem Buiter Says The Water Market Will Soon Eclipse Oil

Must see:

– Former governor Jesse Ventura Conspiracy Theory: ‘Worldwide Water Conspiracy’ (FULL LENGTH)


Citi’s Top Economist Says The Water Market Will Soon Eclipse Oil (Business Insider, July 21, 2011):

Citi economist Willem Buiter tells clients to invest in the water industry which will soon become hotter than oil (via FT Alphaville):

I expect to see in the near future a massive expansion of investment in the water sector, including the production of fresh, clean water from other sources (desalination, purification), storage, shipping and transportation of water. I expect to see pipeline networks that will exceed the capacity of those for oil and gas today.

I see fleets of water tankers (single-hulled!) and storage facilities that will dwarf those we currently have for oil, natural gas and LNG. I see new canal systems dug for water transportation, similar in ambition and scale to those currently in progress in China, linking the Yangtze River in the South to the Yellow River in the arid north.

I also hope and expect that these new canal ventures will be designed and implemented with a greater awareness of the environmental and social impact of such mega-projects. India will have to engage in investment on a scale comparable to that seen today in China to produce clean water in the best locations and transport it to where the household, industrial and agricultural users are.

Read moreCiti’s Top Economist Willem Buiter Says The Water Market Will Soon Eclipse Oil

Alert: Fed Preparing For US Default Says Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Plosser

Got gold and silver?


Fed Preparing For US Default Says Plosser (ZeroHedge, July 20, 2011):

That giant whooshing, and humming, sound you hear are all the printers at the basement of Marriner Eccles getting refills and start the warm up process. Because according to the Fed Charles Plosser the Federal Reserve is actively preparing for the possibility that the United States could default. Which can only mean one thing: an immediate paradrop of millions of $100 bricks to every man woman and child in the US since as we all know by know Tim Geithner has repeatedly confirmed the Treasury has absolutely no default plans. None.

Per Reuters:

Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Plosser said the Fed has for the past few months been working closely with Treasury, ironing out what to do if the world’s biggest economy runs out of cash on August 2.

“We are in contingency planning mode,” Plosser told Reuters in an interview at the regional central bank’s headquarters in Philadelphia. “We are all engaged … It’s a very active process.”

Plosser said his “gut feeling” was that President Barack Obama and Congress will come to an agreement to increase the Treasury’s borrowing authority in time to avert a default on government obligations.

And in addition to the warming up, the Fed is also engaging in the following:

Read moreAlert: Fed Preparing For US Default Says Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Plosser

Japan: 1458 Radioactive Meat Cows May Have Already Been Sold!

1,458 Meat Cows Possibly Contaminated from Radioactive Rice Hay Have Already Been Sold (EX-SKF, July 20, 2011):

Now the case of radioactive rice hay and radioactive beef has blown wide open. First it was only a couple, then a few hundreds, then many hundreds, now it is way over thousand and counting.

It looks more and more like the Minamata mercury poisoning, except this time, it’s nationwide.

Yomiuri Shinbun (1:33AM JST 7/21/2011):

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6 prefectures announced on July 20 that the cattle farmers in their prefectures had shipped the total of 637 meat cows fed with the rice hay suspected of containing radioactive cesium in high concentration. The prefectures are: Iwate, Akita, Niigata, Gunma, Shizuoka, and Gifu.

Read moreJapan: 1458 Radioactive Meat Cows May Have Already Been Sold!

240 Japanese Children in 3 Nursery Schools Ate Radioactive Beef

If this much radiation is still pouring down in Canada …

Canada: Dangerous Levels Of Radiation – Highly Radioactive Rain in Lake Louise, BC (1.66 mcSv/hr) (07/18/2011)

… then guess how bad the situation must be in Japan.


240 Children in 3 Nursery Schools in Yamagata Prefecture Ate Cesium Beef (EX-SKF, July 19, 2011):

This must be the first confirmed case of small children having been fed with the beef contaminated with radioactive cesium.

These small children ate beef from a meat cow in Asakawa-machi in Fukushima Prefecture, and the cow had been fed with the rice hay that contained the maximum 97,000 becuerels/kg of radioactive cesium.

Yamagata Shinbun (7/20/2011) reports:

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Concerning the beef from the cows from Asakawa-machi in Fukushima Prefecture that were fed with the rice hay that contained the high level of radioactive cesium, Sakata City (in Yamagata Prefecture) announced on July 19 that 3 nursery schools in the city purchased the beef in late April, and total 290 children and teachers ate the meat in school lunches.

Read more240 Japanese Children in 3 Nursery Schools Ate Radioactive Beef

Bank of America Reports Worst Quarterly Results In Its History: $9.1 Billion Loss!

$9.1 billion loss is BofA’s biggest (Charlotte Observer, July 20, 2011):

Bank of America reported the worst quarterly results in its history Tuesday, but chief executive Brian Moynihan continued to insist his bank doesn’t need to raise more capital.

The Charlotte bank’s capital base was a hot topic for analysts after the bank reported a second-quarter loss of $9.1 billion, including preferred dividend payments. The loss was in line with estimates the bank gave last month when it disclosed plans to take more than $20 billion in mortgage-related charges.

The river of red ink, compared to a $2.8 billion gain a year earlier, again showed the nation’s biggest bank is laboring to bury mortgage-related troubles inherited from its 2008 Countrywide Financial purchase. A big chunk of the losses stem from an $8.5 billion settlement announced last month over investor claims related to Countrywide loans sold off during the housing boom.

Read moreBank of America Reports Worst Quarterly Results In Its History: $9.1 Billion Loss!

1 BILLION BECQUERELS PER HOUR Emission of Radioactive Materials from Fukushima I Nuke Plant at the End of June

1 Billion Becquerels Per Hour Emission of Radioactive Materials from Fukushima I Nuke Plant at the End of June (EX-SKF, July 19, 2011):

That’s an amazing reduction from the maximum emission of 2,000 terabecquerels per hour on March 15, it is actually one-2 millionth of the maximum, says TEPCO in the Reference No. 2 of the progress report on the “roadmap” to God knows where.

Is this number, 1 billion becquerels per hour emission, good? TEPCO’s Matsumoto, in the press conference on July 19, avoided the judgment, and said he didn’t know, but it was one-2 millionth of what it had been on March 15.

On closer reading of the document, though, I noticed one strange thing about this emission number. TEPCO is talking about the radiation emission measured in cesium (cesium-134 and -137), not in iodine equivalence.

To come up with the iodine-131 equivalence, you have to multiply cesium-134 by 3, and cesium-137 by 40 (according to INES handbook). TEPCO doesn’t even give the breakdown of cesium 134 and -137 in its calculation of 1 billion becquerels/hour number. Other nuclides have even higher multiplier: americium-241 is 8,000, plutonium-239 is 10,000.

If half of 1 billion becquerels is cesium-134 and the other half is cesium-137, then in iodine-131 equivalence like in the previous calculations, the emission would be:

(0.5*3)+(0.5*40)=1.5+20=21.5 billion becquerels/hour

Instead of 1 billion becquerels/hour, it would be 21.4 billion becquerels/hour in iodine equivalence, or 516 billion becquerels in one day. In less than 2 days, we would be talking about over 1 terabecquerels.

Read more1 BILLION BECQUERELS PER HOUR Emission of Radioactive Materials from Fukushima I Nuke Plant at the End of June

AND NOW: Japan Won’t Rule Out Radioactive Fukushima Beef Was Exported (Bloomberg)

See also:

Miyagi Man Who Sold Radioactive Straw Blames Government For Scandal, Says He Never Imagined Straw To Be Contaminated Because His City Is 150 Km Away From Fukushima Nuke Plant


Japan Won’t Rule Out Possibility Radioactive Fukushima Beef Was Exported (Bloomberg, July 20, 2011):

Japan’s government said it can’t rule out the possibility beef contaminated with radioactive material has been exported, as consumers and lawmakers accused authorities of negligence on food safety.

The government yesterday imposed a ban on beef shipments from areas near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant after finding 637 cattle were fed hay containing radioactive cesium. Supermarkets including Japan’s biggest, Aeon Co., said the beef was sold in Tokyo and other cities.

“We cannot completely rule out the possibility” contaminated beef was also sold abroad, Yuichi Imasaki, the deputy director of the farm ministry’s meat and egg division said by phone today. “The chances are very low” because most countries have tightened rules on Japanese beef imports or banned them, he said.

Read moreAND NOW: Japan Won’t Rule Out Radioactive Fukushima Beef Was Exported (Bloomberg)