Iceland Forgives Mortgage Debt for the Population. Putting Bankers and Politicians on "Bench of Accused"

Short, Spanish language video(subtitled) courtesy Sherrie Questioning All.  At least one coutry in the entire world seems to have pulled its head out of its collective ass.  Power to the Icelandic People!  Boo-Yaa!  Bring it-Bring it!  Boo-Yaa!


Ladies and gentlemen:  Bjork.

Innocuous Header, Ominous Implications.. (Upate, Friday, April 13, 6 p.m. Central)

SFP4 over 55℃. Coolant system is still stopped.  10 hours started awhile ago, by the way..  Fukushima Diary.  Excerpts:  (The little squares are a missing font that indicate Celsius..)

Though Tepco stopped the water leakage, coolant system is still not back on. At the moment, they can’t estimate when they can recover it. Also, they estimated the temperature increases at 0.5℃/h, it’s increasing at over 1℃/h. It went up by 22℃ within 18 hours. Currently the temperature of SFP is 55℃.(10:00 JST) The safety limit is 65℃. At this pace, it will reach 65℃ about in 10 hours.

Please remember that nuclear energy containment temperatures must be tightly controlled to remain safe.  A 22 degree Celsius rise IS NOT STABLE and IS VERY DANGEROUS.  This has been a recurring problem at Fukushima.  Unless TEPCO gets its shit together pronto, there will be fireworks; and soon.  Radioactive, Extinction Level fireworks. 

Prayers to your appropriate deity might be wise right now..  Atheists, just cross your fingers, as nothing else regarding TEPCO seems to help.  Also:  Helpful aliens?  Right now might be a good time to jump into Earth's affairs--You have my permission!

UPDATE:

Probably coolant system of SFP recovered  So things have "probably" stabilized.. For now..

The April 11, 2012 Event: cluster of large earthquakes rattle the globe from Indonesia to Mexico

A really significant, tectonically-active day.  More to come?   The Extinction Protocol.  Excerpts: 

A strong earthquake hit Mexico on Wednesday, shaking buildings and sending people running out of offices onto the streets of the capital Mexico City. The U.S. Geological Survey said the 6.5 -magnitude quake was centered on Mexico’s Pacific coast near Michoacan and struck fairly deep under the earth at 65 km or 40 miles. Prior to the Mexico earthquake, a powerful and shallow 5.9 struck near the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate off the coast of Oregon- indicating tectonic plates worldwide are being rattled by planetary seismic tension. Prior to Oregon earthquake, two massive 8.0+ magnitude earthquakes (8.6 and 8.2) struck the ocean floor off the north coast of Sumatra, Indonesia.
And:
The Indian Ocean strike-slip fault earthquakes are very unusual. As a matter of fact, I’ve never heard of a strike-slip lateral earthquake of this great a magnitude; especially under water. Preliminary assessment of the Indonesian quakes by U.S. geologists suggests one plate lurched past each other as much as 70 feet. San Andreas is a strike-slip, lateral- can we even imagine two sections of ground moving 70 feet near San Francisco? Had the force of the Sumatra quakes been unleashed upon San Andreas, the city would have been completely destroyed. Ironically, the largest surface displacement ever recorded in a lateral strike-slip fault was 21 feet and that was in the 1906 7.9 San Andreas earthquake. Just so we understand the significance of what transpired today; the Japanese March 11, 2011 earthquake move the ocean floor 79 feet sideways and 10 ft upwards, but today’s earthquakes happened in double 8.0+ magnitude sequence and moved the earth nearly as far. Worst, the seismic tension from the event ricocheted around the world and contributed to other earthquakes.

Late to the party:  Quakes in Utah, the Gulf of Maine, and Gulf of California.  I bet the earthquake sensitives were freaking out these last couple of days..

Blurg.. That Was Quick, And Really No Fun!

Hi Roger. It’s Me, Joe: The Fox Mole  That's 20 minutes of hilarious hopefulness I'll never get back. This was his second post!  Gawker.  Excerpts:

Hi. My name is Joe Muto. I was the Fox Mole.



Two hours ago I was called into a meeting with Dianne Brandi, the Fox News Executive Vice President of Legal and Business Affairs and suspended indefinitely... with pay, oddly enough.


They nailed me.


In the end, it was the digital trail that gave me away. They knew that someone, using my computer login, had accessed the sources for two videos that ended up on Gawker over the past few weeks. They couldn't prove it entirely, but I was pretty much the only suspect.

Seriously?  Digital trail?  Is everyone in New York too hip for NCIS or CSI?  Is teaming up with a hacker too cliche?  Nice try, though.  Here's your participation ribbon..

Another Major Earthquake Again Off The Coast Of Banda Aceh, Sumatra

Magnitude 8.9 - OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA



A tsunami watch is in effect.  This earthquake's saving grace?  The epicenter is over 300 miles off the coast, as opposed to 100 miles like the Boxing Day quake, giving people a chance to head for higher ground..
 
Maybe Timewave Zero isn't bullshit, after all..

The Face Of Alzheimer's/A Month In The Life..

Alzheimer's is one hell of a disease.  It can manifest in many forms, but the end result is always tragic.  My father is in the later stages of Alzheimer's, and along with the destruction of his cognitive abilities, the disease is physically transforming/destroying him.  As this is just the beginning of my effort to chronicle his struggle, I will let these pictures tell a small portion of his story.  There is more, of course, but for those with no frame of reference, this is a good place to begin..

February 8

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February 10

February 11

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February 13

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February 15

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February 22

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February 27

February 28

February 29

March 1 (He meant to stick his tongue out..)

March 2

March 3(There's his tongue again..)

 March 4

March 5

March 6

March 7

March 8

Alzheimer's:  The gift that keeps on taking.  I'm thankful for the days he can still smile.  There is more forthcoming.  And yeah, I'm retaining all rights to these pictures, so no re-posting on sites like Facebook, please..

UFO Roundup, Or Maybe This Is The Height Of Alien Vacation Season..

UFO Sightings: South Korea, Russia, Nw Zealand, Monument Valley USA, Texas, Australie, France, Canada, Sweden – March 27 to April 9, 2012  Thanks for The Truth Behind The Scenes for compiling these videos.  Good stuff..

I Don't Know You Very Well, But Chromatics, I Think I Love You..

Chromatics-Kill for Love From Pitchfork.  Excerpts:


Chromatics formed in the Pacific Northwest as a rickety no-wave band more than a decade ago, but re-emerged in the mid-2000s with a revamped lineup and a new sound that nicely coincided with a resurgence of interest in the slow, dreamy, not-always-Italian dance-pop subgenre known as Italo disco. As with other acts on New Jersey-based Italians Do It Better, a label co-founded by group mastermind Johnny Jewel, Chromatics didn't just incorporate the vocoders and vintage synth arpeggios of the turn-of-the-1980s originals, they added the brittle guitars, dubby reverb, and urban dread of post-punk.


And:

If Kill for Love had been a 10-track LP, with its most immediately striking songs each edited down to around 3 minutes, it would've still been impressive. In fact, as recently as an interview posted last month by Self-Titled, Jewel hadn't yet made up his mind about whether to put out one or two discs. Ultimately, he made the right choice. Closer "No Escape" may not be as immediate as the title track when heard in isolation, but luckily, we don't have to listen to it in isolation. Just as on albums by the War on Drugs, Deerhunter, and countless others, the experimental interludes here help create a context that makes the pop songs that much more effective; by including so many mood-oriented parts, Kill for Love paradoxically rises above hazy synth-pop's occupational hazard of dissolving into a blur of mood and mood alone. It's not just a collection of hits; it's an album, one that gives the project's familiar nocturnal foreboding a new sense of grandeur.


Enough gabbin'.  Let's let the music speak for itself..  Videos taken from both Night Drive and Kill for Love..

The last song is from the soundtrack of "Drive," which now becomes a high-priority viewing, not only for Gosling, but for my new favorites, The Chromatics.  Enjoy..

A Mole? At Fox News? You Don't Say!

Announcing Our Newest Hire: A Current Fox News Channel Employee  From Gawker.  And they're pretty happy about this turn of events, although the pilot dispatch is not too exciting.  Excerpts:

I always intended to keep my mouth shut. The plan was simple: get hired, keep my head down and my views to myself, work for a few months, build my resume, then eventually hop to a new job that didn't make me cringe every morning when I looked in the mirror.



That was years ago. My cringe muscles have turned into crow's feet. The ten resumes a month I was sending out dwindled into five, then two, then one, then zero. No one wants me. I'm blacklisted.


I work at Fox News Channel.

First up?  The Network's gross Fox Nation..

If you're not a frequenter of Fox Nation (and if you're reading Gawker, it's a pretty safe bet you're not) I can describe it for you — it's like an unholy mashup of the Drudge Report, the Huffington Post and a Klan meeting. Word around the office is that the site was actually the brainchild of Bill O'Reilly's chief stalker (and Gawker pal) Jesse Watters.



The Nation aggregates news stories, gives them provocative headlines, and invites commenters to weigh in. The comments are fascinating actually, if you can detach yourself enough to view them as sort of the id of the conservative movement. Of course, if you can't detach yourself, then you're going to come away with a diminished view of human decency, because HOLY MOLY THESE PEOPLE DO NOT LIKE THE BLACK PRESIDENT. I'm not saying they dislike him BECAUSE he's black, but a lot of the comments, unprompted, mention the fact that he is black, so what would you say, Dr. Freud?
The Fox Nation moderators, realizing that they had a problem on their hands, did the absolute bare minimum, hiring one or two college kids to comb the comments for the most egregiously racist postings, and putting in automatic text filters that blocked various key words. Of course the intrepid commenters quickly found ways around these filters using letter substitutions and spacings, which is why many comments complain about our "n@gger president" and the "M u s l i m in the White House."

So the site has become the seedy underbelly of the Fox News online empire. It's surprising that we even have an online empire, considering that our fan base is mostly septuagenarian technophobes.

This could be fun!  Maybe this will be a daily feature?  Thanks, Gawker!

Iran Halts Oil Sales To Greece? That's Sure To Stabilize Things!

Iran Halts Greek Oil Shipments After Bills Left Unpaid – UPDATE [REPORT]  G Captain.  Excerpts:




Iran stopped shipping oil to Greece and may halt supplies to Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSB.LN, RDSA, RDSB) over unpaid bills, Iran media said Friday, as the impact of sanctions widens. The news suggests a decline in Iranian oil exports last month may accelerate as banking sanctions add to an upcoming European ban on Tehran oil. That could lead to upward pressure on oil prices, which have recently surged to a four-year high.



The Mehr news agency said that, due to unpaid bills, Iran stopped deliveries to Greek refiners Hellenic Petroleum (ELPE.AT) and Motor Oil (MOH.AT). Greece has long been the European Union country relying the most on Iranian oil–sometimes for as much as a third of its supplies.
And:
Iran halts oil sales to two major Greek firms Tehran Times.  Excerpts:

The Islamic Republic of Iran has terminated oil sales to two major Greek firms over their failure to pay for their crude purchases from Tehran, Press TV reports.



Iran’s decision to bar Hellenic Petroleum and Motor Oil Hellas from purchasing Iranian crude came after they defaulted on their purchases from Tehran.


The interruption of oil flow from Iran is expected to further deepen the financial crisis in Greece.


Oil prices have shot up in recent months in the wake of Iran’s decision to halt its crude exports to certain European countries in response to the European Union (EU) oil embargo on Tehran.


Iran has already cut oil exports to France and Britain in retaliation for the Western-led sanctions imposed on its oil industry.

Interesting.  The EU/West imposes sanctions on Iran, hurting(?) it's economy.  Iran refuses sales of oil to the weakest of EU members(Remember--If one goes, that starts the dominoes!), kickstarting Greece's economic death-spiral.  And the whole world takes a few more steps to financial meltdown and all-out war.  Neat, huh?

And the geo-political Circle of Life is complete.  Until the next crisis manifests, drawing close The Inevitable, that is..