Thursday, October 30, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
Diablo Canyon - Now Storing Nuclear Waste
10/23/08
DIABLO CANYON – It's a victory for PG&E, but a defeat for the group that's waged war on nuclear waste at Diablo Canyon.
On Thursday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave the okay to a plan to store spent fuel at the facility.
Mothers for Peace, a group of activists on the Central Coast, has been fighting the plan since 2002. They've wanted more research to be done and have questioned if the storage system is safe from terror attacks.
The group had previously won a federal court ruling that forced the NRC to consider its arguments.
In Thursday's three-to-one vote, however, the NRC ruled no more study is necessary.
PG&E plans to move forward with the storage system. It's called dry cask storage, which means the waste will be moved from the cooling pools, which are filling up, to big containers above the ground.
NRC staff members say they studied plausible attack scenarios. They concluded even the worst-case scenarios would result in such a low dose of radiation, it wouldn't cause health problems for the people who live near the plant.
"Today's ruling actually gives people more of a sense of security the NRC has looked into this we do have a very robust, very sound, very safe system for storing our used fuel until the national repository opens," said Swanson.
Jane Swanson, the spokeswoman for Mothers for Peace, says the group is not giving up. With the support of one commissioner and the backing of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, they plan to continue their fight.
More than 50,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel is piling up at nuclear reactors nationwide. The waste is already in dry storage at 47 power plant sites.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
These ARE cold blooded people with military minds
Are you listening? 98% of our money supply = created by the banks out of thin air. 10% is only a figurative number on the amount of reserves a bank must have on your deposits. Canada requires that the banks hold 0% in reserve ; because the money is mere paper. People continue to be slaves of the elitists at the top of this pyramid scheme. Because what are their reserves? Gold likely.
Monday, October 13, 2008
CFR Presidential Candidates : Iran is NOT a nuclear threat!
Man: " I think, I think I am, therefore I am, I think. "
Establishment: " Of course you are my bright little star,
I've miles
And miles
Of files
Pretty files of your forefather's fruit
and now to suit our
great computer,
You're magnetic ink."
First Man: " I'm more than that, I know I am, at least, I think I must be."
Inner Man: " There you go man, keep as cool as you can.
Face piles
And piles
Of trials
With smiles.
It riles them to believe
that you perceive
the web they weave
And keep on thinking free. "
Establishment: " Of course you are my bright little star,
I've miles
And miles
Of files
Pretty files of your forefather's fruit
and now to suit our
great computer,
You're magnetic ink."
First Man: " I'm more than that, I know I am, at least, I think I must be."
Inner Man: " There you go man, keep as cool as you can.
Face piles
And piles
Of trials
With smiles.
It riles them to believe
that you perceive
the web they weave
And keep on thinking free. "
The Dream ( Graeme Edge )
When the white eagle of the North is flying overhead
The browns, reds and golds of autumn lie in the gutter, dead.
Remember then, that summer birds with wings of fire flaying
Came to witness springs new hope, born of leaves decaying.
Just as new life will come from death, love will come at leisure.
Love of love, love of life and giving without measure
Gives in return a wonderous yearn of a promise almost seen.
Live hand-in-hand and together we'll stand on the threshold of a dream.
The browns, reds and golds of autumn lie in the gutter, dead.
Remember then, that summer birds with wings of fire flaying
Came to witness springs new hope, born of leaves decaying.
Just as new life will come from death, love will come at leisure.
Love of love, love of life and giving without measure
Gives in return a wonderous yearn of a promise almost seen.
Live hand-in-hand and together we'll stand on the threshold of a dream.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt - The deliberate dumbing down of America
Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt: former Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement in the U.S. Department of Education under president Ronald Reagan:
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
From CNN: Days after bailout, AIG spent $440K on CA retreat for executives
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Days after it got a federal bailout, American International Group Inc. spent $440,000 on a posh California retreat for its executives, complete with spa treatments, banquets and golf outings, according to lawmakers investigating the company's meltdown.
AIG sent its executives to the coastal St. Regis resort south of Los Angeles, California, even as the company tapped into an $85 billion loan from the government it needed to stave off bankruptcy.
The resort tab included $23,380 worth of spa treatments for AIG employees, according to invoices the resort turned over to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
The retreat didn't include anyone from the financial products division that nearly drove AIG under, but lawmakers still were enraged over thousands of dollars spent on outing for executives of AIG's main U.S. life insurance subsidiary.
"Average Americans are suffering economically. They're losing their jobs, their homes and their health insurance," the committee's chairman, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-California, scolded the company during a lengthy opening statement at a hearing Tuesday.
"Yet less than one week after the taxpayers rescued AIG, company executives could be found wining and dining at one of the most exclusive resorts in the nation."
Former AIG CEO Robert Willumstad, who lost his job a day after the Federal Reserve put up the $85 billion on Sept. 16, said he was not familiar with the conference and would not have gone along with it.
"It seems very inappropriate," Willumstad said in response to questioning from Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland.
"Those executives should be fired," Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama said at a debate with Sen. John McCain on Tuesday, referring to the retreat participants. Obama also said AIG should give the Treasury $440,000 to cover the costs of the retreat.
But Eric Dinallo, superintendent of the New York State Insurance Department, said he could see the value of such a retreat under the circumstances.
"Having been at large global companies and knowing what condition AIG was in ... the absolute worst thing that could have happened" would have been for employees and underwriters in its life insurance subsidiary to flee the company.
"I do agree there is some profligate spending there, but the concept of bringing all the major employees together ... to ensure that the $85 billion could be as greatly as possible paid back would have been not a crazy corporate decision," Dinallo told the House committee.
The hearing disclosed that AIG executives hid the full range of its risky financial products from auditors as losses mounted, according to documents released by the committee, which is examining the chain of events that forced the government to bail out the conglomerate.
The panel sharply criticized AIG's former top executives, who cast blame on each other for the company's financial woes.
"You have cost my constituents and the taxpayers of this country $85 billion and run into the ground one of the most respected insurance companies in the history of our country," said Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-New York. "You were just gambling billions, possibly trillions of dollars."
AIG, crippled by huge losses linked to mortgage defaults, was forced last month to accept the $85 billion government loan that gives the U.S. the right to an 80 percent stake in the company.
AIG sent its executives to the coastal St. Regis resort south of Los Angeles, California, even as the company tapped into an $85 billion loan from the government it needed to stave off bankruptcy.
The resort tab included $23,380 worth of spa treatments for AIG employees, according to invoices the resort turned over to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
The retreat didn't include anyone from the financial products division that nearly drove AIG under, but lawmakers still were enraged over thousands of dollars spent on outing for executives of AIG's main U.S. life insurance subsidiary.
"Average Americans are suffering economically. They're losing their jobs, their homes and their health insurance," the committee's chairman, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-California, scolded the company during a lengthy opening statement at a hearing Tuesday.
"Yet less than one week after the taxpayers rescued AIG, company executives could be found wining and dining at one of the most exclusive resorts in the nation."
Former AIG CEO Robert Willumstad, who lost his job a day after the Federal Reserve put up the $85 billion on Sept. 16, said he was not familiar with the conference and would not have gone along with it.
"It seems very inappropriate," Willumstad said in response to questioning from Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland.
"Those executives should be fired," Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama said at a debate with Sen. John McCain on Tuesday, referring to the retreat participants. Obama also said AIG should give the Treasury $440,000 to cover the costs of the retreat.
But Eric Dinallo, superintendent of the New York State Insurance Department, said he could see the value of such a retreat under the circumstances.
"Having been at large global companies and knowing what condition AIG was in ... the absolute worst thing that could have happened" would have been for employees and underwriters in its life insurance subsidiary to flee the company.
"I do agree there is some profligate spending there, but the concept of bringing all the major employees together ... to ensure that the $85 billion could be as greatly as possible paid back would have been not a crazy corporate decision," Dinallo told the House committee.
The hearing disclosed that AIG executives hid the full range of its risky financial products from auditors as losses mounted, according to documents released by the committee, which is examining the chain of events that forced the government to bail out the conglomerate.
The panel sharply criticized AIG's former top executives, who cast blame on each other for the company's financial woes.
"You have cost my constituents and the taxpayers of this country $85 billion and run into the ground one of the most respected insurance companies in the history of our country," said Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-New York. "You were just gambling billions, possibly trillions of dollars."
AIG, crippled by huge losses linked to mortgage defaults, was forced last month to accept the $85 billion government loan that gives the U.S. the right to an 80 percent stake in the company.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
....Earth to the 24 through 34 age group!
So according to Google Insight, there seems to be somewhat of a trend among my videos that sticks out like a soar thumb. Apparently women - (in the 24 through 34 age group) - aren't interested. In my channel at least which showcases global hunger, world bank control, and new world order resistance. (http://www.youtube.com/capth00k)
American Women:
American Men:
The trend also occurs in the Canadian populations' viewers as well, which seems logical:
Canadian Women:
.... So what gives? Are you guys all watching America's next top model videos or what ?
American Women:
American Men:
The trend also occurs in the Canadian populations' viewers as well, which seems logical:
Canadian Women:
.... So what gives? Are you guys all watching America's next top model videos or what ?
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Zeitgeist: Addendum
The second Zeitgeist movie... I predict this one isn't going to be as popular as the first. Why? Because I think that this film focuses too much on the socialistic futurists contained in this film, as opposed to explaining (more than one) solution to being controlled by the private banking elite. I don't think that making (money, or currency) disappear completely is a feasible plan. Nor do I think that machines (or technology) is the save all which will make this world into a modernized utopia. Maybe I'm just a pessimist, or maybe I like to base my thoughts in reality. Watch the film and come up with your own opinion, but mine is that this is an overly optimistic notion which would inevitably have the same problems as our current system. No currency? For whom?
Well, probably us - the worker-bee peasant class. The rich will remain rich, as they would hold tightly onto their assets and material wealth. For one to say that (gold) for example would cease to have value in this world would be absurd for example. It's been used as a form of currency on this planet for thousands of years.
I hate to say it, but I TOLD YOU SO.
To all of those whom I personally informed in 07 about the financial crisis looming over this country : thanks for listening. Unfortunately, none of us did a fucking thing. That's why the country is going to hell in a hand basket ; this county is full of a bunch of SHEEP whom hide from confrontation and reality to continue living our their placid suburbanite dream
Example? This IS pure economic terrorism - they actually threatened us and congress with the prospect of martial law being declared if they didn't go ahead and approve the 700 billion dollars in unmarked bills. This government is corrupt. Our leaders have betrayed us once again, forcing the poor American people to absorb a huge debt. It's you and I who will pay for this. Not the people who operate in our country but have the business 'based' in a country like the netherlands where tax is 1%
I'm sick of this dog and pony show. WAKE UP people. 90% of Americans WERE NOT FOR THE BAILOUT AND THEY DID IT ANYWAY. Your opinion doesn't mean jack shit, and that should PISS YOU OFF!
Thursday, October 2, 2008
American Finance Crisis - Federal Reserve Bailouts - 700 Billion OR 5 Trillion?
"They used to hide this stuff, now it's so out in the open. "
"For every dollar they print, the Federal Reserve (our nation's private bank which issues us currency with debt attached) generates $3 of debt."
"The US mint is saying it can't get gold to make coins."
Engineered Calamity
Wall Street Scum.
Keep on looting the poor
this daft American public
We love it.
We love writing you blank checks
Controlled by a private bank
I called this one
This is the point
where we get tanked
It's been happening for a while
what they've planned all along...
A currency based on nothing
can never be anything
other than paper
Slowly I see
A country I thought
was a safe place to be
Become a personal prison
For me.. For my family
We're the ones
who get to live
inside of this
engineered calamity
We're the ones
who get to live
in the insanity
of a reality
we created
we gave it all up
blame yourselves
for what comes to pass
for it's all on you
and not on my ass
I refuse to pay
let it be said
I'd rather be dead
than pay for a rich
man's bread...
Save your souls
stop beating around the Bush
stop herding in numbers to push
a person who's backed by the banks
We'll all get spanked
by the oppression
the next one
brings to pass
It's all on your ass
But you refuse to fight
even though, it's your god given
right to make this world a better
place to be for you, your friends
and your family
Don't be - my enemy
You too, are a soldier
in my family
My uncle, my friends
They go back to Iraq
to fight for some shit
that only amounts to black...
...oil...
pools of blood
the things we don't get to see
it angers me ...
Where are all the bodies
that just don't seem to come home
on the news they're talking about
Brittney Spear's next loan
on fame.... what the hell
what's it matter anyway
We'll all just go along
in the same pattern
in the same old way
believing the words
that all of them say
trusting intentions
sought out by corporations
the will of the people lost
in a corporate take over of greed
will they create another artificial need
my people refuse to bleed
for the corporate greed
of a nation lost
to the trust
of a few
whom if only they knew
the cost of a gallon of milk
or the cost of a dozen of eggs
they know only the cost of a
Maserati instead
In my head
I imagined
we could be
truly free
But then I realized
those words were merely
taught to me
Keep on looting the poor
this daft American public
We love it.
We love writing you blank checks
Controlled by a private bank
I called this one
This is the point
where we get tanked
It's been happening for a while
what they've planned all along...
A currency based on nothing
can never be anything
other than paper
Slowly I see
A country I thought
was a safe place to be
Become a personal prison
For me.. For my family
We're the ones
who get to live
inside of this
engineered calamity
We're the ones
who get to live
in the insanity
of a reality
we created
we gave it all up
blame yourselves
for what comes to pass
for it's all on you
and not on my ass
I refuse to pay
let it be said
I'd rather be dead
than pay for a rich
man's bread...
Save your souls
stop beating around the Bush
stop herding in numbers to push
a person who's backed by the banks
We'll all get spanked
by the oppression
the next one
brings to pass
It's all on your ass
But you refuse to fight
even though, it's your god given
right to make this world a better
place to be for you, your friends
and your family
Don't be - my enemy
You too, are a soldier
in my family
My uncle, my friends
They go back to Iraq
to fight for some shit
that only amounts to black...
...oil...
pools of blood
the things we don't get to see
it angers me ...
Where are all the bodies
that just don't seem to come home
on the news they're talking about
Brittney Spear's next loan
on fame.... what the hell
what's it matter anyway
We'll all just go along
in the same pattern
in the same old way
believing the words
that all of them say
trusting intentions
sought out by corporations
the will of the people lost
in a corporate take over of greed
will they create another artificial need
my people refuse to bleed
for the corporate greed
of a nation lost
to the trust
of a few
whom if only they knew
the cost of a gallon of milk
or the cost of a dozen of eggs
they know only the cost of a
Maserati instead
In my head
I imagined
we could be
truly free
But then I realized
those words were merely
taught to me
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