Nook-you-luuurr.. How Many Time I Gotta Say Yer Speakin' It Wrong?

Fears over new leak at Chernobyl spark plea for radiation shield  We'll go ahead and add this to the "CON" side regarding "Nuclear power" - Pro, or Con?  Excerpts:

Fears that the destroyed nuclear reactor at Chernobyl could collapse and again leak deadly radiation have prompted European agencies to seek hundreds of millions of pounds to fund the construction of a vast steel building to encase the site.

As the 25th anniversary of the worst nuclear accident in history approaches, there is a funding shortfall of €740m (£631m) for projects to build a "shelter" over the destroyed reactor and to safely store nuclear fuel from the other nuclear reactors at the site.

..In the months after the accident, a "sarcophagus" of concrete was hastily erected over the destroyed shell of the reactor, with many of the workers involved being subjected to life-threatening doses of radiation to get the work done.

In recent years, the structure has become extremely unstable, with experts warning that if it collapses, a catastrophic amount of radiation could be released into the atmosphere. Stopgap stabilising work on one of the walls of the sarcophagus has reduced the chances of collapse and extended its life by around 15 years, but this might not be enough to prevent a disaster.

..The new shelter is designed to be safe for 100 years.

Bitch, argue, and scream all you want:  Nuclear energy is still the most dangerous alternative of all the alternatives to oil.  No contest.  So when the shills talk about how clean, safe, and CHEAP nuclear power is, know they haven't factored in the future costs of cleaning and re-cleaning Sector 7G mistakes for hundreds of years to come, nor have they factored the human cost for those "fortunate" enough to be in the path of falling radiation. 

Adding say, 70 billion on the front end to cover any potential "accidental catastrophe" would change people's minds about the true cost of Nuclear power.  Only after putting up some assurance money that they'll actually clean up after themselves,  should Nuclear Energy corporations be considered as viable alternatives.. 

This Week In WikiLeaks: A Little Morsel Of Delicious UFO -and- Banking's Symphony Of Whistles Warms Up..

Report: State Dept Warned Embassy Staff Not to Mention Pentagon’s UFO Concerns I can't wait to see this one.. Excerpts:

According to the site, the cable is dated November 9, 2005 and is connected to the Kiev embassy. It admonishes embassy officials not to discuss “under any circumstances” the military’s policy toward UFOs.

The report also says that the cable specifically mentions Department of Defense “concerns” related to the possibility of UFOs entering orbit and warns officials not to confirm that the US commits resources to the possibility.
And:
The more interesting aspect is that the State Department was so obsessed with secrecy that they actually took time to caution officials not to “confirm” it in off-the-record conversations.

Juicy. In almost any situation, the more one insists a point, the more the others know otherwise. Meanwhile, another whistle blower handed over more data in a very public news conference.

A former senior Swiss bank executive said Monday that he had given
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange details of more than 2,000 prominent individuals and companies that he contends engaged in tax evasion and other possible criminal activity.

Rudolf Elmer, who ran the Caribbean
operations of the Swiss bank
Julius Baer for eight years until he was
dismissed in 2002, refused to
identify any of the individuals or companies,
but he told reporters at a news conference that about 40 politicians and
"pillars of society" were among them.

He told The Observer newspaper over the weekend that those named in the
documents come from "the U.S., Britain, Germany, Austria and Asia -- from all
over," and include "business people, politicians, people who have made their living in the arts and multinational conglomerates -- from both sides of the Atlantic."

Elmer handed two computer disks to Assange at the news conference..

And:

WikiLeaks and Bank Julius Baer previously clashed in early 2008 when the anti-secrecy organization published hundreds of documents pertaining to its offshore activities. The bank succeeded, briefly, in gaining a court order to shut down the WikiLeaks.org website. The injunction was subsequently overturned and the case dropped.
The offshore banking industry has come under increasing pressure amid accusations that places like the Caribbean, with looser financial laws, allowed investors to avoid taxes and that some banks helped to create complex webs of companies and trust funds there to confuse tax authorities abroad.

And still, no cables about Bank of America. Yet. Which shoe drops first?