Archive for April, 2011
How a Big U.S. Bank Laundered Billions from Mexico’s Murderous Drug Gangs
April 4th, 2011Bloomberg ran a great piece about this back in June 2010. What has happened since then? Of course, there was some wrist-slapping, but, “Now that the year’s ‘deferred prosecution’ has expired, the bank is in effect in the clear.” Via: Guardian: On 10 April 2006, a DC-9 jet landed in the port city of Ciudad […]
FUKUSHIMA: 1,000 MILLISIEVERTS PER HOUR IN THE AIR INSIDE THE PIT OF REACTOR TWO
April 3rd, 2011Update: Japanese Turn to Paper and Sawdust to Plug Fukushima Nuclear Leak [???] Via: Guardian: Where concrete has failed to prevent highly radioactive water pouring into the sea, workers at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have shifted hope of plugging the leaks to an absorbent polymer mixed with sawdust and shredded newspaper that expands […]
Genetically Modified Cows Produce ‘Human-Milk-Like Products’
April 3rd, 2011When I saw this story in the Telegraph, I thought that it had to be the tail end of some April Fool’s antics. Nope. Apparently, this is actually happening. The article below is from March. Via: Good: Earlier this month, China held an exhibition to showcase major technical achievements during its 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-2010). […]
Ivory Coast: Aid Workers Find 1,000 Bodies in Duekoue
April 3rd, 2011Is a NATO invasion going to follow? Via: Telegraph: The single biggest atrocity in the long battle for control of Ivory Coast has emerged after aid workers discovered the bodies of up to 1,000 people in the town of Duekoue. Charity workers who reached Duekoue said it appeared the killings had taken place in a […]
Greenpeace Video: Measuring Radiation Outside of Fukushima Exclusion Zone
April 2nd, 2011Japon : l'équipe de Greenpeace effectue des… by gpfrance
A Murder Foretold
April 1st, 2011Via: The New Yorker: Rodrigo Rosenberg knew that he was about to die. It wasn’t because he was approaching old age—he was only forty-eight. Nor had he been diagnosed with a fatal illness; an avid bike rider, he was in perfect health. Rather, Rosenberg, a highly respected corporate attorney in Guatemala, was certain that he […]
Libya-Owned Arab Banking Corp. Drew at Least $5 Billion From Fed in Crisis
April 1st, 2011Via: Bloomberg: Arab Banking Corp., the lender part- owned by the Central Bank of Libya, used a New York branch to get 73 loans from the U.S. Federal Reserve in the 18 months after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. collapsed. The bank, then 29 percent-owned by the Libyan state, had aggregate borrowings in that period of […]
Foreign Banks Tapped Fed’s Lifeline Most as Bernanke Kept Borrowers Secret
April 1st, 2011Via: Bloomberg: U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s two-year fight to shield crisis-squeezed banks from the stigma of revealing their public loans protected a lender to local governments in Belgium, a Japanese fishing-cooperative financier and a company part-owned by the Central Bank of Libya. Dexia SA (DEXB), based in Brussels and Paris, borrowed as […]
Japan: Same Type of Concrete Pumping Trucks Used at Chernobyl Are En-route to Fukushima
April 1st, 2011Via: MSNBC: Some of the world’s largest cement pumps were en route to Japan’s stricken nuclear plant on Thursday, initially to help douse areas with water but eventually for cement work — including the possibility of entombing the site as was done in Chernobyl. Operated via remote control, one of the truck-mounted pumps was already […]
