Category: crooks and liars

all who usurp and abuse authority

No cash for still leaking Chernobyl-Falta dinero para tumba de Chernobyl

La falta de fondos para construir un confinamiento definitivo del reactor nuclear de Chernobyl empeora la secuela de enfermedades y tes.

BERLÍN, 25 abr (Tierramérica).- La ruina del reactor nuclear ucraniano de Chernobyl, que explotó hace 25 años provocando una de las peores catástrofes ambientales de la historia, aún contiene casi 95 por ciento del combustible original, altamente radiactivo.

Por eso, y puesto que el sarcófago que cubre esas ruinas no es hermético, la radiación actual del sitio, 100 kilómetros al norte de Kiev, es 100 veces superior a la natural, indican mediciones recientes llevadas a cabo por expertos ambientalistas.

leer más…..

via Lugar del siniestro de Chernobyl con 95% de su radioactividad letal filtrandose tendrá nuevo sarcófago recién en 2015 – cinabrio blog.

Clowning the police State.

           “My life is controlled by the robber state and corporations, who seem all powerful and impossible to defeat.

             But in reality all their power is fragile.. because we are MILLIONS.

             Every time we subvert their authority, even by clowning about, we bring closer that moment they fear most..

..that moment when we all wake up..

……when the forces of repression are just  tossed aside, as happened partly in Egypt… and a new world can begin…”

Syria: ‘Thousands occupy Homs after funerals’

Thousands of anti-government protesters have occupied the centre of Syria’s third largest city, Homs, according to opposition activists.

Video footage uploaded onto the internet appears to show people sitting on the ground in the main square.

Earlier, funerals were held for some of those killed in Sunday’s violence in the city, with crowds calling for the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad.

Syria’s interior ministry has said the unrest amounts to armed insurrection.

an armed insurrection by armed groups belonging to Salafist organisations, especially in the cities of Homs and Banias”

Interior ministry statement

Eight people died in Homs on Sunday after soldiers fired on crowds protesting at the death of a tribal leader in state custody

via BBC News – Syria protests: ‘Thousands occupy Homs after funerals’.

BAHRAIN: U.S. Quiet over Repression

More than two dozen people have been killed by security forces since the government declared martial law Mar. 15…… At the White House, however, silence has prevailed, suggesting to many observers that Obama is effectively acquiescing in, if not condoning, what is taking place… More than 400 others have been arrested or are otherwise unaccounted for, according to international rights groups. Three detainees have died in custody, at least one apparently from “horrific abuse”, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tuesday.   Continued

via BAHRAIN: U.S. Keeps Quiet over Repression – IPS ipsnews.net.

“Toma la Calle” 15 Mayo Take the Streets

La plataforma “Toma la Calle” organiza una protesta en todo el estado español el 15 de Mayo
Somos personas normales y corrientes. Somos como tú: gente que se levanta por las mañanas para estudiar, para trabajar o para buscar trabajo, gente que tiene familia y amigos. Gente que trabaja duro todos los días para vivir y dar un futuro mejor a los que nos rodean…
Toma la calle!!! | Para Kaos en la Red | Hoy a las 19:29 | 188 lecturas | 1 comentario
www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/plataforma-toma-calle-organiza-protesta-toda-espana-15-mayo

Ex-Icelandic official jailed for bank collapse

 

 

Ex-Icelandic official jailed for bank collapse trade

07 April 2011 | 22:43 | FOCUS News Agency

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Reykjavik. A Reykjavik court on Thursday sentenced a former high ranking official at Iceland’s finance ministry to two years in prison for selling stock in the Landsbanki bank just before its 2008 collapse, AFP reported.

Baldur Gudlaugsson “took advantage of his position as a staff member of public office” by selling all of his shares in Landsbanki on September 17 and 18 2008, the Reykjavik district court said in its ruling.

via Banqueros islandeses … a la jaula!!!! – cinabrio blog.

ECUADOR: Texaco’s shaky Rainforest –

Rosa Tanguila cleaning up oil residue near her rainforest community. / Credit:Gonzalo Ortiz/IPS

Trees on Shaky Ground in Texaco’s Rainforest

By Gonzalo Ortiz*

NUEVA LOJA, Ecuador, Mar 29, 2011 (Tierramérica) – When the trunks of the trees move with every step you take, you know you are in a swamp. This is what happens when you walk over the seemingly firm and vegetation-covered ground over what was once a pit used to dump oil sludge in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest.

The extent and impact of oil contamination on the environment and human health in northeastern Ecuador are much worse than anyone could imagine, as Tierramérica discovered during an extensive tour of the area.

via ECUADOR: Trees on Shaky Ground in Texaco’s Rainforest – IPS ipsnews.net.