Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/14/us-eurozone-idUSTRE7AC15K20111114

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that Europe could be living through its toughest hour since World War Two as new leaders in Italy and Greece rushed to form governments and limit the damage from the euro zone debt crisis.

Link: http://www.sovereignindependent.com/?p=29770

Financial terrorists who caused collapse pose as EU debt crisis saviors, the very financial terrorists responsible for the economic collapse have now exploited the crisis to pose as saviors and oversee a banker coup – with Goldman Sachs stooges now in control of both Italy and the European Central Bank.

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/nuclear-agency-reports-low-but-unusual-radiation-across-europe/2011/11/11/gIQAriOxBN_story.html

VIENNA — Very low levels of radiation, which are higher than normal but don’t seem to pose a health hazard, are being registered in the Czech Republic and elsewhere in Europe, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday.

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/11

President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday that Russia must invest more in the Arctic amid tough competition from other nations for the region's mineral riches. President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday that Russia must invest more in the Arctic amid tough competition from other nations for the region's mineral riches. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service) Medvedev said in televised remarks to workers in the far eastern city of Khabarovsk that Russia will take the necessary security steps and other moves to protect its interests in the polar region.

Link: http://www.darkmoon.me/2011/darkmoon-upon-america-by-israel-shamir-response-pictures-and-captions-by-lasha-darkmoon/

In short, the Jews took over America and turned it into a Jewish colony. As simple as that. Their American hosts were hoist with their own petard. But why worry? American Jews are Americans, are they not? If they’re smart enough to take over America, as they have demonstrably done, why shouldn’t they proceed to the next logical step and take over the world—yes, dominate the world through America? No one denies this is America’s aim: full-spectrum dominance. So if the Jews control America, and if America controls the world, doesn’t it follow logically that the Jews control the world? The logic is irrefutable.

Link: http://mikephilbin.blogspot.com/2011/11/rothschild-owned-central-banks-in-all.html

As of the year 2000, there were seven countries without a Rothschild-owned Central Bank. Then along came the convenient terror of 9-11 and soon Iraq and Afghanistan had been added to the list, leaving only five countries without a Central Bank owned by the Rothschild Family. We all know how fast the Central Bank of Benghazi was set up.

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/01-8

Cannes closed to demonstrators as 12,000 police deployed to provide security for G20 summit
by Angelique Chrisafis in Nice. Thousands of anti-globalisation protesters marched in the French city of Nice on Tuesday, as police sealed off the nearby resort of Cannes where the G20 summit starts on Thursday.

Link: http://www.alternet.org/story/152933/noam_chomsky_speaks_to_occupy%3A_if_we_want_a_chance_at_a_decent_future%2C_the_movement_here_and_around_the_world_must_grow/

In a speech to Occupy Boston, the linguist and icon hailed the "unprecedented" first weeks of OWS. He cautioned protesters to build and educate first, strike later.

Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/gaddafis-death-breached-the-law-says-russia-2374250.html

As politicians in Western capitals were taking quiet pleasure in the capture and killing of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi yesterday, opinions elsewhere were divided. In Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the Geneva Conventions had been breached with the killing of Colonel Gaddafi.

Link: http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=36238

The 1318 transnational corporations that form the core of the economy. Superconnected companies are red, very connected companies are yellow. The size of the dot represents revenue. AS PROTESTS against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters’ worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.

Link: http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=36248

Gold markets will never be the same again once China establishes the so called Pan Asia Gold Exchange (PAGE), scheduled to open in June, 2012, analysts predicted. The Exchange, which will be opened at Kunming, capital of China’s southwestern province of Yunman will certainly change the way gold prices are setting, analysts added. The setting up of the Exchange is entitled to change global supply and demand dynamics and how gold can be traded. Many believes that it will create greater transparency in the markets because the gold will be priced in terms of an alternative currency, bypassing the dollar, which remains global currency.

Link: http://socialistworker.org/2011/10/04/euro-crisis-to-world-crisis

The Eurozone--the group of 17 European countries that use a common currency--is trying to avoid a collapse by intensifying the push for austerity in Greece and other countries while dramatically expanding the financial resources to rescue member states. That's because the nearly $600 billion bailout fund--proposed in July and just now set to go into effect--is already seen as far too small, given the growing debt crisis in Italy and even France.What's more, the crisis has now threatened the viability of major European banks.Financier George Soros wrote that unless the European governments take decisive--and enormously expensive--action, the world faces "possible financial meltdown and another Great Depression."

Link: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article21193

(San Francisco) - Japan is readying six huge, long acting nuclear weapons for immediate use against the country’s economic and military foes. Chief among those is the United States. The weapon is radioactive poison gas from the six destroyed American reactors and old reactor cores at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Fukushima Daiichi is now fully weaponized in concept and, in just days, in real life.

Link: http://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/the-usnato-encirclement-of-russia-4474/

The U.S. and Romania signed an agreement on deployment of the elements of a U.S. missile defense system. Earlier it was reported that some elements of the EUROPRO system will appear in Turkey. Everything indicates that the U.S. military machine and NATO are inexorably approaching the Russian borders.

Link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28965.htm

Russia's Kommersant newspaper said that sources of the Russian delegation accompanying Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in his visit to Venezuela confirmed that both governments want to create a bank. Russia and Venezuela are considering the possibility to create a new international financial institution, similar to the World Bank but on a more modest scale, according to Russia's Kommersant newspaper.

Link: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/08/02/fukushima-radiation-1000-times-h-bomb-peak-2/

Dr. Chris Busby, world famous physicist, said tests run at the respected Harwell Radiation Laboratory in England demonstrate the airborne radiation in Japan is 1,000 times higher than radioactive “fallout” at the peak in 1963 of H-Bomb detonations by the nuclear powers. The calculations were on radioactive Cesium 137.

Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2020310/Petra-Ecclestone-new-owner-85m-Spelling-mansion-insists-shes-just-hard-working-girl.html

At just 22 years old, she's a billionairess. Ms Ecclestone already owns a Georgian pile in Chelsea that is valued at $90million. Candyland pushes her real estate portfolio to over $175million.

• In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called "absolute poverty"
• Every year 15 million children die of hunger

http://library.thinkquest.org/C002291/high/present/stats.htm

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/07/201172810315207360.html

Abdiweli Mohamed Ali says relief aid is not reaching those in need in famine-stricken Horn of Africa nation. The UN is preventing aid from reaching victims of Somalia's drought, the country's prime minister has said. Abdiweli Mohamed Ali said on Thursday the world body was hoarding supplies and failing to distribute them to those in need. "The food in the warehouse would actually feed a million people for one day," he told Al Jazeera from Rome, Italy.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/101east/2011/07/201172183247237880.html

The mail order bride industry is flourishing in Asia, but is it also leading to sex trafficking and domestic violence? 101 East investigates the dramatic increase in South Korean men marrying mail-order brides, up from almost none a decade ago, overturning centuries of prejudice against interracial marriage and creating a wave of cases of divorce and abuse. More than a third of South Korean men in rural areas married foreign brides last year. While some unions are happy, the industry has also led to sex trafficking, domestic violence and murder.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2011/07/20117151926820778.html

Failing entities advised to move to strengthen their financial cushions, as eurozone fights growing debt crisis. Stress tests were meant to make banks take action to stay safe from another Greek-like financial crisis. Eight of 90 European banks have failed in stress tests used to project how they would fare in another recession. Sixteen others would barely stay above water in another crisis, according to results released on Friday. The failing banks should "promptly" move to strengthen their financial cushions, the European Banking Authority (EBA) said as it released the results.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/07/2011714104413787827.html

Favourable attitudes have fallen nine per cent over the past two years in key Middle Eastern countries, new survey says. Arabs have been disappointed that the reality of US foreign policy has not matched Obama's rhetoric. The United States' popularity in the Arab world has plummeted to levels lower than the last year of the George W Bush administration, according to a new survey of public opinion in six Arab countries released in Washington on Wednesday. The "Arab Attitudes" survey found that favourable ratings of the United States have fallen by nine per cent or more in Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over the past two years.

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/07/02-7

Those who gather in Syntagma are being treated brutally by the enforcers of a government that fears the free-thinking on display. Greek people are currently in an open and real war with a monster that in ancient mythology was known as the Lernaean Hydra. Today, the monster is called neoliberalism. Unfortunately, for us, not only has it many heads, but many long hands as well ... and unfortunately for us is not a myth but a reality.

Link: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article20919

Over the past two weeks, we have been suggesting, tongue in cheekily, that despite the relentless desires of everyone to sell the EUR, it has continued to drift higher, due to some inexplicable force with bottomless pockets, which, after some deductive logic, we assumed was China. It turns out we were correct.

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/30-8

“All the evidence shows that we are nearing the end of man’s tragic experiment in independence from God.” Wow, I thought. They get it. And suddenly I felt a burst of solidarity with the Jehovah’s Witnesses. The words are from one of their tracts, which was given to me because I have this passion for talking about God — a wild glee, almost, for stepping up to The Big Serious and wrestling theology with the neighborhood proselytizers.

Link: http://www.infowars.com/elite-at-bilderberg-confab-war-is-solution-for-over-population/

Jim Tucker’s anonymous steering level Bilderberg inside source told him war in the Middle East is at the top of the elite’s agenda. Speaking with Alex Jones today, the long time Bilderberg sleuth said the elite believe the world is over-populated and war represents a partial solution. “They are unified on their war project,” said Tucker, citing his Trilateralist-Bilderberg source, “their rationalization the world is too crowded anyway, they have to limit the population growth, the one way to do it is with our wars. They have been emphasizing that all day.”

Link: http://goldsilver.com/news/the-global-dollar-dump-is-already-in-progress-pt-2/

This is part 2 of our “Global Dollar Dump” article series. In part we noted how China has already begun moving away from the US as a major trading partner. This move has set in motion a series of events that will result in the US Dollar losing its status as reserve currency of the world. Indeed, we are now seeing various other nations preparing for the end of the US Dollar as reserve currency. Consider that Saudi Arabia becoming so fed up with the US that it is sending trade representatives to China and Russia to strengthen trade ties.

Link: http://www.woweather.com/weather/news/fukushima?LANG=us&VAR=eurad5000

This animation displays a potential dispersion of the radioactive cloud (Caesium 137 Isotope measured at the near surface level (Level 1), after a nuclear accident in reactor Fukushima I. The continuous release rate is very uncertain, thus the calculations have to be interpreted qualitatively. Dispersion in the near surface level (Level 1), in appr. 2500 m height (Level 12) and in appr. 5000 m height (Level 16).

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/2011/05/201153142852595854.html

Children risk getting cut to pieces as they fasten their canoes onto moving tourist boats in order to sell their goods. There is a unique commerce system at work along the narrowest stretch of the Tajaparu River in Amazonia, northern Brazil. This is where the boats pass close to the shore, and the best place for the little canoes to do business. Children are seen working the river traffic, weaving in and out among the boats, a ferry's propeller churning fast just below them. Jesse, 14 and Lisette, 11, are among those who risk death just to make a few pennies selling sweets and jams.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/2011/05/201153142852595854.html

Children risk getting cut to pieces as they fasten their canoes onto moving tourist boats in order to sell their goods. There is a unique commerce system at work along the narrowest stretch of the Tajaparu River in Amazonia, northern Brazil. This is where the boats pass close to the shore, and the best place for the little canoes to do business. Children are seen working the river traffic, weaving in and out among the boats, a ferry's propeller churning fast just below them. Jesse, 14 and Lisette, 11, are among those who risk death just to make a few pennies selling sweets and jams.

Link: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/america-s-nuclear-nightmare-20110427

The U.S. has 31 reactors just like Japan’s — but regulators are ignoring the risks and boosting industry profits. Five days after a massive earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, triggering the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, America's leading nuclear regulator came before Congress bearing good news: Don't worry, it can't happen here. In the aftermath of the Japanese catastrophe, officials in Germany moved swiftly to shut down old plants for inspection, and China put licensing of new plants on hold. But Gregory Jaczko, the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, reassured lawmakers that nothing at the Fukushima Daiichi reactors warranted any immediate changes at U.S. nuclear plants.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2011/04/201142317359479927.html

There is a certain element of helplessness to living in northeast Japan right now. It isn't just dealing with the images – and reality – of the large-scale catastrophe in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. It's not even the electrical outages, the disrupted train services or the very real fear that another big earthquake – one as massive as the magnitude 9.0 temblor that wiped out entire coastal communities – is imminent. It's the fear of radiation, invisible, odourless and potentially deadly, leaking out of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant and entering their bodies via contaminated air, food and water.

Link: http://www.counterpunch.org/grossman04252011.html

With the ongoing disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plants in Japan, some people ask: can nuclear power be made safe? The answer is no. Nuclear power can never be made safe.

Link: http://www.counterpunch.org/takashi04252011.html

The nuclear power plants in Japan are ageing rapidly; like cyborgs, they are barely kept in operation by a continuous replacement of parts. And now that Japan has entered a period of earthquake activity and a major accident could happen at any time, the people live in constant state of anxiety.

Link: http://www.arirang.co.kr/News/News_View.asp?nseq=115251&code=Ne8&category=1

The amount of radioactivity in seawater near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is about to hit the highest-ever level recorded in history. According to the Asahi Shimhun on Sunday, officials measured 1-hundred-86 becquerels per liter of radioactive substances in the sea just 34 kilometers from the crippled power plant on April 15th. This level is about 20-thousand times higher than the permissible annual standard set by the Japanese government.

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/04/25-4

KIEV - The world on Tuesday marks a quarter century since the world's worst nuclear disaster at Chernobyl in Ukraine, haunted by fears over the safety of atomic energy after the Japan earthquake.

Link: http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=24741

I don’t care what you say about astrological misgivings…this is important. Celestial bodies pull on each other and things happen. Just a full moon sways our oceans, affects menstrual cycles and changes moods. What do you think major galactic events will precipitate? We’re already in a heavy duty solar cycle and are entering a galactic alignment called the ‘precession of the equinoxes’ that happens only every 26,000 years.

Link: http://enenews.com/highest-78-pcil-iodine-131-found-raw-milk-san-francisco-bay-area

JUST EAT ORGANIC!

Link: http://socialistworker.org/2011/04/20/new-urgency-on-earth-day

The desire to stop the corporate assault on the environment is giving rise to activism. THE FIRST Earth Day was organized in 1970 in response to a period that had seen one ecological disaster after another. One of the most frightening had come the year before--the devastating Santa Barbara oil spill caused by a blowout on a Union Oil drilling platform just six miles off the coast of Southern California.

Link: http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110419004267.htm

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency has reported to a Cabinet Office safety panel that nuclear fuel pellets in the Nos. 1 to 3 reactors at the quake-hit Fukushima power station are believed to have partially melted. The report was the first time the agency, an organ of the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry, has acknowledged that nuclear fuel has melted at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.

Link: http://www.mercurynews.com/central-coast/ci_17891348?nclick_check=1

The meltdown at a Japanese nuclear power plant after a large earthquake and tsunami rocked the island nation last month drew more than 100 people to a lecture Wednesday by UC Santa Cruz lecturer Daniel Hirsch. Hirsch, a renowned expert on nuclear policy often quoted by major media outlets, spoke at the Stevenson College Event Center on the tragedy at the Fukushima plant and how the U.S. can prevent a similar meltdown at its 104 nuclear reactors, including the two in California.