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The Chosun Ilbo French President Francois Hollande has promised sweeping new anti-corruption measures, a day after his former budget minister admitted having had a secret foreign bank account containing hundreds of thousands of euros. In a taped television address Wednesday, Hollande said he would introduce legislation requiring government ministers and members of parliament to declare and publish details of their personal wealth, and would take steps to strengthen the independence [...] Radiation is leaking from Iran’s nuclear facility at Fordow, which suffered devastating explosions on Jan. 21, The regime has ordered millions of antidote iodine pills from Russia and Ukraine amid fears the radioactivity will spread. Many of the personnel, who arrived after the explosion to assist with the cleanup at the site, have been taken to a military hospital suffering from headache, nausea and vomiting, according to a source in the security [...] Stephen Dinan reports that “Because next year’s inauguration falls on a Sunday, President Obama will hold only a small, private swearing-in ceremony on Jan. 20, and will hold a big public redo the next day. The Inaugural Committee announced Thursday that activities will last three days: a day of service on Saturday, the small private ceremony on Sunday, and the public swearing-in, parade and balls on Monday.” That means, the public “inauguration” is [...] MYFOXNY.COM - The cleanup in Amityville, Long Island, is still underway three weeks after Superstorm Sandy devastated parts of the region. So when residents got a warning that they now have to get rid of all of the debris themselves, they were none too happy. Pete Picucci, 96, spends hours a day sitting in front of his fireplace, the lone source of warmth after Sandy flooded his home, destroying pretty much everything. His [...] NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — While most people are frustrated by the problems created by Superstorm Sandy, one volunteer had an unexpected windfall. He hit the lottery jackpot because he came to serve in the storm. John Turner is now back home in the southern Chicago suburb of Chicago Heights, but he’ll never forget what he saw on the East Coast. “We saw houses moved down the streets, vehicles turned over,” Turner told CBS 2?s Kristine [...]  Sudden and large snow load could also factor in triggering a quake Latest NAM has it at 976mb http://www.twisterdata.com/index.php
Got a small quake 5 hrs ago. 5 km deep. Was felt in a number of towns in New Jersey. IMHO, this was caused by the rebounding of the NAM plate from Sandy’s pressure drop. Region is now unstable. Nor’easter due mid-week will cause a sudden pressure drop in the area again and could set off a big quake [...] Mayor Bloomberg has snubbed Borough President Markowitz’s impassioned plea to bring the National Guard to Hurricane Sandy-scarred Brooklyn — arguing that approving the Beep’s request would be a waste of federal manpower and turn the borough into a police state. “We don’t need it,” Mayor Bloomberg said on Wednesday during a press update on the city’s ongoing Hurricane Sandy cleanup. “The NYPD is the only people we want on the street [...] NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal officials have approved a joint plan from BP and Transocean to identify the source of a sheen in the Gulf Of Mexico associated with the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill…. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/10/13/feds-oil-gulf-sheen/1631191/ ABC news reports the decontamination efforts in Japan are severely flawed and being done as show. ABC reported about Japanese decontamination. http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/06/abc-fukushima-radiation-clean-up-flawed/ The bank run must be larger than they are letting on.
Spanish markets got clubbed today, as PM Mariano Rajoy was announcing a new nationalization scheme for Bankia.
But that was mostly expected. What freaked out investors was a new report in El Mundo that suggested a new, much-more expensive fire needed to be put out. In its latest Euro Areas: Sovereign Debt Crisis Update note, Citi summarizes the report: Reports suggest Spain may need an extra €30bn for banks [...] Perhaps not so shockingly, AP is reporting tonight that satellite images of Iranian military facilities show trucks and other earth moving vehicles. Diplomats, accredited to the IAEA, suggest thisindicates attempted cleanup of radioactive traces possibly left by tests of a nuclear-weapon trigger. As sanctions grow more burdensome and Israel’s pre-emptive rhetoric rises, the discovery of this sanitization effort only raises the stakes as the images are said to be very [...] Associated Press (AP) - FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. A third U.S.-based cruise ship with an outbreak of stomach illness has sailed again after being decontaminated in South Florida. The vessel Ruby Princess sailed Sunday from Fort Lauderdale’s Port Everglades. It was one of threecruise ships that docked in Florida and Louisiana over the weekend with outbreaks of norovirus. Port Everglades spokeswoman Ellen Kennedy told the South Florida Sun Sentinel (http://sunsent.nl/zJG6rk) that the Ruby Princess was cleaned Sunday and departed. Passengers were [...] From Bloomberg: A winter storm battered much of Italy, bringing arctic temperatures to the north and snow as far south as Naples, disrupting transport and commerce across the country. Rome got between six and eight inches of snow, the most in more than a quarter century, downing trees, snarling traffic and leaving shops shuttered. Some vehicles were trapped for 10 hours on the ring road that surrounds the capital and trucks were forced [...] A taxi stops to let off a passenger on Clark Street downtown. (Credit: CBS) Updated 12/20/11 – 5:20 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) – It’s been six years since Chicago cab drivers have had a fare increase and cabbies say it’s about time they had another one. As CBS 2’s Vince Gerasole reports, a group of 1,500 cab drivers have signed off on a proposal to raise fares by 22 percent, charge credit card users a [...] It’s war! Hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protesters — emboldened by officials backing down this morning from evicting them from their Zuccotti Park campsite for a 7 a.m. cleaning — stormed Wall Street, leaping over barriers and getting into a fracas with cops. Frank Rosario/NYPost Photos: Wall Street Protests The throng of protesters streamed onto [...] Michael Bloomberg Wall Street may not be occupied for much longer. Two days after Mayor Michael Bloomberg said protesters could stay in Zuccotti Park “indefinitely” if they followed the law, the mayor visited them tonight to say they had to be out of there by Friday, according to the mayor’s office. The reason given by the mayor tonight was that the park needs to be cleaned. The request to clean the [...] Residents near Fukushima mountains face nuclear recontamination every rainfall As the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Plant drags on, worries are growing particularly among Fukushima Prefecture residents over drawn-out and in some cases apparently futile nuclear decontamination operations. The unease is especially strong in areas in and around mountains that must be repeatedly decontaminated, as every rainfall brings a new batch of radioactive substance-contaminated leaves [...]
A dead climate satellite that has been circling Earth for 20 years will make a fiery death plunge this week, with some pieces of the 6 1/2 ton spacecraft expected to reach the surface of the planet, NASA officials say. The bus-size Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS, will likely plummet down to Earth sometime around Friday (Sept. 23), according to NASA’s latest projections. There is [...] WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has declared an emergency for North Carolina that is expected to be hit by Hurricane Irene over the weekend. Obama on Thursday night ordered federal aid to supplement state and local responses to the storm. The Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) can coordinate all disaster relief efforts. It also means the state is eligible for federal [...] Fire Threatens Plutonium and Uranium Release at Los Alamos National Laboratory – A raging wildfire is threatening to engulf the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Los Alamos likely contains more nuclear weapons than any other facility in the world. As if that weren’t bad enough, AP notes: The anti-nuclear watchdog group Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, however, said the fire appeared to be about 3 1/2 miles [...] Joplin, Missouri (CNN) — Residents of tornado-ravaged Joplin, Missouri, again found themselves huddling in shelters as another round of powerful storms roared across the Plains early Wednesday. The tornado that struck the community Sunday killed at least 125 people, in what authorities said was the deadliest single U.S. tornado since modern record-keeping began 61 years ago. Late Tuesday night, the city was briefly under a tornado [...] Jim Willie: http://news.goldseek.com/GoldenJackass/1300910400.php
“Call it the EMERGENCY G-7 YEN SELLING PACT or coordinated Japanese support, no matter. It will become the biggest, most grandiose coordinated monetary initiative in modern history… They can rescue the Yen, but not the USDollar, the new toilet paper with green embroidery. Tremendous emergency funds have been appropriated and set aside by the Japanese Govt for financial market rescue & support. More funds have been devoted [...] by Dana Kennedy, AOL News Natalia Manzurova, one of the few survivors among those directly involved in the long cleanup of Chernobyl, was a 35-year-old engineer at a nuclear plant in Ozersk, Russia, in April 1986 when she and 13 other scientists were told to report to the wrecked, burning plant in the northern Ukraine. It was just four days after the world’s biggest nuclear disaster spewed [...] There will be a lot of ecological damage to the environment. The cleanup will take a long time, and nature will take more than many lifetimes to absorb and revert back most of the damage that the cleanup could not fix. From what I’ve read, the only possible reliable way to stop the leak is to drill two adjacent extraction pipes at angles to the main broken outlet pipe that is [...] To my limited knowledge, here is the list. 1. Lesser population on Globe (results in less of socialism, resource contention and hence lesser budget 2. Smaller countries 3. Smaller governments (finance and geography) 4. Smaller banks with fixed upper limit no matter what 5. Comprehensive ban on Insurance Industry of all types and forms 6. How to clean mortgage related all things (CDO/CDS/mortgages/Derivatives/….) 7. What kinds of [...] |
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