Department of Energy Pretends that Low Levels of Radiation Are Safe
Nuclear Cheerleaders Use Voodoo Science to Pretend Low Levels of Radiation Are Safe … Or Even Good For You Dr. Peter Karamoskos – a nuclear radiologist and a public representative on the radiation health committee of the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency – wrote in the Sydey Herald last year: You have to...
The Truth About JP Morgan’s $2 Billion Loss
Posted on May 15, 2012 by WashingtonsBlog Must-Read Background Before we can understand what’s really going on with JP Morgan’s loss (which will probably end up being a lot more than $2 billion), we need a little background. JP Morgan: Is the world’s largest publicly-traded company Is the largest bank in the U.S. … the...
Big Oil Is Gaming the System to Keep Domestic U.S. Prices High
The U.S. Is Now EXPORTING Oil, But the Oil Companies Are Gaming the System By Switching To a Different Benchmark to Keep U.S. Oil Prices HIGH … And the Keystone Pipeline Will Create Even HIGHER U.S. Prices Leah McGrath Goodman – who has written for the Financial Times, Barron’s, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes and...
Fukushima Fuel Pools Are an American National Security Issue
Senator: Fukushima Fuel Pool Is a National Security Issue for AMERICA After visiting Fukushima, Senator Ron Wyden warned that the situation was worse than reported … and urged Japan to accept international help to stabilize dangerous spent fuel pools. An international coalition of nuclear scientists and non-profit groups are calling on the U.N. to coordinate...
People Are Losing Trust In All Institutions
Lack of Trust – Caused by Institutional Corruption – Is Killing the Economy The signs are everywhere: Americans have lost trust in our institutions. The Chicago Booth/Kellogg School Financial Trust Index published yesterday shows that only 22% of Americans trust the nation’s financial system. Robert Shiller said Monday: Our whole economy has been affected by...
Debunking Bailout Myths
Tarp Overseer Debunks Bailout Myths: Big Companies HAVEN’T Repaid Tarp Funds … And Funds to Help Homeowners HAVEN’T Been Disbursed ~~~ Apologists for government bailouts push two main myths: That all of the bailout funds have been repaid That the bailouts helped the average American But the official government overseer of the Tarp bailout program...
Senator Church’s Prophetic Warning
Influential Senator Warned in 1975: “Th[e National Security Agency's] Capability At Any Time Could Be Turned Around On The American People, And No American Would Have Any Privacy Left …There Would Be No Place To Hide. [If A Dictator Ever Took Over, The N.S.A.] Could Enable It To Impose Total Tyranny, And There Would Be...
Earthquakes Hammer the “Ring of Fire”
Within the past 24 hours, the Pacific “Ring of Fire” – the region of the world where 90% of the world’s earthquakes occur and 75% of the world’s volcanoes are located – has been hammered with earthquakes: 8.6 in Indonesia 7.0 in Mexico (in the state of Michoacan) 6.9 in Mexico (in the Gulf of...
This Month In Fascism
The U.S. Supreme Court, based on the urging of the Obama administration, has ruled that any prisoner – even those arrested for offenses such as dog leash laws, peaceful protests, or driving with an expired license – can be subject to a routine strip search upon entering prison. The government is openly saying that it...
Congress Rolls Back Toothless, Psuedo-Financial-Reforms Which They Pretended to Make
Out-of-control derivatives were one of the main causes of the economic crisis … and nothing has really been done to solve the problem. Is Washington finally about to fix the problem? Of course not … they’re going to make it worse, and roll back even the toothless psuedo-reforms which they pretended to make. As the...
We’re Spending Money Combating the Wrong Dangers
The Government Spends Trillions On Unlikely Threats … But Won’t Spend a Billion Dollars to Prevent the Very Real Possibility of Global Nuclear Catastrophe Studies show that people are worry about the wrong things. We are terrified of things that will probably never happen, and underestimate the real dangers which face us. As we noted...
Open-Ended Bailouts Are Continuing for Big Banks
Big Banks Continue to Suck at the Government Teat With Never-Ending Stealth Bailouts We’ve previously documented the fact that bailouts of the big banks are continued in stealth mode up to the present day. True, the banks claim they’ve repaid the Tarp bailout funds … but nearly half of the banks “repaid” such bailout funds...
