Fukushima Update: Long Overdue November Edition..

Short answer?  The slow motion nightmare continues to unfold.  Have you noticed an uptick of "allergies," "colds," "I feel like shit!," "I don't know what this is, but I just don't feel right" creeping up in your everyday conversations?  I have.  If you haven't been paying attention; start.  The minor precursor effects have already started..

TEPCO: Reactor may have gone critical  NHK.  Excerpts:

The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says it found in the facility's No.2 reactor radioactive substances that could have resulted from continuous nuclear fission.



The Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, said on Wednesday that it detected xenon-133 and xenon-135 in gas taken from the reactor's containment vessel on the previous day. The substances were reportedly in concentrations of 6 to more than 10 parts per million becquerels per cubic centimeter.


Xenon-135 was also detected in gas samples collected on Wednesday.


Radioactive xenon is produced during nuclear fission.


The half-life of xenon-133 is 5 days, and that of xenon-135 is 9 hours.
 
Children and the elderly will begin to show effects first..
Smaller increase in children's weight in Fukushima  NHK.  Excerpts:
 
A survey shows that some children in Fukushima Prefecture have smaller average weight gains this year compared to the year before. A pediatrician says the results indicate the negative effects of the nuclear plant accident in March.



Doctor Shintaro Kikuchi tracked the weights of 245 children aged from 4 to 6 in 2 kindergartens in Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture. The results show an average weight increase of 0.81 kilograms over the past year through June. The increase for children in the same age group the previous year was 3.1 kilograms.


The average increase for children aged 5 to 6 in the survey was 0.84 kilograms. But a nationwide health ministry survey conducted last year for children of the same age group showed an average gain of 1.8 kilograms.

Shilling has its price..  From Ex-SKF.  Excerpts:

No, not in a young child in a high radiation spot that is often talked about on Twitter. A 63-year-old TV newscaster has been diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia and is now hospitalized, getting ready for chemo. He felt a strange lump in his neck on October 28, he says. (Various news sources including: Zakzak 11/7/2011, Yomiuri Shinbun 11/6/2011)



In his morning program on Fuji TV he's been promoting Fukushima produce by eating them in the show. He also happened to be in Fukushima in March 15. Just a coincidence. Never mind that ALL is predominant in small children, and an adult case is one in 100,000 annually in Japan.

JP Gov officially admitted that Japanese food is harmful  Fukushima Diary.  Excerpts plus bonus follow up information regarding the previous newscaster in question.  Bonus bonus:  Now chilling photos of newscaster eating irradiated food.  I bet the other news gals are a bit freaked out right now..

Since 311, every time it turned out a kind of food is contaminated, they made “safety” limit, such as 500 Bq/Kg for vegetables, and allowed them to distribute.



However, at today’s meeting of the Lower House Budget Committee, Edano former chief cabinet secretary, current minister of Economy, Trade and Industry admitted that it is harmful for your health if you keep having it for one year.


Edano former chief cabinet secretary is famous for his trade mark phrase, “In short term,it is not harmful”.


He was even called “Short term fraud” by some people.


It is not a small number of people who trusted his word and didn’t evacuate or kept eating food under the “safety limit”. (In other words, LOTS of people trusted him.)


At today’s meeting of the Lower House Budget Committee, he “explained”.


He held 39 press conferences in the first 2 weeks after 311.


BUT he said “In short term, it is not harmful” ONLY 7 times.


OF those, 5 “In short term, it is not harmful”s were for food and drink.


By this he “meant”, you will be sick if you keep having it for one year, but if you have it once or twice, it doesn’t hurt your body.

Japanese emperor to be admitted to the hospital on bronchitis fears  Radiation cares not of your position in life..  The China Post.  Excerpts:

Japanese Emperor Akihito is due to be hospitalized on Sunday with a cold, fever and symptoms of bronchitis, Kyodo news agency reported, citing the Imperial Household Agency.

Akihito, who will turn 78 next month, will be admitted to the University of Tokyo Hospital as a precaution because the fever worsened the bronchitis symptoms and he appeared fatigued and has lost some resistance to fight his illness, Kyodo said.
And:
Five days after the devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan's northeast, Akihito made a rare public televised address and in April traveled to the disaster-struck area with Empress Michiko, 77.
 
Still think this is a Japanese problem?  California nuke plant detected 4,000% more iodine-131 than UC Berkeley during Fukushima peak
 
Highest detection of iodine-131 was March 23, 2011 @ 4.3e-06 Bq/liter (0.0000043 Bq/liter of iodine-131) -Source



The Diablo Canyon iodine-131 peak was 0.000188 Bq/liter of iodine-131, or 43.7 times higher than the 0.0000043 Bq/liter peak observed by UC Berkeley.

This was MARCH 23.  November 11 marks Eight Months of essentially non-stop nuclear disbursement.  I wonder what those levels are now?

Look after yourself  Fukushima Diary.  Short answer?  Start taking Calcium and Magnesium.  Especially Calcium.

Scientist Marco Kaltofen Presents Data Confirming Hot Particles  Latest video from Arnie Gundersen and Fairewinds.  Don't have six minutes?  Here's the beef:

Now Mr. Kaltofen did not just look at Japan. He set up monitoring stations in the United States as well. Two of the three monitoring stations in the United States did show hot particles in the air in April. Since then, there have not been any hot particles. But in April, it is clear that, at the worst of the accident, hot particles were wafted across the Pacific and deposited in Seattle and in Boston at least. There is also data that indicates contamination on the ground in the Cascades, which are a mountain range right up against the Pacific Ocean.



So I think we have two problems here. In Japan, there is a personal health issue and what that means is that individuals have received enough radiation that there is going to be a statistically meaningful increase in cancers in Tokyo and especially in Fukushima Prefecture.

In the United States, it is a different story. It is a public health issue and not a personal health issue. What that means is that we will never know who is the individual who got cancer from Fukushima. But we can be sure that the radiation did reach here and that there will be an increase in cancers, especially on the West Coast where the Rocky Mountains stopped most of the radiation and deposited it on the ground.

The costly fallout of tatemae and Japan's culture of deceit  Japan Times.  Excerpts:

There is an axiom in Japanese: uso mo hōben — "lying is also a means to an end." It sums up the general attitude in Japan of tolerance of — even justification for — not telling the truth.

First — defining "telling the truth" as divulging the truth (not a lie), the whole truth (full disclosure) and nothing but the truth (uncompounded with lies) — consider how lies are deployed in everyday personal interactions.



Let's start with good old tatemae (charitably translated as "pretense"). By basically saying something you think the listener wants to hear, tatemae is, essentially, lying. That becomes clearer when the term is contrasted with its antonym, honne, one's "true feelings and intentions."
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Now extrapolate. What becomes of a society that sees lying as a justifiably institutionalized practice? Things break down. If everyone is expected to lie, who or what can you trust?
And:
..Radiation has no media cycle. It lingers and poisons the land and food chain. Statistics may be obfuscated or suppressed as usual. But radiation's half-life is longer than the typical attention span or sustainable degree of public outrage.



As the public — possibly worldwide — sickens over time, the truth will leak out.

Our near-term and long-term future?  Bleak.

Music: Fall Favorites, 2011

For best results, please use headphones.

Foreclosure firm has Halloween party dressed as depressed homeowners

From Raw Story.  Wow..  Excerpts:

Based on their Halloween costumes from last year, it would not be surprising if employees from foreclosure firm giant Steven J. Baum dressed up this year as homeowners who’ve lost their property thanks to firms like them.
In a column from The New York Times Joe Nocera, a former employee of the Baum firm revealed that his former co-workers did indeed dress as downtrodden individuals with signs representing their depressed state. The ex-Baum employee, who Nocera kept anonymous, told the Times reporter that she wanted to show how the firm had a “cavalier attitude” towards foreclosing people’s homes.
And:
The Baum firm represents virtually all the prominent mortgage lending Wall Street giants, including Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo.
 
I'm sure these..  minions(especially the millionaires..)..  have no idea how big this Artery of Rage they've tapped into really is..  People have lost everything at the hands of a gamed system and it's all a big fucking joke.  I think these people will be shocked, SHOCKED at the response to such actions.  I think everyone will be shocked at the Whatever Happens Next, whatever that is..  Those most shocked will probably be those who think they're One-percenters, but are not.  When the economies of the world collapse, their power will evaporate.  It will be very rough for them.  It will be rough for most all of us, but those most comfortable will lose the most things. 


Deep breath..
 
This is the first time in my life that I've felt like every global scenario possible is overwhelmingly negative to catastrophic, and the only way out, is through.  Our species has entered Dark Times(not just financially-- but in all facets of our..  Reality/Matrix..), the outcome is still uncertain, and the time will certainly become darker for many different people from many, many different worlds..  And you thought you lived in interesting times before 2011! The real test is about to begin, for all of us..
 
The shit's on the rise and it's all in overdrive, man.  If you haven't noticed already, Inertia has taken over.  I feel it to my being that the die has been cast, and now what's left is to watch it unfold..  And so far, The Unfolding has been intense.  Again, this is our history, happening all around us, happening now, happening everywhere.  What has already happened, will happen, and what will happen, has already.
 
I am attempting to bring much more love into my life.  I suggest you do so, too..  Good luck.  Enjoy your time.

This Week In Shakey Shakey..

Geologists closely monitoring surge in Arkansas earthquakes.  The Extinction Protocol.  Excerpts:

The Arkansas Geological Survey says it is stepping up its monitoring of seismic activity in central Arkansas after dozens of small earthquakes in the region. Six minor quakes were recorded Friday near Quitman, the latest of more than 50 temblors in October.

Perspective on these earthquakes have not been framed correctly, as fracking was seen as the only cause of these tremors.  Fracking exacerbated the quakes, but were not primary cause.  This is becoming clear..

The shaking follows more than 1,000 earthquakes centered between Guy and Greenbrier from September 2010 to July of this year, when the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission ordered four gas disposal wells shut down and voted to create a large moratorium area in which no future disposal wells could be drilled. Geologists said the activity – which involves injecting pressurized liquid into the ground – was likely contributing to the shaking. The quakes between Guy and Greenbrier tailed off significantly in August, but more quakes began occurring in October closer to Quitman. It sits about 10 miles northeast of Guy. That distance is potentially concerning, warned Scott Ausbrooks, geo-hazards supervisor for the Arkansas Geological Survey. The Quitman quakes are occurring along the same line as the Guy-Greenbrier ones, but there’s a miles-long gap between Guy and Quitman in which no quakes have been recorded. That might suggest that the tension is building, possibly leading up to a larger quake centered on that gap along the fault.  A similar-sized gap occurred on the southern end of the Guy-Greenbrier fault and it in February unleashed a 4.7-magnitude quake, the largest of any of the recent tremors. Anytime there is a gap in seismicity along an active fault, it “bears watching,” Ausbrooks said.
And:
Earthquakes continued for years after drilling ended at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Colorado, where an injection well is thought to have initially triggered seismic activity. 

So, the cause remains open; possibly.  Meanwhile, in Oklahoma..

Seismic awakening? Earthquakes are increasing in Oklahoma and no one knows why..  Also from The Extinction Protocol (Great site, btw..)  Excerpts:

Two small earthquakes(3.5 and 3.3) were reported in Oklahoma County early Friday, authorities report.
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Oklahoma is home to the Meers Fault which is located in the southwestern part of the state. State geologists feel Meers is just one part of Oklahoma’s complex geology that makes the state capable of producing an earthquake up to a potential 6.5 magnitude however, that doesn’t account for the latest series of tremors breaking out near Oklahoma City.

6.9 Magnitude Earthquake near the Coast of Central Peru – Oct 28, 2011    The Truth Behind The Scenes.  Excerpts(Plus video, plus a list of 21 6 magnitude plus earthquakes in the last 45 days..):

 A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit near the coast of Central Peru.
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On the same day, 7 aftershocks were recorded from M4.7 to M.5.5. and today, October 29 again 4 aftershocks from M.4.7 to M4.9. 

Earthquake in Turkey and neighboring Armenia damage to the primary  Google Translate via Iran Japanese Radio.  Translated from Japanese, and not well.  In a nutshell:  Big earthquake damages shitty, unsafe nuclear plant.  How badly?  Or..  Not badly? (Magnitude 10?  No containment structures? Sure, dude..) No one knows, yet..

March 9-October 28, 2011: Dawn of the (Ninth) Unity Wave Consciousness

Calleman's calendar ends today.  Not that it hasn't been an insanely active year..  So, now what?  Where do we go from here?

TVs, fridges and fishing boats: How TWENTY MILLION tons of Japan tsunami debris is closing in on Hawaii

From the Daily Mail.  Excerpts:

Televisions, fridges and furniture pieces are heading for Hawaii, as a huge amount of debris from Japan’s earthquake sails across the Pacific.



Up to 20 million tons of debris from the earthquake in March is traveling faster than expected and could reach the U.S. West Coast in three years.


A Russian ship’s crew spotted the debris - which included a 20ft long fishing boat - last month after passing the Midway Islands.

This is also the path that all the radioactive waste water TEPCO has been releasing into the ocean will travel.  So we've got that to look forward to, which is nice..  But by then, I'm sure it won't matter..

Thailand Flooding..

Bangkok faces worst flooding yet, governor warns  CNN.  Excerpts:

The water has reached 30cm (12 inches) in places and is overflowing on to sidewalks and some roads, causing problems for small vehicles and leading to traffic congestion, the agency said.
In a televised address Tuesday night, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said the capital could be submerged by as much as 1.5 meters (4.9 feet) of water.


Of particular concern were areas along the Chao Phraya River, which winds through the capital and is expected to overwhelm embankments this weekend.


The Airports of Thailand declared Don Muang airport, which primarily services domestic flights, closed Tuesday night, after floodwaters flowed onto runways and affected the lighting.

Viet Nam: Rising tide- Severe flooding in Saigon/Tides seriously threaten several Mekong Delta provinces  The article translates poorly.  Check out the pictures.

The Thai government is predicting as much as six more weeks of flooding before the water begins to subside.  There will be lots of secondary effects from the prolonged flooding, like more than normal water borne infections and illnesses, worse than normal mold, and prolonged economic slowdowns to shutdowns.  Bangkok's population is close to 11 million with close to three million illegals.  The projected five feet of water covering a vast amount of the city will be disastrous.  Will this story rate anything more than a fifteen second mention on any of the cable news outlets?

Whoopsie!

Occupy Wall Street: Canadian Special Forces provocateur leaves wallet behind  Censored News.  Excerpts:

Canadian Special Forces Agent Dylan Spoelstra, 24, of Toronto, left his wallet behind exposing his identity, after he was arrested at Occupy Wall Street scaling a sculpture on Saturday morning. The police said that after his arrest, he was brought to Bellevue Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation after surrendering just after 9 a.m.



Occupy Wall Street media coordinator Thorin Caristo said when Spoelstra began climbing the reddish-colored Joie de Vivre sculpture in Zuccotti Park, on Saturday at 5:30 am, Caristo said he knew it was staged.

Caristo recalled the event, first saying to himself, “I can’t believe he’s climbing the sculpture."

Police arrived and began inflating airbags. Earlier, families had gathered on Friday at Occupy Wall Street with their children to camp, so it was a special time. However, police cleared them all out during Spoelstra's stunt.
And:
Then, on Saturday night, Occupy Wall Street security found Spoelstra's wallet, revealing that Spoelstra is a member of Canadian Special Forces.
 
Remember:  From now on out, the really disruptive ones at all peaceful protests will be regarded with suspicion.  I will be totally shocked if this story has legs.  But, mass exposure or not, lots of people seem to have figured this ruse out.  I really hope this movement continues to remain (relatively) peaceful, but the global signs seem to predict otherwise..  How long the peace remains will probably be determined by the public's response to even more provocatuers, staging ever larger provocations..
 
2011.  So far, so intense.

Bot Hit - Mystery Solved

Late in his most recent report, Clif High mentions a very important time marker (towards further social/societal disruption,  etc..) with the entrance of a particular person into the National Landscape.  The hints were enigmatic, and will have to be read for yourselves, but I have very little doubt now:  That person is Herman Cain.

Politics aside, if the Webbots are correct, this is bad news.  Maybe what you are feeling, then, is a Disturbance in The Force.. 

Stuxnet-based cyber espionage virus targets European firms

This time it's called Duqu.  Why not Dookie?  When the cyber war really heats up, that's what'll be dropping worldwide..   The Telegraph has details..

European firms that play a key role in nuclear power and other critical industries have been targeted by a cyber espionage attack based on Stuxnet, the computer virus that was designed to sabotage the Iranian nuclear programme.

Security engineers say it is likely the new variant, Duqu, was created by the same government agencies thought to be behind Stuxnet, an attack that heralded a new era of state conflict online.

But while Stuxnet was created to cause physical damage to Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities by surreptitiously adjusting machinery, Duqu is an intelligence-gathering tool.

The new virus’ precise targets have not been disclosed, but they include European firms that make the software that controls power stations and other industrial facilities. By infiltrating their computer networks, it aims to steal confidential information and potentially reveal vulnerabilities that could be exploited in later attacks.
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Analysis of Duqu has revealed it may have been in use since December last year. It is programmed to remove itself from infected systems after 36 days, so nobody can be sure how many firms have been targeted or how much confidential data stolen.

Same people responsible, not the same people..  It doesn't matter.  Eventually, the Law of Unintended Consequences will come into play..  Cyber-Boomerang doesn't have the elegance I'm looking for, so I will, instead, allow Lenny Kravitz to interject..

Global Economic Collapse: Validation and Better Perception Edition

Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world  New Scientist.  Excerpts:

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.

The study's assumptions have attracted some criticism, but complex systems analysts contacted by New Scientist say it is a unique effort to untangle control in the global economy. Pushing the analysis further, they say, could help to identify ways of making global capitalism more stable.



The idea that a few bankers control a large chunk of the global economy might not seem like news to New York's Occupy Wall Street movement and protesters elsewhere. But the study, by a trio of complex systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, is the first to go beyond ideology to empirically identify such a network of power. It combines the mathematics long used to model natural systems with comprehensive corporate data to map ownership among the world's transnational corporations (TNCs).


"Reality is so complex, we must move away from dogma, whether it's conspiracy theories or free-market," says James Glattfelder. "Our analysis is reality-based."


Previous studies have found that a few TNCs own large chunks of the world's economy, but they included only a limited number of companies and omitted indirect ownerships, so could not say how this affected the global economy - whether it made it more or less stable, for instance.


The Zurich team can. From Orbis 2007, a database listing 37 million companies and investors worldwide, they pulled out all 43,060 TNCs and the share ownerships linking them. Then they constructed a model of which companies controlled others through shareholding networks, coupled with each company's operating revenues, to map the structure of economic power.


The work, to be published in PloS One, revealed a core of 1318 companies with interlocking ownerships (see image). Each of the 1318 had ties to two or more other companies, and on average they were connected to 20. What's more, although they represented 20 per cent of global operating revenues, the 1318 appeared to collectively own through their shares the majority of the world's large blue chip and manufacturing firms - the "real" economy - representing a further 60 per cent of global revenues.


When the team further untangled the web of ownership, it found much of it tracked back to a "super-entity" of 147 even more tightly knit companies - all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity - that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the network. "In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network," says Glattfelder. Most were financial institutions. The top 20 included Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and The Goldman Sachs Group.

Marketwatch warns EU banks will crash Wall Street  The Extinction Protocol.  Excerpts:

..the raging European monetary collapse will ripple through America’s banking system, completing the 2008 meltdown that never ended because Wall Street fought all reforms. But now, a bigger meltdown as history repeats a dangerous cycle like the 1929 Crash and Great Depression. History will also deal a fatal blow to Wall Street.
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Weiss’s worst-case scenario highlights everything we’ve both been warning investors about for a long time. The 2008 meltdown never ended, lessons never learned. But now the end game is accelerating. Listen closely: Weiss final warning to all investors: “Get all or most of your money out of danger immediately … above all, stay safe!” Prepare for the coming bank collapse. And discover how this historic scenario will empower the Occupiers message to get money out of elections: “One citizen. One dollar. One vote.”

This crisis continues to gather strength and speed at a truly astonishing pace.  Critical Mass hasn't occurred, but simple observation assumes that status could change at any moment, or for a few more days, weeks, maybe months.  In what form will the Global Economic Body Blow take?

The Big Picture becomes a bit more clear, and a lot more fearsome.  It's coming.. 

It's What's Happenin', Man..

News: Inside Of Reactor 1  Fukushima Diary. 

Fun, related fact:  MOX is super radioactive.  Go!  Go!  Godzilla! 

Fukushima: Immune-destroying radiation sickness spreads  This tragedy's in motion, but has yet to bloom.  There, Here, eventually Everywhere..  Japan is Coming Attractions.

Two from The Extinction Protocol..

Doomed German space telescope to plunge to Earth on October 23rd

The massive ROSAT X-ray space telescope continues to descend toward Earth. Latest estimates place the re-entry around noon Universal Time on Oct. 23rd. Uncertainties exceed 10 hours, which makes it impossible to say exactly where ROSAT will re-enter.

New Mexico shaken by ‘historically unusual’ 3.8 magnitude earthquake

A 3.8 magnitude earthquake “is unusual for this area, historically,” Richard Aster, a professor of Geophysics at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, wrote the New Mexican in an email Monday. “The present estimate of the epicenter is about half way between Santa Fe and Espanola. This is a large enough event that there may be felt aftershocks.” Monday’s temblor, at 3.8, is small compared to the earth-moving quakes recorded in Japan, California or other hot zones. But in New Mexico, 3.8 is a major event.

Evidence Builds: Deadly Gravity Wave Approaching Earth  Pakalert Press.  Excerpts:

Gigantic gravitational waves up to 100 billion light years long could be warping the universe into a twisted maze compressing and squeezing out the edges of space-time like an old rag being wrung dry. Now evidence is mounting that one of these rogue waves may be on its way towards Earth…



100 billion light year long gravity waves pushing and twisting the universe outward? That’s the astounding theory being proposed by some astrophysicists to explain why space is inflating at different rates in different regions.
 
The scientists’ hypothesis may have arrived like an interstellar cavalry for harried cosmologists. The theory of almost everything has been slipping towards almost nothing.
 
How?



Careful measurements of the universe’s expansion (called inflation) have revealed alarming anomalies. Not every region of space is expanding at the same rate.


Why is that important?


Well, it’s raising concerns because if the universe is inflating irregularly that could mean all the laws governing basic physics may be flawed…or downright wrong.


And if those laws are wrong, much of science is wrong, including the distance to other stars, the laws that affect many experiments—even the age of the universe.

Occupy's global impact:  Rome edition. 

 Greece heads for standstill before austerity vote  Reuters.  Excerpts:

Greece's two main unions, representing about half the four million-strong workforce, are preparing for one of the biggest protests since the crisis began two years ago, likely to hit food and fuel supplies, disrupt transport and leave hospitals run by skeleton staff.



The strike is set for Wednesday and Thursday to coincide with the vote in parliament, expected to take place in two stages on both days.


Memories are fresh of battles between riot police and stone-throwing protesters at anti-austerity demonstrations in June and sporadic incidents were reported on Monday with a petrol bomb hurled at a garbage truck in a northern suburb of Athens.


Trailing badly in opinion polls, Papandreou has defied a wave of protests, pledging to push through a deeply unpopular package that includes tax rises, pay and pension cuts, job layoffs and changes to collective pay deals.
And:

Trapped in deep recession and choked by a debt equivalent to some 162 percent of gross domestic product, Greece has been shut out of bond markets and would run out of money within weeks without international support.



Inspectors from the EU and the International Monetary Fund were in Athens last week and have recommended releasing an 8 billion euro (6.9 billion pound) aid tranche to enable the government to keep paying its bills past November.


That will only provide temporary relief and they have told Papandreou's struggling team to push ahead with further belt-tightening, structural reforms and privatisations, on top of what are already the deepest cuts in Greece's postwar history.

Wow.  Not even a fraction of what all is happening.

I'm Back. Kind of..

I have been, for quite some time now, involved with or effected by multiple family health situations.  Recently, the intensity of those situations have escalated.  To the detriment of several creative projects, all I've done is watch You Tube music videos.  One can only sustain a certain level of tension for so long before retreating and recharging.. 

My heart's still not in it.  "It" being multiple endeavors, including this blog.  But it will be again.  In the meantime, news continues, and will continue, happening, also escalating.  Whatever creates "News" is creating at a more accelerated pace.  This is the time just before Everything Changed, whatever change that may be..

We are both at the apex and nadir of our development as species.  Which will triumph?  Or will an asteroid (or some other extinction event) make it all irrelevant?  We live in Uncharted Territory.  Look around.  Yeah, we're already here. 

Here..  Comes..  History!

Meanwhile, In Pre-Mayhem Greece..

FT Report That Greek Bailout Package On The Verge Of Collapse After Surge In Greek Funding Needs Sends Stocks, Euro Plunging From Highs  Tyler Durden for Zero Hedge.  Excerpts:

Wondering what just caused the market to slump? Take a wild guess. That's right - Greece. Minutes after Greece passed a vote in which it promised to promise to promise to consider collecting 1998-1999 taxes (even as all of its tax collectors are about to go on permanent strike), the FT was breaking news that while the Troika was "bailing out" Greece in the past years, the country was spending itself into an  even greater oblivion. As a result, the terms of the July 21 Second Greek Bailout will most certainly need to be renegotiated, with banks having to take even greater write downs on the bond exchange, and with far more capital having to be injected into the country.

The Downward Spiral tightens; speeds up.

Strikes and protests mount against austerity in Greece  World Socialist Web Site.  Found it on Rense.  Excerpts:

“Today, it is no longer safe for us to go onto the streets,” a politician of the Greek ruling party PASOK told the Frankfurter Rundschau. “We are the government and we are alone.”



Widespread popular anger against the government in Greece has only intensified following the latest round of austerity measures. Incidents abound of politicians of both the social democratic PASOK and the conservative opposition New Democracy (ND) being pelted with eggs and on occasion stones when they show themselves in public. Angry crowds have repeatedly besieged the homes of politicians and chanted “thieves, thieves” and “Give the money back!”


According to surveys conducted by Eurobarometer, 82 percent of Greeks have lost confidence in the government and 83 percent distrust the parliament. Sixty-seven percent no longer trust the European Union. Other polls show that PASOK would today win just 15.5 percent of the vote in a new election.

It's all hanging by only several threads..  The Big Question remains:  How big the shock waves will be, and how hard those impacts will be felt.  Globally, of course.

Yeah, I Bet They Were More Than Speechless..

Holy shit.



The person who invited this dude to the BBC no longer works there.  At one point, the announcer references the dropped jaws around the newsroom..  Rastani tells waay too many secrets here, and will experience some form of blowback.  Will it be from those in the financial sector for talking too much, or will it be all the poor people watching him sneer and gloat at his future enrichment from their  money? 

Another big secret revealed:  TRADERS DON'T CARE WHAT HAPPENS.  They will make money at your devastating expense, and it will all happen very soon.  And it's a matter of fact within the industry.  And they can't wait to steal your life savings. They salivate for Doom.  Remember that when you watch them talking, feigning concern about the "dire situation".. 

Hang on; Financial Television is about to get even more interesting.  And by "interesting," I mean "full-tilt batshit."

The Week In Review: Under-Reported Stories Edition

Leftist parties win control of French Senate  From Raw Story.  Excerpts:

France's left-wing opposition struck a blow against embattled centre-right leader President Nicolas Sarkozy's hopes for re-election Sunday, winning a historic victory in a senatorial vote.



The Socialist Party and its Communist and Green allies won enough seats to give the left control of the upper house for the first time in French history, a stepping stone towards a presidential win in seven months' time.

Flammable gas detected in Fukushima pipe: TEPCO  Mysinchew.  Excerpts:

Flammable gas has been detected inside a pipe linked to a nuclear reactor at Japan's crippled Fukushima atomic power plant, its operator said Saturday.



Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) was unable to identify the gas but nonetheless said it was unlikely there would be an explosion in the reactor.


The company has been injecting nitrogen into the reactor so that the level of oxygen inside becomes low enough to prevent blasts.


But a TEPCO spokesman said workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant measured a 100-percent flammable gas in a pipe connected to the power station's reactor number one.


"It is not clear exactly where and how this gas was created," the spokesman told AFP. "We are considering ways to deal with it.


"It is likely that we will continue the survey the gas to identify it and use nitrogen to bring its level low enough" to avoid explosions, he said.

It's a gas, gas, gas, gas, gas: Scientists think solar system may have had a FIFTH gas planet  The Daily Mail Online.  Excerpts:

Scientists believe our solar system may have once had a fifth gas planet that was ejected from the solar system and 'orphaned'.

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A new study by David Nesvorny, from the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado, U.S., used different computer simulations to explore what the solar system looked like four billion years ago.


He discovered that back then planets had not yet settled into their existing orbits as they migrated and moved around.
 
However, after a series of tests he worked out that the solar system we recognise today could never have emerged without the existence of a fifth planet.
 
He came to this conclusion by using several different starting positions and ran computer simulations using the four gas planets - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - but discovered they were to large and one would destroy another eventually.



Even using configurations where the gas planets survived, the solar system's rocky planets like Mars and Venus did not.


However, once Mr Nesvorny had introduced a fifth planet into the equation he found the odds of the current solar system emerging increased dramatically.
 
This theory is backed up by the recent discovery of many rogue planets.

This is exciting..  Japan: piles of tsunami debris turning into giant bonfires  The Telegraph.  Excerpts:

Piles of decomposing organic waste, metals and rubble from the devastated towns of north-east Japan have been bursting into fire, posing a new hazard to emergency teams tasked with clearing away the debris and people who are still picking through the remains of their homes.

Geomagnetic storm warning issued for September 26th  The Extinction Protocol.  Excerpts:

.. “Sunspot 1302 poses a continued threat for X-class solar flares.” We’re also seeing some coronal hole perforation of the Sun, so ionized particles will now also  have a more efficient medium of propagation should a large solar flare erupt from the sunspot. The next few days could get interesting. According to NOAA, the chances of another X-Class flare erupting over the next 48 hours are 40%.

How Do You Like Your Earth? Cooked Just Like You Like It!

Over hard:  There Will Never Be A “Good” Time For Greece To Default

Scrambled:  Killer Earthquakes On The Rise

Hard Boiled:  Second X-class flare erupts from turbulent sunspot 1302

Microwaved:  Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Steam Rising from Reactors 2 and 3

Elenin Continues To Perplex

Elenin Removes Her Mask, Breath Taking  From You Tube. 


I don't know..  Those Stereo B images are interesting..  Whatever "that" is, is big.

I am troubled, though..  Having lived through multiple comet passages over the course of my 40 plus years, it's interesting to note the lack of coverage Elenin has received. 

Comets have always been a staple of Science/Human Interest.  But not this one..  It's all over the Net, to be sure, but almost nowhere to be found on MSM.  That silence is pretty loud, and that's what troubles me the most.

And the question remains:  What is this thing (or not) that is (or isn't) coming right at /or near us?
Elenin:  Potentially terrifying, totally exhausting.

Still Reading The Bot Report

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Skylab 2.0 (Zany-Random-Doom-Remix)..

Head's up!  Or not..  No worries, if you're in North America..  Watch Out!  Head fake/Just kiddin'..  BAM!
So remember to keep looking up while hiding underneath something sturdy..  Real sturdy..

Meanwhile, I have a really hard time believing authorities have no way of knowing where the satellite will land, but they do know that it won't be North America..  The best mathematicians and scientists with all their advanced theorems and video and tracking technology can't tell us the trajectory of one satellite and its possible debris trails?  Maybe it is as simple as they say, and I'm the one overestimating the intellectual abilities of Earth's Scientific Elite.  That must be it.  I mean, seriously;  Not even an idea of potential landfalls?

Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean I can't see that maybe I'm too paranoid..  Or not.  The jury is still out..

The New Webbot Report Is Out Again, So..

I might be back tomorrow night.
Pay attention to Fukushima.  And China's Trade War.  And watch the Sun, but not directly.
Later.. 

Sikkim quake: Two casualties, damage reported

Video from CNN/IBN via You Tube..  6.9.  The Indian  Province of Sikkim is bordered by Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet.

Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle

Awesome.  The implications are Huge.  Not only for AIDS research, but for the burgeoning awareness and a newfound intellectual power found within a Collective.  From Raw Story.  Excerpts:

Online gamers have achieved a feat beyond the realm of Second Life or Dungeons and Dragons: they have deciphered the structure of an enzyme of an AIDS-like virus that had thwarted scientists for a decade.
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Their target was a monomeric protease enzyme, a cutting agent in the complex molecular tailoring of retroviruses, a family that includes HIV.

Their weapon?  A science video game.

Developed in 2008 by the University of Washington, it is a fun-for-purpose video game (Foldit) in which gamers, divided into competing groups, compete to unfold chains of amino acids -- the building blocks of proteins -- using a set of online tools.

To the astonishment of the scientists, the gamers produced an accurate model of the enzyme in just three weeks.

Which also leads to a milestone of equal or greater importance:

It is believed to be the first time that gamers have resolved a long-standing scientific problem.

"We wanted to see if human intuition could succeed where automated methods had failed," Firas Khatib of the university's biochemistry lab said in a press release.

"The ingenuity of game players is a formidable force that, if properly directed, can be used to solve a wide range of scientific problems."

One of Foldit's creator's, Seth Cooper had a much less imaginative explanation for the discovery:

"People have spatial reasoning skills, something computers are not yet good at," he said.


Although..


"Games provide a framework for bringing together the strengths of computers and humans. The results in this week's paper show that gaming, science and computation can be combined to make advances that were not possible before."

Advances not possible before.. 

What, and now How, we Create, accelerates..  The Global Consciousness begins to form, to achieve cohesion..  And the Pace continues to quicken.. 

Wow;  We live in Interesting Times!

This Week In Awesome New(ish) Music

These songs are even more cool and beautiful when played loud.  Really Loud.