Turns out we all are, dear readers:
"Its emotional messages that mention the Palestinians and such common Muslim grievances as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan resonate....
Yes, just voicing your opposition imperial policy makes you an "extremist."
The government has struggled with how to respond to the Popular Front because it often voices ideas through protests, a right “available in a democratic society and provided for by the Indian constitution,’’ said Hormis Tharakan, former chief of India’s intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing. “But it’s the propensity toward violence that is most worrying.’’
Yeah, JUST PROTESTING makes you a THREAT to the EMPIRE'S POLICIES!
Yup, people who peacefully disagree with the murderous policies of their war-criminal governments MIGHT be violent and are thus a threat!
So WHAT OF the PROPENSITY towards VIOLENCE by the USraeli Empire and its war-promoting mouthpieces of the mainstream media?
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Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh and the OSI
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh's Greatest Hits
Prop 101: The "Terrorism" Business
New York Times Admits War on Terror is U.S. Creation
Oh, AmeriKa's MSM KNOWS ALL ABOUT and yet STILL PUSHES the CHARADE, huh?
Also see: Occupation Iraq: Israel's IEDs
Occupation Iraq: Israelis Killing U.S. Troops
Occupation Iraq: Israeli-Trained Death Squads
Plan B
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh and the OSI
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh's Greatest Hits
Prop 101: The "Terrorism" Business
Prop 102: Iraq and Government Lies
Al-CIA-Duh
Who Invented "Al-CIA-Duh?"
"Al-CIA-Duhs" Catch-and-Release Program
Asymmetrical Warfare Group
Operation Gladio
Operation Northwoods
Occupation Iraq: British Bombers
Occupation Iraq: America's Roadside Bombs
'The Salvador Option'
Special Police Commandos
Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group
Prop 201 tutorial
FRU
Islam's 9/11
Who is Bombing in Iraq? Are the bombers Al-Qaeda, the CIA or Israel?
How much more evidence do you need?
Israeli Mossad Role in Turkey Coup Plot Revealed
Israel funded "terrorist" groups through BCCI
AMIA was Mossad False-flag Operation
Mossad Agent killing Oz Tourists to steal their identity to use in fake Al-Qaeda operations
‘Mossad capable of US attack’: US Army officials
Iran hangs "terrorist" linked to Mossad
Montreal Averts Israeli Mossad Terrorist Attack
Israeli Mossad = al Qaeda?
Judiciary starts work on case of Mossad-linked terror group
Assassins caught on video reveals possible Mossad-Fatah link
Mossad funded Abu Nidal through BCCI
Mumbai: The Mossad Angle
Hamas Was Founded by Mossad
Israeli officer sells weapons to terrorists in Iraq
MOSSAD FALSE FLAG TERRORIST ATTACKS
Revealing information on Mossad terrorist acts worries Europeans
Mossad and Moving Companies: Masterminds of Global Terrorism?
Group that took credit for "Bandini Bomber" linked to Mossad.
MARRIOTT BOMB:Mossad pulls off another false-flag operation
Mossad Exposed in Phony`Palestinian Al-Qaeda' Caper
Mossad orchestrated Christmas Day bomb plot
British Broadsheet Links Mossad to 9/11
How Mossad Deceived the U.S. Military on 9/11
A Look at the Mossad's Assassination Squads
Army Captures 'Terrorist Ring' Working for Mossad
Lebanon's Army captures Israeli Mossad 'Terrorist Ring'
A bumbling Mossad hand suspected in Dubai assassination
Mossad stealing passports in Australia and NZ
Mossad supporting "Radical Muslim" groups.
Mossad-Linked Cell Arrested in South Lebanon
Mossad links to 1986 Berlin disco bombing
HUNDREDS OF MOSSAD AGENTS CAUGHT RUNNING WILD IN AMERICA!
Mossad-backed terror network in Lebanon
Mossad was found to be propping up 'Islamic terrorist' groups in mid-east.
Mossad implicated in a coup plot in Turkey, a NATO country
Mumbai Terror Attacks: The Mossad Angle
Mossad linked to "Jundollah" attacks, and kidnapping of Iranian border guards
Mossad behind Hindu terror group
Israeli Mossad Links To World Trade Center Attack
Abu Nidal - Mossad terrorist
'Terror' group in Iran linked to Mossad, CIA
Attack On US Embassy In Yemen Linked To Mossad
Mossad Black Ops and False Flags
Mossad linked to "Crotch Bomber"
Mossad linked to 9/11 attacks: Report
9-11 Mossad Agents Admit Mission: "Our Purpose Was To Document The Event"
Only people actually arrested on 9-11 were Israelis
Mossad Link Found to One of Key 9-11 Hijackers
Bush Administration Ignores Mossad-Al Qaeda Terrorist Link
Al Qaeda are really Mossad
Mossad linked to Ergenekon plot
Hezbollah infiltrated by Mossad, does Israel's bidding. Attacks when Israel needs excuse to invade Lebanon
Is Hizbullah a Mossad front?
Israel tricked the US into attacking Libya
When Israel attacked the USS Liberty they tried to frame Egypt for it.
The Lavon Affair: Israel has a history of faking terror attacks.
Israel creates and aids terror groups.
If HAMAS is so bad why did Israel create it? To demonize Palestinians?
Israel stages all these "terror" attacks to trick America into hating Israel's enemies.
Who are the "terrorists" again?
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
Media Minimizing Japan Meltdown
It's not only sad, it's damn criminal.
Let the "updated" rewrites and reedits begin!
"Japan races to avert nuclear meltdowns; Two crippled reactors failing; three more face cooling problems | Monster tsunami claimed whole communities; death toll soars" by Hiroko Tabuchi and Matthew L. Wald, New York Times / March 13, 2011
TOKYO — Japanese officials struggled today to contain a widening nuclear crisis in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake and tsunami, saying they presumed that partial meltdowns had occurred at two crippled reactors and that they were facing serious cooling problems at three more.
Related: Cooling ability lost in 5 reactors
The accident appeared to be the worst involving a nuclear plant since the Chernobyl disaster 25 years ago.
That's not the way my printed Sunday Globe spun it!
The developments at two separate nuclear plants prompted the evacuation of more than 200,000 people. Japanese officials said they had also ordered the largest mobilization of their Self-Defense Forces since World War II to assist in the relief effort.
According to officials, at least 1,000 people were killed in the earthquake and tsunami — including 200 bodies found today along the coast — and hundreds more are missing....
Firefighters had yet to contain a large blaze at the Cosmo Oil refinery in Ichihara....
One US aircraft carrier is already in Japan and a second was on its way.
Severe aftershocks continued to rock a traumatized country. The US Geological Survey recorded 90 earthquakes off the eastern coast yesterday alone, five of them with magnitudes larger than 6.0. Kyodo News reported more than 125 aftershocks since Friday’s earthquake.
Yesterday, Japanese officials took the extraordinary step of flooding the crippled No. 1 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, 170 miles north of Tokyo, with seawater in a last-ditch effort to avoid a nuclear meltdown.
Cooling failed today at a second reactor — No. 3 — and core melting was presumed at both, said the top government spokesman, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano. Cooling had failed at three reactors at a nuclear complex nearby, Fukushima Daini, although he said conditions there were considered less dire for now.
With high pressure inside the reactors at Fukushima Daiichi hampering efforts to pump in cooling water, plant operators had to release radioactive vapor into the atmosphere. Radiation levels outside the plant, which had retreated overnight, shot up to 1,204 microsieverts per hour, or more than twice Japan’s legal limit, Edano said....
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"As death toll rises, rescuers scramble to reach survivors" by Martin Fackler and Mark McDonald, New York Times / March 13, 2011
NAKAMINATO, Japan — Japan yesterday mobilized a nationwide rescue effort to pluck survivors from collapsed buildings and rush food and water to thousands in an earthquake and tsunami zone under siege, without water, electricity, heat, or telephone service.
Villages in parts of Japan’s northern Pacific Coast have vanished under a wall of water, many communities are cut off, and a nuclear emergency was unfolding near two stricken reactors as Japanese tried to absorb the scale of the destruction after Friday’s powerful earthquake and devastating tsunami.
Most of the hundreds of deaths were from drowning....
The United States, which has several military bases in Japan, is sending in helicopters, destroyers, and an aircraft carrier, the Ronald Reagan, which has the ability to act as a hospital as well as to convert sea water into drinking water, said a spokesman for the Navy’s Seventh Fleet in Japan.
The continual swaying and rolling of the ground from aftershocks deepened the disorientation of a nation accustomed to disaster — earthquakes, tsunamis, and two atomic bombs — but which has not experienced anything on this scale for generations.
Compounding those fears was uncertainty about the scale of the radiation damage from the explosion at the nuclear plant in Fukushima, in the earthquake zone.
Aerial photographs of the ravaged coastal areas showed a string of cities and villages leveled by the power of the tsunami. Plumes of black smoke rose from burning industrial plants. Stranded ships bobbed in the water.
Town after town reported that parts of their population were unaccounted for. Survivors gathered on rooftops, frantically shouting or signaling for help....
While aftershocks from the earthquake continued, the tsunami wreaked the most damage....
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"Cascading disaster in Japan; Blast shakes a second reactor; death toll soars" by Martin Fackler and Mark McDonald, New York Times / March 14, 2011
SENDAI, Japan — Japan reeled from a rapidly unfolding disaster of epic scale yesterday, pummeled by the death toll, destruction, and homelessness caused by the earthquake and tsunami and new hazards from damaged nuclear reactors. The prime minister called it Japan’s worst crisis since World War II.
Japan’s $5 trillion economy, the world’s third largest, was threatened with severe disruptions and partial paralysis as many industries shut down temporarily. The armed forces and volunteers mobilized for the far more urgent crisis of finding survivors, evacuating residents near the stricken power plants and caring for the victims of the record 8.9 magnitude quake that struck on Friday.
I had read it was upgraded to a 9.
The disaster has left more than 10,000 dead, many thousands homeless, and millions without water, power, heat, or transportation.
The most urgent immediate worries concerned the failures at two reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.
The second hydrogen explosion in three days rocked the Daiichi plant today, sending a massive column of smoke into the air and injuring six workers. It was not immediately clear how much — if any — radiation had been released....
The government ordered 100,000 troops — nearly half the country’s active military force and the largest mobilization in postwar Japan — to take part in the relief effort. A US naval strike group led by the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan also arrived off Japan yesterday to help with refueling, supply, and rescue duties.
Related: USS Ronald Reagan Runs Into Radiation, Reactor 3 Explodes As Fear Mounts
Nope, nothing about that in my newspaper.
--more--"
After the Gulf oil spill cover-up this was their one last chance to begin telling the truth, and they are failing.
"So far, little fear of a new Chernobyl" by Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Staff / March 14, 2011
Scientists and radiation specialists monitoring the unfolding nuclear crisis in Japan say it is the worst since Chernobyl and also strikingly different from that disaster because it may not, in the end, pose a major risk to human health or the environment.
I'm sorry, readers; I simply no longer believe a newspaper that covers up depleted uranium poisoning among so many other things while hollering lies about wars and warming.
But the extent of infrastructure failure in Japan and the spreading number of reactors involved are worrisome, they said yesterday, complicating efforts to prevent meltdowns that could release harmful radiation.
That was ALWAYS a BAD WORD to put into a REPORT -- at least, according to my college writing instructor.
With the information coming out of Japan spotty and fast-changing, and with the situation not fully under control, the scientists said there is uncertainty about the outcome and the extent of the threat to the public from a meltdown....
BUT don't worry, it's not another Chernobyl.
--more--"
Yup, everything under control:
"Japan struggles to bring reactors under control" by Hiroko Tabuchi and Matthew L. Wald, New York Times / March 14, 2011
TOKYO — A second explosion rocked a troubled nuclear power plant today, blowing the roof off a containment building but not harming the reactor, Japanese nuclear officials announced on public television.
The explosion underscores the difficulties Japanese authorities are having in bringing several stricken reactors under control three days after a massive earthquake and a tsunami hit the country’s northeast coast and shut down the electricity that runs the crucial cooling systems for reactors.
Operators fear that if they cannot establish control, despite increasingly desperate measures to do so, the reactors could experience full meltdowns, which would release catastrophic amounts of radiation....
Twenty-two people who live near the plant are already showing signs of radiation exposure from earlier radiation releases at the plant, but it is not clear if they received dangerous doses....
In what was perhaps the clearest sign of the rising anxiety over the nuclear crisis, both the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Russian authorities issued statements yesterday trying to allay fears, saying they did not expect harmful levels of radiation to reach their territory....
Isn't it AMAZING how GOVERNMENTS and MEDIA play up SOME FEARS (like "Islamic terrorists" and global warming) while MINIMIZING REAL THREATS to PEOPLE?
--more--"
Yup, time to focus on rescue and recovery:
"Millions suffer without power and water as temperatures fall near freezing" by Jay Alabaster, Associated Press / March 14, 2011
SENDAI, Japan — Hundreds of thousands of people across a ravaged swath of the country suffered for a third day yesterday without water, electricity, and proper food, as the Japanese grappled with the immensity of the disaster.
Near-freezing temperatures compounded the misery of survivors along hundreds of miles of the northeastern coast battered by the tsunami that smashed inland with breathtaking fury. Rescuers pulled bodies from mud-covered jumbles of wrecked houses, shattered tree trunks, twisted cars, and tangled power lines while survivors examined the ruined remains....
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Back in better times:
"Despite its dwindling population, a Japanese town clings to tradition; Festival draped in a celebratory, foreboding air" by Chico Harlan, Washington Post / February 27, 2011
NIYODOGAWA, Japan — The Akiba Matsuri festival has been going on for so long that much of its logic has been lost. Men don feline costumes and hideous masks; children dance with one another, thrashing real swords; about a dozen men haul a portable shrine up a mountain, nearly collapsing at points along the way from exhaustion; six particularly acrobatic honorees march along the same path while dancing with 25-foot poles.
Occasionally, the men toss these poles back and forth, their failure to maim one another all the more impressive when one considers the numerous sake shots they took well before lunchtime....
Honestly, I'm tired of the back-handed insults to all things not Jewish.
--more--"
I think the Japanese will be searching for some sake soon:
Quake, tsunami ravage Japan
Scale of destruction leaves nation reeling
Calif., Ore. sustain damage from Japan-based tsunami
Big quake is latest in cluster that began in ’04
Scientists see Atlantic region largely unprepared
Firms’ Japan operations spared direct blow
In Boston, relatives watch, wait, worry after quake
Some quake survivors able to ease anxious kin’s fears
Stories of loss and ruin are plenty
Area residents with ties to Japan yearn for contact
Also see:
Japanese teen arrested on cheating charge
Japan census shows slow growth
Suicides dip, but remain high in Japan
Japan halts vaccines use after deaths
Related:
Quake hits N. Zealand; deaths reported
From ruin of New Zealand quake, screams, cell calls to say goodbye
New Zealand attends to grim task of accounting for earthquake victims
Hope of finding more New Zealand quake survivors dims
Infant’s funeral first of quake victims
New Zealand ends quake rescue mission
10,000 homes in New Zealand city ruined by quake
Think the two are connected? Wouldn't be much of a stretch if the undersea floor was collapsing. Even if it is just plates moving it could be a cause-and-effect situation.
Sorry I never got around to reading about the Christchurch quake, readers; however, there is going to be a lot I am no longer reading when it comes to the Boston Globe.
Also see: 25 killed in quake in southwest China
Well, time to get back to making money:
"Markets watch to see how Japan’s crisis will affect world’s economy" by Howard Schneider Washington Post / March 14, 2011
WASHINGTON — The first working day since the quake dawned to rolling blackouts and hoarding, despite the central Bank of Japan’s vow to keep the economy on track. The bank announced it was injecting a record $183.8 billion into money markets in an attempt to keep the country’s financial system stable and its trading system functioning.
Analysts warned that extended power disruptions or larger-than-expected damage to manufacturers could undercut a global economic recovery....
Yeah, if it ain't those pesky Arabs with their protests and oil it's the Japs with their earthquake.
Anything but central banks and their printing presses.
And what recovery are they talking about anyway?
Japan was already groaning under government debt equal to twice its yearly economic output, proportionally the world’s largest load, but analysts said the country should have the financial muscle to deal with the reconstruction....
Although the cost of reconstruction may prove challenging, analysts said Japan retains enough room to borrow what it will need to bounce back from the devastation without, for example, using nontraditional methods such as spending down its trillion-dollar stockpile of international currency reserves.
Further enslaving the nation to banks is NOT the way!!
Money is likely to also flow from Japanese investments overseas back to the country, a phenomenon that may have been behind the jump in the value of the yen Friday, following the disaster....
No wonder the DOW is DOWN OVER 100 POINTS right now!
The global impact could be unpredictable in an era when markets, investors, and policy makers have become increasingly concerned about the way shocks in one country can ripple through the world in unexpected ways.
Ain't globalization grand?
And if this is true, why are the architects of this failure still calling the shots?
In its most recent analysis of Japan, the IMF said it was concerned any disruption to Japan’s tentative return to economic growth could send the country into a deflationary spiral, with wages, prices, and investment falling, and households and businesses reluctant to spend. Although Japan’s economy, with its aging population and stagnant incomes, is not a driving source of world demand for goods and services, it does play an important role in world trade....
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Update: Quake selloff wipes $287 billion off Tokyo stock market
Good thing nukes are going to save us from global warming, huh?
"Nuclear industry expects scrutiny after leaks, reactor blast" by Norimitsu Onishi, Henry Fountain and Tom Zeller Jr., New York Times / March 13, 2011
NEW YORK — Critics of nuclear energy have long questioned the viability of nuclear power in earthquake-prone regions like Japan. Reactors have been designed with such concerns in mind, but preliminary assessments of the Fukushima Daiichi accidents suggested that too little attention was paid to the threat of tsunami.....
Nuclear advocates argued that Daiichi’s problems were singular in many ways and stemmed from a natural disaster on a scale never before experienced in Japan. They pointed out that the excavation of fossil fuels has its own history of catastrophic accidents, including coal mine collapses and the recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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"US nuclear energy gets more scrutiny" by Beth Daley and Theo Emery, Globe Staff / March 14, 2011
The Obama administration’s push for construction of nuclear power plants, financed with taxpayer-backed loan guarantees, faces new uncertainty in the wake of the Japanese disaster and new questions about safety of such facilities.
The crisis in Japan could also stir debate about whether to lengthen the lifetimes of two nuclear power plants in New England, politicians and environmentalists say.
Yesterday, some leading politicians took to Sunday talk shows and other venues to say that the Japanese crisis should prompt at least a pause in the US effort to restart the country’s nuclear industry, if not put an end to the attempt....
The day before Japan’s earthquake, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission extended the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant’s license for 20 years beyond 2012, when its original license was set to expire....
Yeah, WHO CARES if it is leaking cancer into the soil and water.
Related: Around New England: No Veracity in Vermont
Around New England: Vermont Votes Yankee Down
The Boston Globe Can Not Say a Lie
But they sure can tell 'em!
Until last week’s earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the nuclear industry had hoped the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl nuclear disasters were distant memories to politicians and the public. The industry, and the Obama administration, had worked to convince the public — and even some prominent environmentalists — that new reactors are a critical component of fighting global warming because they do not release heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere....
Related: Coldest Back-to-Back U.S. Winters in a Quarter Century
Is believing the lie really worth radiation sickness, cancer, and death?
With costs to build a reactor anywhere from $6 billion to $10 billion, the federal government has stepped in to help finance them. The government has offered a loan guarantee for a proposed plant in Georgia, and President Obama has requested an additional $36 billion in loan guarantees in his proposed 2012 budget, in addition to $18.5 billion already allotted....
See: Obama's Mushroom Cloud of a Bailout
And JUST WHO do you think is GUARANTEEING the LOANS, taxpayers?
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Also see: Plymouth residents tracking nuclear plant crisis
Let the "updated" rewrites and reedits begin!
"Japan races to avert nuclear meltdowns; Two crippled reactors failing; three more face cooling problems | Monster tsunami claimed whole communities; death toll soars" by Hiroko Tabuchi and Matthew L. Wald, New York Times / March 13, 2011
TOKYO — Japanese officials struggled today to contain a widening nuclear crisis in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake and tsunami, saying they presumed that partial meltdowns had occurred at two crippled reactors and that they were facing serious cooling problems at three more.
Related: Cooling ability lost in 5 reactors
The accident appeared to be the worst involving a nuclear plant since the Chernobyl disaster 25 years ago.
That's not the way my printed Sunday Globe spun it!
The developments at two separate nuclear plants prompted the evacuation of more than 200,000 people. Japanese officials said they had also ordered the largest mobilization of their Self-Defense Forces since World War II to assist in the relief effort.
According to officials, at least 1,000 people were killed in the earthquake and tsunami — including 200 bodies found today along the coast — and hundreds more are missing....
Firefighters had yet to contain a large blaze at the Cosmo Oil refinery in Ichihara....
One US aircraft carrier is already in Japan and a second was on its way.
Severe aftershocks continued to rock a traumatized country. The US Geological Survey recorded 90 earthquakes off the eastern coast yesterday alone, five of them with magnitudes larger than 6.0. Kyodo News reported more than 125 aftershocks since Friday’s earthquake.
Yesterday, Japanese officials took the extraordinary step of flooding the crippled No. 1 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, 170 miles north of Tokyo, with seawater in a last-ditch effort to avoid a nuclear meltdown.
Cooling failed today at a second reactor — No. 3 — and core melting was presumed at both, said the top government spokesman, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano. Cooling had failed at three reactors at a nuclear complex nearby, Fukushima Daini, although he said conditions there were considered less dire for now.
With high pressure inside the reactors at Fukushima Daiichi hampering efforts to pump in cooling water, plant operators had to release radioactive vapor into the atmosphere. Radiation levels outside the plant, which had retreated overnight, shot up to 1,204 microsieverts per hour, or more than twice Japan’s legal limit, Edano said....
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"As death toll rises, rescuers scramble to reach survivors" by Martin Fackler and Mark McDonald, New York Times / March 13, 2011
NAKAMINATO, Japan — Japan yesterday mobilized a nationwide rescue effort to pluck survivors from collapsed buildings and rush food and water to thousands in an earthquake and tsunami zone under siege, without water, electricity, heat, or telephone service.
Villages in parts of Japan’s northern Pacific Coast have vanished under a wall of water, many communities are cut off, and a nuclear emergency was unfolding near two stricken reactors as Japanese tried to absorb the scale of the destruction after Friday’s powerful earthquake and devastating tsunami.
Most of the hundreds of deaths were from drowning....
The United States, which has several military bases in Japan, is sending in helicopters, destroyers, and an aircraft carrier, the Ronald Reagan, which has the ability to act as a hospital as well as to convert sea water into drinking water, said a spokesman for the Navy’s Seventh Fleet in Japan.
The continual swaying and rolling of the ground from aftershocks deepened the disorientation of a nation accustomed to disaster — earthquakes, tsunamis, and two atomic bombs — but which has not experienced anything on this scale for generations.
Compounding those fears was uncertainty about the scale of the radiation damage from the explosion at the nuclear plant in Fukushima, in the earthquake zone.
Aerial photographs of the ravaged coastal areas showed a string of cities and villages leveled by the power of the tsunami. Plumes of black smoke rose from burning industrial plants. Stranded ships bobbed in the water.
Town after town reported that parts of their population were unaccounted for. Survivors gathered on rooftops, frantically shouting or signaling for help....
While aftershocks from the earthquake continued, the tsunami wreaked the most damage....
--more--"
"Cascading disaster in Japan; Blast shakes a second reactor; death toll soars" by Martin Fackler and Mark McDonald, New York Times / March 14, 2011
SENDAI, Japan — Japan reeled from a rapidly unfolding disaster of epic scale yesterday, pummeled by the death toll, destruction, and homelessness caused by the earthquake and tsunami and new hazards from damaged nuclear reactors. The prime minister called it Japan’s worst crisis since World War II.
Japan’s $5 trillion economy, the world’s third largest, was threatened with severe disruptions and partial paralysis as many industries shut down temporarily. The armed forces and volunteers mobilized for the far more urgent crisis of finding survivors, evacuating residents near the stricken power plants and caring for the victims of the record 8.9 magnitude quake that struck on Friday.
I had read it was upgraded to a 9.
The disaster has left more than 10,000 dead, many thousands homeless, and millions without water, power, heat, or transportation.
The most urgent immediate worries concerned the failures at two reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.
The second hydrogen explosion in three days rocked the Daiichi plant today, sending a massive column of smoke into the air and injuring six workers. It was not immediately clear how much — if any — radiation had been released....
The government ordered 100,000 troops — nearly half the country’s active military force and the largest mobilization in postwar Japan — to take part in the relief effort. A US naval strike group led by the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan also arrived off Japan yesterday to help with refueling, supply, and rescue duties.
Related: USS Ronald Reagan Runs Into Radiation, Reactor 3 Explodes As Fear Mounts
Nope, nothing about that in my newspaper.
--more--"
After the Gulf oil spill cover-up this was their one last chance to begin telling the truth, and they are failing.
"So far, little fear of a new Chernobyl" by Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Staff / March 14, 2011
Scientists and radiation specialists monitoring the unfolding nuclear crisis in Japan say it is the worst since Chernobyl and also strikingly different from that disaster because it may not, in the end, pose a major risk to human health or the environment.
I'm sorry, readers; I simply no longer believe a newspaper that covers up depleted uranium poisoning among so many other things while hollering lies about wars and warming.
But the extent of infrastructure failure in Japan and the spreading number of reactors involved are worrisome, they said yesterday, complicating efforts to prevent meltdowns that could release harmful radiation.
That was ALWAYS a BAD WORD to put into a REPORT -- at least, according to my college writing instructor.
With the information coming out of Japan spotty and fast-changing, and with the situation not fully under control, the scientists said there is uncertainty about the outcome and the extent of the threat to the public from a meltdown....
BUT don't worry, it's not another Chernobyl.
--more--"
Yup, everything under control:
"Japan struggles to bring reactors under control" by Hiroko Tabuchi and Matthew L. Wald, New York Times / March 14, 2011
TOKYO — A second explosion rocked a troubled nuclear power plant today, blowing the roof off a containment building but not harming the reactor, Japanese nuclear officials announced on public television.
The explosion underscores the difficulties Japanese authorities are having in bringing several stricken reactors under control three days after a massive earthquake and a tsunami hit the country’s northeast coast and shut down the electricity that runs the crucial cooling systems for reactors.
Operators fear that if they cannot establish control, despite increasingly desperate measures to do so, the reactors could experience full meltdowns, which would release catastrophic amounts of radiation....
Twenty-two people who live near the plant are already showing signs of radiation exposure from earlier radiation releases at the plant, but it is not clear if they received dangerous doses....
In what was perhaps the clearest sign of the rising anxiety over the nuclear crisis, both the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Russian authorities issued statements yesterday trying to allay fears, saying they did not expect harmful levels of radiation to reach their territory....
Isn't it AMAZING how GOVERNMENTS and MEDIA play up SOME FEARS (like "Islamic terrorists" and global warming) while MINIMIZING REAL THREATS to PEOPLE?
--more--"
Yup, time to focus on rescue and recovery:
"Millions suffer without power and water as temperatures fall near freezing" by Jay Alabaster, Associated Press / March 14, 2011
SENDAI, Japan — Hundreds of thousands of people across a ravaged swath of the country suffered for a third day yesterday without water, electricity, and proper food, as the Japanese grappled with the immensity of the disaster.
Near-freezing temperatures compounded the misery of survivors along hundreds of miles of the northeastern coast battered by the tsunami that smashed inland with breathtaking fury. Rescuers pulled bodies from mud-covered jumbles of wrecked houses, shattered tree trunks, twisted cars, and tangled power lines while survivors examined the ruined remains....
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Back in better times:
"Despite its dwindling population, a Japanese town clings to tradition; Festival draped in a celebratory, foreboding air" by Chico Harlan, Washington Post / February 27, 2011
NIYODOGAWA, Japan — The Akiba Matsuri festival has been going on for so long that much of its logic has been lost. Men don feline costumes and hideous masks; children dance with one another, thrashing real swords; about a dozen men haul a portable shrine up a mountain, nearly collapsing at points along the way from exhaustion; six particularly acrobatic honorees march along the same path while dancing with 25-foot poles.
Occasionally, the men toss these poles back and forth, their failure to maim one another all the more impressive when one considers the numerous sake shots they took well before lunchtime....
Honestly, I'm tired of the back-handed insults to all things not Jewish.
--more--"
I think the Japanese will be searching for some sake soon:
Quake, tsunami ravage Japan
Scale of destruction leaves nation reeling
Calif., Ore. sustain damage from Japan-based tsunami
Big quake is latest in cluster that began in ’04
Scientists see Atlantic region largely unprepared
Firms’ Japan operations spared direct blow
In Boston, relatives watch, wait, worry after quake
Some quake survivors able to ease anxious kin’s fears
Stories of loss and ruin are plenty
Area residents with ties to Japan yearn for contact
Also see:
Japanese teen arrested on cheating charge
Japan census shows slow growth
Suicides dip, but remain high in Japan
Japan halts vaccines use after deaths
Related:
Quake hits N. Zealand; deaths reported
From ruin of New Zealand quake, screams, cell calls to say goodbye
New Zealand attends to grim task of accounting for earthquake victims
Hope of finding more New Zealand quake survivors dims
Infant’s funeral first of quake victims
New Zealand ends quake rescue mission
10,000 homes in New Zealand city ruined by quake
Think the two are connected? Wouldn't be much of a stretch if the undersea floor was collapsing. Even if it is just plates moving it could be a cause-and-effect situation.
Sorry I never got around to reading about the Christchurch quake, readers; however, there is going to be a lot I am no longer reading when it comes to the Boston Globe.
Also see: 25 killed in quake in southwest China
Well, time to get back to making money:
"Markets watch to see how Japan’s crisis will affect world’s economy" by Howard Schneider Washington Post / March 14, 2011
WASHINGTON — The first working day since the quake dawned to rolling blackouts and hoarding, despite the central Bank of Japan’s vow to keep the economy on track. The bank announced it was injecting a record $183.8 billion into money markets in an attempt to keep the country’s financial system stable and its trading system functioning.
Analysts warned that extended power disruptions or larger-than-expected damage to manufacturers could undercut a global economic recovery....
Yeah, if it ain't those pesky Arabs with their protests and oil it's the Japs with their earthquake.
Anything but central banks and their printing presses.
And what recovery are they talking about anyway?
Japan was already groaning under government debt equal to twice its yearly economic output, proportionally the world’s largest load, but analysts said the country should have the financial muscle to deal with the reconstruction....
Although the cost of reconstruction may prove challenging, analysts said Japan retains enough room to borrow what it will need to bounce back from the devastation without, for example, using nontraditional methods such as spending down its trillion-dollar stockpile of international currency reserves.
Further enslaving the nation to banks is NOT the way!!
Money is likely to also flow from Japanese investments overseas back to the country, a phenomenon that may have been behind the jump in the value of the yen Friday, following the disaster....
No wonder the DOW is DOWN OVER 100 POINTS right now!
The global impact could be unpredictable in an era when markets, investors, and policy makers have become increasingly concerned about the way shocks in one country can ripple through the world in unexpected ways.
Ain't globalization grand?
And if this is true, why are the architects of this failure still calling the shots?
In its most recent analysis of Japan, the IMF said it was concerned any disruption to Japan’s tentative return to economic growth could send the country into a deflationary spiral, with wages, prices, and investment falling, and households and businesses reluctant to spend. Although Japan’s economy, with its aging population and stagnant incomes, is not a driving source of world demand for goods and services, it does play an important role in world trade....
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Update: Quake selloff wipes $287 billion off Tokyo stock market
Good thing nukes are going to save us from global warming, huh?
"Nuclear industry expects scrutiny after leaks, reactor blast" by Norimitsu Onishi, Henry Fountain and Tom Zeller Jr., New York Times / March 13, 2011
NEW YORK — Critics of nuclear energy have long questioned the viability of nuclear power in earthquake-prone regions like Japan. Reactors have been designed with such concerns in mind, but preliminary assessments of the Fukushima Daiichi accidents suggested that too little attention was paid to the threat of tsunami.....
Nuclear advocates argued that Daiichi’s problems were singular in many ways and stemmed from a natural disaster on a scale never before experienced in Japan. They pointed out that the excavation of fossil fuels has its own history of catastrophic accidents, including coal mine collapses and the recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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"US nuclear energy gets more scrutiny" by Beth Daley and Theo Emery, Globe Staff / March 14, 2011
The Obama administration’s push for construction of nuclear power plants, financed with taxpayer-backed loan guarantees, faces new uncertainty in the wake of the Japanese disaster and new questions about safety of such facilities.
The crisis in Japan could also stir debate about whether to lengthen the lifetimes of two nuclear power plants in New England, politicians and environmentalists say.
Yesterday, some leading politicians took to Sunday talk shows and other venues to say that the Japanese crisis should prompt at least a pause in the US effort to restart the country’s nuclear industry, if not put an end to the attempt....
The day before Japan’s earthquake, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission extended the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant’s license for 20 years beyond 2012, when its original license was set to expire....
Yeah, WHO CARES if it is leaking cancer into the soil and water.
Related: Around New England: No Veracity in Vermont
Around New England: Vermont Votes Yankee Down
The Boston Globe Can Not Say a Lie
But they sure can tell 'em!
Until last week’s earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the nuclear industry had hoped the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl nuclear disasters were distant memories to politicians and the public. The industry, and the Obama administration, had worked to convince the public — and even some prominent environmentalists — that new reactors are a critical component of fighting global warming because they do not release heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere....
Related: Coldest Back-to-Back U.S. Winters in a Quarter Century
Is believing the lie really worth radiation sickness, cancer, and death?
With costs to build a reactor anywhere from $6 billion to $10 billion, the federal government has stepped in to help finance them. The government has offered a loan guarantee for a proposed plant in Georgia, and President Obama has requested an additional $36 billion in loan guarantees in his proposed 2012 budget, in addition to $18.5 billion already allotted....
See: Obama's Mushroom Cloud of a Bailout
And JUST WHO do you think is GUARANTEEING the LOANS, taxpayers?
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Also see: Plymouth residents tracking nuclear plant crisis
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Another Lost Sunday
I apologize, dear readers. I had intended to accomplish so much more today; however, I simply no longer want to read the Boston Globe. I'm tired of lies, half-truths, obfuscations, omissions, and agenda-pushing through the Zionist prism called a newspaper.
Primarily New Hampshire
"Within weeks many presidential hopefuls will be making the trek, including former House speaker Newt Gingrich, former New York City mayor Rudy Guiliani, and Reprentative Ron Paul of Texas....
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Let's limit that Ron Paul vote, 'eh?
"Taking aim at the student vote; N.H. legislator causes a stir with plan to limit franchise of temporary residents" by Sarah Schweitzer, Globe Staff / February 6, 2011
It might be the ultimate town-gown issue.
Are college students residents of the towns where they attend school, or are they interlopers, merely stopping in along the way with little vested interest in local affairs?
The controversial question has been posed in New Hampshire, where proposed legislation would take away students’ right to vote in their college town unless they lived there before enrolling and intended to stay — a move that could have possible overtones for the first-in-the-nation primary.
Related: Jockeying by states snarls GOP primary plans
No state can out-primary New Hampshire
Already, the weeks-old legislation is getting serious attention from Republicans and stirring angry responses from Democrats who say the bill is a thinly veiled effort to bar liberal-leaning students from casting ballots. Election law specialists in New Hampshire and beyond have offered criticism — the proposal, they say, flouts court rulings on the question — while college students are crossing party lines to protest the bill....
Which tells you it is ABOUT MORE than the FALSE DEMOCRAT-REPUBLICAN FRAMING the agenda-pushing paper promotes!!
College student voting dramatically expanded in 1971, when the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age from 21 years of age to 18 in response to concerns that 18-year-olds could be drafted to serve in the Vietnam War but had no electoral say....
All AmeriKan voters feel like 18-year-olds these days.
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Related: Top politicians reach out to N.H. Tea Party locals
Hard turn right worries GOP moderates in N.H.
Bachmann visits N.H., slips up on Revolution
Also see:
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Let's limit that Ron Paul vote, 'eh?
"Taking aim at the student vote; N.H. legislator causes a stir with plan to limit franchise of temporary residents" by Sarah Schweitzer, Globe Staff / February 6, 2011
It might be the ultimate town-gown issue.
Are college students residents of the towns where they attend school, or are they interlopers, merely stopping in along the way with little vested interest in local affairs?
The controversial question has been posed in New Hampshire, where proposed legislation would take away students’ right to vote in their college town unless they lived there before enrolling and intended to stay — a move that could have possible overtones for the first-in-the-nation primary.
Related: Jockeying by states snarls GOP primary plans
No state can out-primary New Hampshire
Already, the weeks-old legislation is getting serious attention from Republicans and stirring angry responses from Democrats who say the bill is a thinly veiled effort to bar liberal-leaning students from casting ballots. Election law specialists in New Hampshire and beyond have offered criticism — the proposal, they say, flouts court rulings on the question — while college students are crossing party lines to protest the bill....
Which tells you it is ABOUT MORE than the FALSE DEMOCRAT-REPUBLICAN FRAMING the agenda-pushing paper promotes!!
College student voting dramatically expanded in 1971, when the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age from 21 years of age to 18 in response to concerns that 18-year-olds could be drafted to serve in the Vietnam War but had no electoral say....
All AmeriKan voters feel like 18-year-olds these days.
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Related: Top politicians reach out to N.H. Tea Party locals
Hard turn right worries GOP moderates in N.H.
Bachmann visits N.H., slips up on Revolution
Also see:
- Lawmaker opposes Mount Washington trademark
- CONCORD, N.H. State may cut funding of public television (Boston Globe)
- CONCORD, N.H. House panel to vote on gay-marriage bills (Boston Globe)
- CONCORD, N.H. Good year predicted for syrup collection (Boston Globe)
- MANCHESTER, N.H. Strained by fires, Red Cross needs money
- EXETER, N.H. Carbon monoxide levels close skating rink (Associated Press)
- Ex-Devens official to lead N.H. prison (Associated Press)
- MANCHESTER, N.H. Brockton man arrested in home invasion
- CONCORD, N.H. Slaying prompts death penalty proposal (Associated Press)
- In N.H., a call to expand the death penalty
- N.H. farmer wins early release after firearm felony conviction
- N.H. farmer happy to be home after gun sentence eased
- N.H. labor bill met by strong resistance
- PORTSMOUTH, N.H. Educator says students ‘meanest ever’
- N.H., Vt. turn to students for research
- CONCORD, N.H. Lynch opposes repeal of kindergarten law (Boston Globe)
- CONCORD, N.H. Man sues electric utility over wife’s death (Boston Globe)
- House considers changes to N.H. school funding
- CONCORD, N.H. Ayotte targets contractors aiding Taliban (Boston Globe)
- COLEBROOK, N.H. Snowmobile crash blamed on speeding (Boston Globe)
- EPSOM, N.H. Woman dies when snowmobile hits post
- Avalanche sweeps man down N.H. mountain
- NEWPORT, N.H. 4 rescued from house as river rises (Associated Press)
- CONCORD, N.H. Lynch proposes closing some rest areas (Boston Globe)
- N.H. House votes to end participation in cap-and-trade
- N.H. jurors face choice on insanity defense
Governor on the Go
Is this why you reelected him?
"Patrick plans to expand travels; Would promote trade, publicize his memoir; May raise questions on his aspirations" by Noah Bierman, Globe Staff / January 5, 2011
Governor Deval Patrick has a new goal as he starts his second term tomorrow: get out of the state more often.
Then why did you run for reelection?
Full of confidence, and a bit of bluster, since his reelection in November, the governor said yesterday that he is planning more travel, both domestically and overseas, to promote the state on trade missions, to research other states’ policies, to publicize his upcoming memoir, and possibly to campaign for President Obama....
Is that WHY YOU REELECTED HIM, Massachusetts?
Patrick’s trips may renew speculation about whether he harbors aspirations for higher office or a political appointment out of state, and it may draw criticism that he is junketeering, especially if he combines book promotion with state business....
That's what he will be peddling: junk.
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Here's who is helping him:
"The group of 14 chief executives advising Patrick, dubbed the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership, has preliminarily suggested he focus on four countries — China, India, Israel, and Brazil — to build on existing business ties, according to Dan O’Connell, who served as Patrick’s economic development secretary and now leads the partnership....
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I'll give you one guess where he is going first:
"Israeli consul general Shai Bazak touted the links between Israel and Massachusetts in education and biotechnology, but warned that “other states are increasingly challenging Massachusetts’ position.’’
Oh, I'm heartbroken my state will no longer be a test laboratory and cash cow for Zionists.
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Related: Patrick creates PAC for Obama campaign travels
Patrick set for a whirlwind tour
Patrick’s trade mission companions
A real man of the people, huh?
"Patrick talks trade with Israel, El Al; No deals at the outset of five-day mission" by Noah Bierman, Globe Staff / March 8, 2011
TEL AVIV — On the first day of his five-day trade mission to Israel, the governor led an entourage of Massachusetts business executives through back-to-back meetings with Israeli officials, rarely taking a break. Much of his time was spent in small boardrooms, discussing business opportunities and similarities between Massachusetts’ and Israel’s economies.
There was pageantry, too, as Patrick and the delegation engaged in repeated sessions of gift exchanging and slide-show watching amid large platters of food....
I notice the elite are never wanting for food regardless of the cost.
Patrick’s trade mission has a fairly broad agenda, to promote investment between Israel and Massachusetts in clean energy, information technology, and biotechnology....
So the Zionist state can steal more of your tax loot, Bay-Stater!
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Also see:
ISRAEL JOURNAL Patrick and company grapple with jet lag on Israel tour
ISRAEL JOURNAL Kraft brings star status to Parliament
"Patrick eagerly accepts role as state’s envoy abroad; But he insists he just wants to come home and run Massachusetts" by Noah Bierman, Globe Staff / March 13, 2011
JERUSALEM — Patrick has been treated to a declaration from the floor of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, and a dinner at the US ambassador’s mansion, an impressive estate with a lush garden overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. He has presented a bronze statue of JFK to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and laid a wreath at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial visited by nearly every American dignitary....
I view the presentation of the JFK bust as an insulting sacrilege, readers, and I'm tired of the Holocaust™ guilt trip. Looks like Patrick the panderer got the full trip though.
Patrick said Obama did not send any messages through him. Nor did Israelis send Obama messages through Patrick.... Obama’s name rarely comes up in large gatherings, and opinion polls show many Israelis hold a negative opinion of the American president.
The STOP CASHING the AID CHECKS!!!
“Bush was better to Israel,’’ said Yoav Raif, a 24 year-old economics student at the Interdisciplinary center, a university in Herzliya. Obama “doesn’t represent our interests. He’s not a friend.’’
What UNGRATEFUL ASSHOLES are the ISRAELIS!
Here he is APOLOGIZING and EXCUSING that wretched war-criminal state at the U.N. after they murdered an American in international waters in an act of piracy and they cop that attitude?
For all the honorary welcomes Patrick received last week, he remains largely unknown in Israel, where his visit has received scant attention in the national media. He was barely noticed when he and the trade delegation walked through the crowded Yad Vashem museum. New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft has garnered more attention here, from government officials who know him personally and even from a Patriots fan who recognized Kraft walking with Patrick through the Knesset....
Which is interesting because I saw a clip of Kraft regarding the NFL labor strife and lockout and he was saying how important it was to keep talking, blah, blah, blah. mI thought HOW INTERESTING that he is SAYING that from ISRAEL -- the nation that refuses to talk peace with Palestinians without placing unacceptable preconditions on the talks!!!
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"Big Dig legacy dogs state, even in Israel
On his trade mission in Israel last week, Governor Deval Patrick tried to market Massachusetts as a center of innovation, technology, and science.
But the state just cannot shake its legacy as the home of the Big Dig.
The project — with its staggering cost overruns, long delays, and a fatal tunnel collapse — casts a shadow that reached all the way to the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem, where Patrick met with graduates of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government on Friday.
One of those graduates, Shlomit Doten-Gissin, told the governor she was working on an 11-mile light rail project in Tel Aviv that will involve building 5 miles of track underground.
“I don’t want it to be like the Big Dig,’’ she said.
Patrick acknowledged the project’s problems. But he wasn’t about to take the blame.
“I did not manage the Big Dig,’’ he told Doten-Gissin. “I just want that to be on the record.’’]
Tweet(s) of the week
As Governor Deval Patrick traveled through Israel last week on a trade mission that included Boston-area business and science leaders, we were impressed by the torrent of tweets from his travel companions. They provided minute-by-minute updates and allowed those of us at home to follow along on the international adventure. Here are two that we felt best summarized the week:
Yes, it is a GREAT ADVENTURE (puke)!!!
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"Patrick plans to expand travels; Would promote trade, publicize his memoir; May raise questions on his aspirations" by Noah Bierman, Globe Staff / January 5, 2011
Governor Deval Patrick has a new goal as he starts his second term tomorrow: get out of the state more often.
Then why did you run for reelection?
Full of confidence, and a bit of bluster, since his reelection in November, the governor said yesterday that he is planning more travel, both domestically and overseas, to promote the state on trade missions, to research other states’ policies, to publicize his upcoming memoir, and possibly to campaign for President Obama....
Is that WHY YOU REELECTED HIM, Massachusetts?
Patrick’s trips may renew speculation about whether he harbors aspirations for higher office or a political appointment out of state, and it may draw criticism that he is junketeering, especially if he combines book promotion with state business....
That's what he will be peddling: junk.
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Here's who is helping him:
"The group of 14 chief executives advising Patrick, dubbed the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership, has preliminarily suggested he focus on four countries — China, India, Israel, and Brazil — to build on existing business ties, according to Dan O’Connell, who served as Patrick’s economic development secretary and now leads the partnership....
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I'll give you one guess where he is going first:
"Israeli consul general Shai Bazak touted the links between Israel and Massachusetts in education and biotechnology, but warned that “other states are increasingly challenging Massachusetts’ position.’’
Oh, I'm heartbroken my state will no longer be a test laboratory and cash cow for Zionists.
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Related: Patrick creates PAC for Obama campaign travels
Patrick set for a whirlwind tour
Patrick’s trade mission companions
A real man of the people, huh?
"Patrick talks trade with Israel, El Al; No deals at the outset of five-day mission" by Noah Bierman, Globe Staff / March 8, 2011
TEL AVIV — On the first day of his five-day trade mission to Israel, the governor led an entourage of Massachusetts business executives through back-to-back meetings with Israeli officials, rarely taking a break. Much of his time was spent in small boardrooms, discussing business opportunities and similarities between Massachusetts’ and Israel’s economies.
There was pageantry, too, as Patrick and the delegation engaged in repeated sessions of gift exchanging and slide-show watching amid large platters of food....
I notice the elite are never wanting for food regardless of the cost.
Patrick’s trade mission has a fairly broad agenda, to promote investment between Israel and Massachusetts in clean energy, information technology, and biotechnology....
So the Zionist state can steal more of your tax loot, Bay-Stater!
--more--"
Also see:
ISRAEL JOURNAL Patrick and company grapple with jet lag on Israel tour
ISRAEL JOURNAL Kraft brings star status to Parliament
"Patrick eagerly accepts role as state’s envoy abroad; But he insists he just wants to come home and run Massachusetts" by Noah Bierman, Globe Staff / March 13, 2011
JERUSALEM — Patrick has been treated to a declaration from the floor of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, and a dinner at the US ambassador’s mansion, an impressive estate with a lush garden overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. He has presented a bronze statue of JFK to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and laid a wreath at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial visited by nearly every American dignitary....
I view the presentation of the JFK bust as an insulting sacrilege, readers, and I'm tired of the Holocaust™ guilt trip. Looks like Patrick the panderer got the full trip though.
Patrick said Obama did not send any messages through him. Nor did Israelis send Obama messages through Patrick.... Obama’s name rarely comes up in large gatherings, and opinion polls show many Israelis hold a negative opinion of the American president.
The STOP CASHING the AID CHECKS!!!
“Bush was better to Israel,’’ said Yoav Raif, a 24 year-old economics student at the Interdisciplinary center, a university in Herzliya. Obama “doesn’t represent our interests. He’s not a friend.’’
What UNGRATEFUL ASSHOLES are the ISRAELIS!
Here he is APOLOGIZING and EXCUSING that wretched war-criminal state at the U.N. after they murdered an American in international waters in an act of piracy and they cop that attitude?
For all the honorary welcomes Patrick received last week, he remains largely unknown in Israel, where his visit has received scant attention in the national media. He was barely noticed when he and the trade delegation walked through the crowded Yad Vashem museum. New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft has garnered more attention here, from government officials who know him personally and even from a Patriots fan who recognized Kraft walking with Patrick through the Knesset....
Which is interesting because I saw a clip of Kraft regarding the NFL labor strife and lockout and he was saying how important it was to keep talking, blah, blah, blah. mI thought HOW INTERESTING that he is SAYING that from ISRAEL -- the nation that refuses to talk peace with Palestinians without placing unacceptable preconditions on the talks!!!
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"Big Dig legacy dogs state, even in Israel
On his trade mission in Israel last week, Governor Deval Patrick tried to market Massachusetts as a center of innovation, technology, and science.
But the state just cannot shake its legacy as the home of the Big Dig.
The project — with its staggering cost overruns, long delays, and a fatal tunnel collapse — casts a shadow that reached all the way to the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem, where Patrick met with graduates of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government on Friday.
One of those graduates, Shlomit Doten-Gissin, told the governor she was working on an 11-mile light rail project in Tel Aviv that will involve building 5 miles of track underground.
“I don’t want it to be like the Big Dig,’’ she said.
Patrick acknowledged the project’s problems. But he wasn’t about to take the blame.
“I did not manage the Big Dig,’’ he told Doten-Gissin. “I just want that to be on the record.’’]
Tweet(s) of the week
As Governor Deval Patrick traveled through Israel last week on a trade mission that included Boston-area business and science leaders, we were impressed by the torrent of tweets from his travel companions. They provided minute-by-minute updates and allowed those of us at home to follow along on the international adventure. Here are two that we felt best summarized the week:
Yes, it is a GREAT ADVENTURE (puke)!!!
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Stowed Away in the Saved Drafts
Stowaway planet found in Milky Way
My concerns are of a more earthly nature, readers -- mostly in the form of ceaseless, mass-murdering wars and never-ending war-criminal occupations.
My concerns are of a more earthly nature, readers -- mostly in the form of ceaseless, mass-murdering wars and never-ending war-criminal occupations.
Arabs Are Always to Blame
Yes, whether it is the plight of women, the price of oil, or all your other ills, western news consumer.
"Record world food prices spur warning" by Associated Press / February 4, 2011
ROME — A UN agency reported yesterday that world food prices have reached a historic high, but that good harvests are for now forestalling the kind of food emergency felt in many places in 2008.
Now WAIT a MINUTE!
I WAS TOLD the BANKER'S BAILOUT FIXED the world economy, and NOW we are RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED?
WHERE did the $14 TRILLION -- with a T, readers -- GO? To buy back shoddy paper for Wall Street while providing lavish bonuses?
Rising food prices have been among the triggers for protests in Egypt, Algeria, and elsewhere.
“What is happening in northern Africa seems to be more political in nature,’’ said Abdolreza Abbassian, an economist and grain specialist with the Food and Agriculture Organization. “Of course, we cannot ignore the food inflation as one of the elements of discontent.’’
Next thing you know they will be telling us the Arabs are responsible for bad breath, body odor, and post-nasal drip.
Yeah, anything but Bernanke's printing press and destruction of the dollar is responsible for record high prices, world.
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Time for me to take a long lunch.
"Record world food prices spur warning" by Associated Press / February 4, 2011
ROME — A UN agency reported yesterday that world food prices have reached a historic high, but that good harvests are for now forestalling the kind of food emergency felt in many places in 2008.
Now WAIT a MINUTE!
I WAS TOLD the BANKER'S BAILOUT FIXED the world economy, and NOW we are RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED?
WHERE did the $14 TRILLION -- with a T, readers -- GO? To buy back shoddy paper for Wall Street while providing lavish bonuses?
Rising food prices have been among the triggers for protests in Egypt, Algeria, and elsewhere.
“What is happening in northern Africa seems to be more political in nature,’’ said Abdolreza Abbassian, an economist and grain specialist with the Food and Agriculture Organization. “Of course, we cannot ignore the food inflation as one of the elements of discontent.’’
Next thing you know they will be telling us the Arabs are responsible for bad breath, body odor, and post-nasal drip.
Yeah, anything but Bernanke's printing press and destruction of the dollar is responsible for record high prices, world.
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Time for me to take a long lunch.
Menino's Minions
As the great Boston Globe recycle toss begins I'm serving what I saved and read, readers:
"Ex-Menino driver gets new job, stirring dispute" by Maria Cramer, Globe Staff / January 29, 2011
A former driver for Mayor Thomas M. Menino has been promoted to deputy superintendent, marking the second time in five years that an officer who worked on the mayor’s security detail was elevated to the police department’s command staff....
But the appointment angered the organization representing the department’s minority officers, who for years have been calling for more women and minorities to be given supervisory roles. For more than a decade, Sergeant Detective Steven Whitman, 44, who is white, drove Menino, supervised other drivers, and handled security for other dignitaries before becoming head of security at City Hall in 2009....
Unlike the newspaper, I see everything in shades of gray these days, readers. Sorry I'm not into the agenda-pushing divisiveness today.
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"Menino ex-aide gets probation, not prison, in drug case; Forbes apologizes for his conduct" by Alikah Johnson, Globe Staff / January 19, 2011
The tense hand-wringing in federal court yesterday gave way to triumphant pats of joy when a former aide to Mayor Thomas M. Menino was sentenced to probation instead of prison for selling OxyContin and cocaine....
The US Drug Enforcement Administration began investigating John M. Forbes, 31, who served as Menino’s liaison to East Boston until his December 2009 arrest, around June 2008, according to court documents. He sold a government informant 125 OxyContin tablets in August 2009 and was arrested while trying to sell 10 ounces of cocaine to the informant, records show....
Related: Mayor Menino's Aide Needs Help
Looks like he got some:
More than 80 people wrote letters of support, including Robert E. Travaglini, former Senate president; Councilor Salvatore LaMattina; community leaders; and his former high school principal. Two of his drug counselors spoke on his behalf during yesterday’s sentencing hearing....
Would they be writing letters of character reference for you, dear reader?
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"Ex-Menino driver gets new job, stirring dispute" by Maria Cramer, Globe Staff / January 29, 2011
A former driver for Mayor Thomas M. Menino has been promoted to deputy superintendent, marking the second time in five years that an officer who worked on the mayor’s security detail was elevated to the police department’s command staff....
But the appointment angered the organization representing the department’s minority officers, who for years have been calling for more women and minorities to be given supervisory roles. For more than a decade, Sergeant Detective Steven Whitman, 44, who is white, drove Menino, supervised other drivers, and handled security for other dignitaries before becoming head of security at City Hall in 2009....
Unlike the newspaper, I see everything in shades of gray these days, readers. Sorry I'm not into the agenda-pushing divisiveness today.
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"Menino ex-aide gets probation, not prison, in drug case; Forbes apologizes for his conduct" by Alikah Johnson, Globe Staff / January 19, 2011
The tense hand-wringing in federal court yesterday gave way to triumphant pats of joy when a former aide to Mayor Thomas M. Menino was sentenced to probation instead of prison for selling OxyContin and cocaine....
The US Drug Enforcement Administration began investigating John M. Forbes, 31, who served as Menino’s liaison to East Boston until his December 2009 arrest, around June 2008, according to court documents. He sold a government informant 125 OxyContin tablets in August 2009 and was arrested while trying to sell 10 ounces of cocaine to the informant, records show....
Related: Mayor Menino's Aide Needs Help
Looks like he got some:
More than 80 people wrote letters of support, including Robert E. Travaglini, former Senate president; Councilor Salvatore LaMattina; community leaders; and his former high school principal. Two of his drug counselors spoke on his behalf during yesterday’s sentencing hearing....
Would they be writing letters of character reference for you, dear reader?
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Doctor, Doctor, Give Me the News
I got a bad case of loving you....
"Young doctors are hesitant to call in sick, a study says" by Lindsey Turner, Associated Press / September 15, 2010
CHICAGO — Junior doctors quickly learn that exposure to patients’ germs is part of the job, but a study suggests many are returning the favor. More than half of doctors in training said in a survey that they had shown up sick to work.
Misplaced dedication and fear of letting other doctors down are among reasons the researchers cited as possible explanations....
Dr. Thomas Nasca, the accreditation council’s chief executive, said residents are trained to put patients’ needs above their own but also should recognize that if they are sick, their patients’ would be better served by having another doctor take care of them.
A growing push to require flu shots for health workers also could help reduce the number of doctors who work while sick.
I KNEW there had to be $OME AGENDA-PU$HING ANGLE to the $TUDY in my NEW$PAPER!
Related: Cape student has H1N1 flu
Panel criticizes WHO swine flu response
Study links swine flu shots to narcolepsy
Mine links that and reading the newspaper.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends annual flu vaccinations for all health care workers.
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Related:
"A study suggests medical errors, job burnout, and depression lead surgeons to contemplate suicide at higher rates than the general public, and they are much less likely to seek help. Fear of losing their jobs contributes to reluctance to get mental health treatment, according to the study....
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I'm not feeling to well, readers:
"Benefit of supplements on joint pain discounted" by Associated Press / September 17, 2010
LONDON — In the BMJ analysis, the researchers found no proof that glucosamine or chondroitin were dangerous. “We see no harm in having patients continue [taking these supplements] as long as they perceive a benefit and cover the cost of treatment themselves,’’ wrote Peter Juni, head of the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Bern in Switzerland and colleagues.
Still, the researchers said that because the supplements didn’t reduce joint pain, insurers and governments should stop buying them. “New prescriptions to patients who have not received treatment should be discouraged,’’ they wrote.
Where can I find a few bottles then? They must work if government and indu$try say they do not.
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Time to take a piss:
"Screening men for prostate cancer saves few lives and comes at the risk of unnecessary treatments, a study found, adding to uncertainty over the testing’s usefulness....
It is not unnece$$ary to $ome, if you know what I mean.
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At least the FDA is on the case:
"The FDA is adding its strongest warning label to medical imaging agents that contain the chemical gadolinium, indicating they should not be used in patients with kidney problems....
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Also see: FDA seeks prostate drug information
"FDA warns of imaging drugs’ risks" by Associated Press / September 10, 2010
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is warning doctors that a class of injectable drugs used in MRI scans can cause a rare and sometimes fatal condition in patients with kidney disease.
The FDA is adding its strongest warning label to medical imaging agents that contain the chemical gadolinium, indicating they should not be used in patients with kidney problems.
The agency said use of the drugs can lead to hardening of the skin and tissue growth along joints, eyes, and internal organs. The ailment, sometimes fatal, is called nephrogenic fibrosing dermopathy and has been reported in patients with weakened kidney function.
There is no known treatment, though a kidney transplant appears to slow the disease and even reverse it in some cases....
--more--"
Time for a smoke:
"FDA sends e-cigarette companies a warning" by Associated Press / September 10, 2010
RICHMOND — The Food and Drug Administration is lighting a fire under the electronic cigarette industry to work with the agency to legally market the devices and is cautioning other companies that their sales and manufacturing practices violate federal law.
The FDA said yesterday it sent warning letters to five companies that make e-cigarettes or components for the plastic and metal devices that heat a liquid nicotine solution in a disposable cartridge, creating vapor that the smoker inhales.
In the letters, the FDA said the companies are violating the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, including unsubstantiated claims and poor manufacturing practices....
--more--"
Related: FDA proposes graphic cigarette warning labels in bid to curb smoking in US
But if you fail to accept our exported death sticks we will slap sanctions on you.
Smokeless products face FDA test
Ya can't even get in a good chew in AmeriKa!
Also see:
"Lawyers for an Atlanta man who was thrust into the center of a 2007 international tuberculosis scare said yesterday that federal health officials publicized his condition to make an example out of him in an effort to win more funding to fight the disease....
Oh, they would never do that!
--more--"
Also see: 1 in 10 US children has ADHD, survey says
And who benefit$ from hooking our kids on drug$?
Why is it I never feel well after reading the newspaper?
"Young doctors are hesitant to call in sick, a study says" by Lindsey Turner, Associated Press / September 15, 2010
CHICAGO — Junior doctors quickly learn that exposure to patients’ germs is part of the job, but a study suggests many are returning the favor. More than half of doctors in training said in a survey that they had shown up sick to work.
Misplaced dedication and fear of letting other doctors down are among reasons the researchers cited as possible explanations....
Dr. Thomas Nasca, the accreditation council’s chief executive, said residents are trained to put patients’ needs above their own but also should recognize that if they are sick, their patients’ would be better served by having another doctor take care of them.
A growing push to require flu shots for health workers also could help reduce the number of doctors who work while sick.
I KNEW there had to be $OME AGENDA-PU$HING ANGLE to the $TUDY in my NEW$PAPER!
Related: Cape student has H1N1 flu
Panel criticizes WHO swine flu response
Study links swine flu shots to narcolepsy
Mine links that and reading the newspaper.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends annual flu vaccinations for all health care workers.
--more--"
Related:
"A study suggests medical errors, job burnout, and depression lead surgeons to contemplate suicide at higher rates than the general public, and they are much less likely to seek help. Fear of losing their jobs contributes to reluctance to get mental health treatment, according to the study....
--more--"
I'm not feeling to well, readers:
"Benefit of supplements on joint pain discounted" by Associated Press / September 17, 2010
LONDON — In the BMJ analysis, the researchers found no proof that glucosamine or chondroitin were dangerous. “We see no harm in having patients continue [taking these supplements] as long as they perceive a benefit and cover the cost of treatment themselves,’’ wrote Peter Juni, head of the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Bern in Switzerland and colleagues.
Still, the researchers said that because the supplements didn’t reduce joint pain, insurers and governments should stop buying them. “New prescriptions to patients who have not received treatment should be discouraged,’’ they wrote.
Where can I find a few bottles then? They must work if government and indu$try say they do not.
--more--"
Time to take a piss:
"Screening men for prostate cancer saves few lives and comes at the risk of unnecessary treatments, a study found, adding to uncertainty over the testing’s usefulness....
It is not unnece$$ary to $ome, if you know what I mean.
--more--"
At least the FDA is on the case:
"The FDA is adding its strongest warning label to medical imaging agents that contain the chemical gadolinium, indicating they should not be used in patients with kidney problems....
--more--"
Also see: FDA seeks prostate drug information
"FDA warns of imaging drugs’ risks" by Associated Press / September 10, 2010
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is warning doctors that a class of injectable drugs used in MRI scans can cause a rare and sometimes fatal condition in patients with kidney disease.
The FDA is adding its strongest warning label to medical imaging agents that contain the chemical gadolinium, indicating they should not be used in patients with kidney problems.
The agency said use of the drugs can lead to hardening of the skin and tissue growth along joints, eyes, and internal organs. The ailment, sometimes fatal, is called nephrogenic fibrosing dermopathy and has been reported in patients with weakened kidney function.
There is no known treatment, though a kidney transplant appears to slow the disease and even reverse it in some cases....
--more--"
Time for a smoke:
"FDA sends e-cigarette companies a warning" by Associated Press / September 10, 2010
RICHMOND — The Food and Drug Administration is lighting a fire under the electronic cigarette industry to work with the agency to legally market the devices and is cautioning other companies that their sales and manufacturing practices violate federal law.
The FDA said yesterday it sent warning letters to five companies that make e-cigarettes or components for the plastic and metal devices that heat a liquid nicotine solution in a disposable cartridge, creating vapor that the smoker inhales.
In the letters, the FDA said the companies are violating the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, including unsubstantiated claims and poor manufacturing practices....
--more--"
Related: FDA proposes graphic cigarette warning labels in bid to curb smoking in US
But if you fail to accept our exported death sticks we will slap sanctions on you.
Smokeless products face FDA test
Ya can't even get in a good chew in AmeriKa!
Also see:
- FDA warns mouthwash makers
- Recall power sought for FDA
- J&J, FDA take blame for ‘phantom recall’
- FDA cracks down on J&J drug plants
- Device makers wary of FDA’s plans
- Changes to FDA review questioned
- Bone drugs may cause fractures, FDA says
- Egg farm warned to clean up by FDA
- Citing safety, FDA rejects another new diet drug
- FDA rejects weight loss drug Contrave
- FDA moves to pull Avastin approval
- FDA plans changes to device approvals
- FDA looks for cancer link to breast implant patients
- Cutting-edge devices get quicker reviews under FDA proposal
- FDA warns Sanofi about plant violations
- FDA cracks down on cold drugs
- Medtronic resolves 2 FDA warnings
"Lawyers for an Atlanta man who was thrust into the center of a 2007 international tuberculosis scare said yesterday that federal health officials publicized his condition to make an example out of him in an effort to win more funding to fight the disease....
Oh, they would never do that!
--more--"
Also see: 1 in 10 US children has ADHD, survey says
And who benefit$ from hooking our kids on drug$?
Why is it I never feel well after reading the newspaper?
Friday, March 11, 2011
On Through the Night
Can't stop me now....
"Nuclear weapons drivers involved in alcohol-related incidents; But report says cargo was secure" by Frederic J. Frommer, Associated Press / November 23, 2010
WASHINGTON — Government agents hired to drive nuclear weapons and components in trucks sometimes got drunk while on overnight stops during convoy missions, including an incident last year when two agents were detained by police at a bar during one assignment, according to a report yesterday by the US Energy Department’s watchdog....
Energy Department National Nuclear Security Administration spokesman Damien LaVera declined to say whether anyone was fired as a result of the incidents, saying he could not comment on personnel matters.
--more--"
Also see: Gulf Oil Overseer Sees Smoke From Pipe
Troubles at the TSA
Sex in the SEC
Pentagon Perverts
You seeing a pattern, American?
"Nuclear weapons drivers involved in alcohol-related incidents; But report says cargo was secure" by Frederic J. Frommer, Associated Press / November 23, 2010
WASHINGTON — Government agents hired to drive nuclear weapons and components in trucks sometimes got drunk while on overnight stops during convoy missions, including an incident last year when two agents were detained by police at a bar during one assignment, according to a report yesterday by the US Energy Department’s watchdog....
Energy Department National Nuclear Security Administration spokesman Damien LaVera declined to say whether anyone was fired as a result of the incidents, saying he could not comment on personnel matters.
--more--"
Also see: Gulf Oil Overseer Sees Smoke From Pipe
Troubles at the TSA
Sex in the SEC
Pentagon Perverts
You seeing a pattern, American?
Nobody Likes a Liar
Soon I will have nothing to read and report:
"Half of journalists think the print publications (or TV/radio stations) they work for will eventually fold. That’s according to a new report by the Oriella PR Network....
--MORE--"
"The corporate media would still be in business, and the blog-o-sphere not even exist, if the media had remembered that their self-appointed task was to be a watchdog on the abuses of government.
Nobody likes a liar.
The corporate media wants to blame the blogs, but in truth the reason they have lost their audience is that the corporate media lied to the world about Saddam's nukes.
The corporate media lied to the world about TWA 800.
"Half of journalists think the print publications (or TV/radio stations) they work for will eventually fold. That’s according to a new report by the Oriella PR Network....
--MORE--"
"The corporate media would still be in business, and the blog-o-sphere not even exist, if the media had remembered that their self-appointed task was to be a watchdog on the abuses of government.
Nobody likes a liar.
The corporate media wants to blame the blogs, but in truth the reason they have lost their audience is that the corporate media lied to the world about Saddam's nukes.
The corporate media lied to the world about TWA 800.
Discovered Draft
Just doing some cleaning, dear and beloved readers.
"Shuttle workers to get $15m to find new jobs" by Associated Press | June 3, 2010
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA shuttle workers will share $15 million from the federal government to help them search for new jobs once the program ends, US Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis said yesterday.
Related: Shuttle Discovery has last touchdown
Yeah, we have better things on which to spend our national tax treasure -- like wars, Wall Street, and Israel.
Speaking at Kennedy Space Center, Solis said the emergency federal grant was meant to help contractors who work for the shuttle program look for new positions and get additional training after the program ends....
The grant is in addition to $40 million in aid to retrain workers that President Obama promised when he visited Kennedy Space Center in April.
--more--"
What a humbling thing to think that the empire that was first to the moon is now thumbing rides to the space station. Start Trek it ain't!
"Shuttle workers to get $15m to find new jobs" by Associated Press | June 3, 2010
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA shuttle workers will share $15 million from the federal government to help them search for new jobs once the program ends, US Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis said yesterday.
Related: Shuttle Discovery has last touchdown
Yeah, we have better things on which to spend our national tax treasure -- like wars, Wall Street, and Israel.
Speaking at Kennedy Space Center, Solis said the emergency federal grant was meant to help contractors who work for the shuttle program look for new positions and get additional training after the program ends....
The grant is in addition to $40 million in aid to retrain workers that President Obama promised when he visited Kennedy Space Center in April.
--more--"
What a humbling thing to think that the empire that was first to the moon is now thumbing rides to the space station. Start Trek it ain't!
Thursday, March 10, 2011
All Work and No Blog....
.... makes for a pile of unread Boston Globes on the table.
Tomorrow will mark the 17th of the last 18 days that I have worked. That is one reason why you are not getting any posts and I am not reading the Globe. Another reason related to that is I am simply exhausted by the time I am finished to read and mark a Boston Globe.
Other reasons that factor into the equation include the wall the Boston Globe has thrown up at its website, as well as the blogger tools that are twice as time-consuming as they were before. If you don't want me reading or linking your lies, fine.
And then there are the basketball games I am running off to these last few weeks taking up the rest of my time. Saturday will be a day off; however, I will attending the high-school tournament championships that day -- something I have been doing for about 15 years without interruption. After that it will be right back to the grinding wheel for another couple of weeks covering vacations.
Thus I am so far behind, dear readers, that I do not even know where to begin. What I see out there is the USraeli Empire trying to get a handle on the Arab uprisings; the corporate AmeriKan media mostly ignoring the Wisconsin protests; Wall Street's looting of the nation continuing unabated; mass-murdering wars without end in Iraq and Afghanistan; Israel's relentless atrocities against Palestinian; and Muslim-hating coming from the U.S. Congress.
Related: What About A No Fly Zone for The Palestinians?
Good question.
When I first began blogging more than four years ago my goals were to get the truth out about 9/11 (which has been done, and not because of my efforts; their is a universe of bloggers and others out there that know the truth. Hell, the whole world knows it was a CIA-Mossad job); bring the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to an end (a heart-eating failure); and to get Democrats elected in 2006 to counter Bush (I naively believed in politics then).
What has happened in between is that I discovered the "mainstream" media is nothing but a lying, divisive, obfuscating, omitting, agenda-pushing, war-promoting, Muslim-hating PoS. The lying about the weather was really the last straw; however, the blatant Jewish bias of AmeriKa's media makes it most distasteful to consume. Undoubtedly that is why their industry is dying.
(As I was typing this post MSNBC was running with Lindsay Lohan, Mel Gibson, and Charlie Sheen, then had a segment on pornography -- which is what I would call television news these days)
So when do I post again, dear readers? That question I can not answer, nor can I tell you the content of that post. What I would like you to know is I am grateful for the time you spent here reading this piece.
Tomorrow will mark the 17th of the last 18 days that I have worked. That is one reason why you are not getting any posts and I am not reading the Globe. Another reason related to that is I am simply exhausted by the time I am finished to read and mark a Boston Globe.
Other reasons that factor into the equation include the wall the Boston Globe has thrown up at its website, as well as the blogger tools that are twice as time-consuming as they were before. If you don't want me reading or linking your lies, fine.
And then there are the basketball games I am running off to these last few weeks taking up the rest of my time. Saturday will be a day off; however, I will attending the high-school tournament championships that day -- something I have been doing for about 15 years without interruption. After that it will be right back to the grinding wheel for another couple of weeks covering vacations.
Thus I am so far behind, dear readers, that I do not even know where to begin. What I see out there is the USraeli Empire trying to get a handle on the Arab uprisings; the corporate AmeriKan media mostly ignoring the Wisconsin protests; Wall Street's looting of the nation continuing unabated; mass-murdering wars without end in Iraq and Afghanistan; Israel's relentless atrocities against Palestinian; and Muslim-hating coming from the U.S. Congress.
Related: What About A No Fly Zone for The Palestinians?
Good question.
When I first began blogging more than four years ago my goals were to get the truth out about 9/11 (which has been done, and not because of my efforts; their is a universe of bloggers and others out there that know the truth. Hell, the whole world knows it was a CIA-Mossad job); bring the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to an end (a heart-eating failure); and to get Democrats elected in 2006 to counter Bush (I naively believed in politics then).
What has happened in between is that I discovered the "mainstream" media is nothing but a lying, divisive, obfuscating, omitting, agenda-pushing, war-promoting, Muslim-hating PoS. The lying about the weather was really the last straw; however, the blatant Jewish bias of AmeriKa's media makes it most distasteful to consume. Undoubtedly that is why their industry is dying.
(As I was typing this post MSNBC was running with Lindsay Lohan, Mel Gibson, and Charlie Sheen, then had a segment on pornography -- which is what I would call television news these days)
So when do I post again, dear readers? That question I can not answer, nor can I tell you the content of that post. What I would like you to know is I am grateful for the time you spent here reading this piece.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Why Am I No Longer Reading the Newspaper?
Maybe this is the reason:
"As Carl Bernstein documented decades ago, the CIA "ran a formal training program in the 1950s to teach its agents to be journalists. Intelligence officers were 'taught how to make noises like reporters,' explained a high CIA official, and were then placed in major news organizations with help from management. 'These were the guys who went through the ranks and were told, 'You're going to be a journalist,' the CIA official said. Relatively few of the 400-some [media] relationships described in Agency files followed that pattern, however; most involved persons who were already bona fide journalists when they began undertaking tasks for the Agency."
By way of an initiative called "Operation Mockingbird," the CIA built a large seraglio of paid media courtesans. This was carried out through the Office of Policy Coordination, which was created by Allen Dulles and Frank Wisner – the latter being the official who went on to organize coups (and the attendant propaganda campaigns) against governments in Iran and Guatemala. (Wisner's son and namesake, incidentally, was a vice chairman at AIG – the CIA's favorite global insurance conglomerate – until 2009; more recently he was tapped by the Obama administration to serve as a back-channel contact with Hosni Mubarak and Omar Suleiman.)
The tendrils of "Operation Mockingbird" extended through every significant national media organ, from the Washington Post and Newsweek to the Time-Life conglomerate, from the New York Times to CBS. As a result, according to former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, the Fourth Estate "has been captured by government and corporations, the military-industrial complex, the intelligence apparatus." It is, in everything but name, an appendage of the Regime. This is clearly seen every time the Regime decides the time has come to mount another campaign of humanitarian bloodshed abroad.
Having "learned nothing from the horrors that they cheer-led like excitable teenage girls over the past 15 years, these bohemian bombers, these latte-sipping lieutenants, these iPad imperialists are back," sighs a wearily disgusted Brendan O'Neill in the London Telegraph. "This time they're demanding the invasion of Libya."
--MORE--"
Also see: Operation Mockingbird
Six Jewish Companies Own 96% of the World's Media
Declassified: Massive Israeli manipulation of US media exposed
Also might have something to do with it.
"As Carl Bernstein documented decades ago, the CIA "ran a formal training program in the 1950s to teach its agents to be journalists. Intelligence officers were 'taught how to make noises like reporters,' explained a high CIA official, and were then placed in major news organizations with help from management. 'These were the guys who went through the ranks and were told, 'You're going to be a journalist,' the CIA official said. Relatively few of the 400-some [media] relationships described in Agency files followed that pattern, however; most involved persons who were already bona fide journalists when they began undertaking tasks for the Agency."
By way of an initiative called "Operation Mockingbird," the CIA built a large seraglio of paid media courtesans. This was carried out through the Office of Policy Coordination, which was created by Allen Dulles and Frank Wisner – the latter being the official who went on to organize coups (and the attendant propaganda campaigns) against governments in Iran and Guatemala. (Wisner's son and namesake, incidentally, was a vice chairman at AIG – the CIA's favorite global insurance conglomerate – until 2009; more recently he was tapped by the Obama administration to serve as a back-channel contact with Hosni Mubarak and Omar Suleiman.)
The tendrils of "Operation Mockingbird" extended through every significant national media organ, from the Washington Post and Newsweek to the Time-Life conglomerate, from the New York Times to CBS. As a result, according to former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, the Fourth Estate "has been captured by government and corporations, the military-industrial complex, the intelligence apparatus." It is, in everything but name, an appendage of the Regime. This is clearly seen every time the Regime decides the time has come to mount another campaign of humanitarian bloodshed abroad.
Having "learned nothing from the horrors that they cheer-led like excitable teenage girls over the past 15 years, these bohemian bombers, these latte-sipping lieutenants, these iPad imperialists are back," sighs a wearily disgusted Brendan O'Neill in the London Telegraph. "This time they're demanding the invasion of Libya."
--MORE--"
Also see: Operation Mockingbird
Six Jewish Companies Own 96% of the World's Media
Declassified: Massive Israeli manipulation of US media exposed
Also might have something to do with it.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
The Eight-Million Dollar Escape
You could even say he made a Killingsworth!
"Blue Cross CEO got $8.6m in exit deal; In frugal times, critics see excess" by Robert Weisman, Globe Staff / March 2, 2011
Cleve L. Killingsworth, who abruptly resigned last March as chief executive of the nonprofit Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, collected $8.6 million in compensation from the state’s largest health insurer in 2010.
The rich package — which included $1.4 million in severance pay, with more money to follow — was detailed in a Blue Cross filing with the state Division of Insurance yesterday. It touched off a volley of criticism at a time when government and business officials, including Blue Cross’s leaders, have been struggling to restrain health care costs.
In a statement yesterday, the insurer’s former chairman said for the first time that the board negotiated terms of Killingsworth’s departure — suggesting both sides thought it was time for him to leave.
The $8.6 million that Killingsworth, 58, took with him is a combination of the $273,040 salary he received for his 2 1/2 months at the insurer last year; a $922,480 bonus for his work in 2009; and $7.4 million in additional compensation, according to the regulatory filing.
This when they LOST MONEY?
That additional money represents the severance and retirement payments that accrued over his six years at Blue Cross, including almost five years as chief executive. Much of the retirement pay had been reported previously.
But the $1.4 million severance paid out last year was less than half of what Killingsworth will eventually receive. The board of Blue Cross also agreed to pay him $1.8 million this year and $925,000 in 2012, bringing his total severance to more than $4 million, according to the insurer.
This as they are putting the patients on "global payment" budgets!
Message in Massachusetts: DO NOT GET SICK even if it kills you.
Killingsworth’s tenure at Blue Cross, which has nearly 3 million members, was marked by efforts to address skyrocketing medical costs by launching a “global payment’’ pilot program, under which health care providers are given an annual budget and incentives to keep patients healthy and out of the hospital....
So guys like him can collect a bigger check.
The insurer stumbled financially in recent years, recording back-to-back operating losses totaling nearly $215 million in 2009 and 2010....
And yet this guy was pulling down big bonuses and still collecting hundreds of thousands, huh?
Some critics said it was reminiscent of the package awarded Killingsworth’s predecessor, William Van Faasen, who received $16.4 million in retirement benefits in 2006....
Even better times, right?
Related: The Massachusetts Model: Blue Cross Turns Green For Killingsworth
Hey, at least the CEOs wallet is healthy. Doesn't that make you happy?
Attorney General Martha Coakley, who investigated Van Faasen’s pay and pressured Blue Cross to separate the jobs of chairman and chief executive, said in a statement yesterday that her office is monitoring compensation practices at health care companies. Yesterday’s filing on Killingsworth’s pay “is yet further evidence of the importance of that work,’’ she said.
As the big paychecks and payouts continue.
With all due respect, this woman has to be one of the most useless AGs that has ever existed. She trails behind on all the corruption cases, and business as usual continues in this state.
Oh, I forgot, she took a couple of ¢hump ¢hange payoffs from the Wall Street mortgage fraud crowd and she is out in front on gay marriage, yaaaay!
Starting under Killingsworth and continuing with Andrew Dreyfus, the current chief executive, Blue Cross has been pressing doctors and hospitals to limit what they charge for medical care, while working to trim its own costs. It has eliminated 450 jobs through attrition and layoffs since 2008 while reducing expenses in areas ranging from real estate to information technology.
I guess that is why the CEO pukes got "rewarded," huh?
But the millions of dollars given to Killingsworth threaten to overshadow efforts by Blue Cross and others to rein in medical costs, which have crippled businesses, municipalities, and workers, critics said....
Oh, who cares about them?
--more--"
Related: Rising market lifts big 3 Mass. insurers
Yeah, their investments(?) paid off, and a bunch of other CEOs also $cored a big ¢hunk of ¢hange.
Also see: A Healthy Insult For the American People
The Massachusetts Model: Municipal Health Mess
Towns to Pay Health Tax For Public Servants
Thanks for being so generous, taxpayers.
Stay healthy now! I think you know why.
"Blue Cross CEO got $8.6m in exit deal; In frugal times, critics see excess" by Robert Weisman, Globe Staff / March 2, 2011
Cleve L. Killingsworth, who abruptly resigned last March as chief executive of the nonprofit Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, collected $8.6 million in compensation from the state’s largest health insurer in 2010.
The rich package — which included $1.4 million in severance pay, with more money to follow — was detailed in a Blue Cross filing with the state Division of Insurance yesterday. It touched off a volley of criticism at a time when government and business officials, including Blue Cross’s leaders, have been struggling to restrain health care costs.
In a statement yesterday, the insurer’s former chairman said for the first time that the board negotiated terms of Killingsworth’s departure — suggesting both sides thought it was time for him to leave.
The $8.6 million that Killingsworth, 58, took with him is a combination of the $273,040 salary he received for his 2 1/2 months at the insurer last year; a $922,480 bonus for his work in 2009; and $7.4 million in additional compensation, according to the regulatory filing.
This when they LOST MONEY?
That additional money represents the severance and retirement payments that accrued over his six years at Blue Cross, including almost five years as chief executive. Much of the retirement pay had been reported previously.
But the $1.4 million severance paid out last year was less than half of what Killingsworth will eventually receive. The board of Blue Cross also agreed to pay him $1.8 million this year and $925,000 in 2012, bringing his total severance to more than $4 million, according to the insurer.
This as they are putting the patients on "global payment" budgets!
Message in Massachusetts: DO NOT GET SICK even if it kills you.
Killingsworth’s tenure at Blue Cross, which has nearly 3 million members, was marked by efforts to address skyrocketing medical costs by launching a “global payment’’ pilot program, under which health care providers are given an annual budget and incentives to keep patients healthy and out of the hospital....
So guys like him can collect a bigger check.
The insurer stumbled financially in recent years, recording back-to-back operating losses totaling nearly $215 million in 2009 and 2010....
And yet this guy was pulling down big bonuses and still collecting hundreds of thousands, huh?
Some critics said it was reminiscent of the package awarded Killingsworth’s predecessor, William Van Faasen, who received $16.4 million in retirement benefits in 2006....
Even better times, right?
Related: The Massachusetts Model: Blue Cross Turns Green For Killingsworth
Hey, at least the CEOs wallet is healthy. Doesn't that make you happy?
Attorney General Martha Coakley, who investigated Van Faasen’s pay and pressured Blue Cross to separate the jobs of chairman and chief executive, said in a statement yesterday that her office is monitoring compensation practices at health care companies. Yesterday’s filing on Killingsworth’s pay “is yet further evidence of the importance of that work,’’ she said.
As the big paychecks and payouts continue.
With all due respect, this woman has to be one of the most useless AGs that has ever existed. She trails behind on all the corruption cases, and business as usual continues in this state.
Oh, I forgot, she took a couple of ¢hump ¢hange payoffs from the Wall Street mortgage fraud crowd and she is out in front on gay marriage, yaaaay!
Starting under Killingsworth and continuing with Andrew Dreyfus, the current chief executive, Blue Cross has been pressing doctors and hospitals to limit what they charge for medical care, while working to trim its own costs. It has eliminated 450 jobs through attrition and layoffs since 2008 while reducing expenses in areas ranging from real estate to information technology.
I guess that is why the CEO pukes got "rewarded," huh?
But the millions of dollars given to Killingsworth threaten to overshadow efforts by Blue Cross and others to rein in medical costs, which have crippled businesses, municipalities, and workers, critics said....
Oh, who cares about them?
--more--"
Related: Rising market lifts big 3 Mass. insurers
Yeah, their investments(?) paid off, and a bunch of other CEOs also $cored a big ¢hunk of ¢hange.
Also see: A Healthy Insult For the American People
The Massachusetts Model: Municipal Health Mess
Towns to Pay Health Tax For Public Servants
Thanks for being so generous, taxpayers.
Stay healthy now! I think you know why.
Waiting on the Worcester Express
You can't even get a good fascism, AmeriKa!
"Worcester express trip seemed to take forever; On rails, 4 hours of frustration" by Eric Moskowitz, Globe Staff / March 2, 2011
Some passengers thought that the 5 p.m. express train to Worcester Monday was doomed from the start.
It seemed to move sluggishly out of Boston, and conductors were slow to collect fares, two bad signs. Many of the 1,200 passengers were wary, because they had sat on an inbound train that very morning that was delayed nearly two hours.
But that did not prepare them for what came next: Train P523 ground to a halt between Newtonville and West Newton, where it sat idle for more than 90 minutes. Riders were not allowed to disembark, because the train was too far from a station. When they finally got a tow to Worcester, a trip scheduled for 80 minutes had taken 244.
“I was going bananas,’’ said Kathleen Jones, a new mother who was trying to get home to her 5-month-old son. “How can they get away with this?’’
An apathetic population that accepts whatever s*** comes their way, that's how.
Commuter rail executives apologized to riders yesterday, acknowledging the delay was caused by the company’s decision to reuse a locomotive that had failed earlier that day....
I'm sorry, but that apologies just aren't cutting it anymore.
--more--"
There is that old line that at least Mussolini kept the trains running on time. You don't even get that, Amerikan.
Normally I would list a bunch of Boston Globe articles I can not or could not get to as you wait on the train, but why should I when most of them are s***?
Besides, the Globe will soon put up a wall and that certainly has not motivated me to read the slop. I mark all the stories I plan to read and then I place the pristine, unread Globe in a pile on the table.
I'm sorry, dear readers, that I am not more diligent; however, the last thing I find myself wanting to do after a day toiling away at work is cracking open a Boston Globe and getting a full face flush of agenda-pushing, war-promoting, supremacist garbage.
"Worcester express trip seemed to take forever; On rails, 4 hours of frustration" by Eric Moskowitz, Globe Staff / March 2, 2011
Some passengers thought that the 5 p.m. express train to Worcester Monday was doomed from the start.
It seemed to move sluggishly out of Boston, and conductors were slow to collect fares, two bad signs. Many of the 1,200 passengers were wary, because they had sat on an inbound train that very morning that was delayed nearly two hours.
But that did not prepare them for what came next: Train P523 ground to a halt between Newtonville and West Newton, where it sat idle for more than 90 minutes. Riders were not allowed to disembark, because the train was too far from a station. When they finally got a tow to Worcester, a trip scheduled for 80 minutes had taken 244.
“I was going bananas,’’ said Kathleen Jones, a new mother who was trying to get home to her 5-month-old son. “How can they get away with this?’’
An apathetic population that accepts whatever s*** comes their way, that's how.
Commuter rail executives apologized to riders yesterday, acknowledging the delay was caused by the company’s decision to reuse a locomotive that had failed earlier that day....
I'm sorry, but that apologies just aren't cutting it anymore.
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There is that old line that at least Mussolini kept the trains running on time. You don't even get that, Amerikan.
Normally I would list a bunch of Boston Globe articles I can not or could not get to as you wait on the train, but why should I when most of them are s***?
Besides, the Globe will soon put up a wall and that certainly has not motivated me to read the slop. I mark all the stories I plan to read and then I place the pristine, unread Globe in a pile on the table.
I'm sorry, dear readers, that I am not more diligent; however, the last thing I find myself wanting to do after a day toiling away at work is cracking open a Boston Globe and getting a full face flush of agenda-pushing, war-promoting, supremacist garbage.
A Sign of the Times
I'm not reading my Boston Globes, dear readers, for various reasons.
Oddly, this was their lead today:
US targets Hub signs
Some of the most visible billboards in the Boston area, including the mammoth advertisement for beer on the side of the TD Garden, appear to be illegal and may have to come down, federal highway authorities concluded in a recent review.
It is an article I will not be reading, as are so many others.
Oddly, this was their lead today:
US targets Hub signs
Some of the most visible billboards in the Boston area, including the mammoth advertisement for beer on the side of the TD Garden, appear to be illegal and may have to come down, federal highway authorities concluded in a recent review.
It is an article I will not be reading, as are so many others.
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The corporate media lied to the world about global warming
The corporate media lied to the world about 9-11
The corporate media lied to the world about the Oklahoma City Bombing
The corporate media lied to the world about Waco
The corporate media lied to the world about Robert Kennedy
The corporate media lied to the world about Vincent Foster
The corporate media lied to the world about Pearl Harbor
The corporate media lied to the world about Martin Luther King
The corporate media lied to the world about John F. Kennedy Jr.
As I said above, nobody likes a liar, and if the purveyors of propaganda truly wish to know the authors of their downfall they need only look in a mirror. The transition from mono-broadcast media to interactive media was sparked the moment the commercial media decided that their job was not to inform the public, but to herd them along in the desired direction.
The blogs would not be here were it not for the corporate media's untrustworthiness. I have no sympathy for them." -- Wake the Flock Up
They found none here, either.
Also see: Globe Decline a Decade in the Making
And now even I do not like them.