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From Zero Hedge. I'm trying to self educate on economic theory, but today, it Does Not Compute.. I imagine myself as a dog listening to someone speaking, straining to understand anything, comprehending nothing but all but the simplest sentences. And my name, of course.. In my Fido Mind, the article reads..
"Blahblahblahblah blahblahblahblah, blah-blah, blah blah blah blah, b-blah.. Silver was the massive winner, now up an impressive 4.3% since Friday and 30% YTD.. blahblahblahblah, blah blah blah.."
I understand The Best Part. Now give me Pupperoni! And some more silver!
Timely. And by "Timely," I mean just in time for the one year anniversary of the Birth of Nuclear Godzilla! CBS News. Truly awesome excerpts:
The one year anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan is less than two weeks away, but details about the nuclear meltdown that happened that tragic day are just beginning to emerge. (Just. Beginning.)
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CBS News correspondent Lucy Craft reported that in the hours after the tsunami struck the nuclear plant, Japanese officials huddled in an emergency bunker struggled to grasp the size of the catastrophe.
"As we listened to our top nuclear experts, we politicians had no idea what they were talking about. Was anyone going to suffer radiation contamination? Would this be another Chernobyl or Three Mile Island? No one could give us a straight answer," Fukuyama recalled in the report.
After 300 interviews with officials and nuclear experts, the report said government was partially at fault for not having an emergency plan if a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck the country.
However, investigators concluded the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric, was to blame for the majority of the problems. "They were astonishingly unprepared for this nuclear accident," lead investigator Youichi Funabash told CBS News.
It seems that Tokyo Electric was unprepared for a power failure. Without electricity, the cores of the reactor couldn't stay cool, and it triggered explosions and meltdowns. (It's excellent that TEPCO didn't know this, but the rest of us were forewarned simply by watching Simpsons episodes..)
And:
"Terrified doesn't begin to describe how we felt," Fukuyama told investigators months after the scare. A "no go" zone still remains around the plant because radiation levels are too high. Clean up at the plant is estimated to take 40 years. (This is still a conservative estimate, btw..)
"When we learned the reactors had in fact melted down, I was overwhelmed, by our inability," he added. Oh, Mr. Fukuyama, we're all overwhelmed by your, TEPCO's, and Japan's inabilities..
Pretty compelling evidence for allowing private sector industries to regulate themselves, no? For my radioactive superpowers, I'd like invisibility, the power to fly, or to be impervious to bullets and explosions, please!
Channel surfing through, I found the race in rain delay, listened for less than a minute, and got a really charged This Ain't Right vibe.
37 laps to go. Let's hope I'm wrong.
Update: I was wrong, and glad to be! Even though it was a bang-up race, the whole thing didn't go tragic, which is cool. I probably just transferred my anxiety about the end of this week to last night's race. Again; I'm glad to be wrong on this one..
Hmm.. I wonder what kind of hackers hack Anonymous? International Business Times. Excerpts:
A group of hackers calling themselves Team Matrix has declared war on the Anonymous collective, promising to hack its sites and publish its members names.
The Team Matrix hackers made the declaration of war via a video posted on YouTube. In it, the Matrix hacker claimed responsibility for defacing the AnonyOps website - one of Anonymous central news centres.
Moving past the claim, the Matrix representative posted a statement promising the attack was the opening shot in an ongoing campaign against the hacktivist collective.
"Greetings anonymous, We are team matrix. For many months our hacking group has sat back and watched your actions. We have decided that the time has come, a time that you have been waiting for, a time that could go down in history. We have decided to go to war, a war that will change everything, you know this," read the statement.
Team Matrix gave no clear reason for its declaration of war past a general disapproval of Anonymous; "your actions represent those of people who hack for a reason they believe in and that is exactly what we are going to do. You may think you are untouchable, you may think you can bully people and take the law into your own hands."
Later into the video statement Team Matrix promised it would continue its campaign, targeting other sites associated with Anonymous before going on to reveal the identities of its members to the public.
"We have already defaced one of your affiliated sites anonyops.com, (Defaced? Horrifying!)we will continue our attacks until we are satisfied. we will continue to target the anonymous community on face book and every website linked to anonymous. we will take down any websites you use to assist you in operations, then finally we will start revealing identities to the public."
Yawn.. Team Matrix sounds so.. insincere or cynical or fake, as names go.. I wonder who these people are? The comments section provide some pretty spot on clues. This ought to be relegated to footnote, considering The Return of Assange is just a few hours away.
..And then, a shit-ton of new information begins to wash over the planet..
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