![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
| Comedian Lee Camp: US Gov't Giving Guns To Your Friendly Neighborhood Drug Cartel | |
| Uploaded by LeeCamp2 on 25 May 2011 The ATF is supplying your friendly drug cartel with guns. Now we have them right where we want them - Heavily armed. | |
| Date: 27 May 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 807 - Votes: 3 - Rating: 5 | |
| Missouri's Joplin search for missing after tornado: Satellite images show level of devastation | |
| Uploaded by AlJazeeraEnglish on 26 May 2011 US officials have revised the number of people thought to be missing after a violent line of thunderstorms and tornados hit Joplin, Missouri. Now less than 240 people are yet to be accounted for. Rescuers have only managed to identify one of the 125 bodies found in the storm's wake Some of the missing from Sunday's disaster may be among the unidentified remains being stored in a hastily constructed mass morgue. Al Jazeera spoke with Angel Fritz, a meteorologist who believes global warming could be fuelling the spate of storms. | |
| Date: 27 May 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 790 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 | |
| US Congress agrees to extend Patriot Act | |
| Uploaded by AlJazeeraEnglish on 26 May 2011 The vote to extend until 2015 controversial counter-terrorism search and surveillance powers. | |
| Date: 27 May 2011 - Added by: Guest | |
| Views: 814 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 4 | |
| TEPCO's Fukushima Plant: Highly Radioactive Water Continues to Leak | |
| NHK 27 May 2011 TEPCO may need to plug leak at Fukushima plant The operator of the Fukushima nuclear power plant says highly radioactive water continues to leak from a waste disposal facility in the complex. Tokyo Electric Power Company said on Friday that the water level had dropped by around 3 centimeters as of 7 AM from the level observed at 5 PM on Thursday. TEPCO had transferred to the facility some of the highly radioactive water flooding the basement of the No.3 reactor's turbine building and nearby tunnel, before it suspended the work earlier this week. On Thursday, the transferred water was found to be leaking into an underground passage to another building. The utility firm says it is likely that the water level in the facility will stop falling, but added that it may need to plug the leaks. The work is expected to be difficult as radiation levels of up to 70 millisieverts per hour have been detected on the water's surface. TEPCO also faces the urgent task of preventing the contaminated water around the No.3 reactor from spilling into the sea or underground. Friday, May 27, 2011 12:16 +0900 (JST) Copyright NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) | |
| Date: 27 May 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 826 - Votes: 2 - Rating: 5 | |
| Sandra Steingraber on the Health Crisis Surrounding Natural Gas Extraction | |
| 27 May 2011 DemocracyNow.org - About 30 states allow hydraulic fracturing, or | |
| Date: 27 May 2011 - Added by: Guest | |
| Views: 795 - Votes: 2 - Rating: 4.5 | |
| IAEA team inspects Fukushima nuclear plant today | |
| NHK: IAEA team inspects Fukushima nuclear plant A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency has inspected the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to see damage caused by the March 11th quake and tsunami. The 18 experts from Britain, France and other countries have been in Japan since Tuesday to investigate the accident at the plant. On Friday, the team, headed by Mike Weightman, first visited nuclear facilities at the Fukushima Daini plant, which is south of the Daiichi plant. The head of the Daiichi plant briefed the members on how a series of problems has developed and how the plant's operator has responded. The team later went to the Daiichi plant to check the buildings of the plant's Number one to Number 4 reactors. They were also told about an emergency diesel generator at the plant's Number 6 reactor, whose operations had been safely halted. The team plans to submit a report on its inspection to Japan's government on June 1st. Friday, May 27, 2011 19:45 +0900 (JST) Copyright NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) | |
| Date: 27 May 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 825 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 | |
| Thom Hartmann: 10 Banks Own 77% of US Banking Assets | |
| TheBigPictureRT--May 25, 2011--Thom Hartmann: 10 Banks Own 77% of US banking. Copyright The Big Picture RT and HBO 2011 | |
| Date: 27 May 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 824 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 | |
| Secret Fed Program Gave Billions to Banks Unknown to Congress | |
| May 26 (Bloomberg) -- http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-26/fed-gave-banks-crisis-gains-on-secre... Credit Suisse Group AG, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc each borrowed at least $30 billion in 2008 from a Federal Reserve emergency lending program whose details weren't revealed to shareholders, members of Congress or the public. The $80 billion initiative, called single-tranche open-market operations, or ST OMO, made 28-day loans from March through December 2008. Banks paid interest rates as low as 0.01 percent that December, when the Fed's main lending facility charged 0.5 percent. Bloomberg's Bob Ivry discusses the loan program with Deirdre Bolton on Bloomberg Television's "InsideTrack." Copyright Bloomberg 2011 | |
| Date: 27 May 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 790 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 | |
| John Nichols on The Battle For Wisconsin: Court Strikes Down Gov. Scott Walker's Anti-Union Bill | |
| Democracy Now! 27 May 2011 A Wisconsin judge has struck down Gov. Scott Walker's union-busting law because Republican legislators failed to provide sufficient public notice before passing the measure in March. The law sharply curbs nearly all collective bargaining rights of state employees. Democracy Now! interviews John Nichols of The Nation magazine on the future of the bill, Wisconsin's repressive new Voter ID bill, and Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) budget proposals to overhaul Medicare and Medicaid. | |
| Date: 27 May 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 751 - Votes: 0 - Rating: 0 | |
| U.S. Tornado Recap: Four Days Of Fury - May 21-25 | |
| Take a look at some of the deadly tornadoes that caused havoc in the Midwest. http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2011/05/26/natpkg.week.in.tornados.cnn | |
| Date: 26 May 2011 - Added by: KMC | |
| Views: 798 - Votes: 1 - Rating: 5 | |