Get ready for the meltdown of the US Treasury Bond market | LEAP/E2020

Mar. 17, 2011 -- Public announcement GEAB N°53 (LEAP/E2020) -- Beyond its tragic human consequences (1), the terrible disaster that has just hit Japan weakens the shaky U.S. Treasury Bond market a li ...

Radiation Levels Surge At Reactor (Shinichi Saoshiro and Chisa Fujioka)

Mar. 16, 2011 -- 7:39 p.m. JST (6:39 a.m. EDT) -- TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japan's nuclear crisis appeared to be spinning out of control on Wednesday after workers withdrew briefly from a stricken power pl ...

Japan Crisis Worsens As Radiation Levels Surge (Shinichi Saoshiro and Chisa Fujioka)

Workers briefly abandon Japan nuclear plant as crisis worsens Mar. 16, 2011 -- 3:29 p.m. JST (2:29 a.m. EDT) -- TOKYO (Reuters) -- Workers were ordered to withdraw briefly from a stricken Japanese nu ...

Bear's Storm (Owsley Stanley)

(Editor's Note: Owsley Stanley died Sunday in a car accident in his home country of Australia. Stanley helped out as an advisor to the World News Trust project in 2003. WNT is republishing this essay ...

Japan braces for potential radiation catastrophe (Taiga Uranaka and Ki Joon Kwon)

Mar. 15, 2011 -- FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -- Japan faced potential catastrophe Tuesday after a quake-crippled nuclear power plant exploded and sent low levels of radiation floating toward Tokyo, pr ...

BOJ Fails to Contain Investor Panic as Nuclear Danger Rises (Keiko Ujikane and Mayumi Otsuma)

Mar. 15, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- The Bank of Japan’s step to provide short-term liquidity and expand an asset-purchase program failed to contain investor panic today as the risk of nuclear radiation leak ...

Humanitarian crisis deepens in Japan (Yoko Kubota)

Millions of people in Japan are spending a fourth night without water, food or heating, as tens of thousands of rescue workers struggle to reach them Mar. 15, 2011 -- RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan (Reuters) - ...

Let me remind you of something crucial when it comes to nuclear power incidents and accidents: They lie (MadHound)

Mar. 13, 2011 (Democratic Underground) -- People lie. When it comes to nuclear incidents and accidents, plant owners, government officials, and the media lie. If they can't cover up an incident, they ...

Japan scrambles to avert nuclear meltdown (Taiga Uranaka and Ki Joon Kwon)

Mar. 13, 2011 -- FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -- Japan fought on Sunday to avert a disastrous meltdown at two earthquake-crippled nuclear reactors as estimates of the death toll from the tsunami that c ...

Radiation leaking from Japan's quake-hit nuclear reactor (Chris Meyers and Kim Kyung-hoon)

Mar. 12, 2011 -- FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -- FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Radiation leaked from a damaged Japanese nuclear reactor on Saturday after an explosion blew the roof off in the wake of a ...

'I Don’t Think There Is Any Need for a Law against Fraud' (Dale Tavris)

Dale Tavris, M.D.Dale Tavris -- World News Trust Mar. 7, 2011 -- Those who say that banks don’t need to be regulated by government are either naïve, sucking up to rich and powerful bankers, or hoping ...