AJDABIYA, Libya – Rebel fighters claimed NATO airstrikes blasted their forces Thursday in another apparent mistake that sharply escalated anger about the military alliance's efforts to cripple Libyan forces. At least five rebels were killed and more than 20 injured, a doctor said.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
New Earthquake Off Japanese Coast Accompanied By Strange Blue Light Show
New Earthquake Off Japanese Coast Accompanied By Strange Blue Light Show
LIVE UPDATES…
Prisonplanet.com
April 7, 2011
UPDATE 11.15 CST - New Japan Quake Cuts Power To Nuclear Plants
UPDATE 11.13 CST – Blackouts reported in Sendai.
UPDATE 11.09 CST – Quake halts operations of some thermal power plants in Aomori, Akita according to Kyodo News.
UPDATE 11.05 CST – Here is a better video of the blue light:
UPDATE 11.02 CST – Sky News is still reporting on the blue light, calling it an “Earthquake light” and promising to seek an explanation from a seismologist.
UPDATE 10.59 CST – More on that mysterious blue light. It can be seen at 38 seconds into the video below:
UPDATE 10.56 CST - TSUNAMI ALERT LIFTED
UPDATE 10.50 CST - Video taken in Tokyo of a blinding blue light witnessed on the horizon at the time of the quake is causing a stir. Sky News reports that the light could be a phenomenon thought to occur due to intense electromagnetic activity with the movement of tectonic plates.
UPDATE 10.22 CST - No damage, casualties in Miyagi Pref. as of 11:55 Thurs.: police
UPDATE 10.20 CST – The quake has been revised down to a mag 7.1.
UPDATE 10.19 CST – Japanes Weather agency sees Miyagi quake as aftershock of March 11 temblor.
UPDATE 10.16 CST – Water is still being injected into the nuclear reactors at the Fukushima plant.
UPDATE 10.15 CST – Workers at the Fukushima plant have been moved to higher ground, according to TEPCO officials.
UPDATE 10.13 CST – BBC news is reporting that the waves from the quake have already hit parts of the shoreline.
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A strong earthquake measuring 7.4 has struck 25 miles off the Japanese coast, close to the 9.0 quake that hit last month. The Japanese government has issued a Tsunami warning and is expecting a wave up to 2 meters high imminently.
No impact has yet been detected at the Fukushima nuclear plant according to Japanese news.
Developing…
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/at00ljadqj.php
Progress Reported on Budget Standoff, but No Deal Yet
Progress Reported on Budget Standoff, but No Deal Yet - NYTimes.com
WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders said that a second negotiating session in the Oval Office with President Obama had once again failed to resolve the budget standoff, but they said discussions were continuing and that they intended to return to the White House Thursday evening for more talks.
Silver moving towards $40 an ounce as Ron Paul to investigate the US Mint
Silver moving towards $40 an ounce as Ron Paul to investigate the US Mint
Silver and gold have been the big winners on April 5th while the economy stagnates on lower manufacturing news. Silver crossed over $39 an ounce, and is just .70 short of $40. Gold however, has gained nearly $20 today and is at a new all time high of $1455. These moves are coming as a new report comes out that Congressman Ron Paul is intending to hold hearings on why the US Mint has silver shortages to sell to the public.
Meanwhile, the dollar is flat, holding just under its open today at 75.83 on the index. Oil is still over $108 a barrel, but is down .21 on today's trading.
Collapse of the US Dollar System? Looming Financial Collapse :
Collapse of the US Dollar System? Looming Financial Collapse :
International Forecaster
By Bob Chapman
April 6th, 2011
As each day passes the US dollar loses prestige and its status as a world reserve currency. Washington and Wall Street pay little attention to its slide and the changes a lower dollar and loss of reserve status will bring. Once the dollar is dethroned Americans will have to learn to live on the edges of the economic and financial world.
Those of you who have not read G. Edward Griffins’ “Creature from Jekyll Island” should. It tells you why the Federal Reserve was created and why the Federal Reserve was created and what its function is. It also shows you why except for Wall Street, banking and selected elitist corporations why the system was designed to self-destruct. If you read economic and financial history you will discover why such economic and financial destruction takes place repeatedly and that more often than not does not happen due to incompetence, war or error, but it is planned that way.
Iron Dome intercepts first rocket - Israel News
Iron Dome intercepts first rocket - Israel News, Ynetnews
Residents in Ashkelon reported Thursday seeing Israel's new Iron Dome defense system intercept a Grad rocket fired towards the southern city from the Gaza Strip.
Congress repeals burdensome 1099 requirement in Obamacare; full repeal may be on the way
Congress repeals burdensome 1099 requirement in Obamacare; full repeal may be on the way
NaturalNews) The first signs of a full repeal of the Obama health care overhaul emerged this week when the US Congress finally voted to repeal key portions of the bill that would have imposed significant new tax and paperwork burdens on small businesses. US Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) hailed the repeal as a "down payment on total repeal," indicating that the GOP-dominated Congress still plans to aggressively move forward against the bill.
Learn more:http://www.naturalnews.com/031990_1099_Obamacare.html#ixzz1Iqyv2Fu7
Learn more:http://www.naturalnews.com/031990_1099_Obamacare.html#ixzz1Iqyv2Fu7
South Korea schools shut over radioactive rain
South Korea schools shut over radioactive rain | Herald Sun
DOZENS of South Korean schools have cancelled classes as officials scrambled to quell fears that rain contained radioactive material from Japan's stricken nuclear plant.
More than 130 primary schools and kindergartens in Gyeonggi province surrounding the capital Seoul cancelled or cut classes today after rain began falling on orders from the provincial education office.
An office spokesman called it part of "preemptive measures for the safety of students".
The office had told schools on Wednesday to cancel or shorten classes due to "growing anxiety among students and parents over conflicting claims on the safety of radiation exposure".
Schools in remote areas, where students have a long walk to class, were particularly encouraged to cancel activities. At schools which stayed open, teachers were advised to suspend outdoor activities.
BRETTON WOODS II 265
BRETTON WOODS II 265
By Pete Papaherakles
Internationalist billionaire George Soros is holding his international conference April 8 to April 11 at Bretton Woods, N.H., the noted birthplace of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, where he plans to “rearrange the entire financial order,” as he noted in a November 2009 article in The Japan Times Online.
New 7.4 Mag Earthquake Off Japanese Coast, Tsunami Warning Issued: LIVE UPDATES
New 7.4 Mag Earthquake Off Japanese Coast, Tsunami Warning Issued: LIVE UPDATES
April 7, 2011
UPDATE 10.22 CST - No damage, casualties in Miyagi Pref. as of 11:55 Thurs.: police
UPDATE 10.20 CST – The quake has been revised down to a mag 7.1.
UPDATE 10.19 CST – Japanes Weather agency sees Miyagi quake as aftershock of March 11 temblor.
UPDATE 10.16 CST – Water is still being injected into the nuclear reactors at the Fukushima plant.
UPDATE 10.15 CST – Workers at the Fukushima plant have been moved to higher ground, according to TEPCO officials.
UPDATE 10.13 CST – BBC news is reporting that the waves from the quake have already hit parts of the shoreline.
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A strong earthquake measuring 7.4 has struck 25 miles off the Japanese coast, close to the 9.0 quake that hit last month. The Japanese government has issued a Tsunami warning and is expecting a wave up to 2 meters high imminently.
No impact has yet been detected at the Fukushima nuclear plant according to Japanese news.
Developing…
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/at00ljadqj.php
Mayor Tom Menino To Ban Sugary Drink Sales On Boston City Property
Mayor Tom Menino To Ban Sugary Drink Sales On Boston City Property « CBS Boston
BOSTON (CBS) – Mayor Tom Menino is set to issue an executive order to ban the sale of sugary drinks on Boston city property.
Menino is expected to make the announcement at City Hall before noon. The mayor’s office said Menino is issuing this order because of the link between sugary drinks and rising obesity rates and health care costs.
The mayor hopes the city takes steps over the next six months to phase out the sale of sugary beverages on city property.
Gaddafi Starts Bombarding His Own Oil Fields
Gaddafi Starts Bombarding His Own Oil Fields | zero hedge
Back in February we were wondering how long before Gadaffi starts a scorched earth policy on his own country, and primarily his oil infrastructure, in a repeat of Hussein's non-triumphal departure from Kuwait. Turns out the answer is about a month and a half. With it now becoming painfully clear that the whole purpose of the humanitarian intervention is to procure preferential terms of oil imports from Libya's rebel alliance, the "humanitarian" force has forgotten that despite no airplanes, Gaddafi will likely not take too kindly to not collecting revenues from what he perceives as his natural resources. From the FT: "Oil production in rebel-controlled eastern Libya has stopped after troops loyal to Muammer Gaddafi bombarded several oilfields, the opposition said on Wednesday. The assault came hours after the rebels exported their first cargo of oil into the international market, potentially opening the door to millions of dollars of funding to sustain their uprising against Colonel Gaddafi’s 41-year rule. The attack against oilfields in the east was the first against production facilities. Previously, only port facilities and crude oil storage tanks in the Es Sider and Ras Lanuf, also in the east, were damaged during the conflict." We are confident that this escalation will give NATO the caed blanche to commence a land-based campaign and prevent further infrastructure destruction before Gaddafi causes irreparable damage to even more facilities (although Halliburton naturally couldn't care less).
More from the FT:
While storage could be repaired relatively quickly, production facilities are far more complex, particularly if oil wells caught fire.
Abdul Jalil Mayuf, an official at the Arabian Gulf Oil Company, said production had been stopped “because it was not safe” following an attack on the Misla field by pro-Gaddafi troops. “It’s not safe in the fields,” he said.
The attacks on the fields came as Arab nations backing the use of force in Libya were being urged to help train and guide rebel fighters as western military planners prepare for involving ground forces.
Amid fears of a prolonged stalemate, the UK and France are approaching Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to provide or fund military specialists to bring some fighting discipline to a ragtag opposition force.
This guidance, which could be supplied by military contractors, would be modelled loosely on the clandestine ground support and air cover provided for the irregular Northern Alliance fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001.
Air strikes halted forces loyal to Col Gaddafi from advancing on Benghazi but the planners realise it will take more than that to tip the balance.
Gold hits record after ECB signal on rates
Gold hits record after ECB signal on rates | Reuters
Spot gold rose to a peak at $1,464.80 an ounce and was bid at $1,464.12 an ounce at 1354 GMT, against $1,457 late in New York on Wednesday.
U.S. gold futures for June delivery were up $7 an ounce to $1,465.50, having earlier peaked at $1,467 an ounce.
Rio school shooting leaves up to 20 children dead
Rio school shooting leaves up to 20 children dead | World news | guardian.co.uk
As many as 20 people are feared dead after a gunman invaded a primary school in Rio de Janeiro and opened fire.
One witness told the Guardian he had seen between 15 and 20 children dead or seriously wounded inside the Tasso da Silveira primary school in western Rio.
"It is a massacre, a true massacre," said Roni de Macedo, a fireman who arrived on the scene shortly after the shooting began and dragged eight seriously injured children from the second floor classroom. "There is blood on the walls, blood on the chairs. There are 15 to 20 dead I think," said De Macedo, who was covered in blood
Fort Carson plans mass-casualty exercise
A Free Thinker's Journey: CO - Fort Carson plans mass-casualty exercise
Fort Carson will practice responding to a mass-casualty accident with an exercise simulating an airplane crash.
The exercise takes place Wednesday at Butts Army Airfield at Fort Carson, just outside Colorado Springs.
The exercise will involve resources and personnel from around Fort Carson, including Evans Army Community Hospital and first responders from nearby communities.
How 6,700 Tons of Radioactive Sand from Kuwait Ended Up in Idaho
How 6,700 Tons of Radioactive Sand from Kuwait Ended Up in Idaho | World | AlterNet
Questions remain about how depleted uranium waste from the first Gulf War was transferred, and whether health risks were posed.
High radiation levels to delay covering of Japanese reactors
High radiation levels to delay covering of Japanese reactors - Monsters and Critics
Tokyo - High levels of radiation will prevent the operator of a damaged nuclear plant from covering troubled reactor buildings with special sheets o stop radiation leakage, a news report said Wednesday.
Oil could hit $200-$300 on Saudi unrest-Yamani
UPDATE 2-Oil could hit $200-$300 on Saudi unrest-Yamani | Reuters
* Political discontent in Saudi not resolved-Yamani
* "Surprises on the horizon" Yamani predicts
* Consultant says Saudi a "time bomb", change inevitable
By Emma Farge
LONDON, April 5 (Reuters) - Oil prices could rocket to $200- $300 a barrel if the world's top crude exporter Saudi Arabia is hit by serious political unrest, former Saudi oil minister Sheikh Zaki Yamani told Reuters on Tuesday.
"We could never see blue sky" - News
20 Minutes Online - "We could never see blue sky" - News
The three-day meeting of experts of various disciplines in Chicheley Hall is about, with technical refinements in the processes of nature to intervene to cool the atmosphere. And about who would make that decision in order to save the planet.
The previously unknown risks of the so-called geo-engineering in many delegates out of the meeting in March discomfort. "If we could experiment with the atmosphere and literally play God, it's very tempting for a scientist," says geoscientist
Sex gang unveiled in Northern Britain
PressTV - Sex gang unveiled in Northern Britain
The discovery was made when police were investigating the case of Charlene Downes who disappeared in Blackpool in 2003
British police have detected a group that groomed 60 school girls for sex during a probe into the disappearance and murder of a 14-year-old girl in a Northern seaside town.
The discovery was made when police were investigating the case of Charlene Downes who disappeared in Blackpool in 2003
Blair: Libya is more like Kosovo
PressTV - Blair: Libya is more like Kosovo
Blair, interviewing Danish press over the current situation of Libya and the military intervention of Britain in the country unrest, said, "I don't think we've got an option. Not intervening is also a decision", he says. Blair also said his country could not “sit back and let people be killed in large numbers.”
In response to the question asking whether air power in Libya was enough, he said "Libya is less like Iraq and more like Kosovo."
In response to the question asking whether air power in Libya was enough, he said "Libya is less like Iraq and more like Kosovo."
» Van Rompuy: ‘Almost a lie’ to say EU not democratic
» Van Rompuy: ‘Almost a lie’ to say EU not democratic
We Are Change
April 5, 2011
European Council President Herman van Rompuy was questioned by students at Warsaw University on democracy in the European Union. He seemed irritated at the suggestion that the EU was undemocratic, despite the fact that he’s completely unaccountable to the people of Europe.
Ivory Coast: UN air strikes show West's new appetite for military action
Ivory Coast: UN air strikes show West's new appetite for military action - Telegraph
Yet the past three weeks have found the council – this time with a less noisy Anglo-American wing – willing to pass stunningly powerful resolutions allowing missile strikes against murderous leaders.
Both resolution 1973 on Libya and resolution 1975 on Ivory Coast give external forces the authority to take "all necessary" measures to protect civilians from violence – practically a carte blanche.
Cumulative Low-Level Doses of Radiation Can Cause Big Problems
Cumulative Low-Level Doses of Radiation Can Cause Big Problems | zero hedge
When scientists speak of radiation, they speak not only of single doses but also of cumulative doses.
See for example, this research from the University of Iowa showing that “cumulative radon exposure is a significant risk factor for lung cancer in women".
And see these studies on the health effects cumulative doses of radioactive cesium. (As I noted on March 29th, the radioactive cesium fallout from Japan already rivals Chernobyl. And the amount of radioactive fuel at Fukushima dwarfsChernobyl).
Admittedly, the damage from huge single doses may be greater than the same cumulative dose from many small exposures. But the smaller doses can still add up.
Many studies have shown that repeated exposures to low levels of ionizing radiation from CT scans and x-rays can cause cancer. See this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this.
Remember, the radiation from CT scans and x-rays are external emitters - the radiation emanates from outside the body. In contract, internal emitters keep emitting their radiation inside the body. Therefore, the cumulative effect of multiple small doses of radiation from internal emitters could be even more dramatic, depending on the half life, metabolic pathways and other properties of the particular radioactive particle.
As the European Committee on Radiation Risk notes:
Cumulative impacts of chronic irradiation in low doses are ... important for the comprehension, assessment and prognosis of the late effects of irradiation on human beings ...
And see this.
A military briefing written by the U.S. Army for commanders in Iraq states:
Hazards from low level radiation are long-term, not acute effects... Every exposure increases risk of cancer.
(Military briefings for commanders often contain less propaganda than literature aimed at civilians, as the commanders have to know the basic facts to be able to assess risk to their soldiers.)
The briefing states that doses are cumulative, citing the following military studies and reports:
- ACE Directive 80-63, ACE Policy for Defensive Measures against Low Level Radiological Hazards during Military Operations, 2 AUG 96
- AR 11-9, The Army Radiation Program, 28 MAY 99
- FM 4-02.283, Treatment of Nuclear and Radiological Casualties, 20 DEC 01
- JP 3-11, Joint Doctrine for Operations in NBC Environments, 11 JUL 00
- NATO STANAG 2473, Command Guidance on Low Level Radiation Exposure in Military Operations, 3 MAY 00
- USACHPPM TG 244, The NBC Battle Book, AUG 02
Why was the military advising commanders on radiation in Iraq? Presumably because the American military used depleted uranium in Iraq (see this, this, this, this, this and this).
One of the Giant's of Radiation Exposure Science Warned of Cumulative Low-Dose Exposures
American reporter Dahr Jamail reports today for Al Jazeera:
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