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From Fox News Channel Wednesday, September 24, 2008 Special Report With Brit Hume

A nuclear power plant located in Louisa County, the epicenter of the earthquake in Virginia, has shut down. The North Anna Power Station, operated by Dominion Power, has two reactors. The plant declared an "unusual event" in the wake of the 5.9 magnitude quake, which is the lowest stage on the plant's emergency scale. As a result, the plant has been shut down. The AP reports the plant is being run off of four emergency diesel generators, which are supplying power for critical safety equipment. Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman Roger Hannah says the agency was not immediately aware of any...

Turn on Fox Business if you have it. They're all over the REAL situation, the $15 trillion U.S. debt - are we acknowledging that the principal will not be repaid ? Mark Steyn is ON and wants to know. The Judge was on before. IT IS FANTASTIC THIS MORNING...

THE PARTY IS OVER: Democrat, That Is © 2011 by Anthony James The fur is really flying now. President Obama and his Democrat handlers, enablers and rumpswabs are scurrying about like ants on crystal meth, plopping themselves in front of every news microphone and TV camera they can find to continue to perpetuate the mindless “Tea Party downgrade” meme some Progressive propaganda genius came up with over the weekend. It has become clear that, despite the outrageously preposterous implication that The Tea Party had anything at all to do with the Standard & Poor's downgrade of the United States’ credit...

The historic downgrade of the United States engendered by political gridlock in Washington caused one of the worst days ever on Wall Street Monday, with the Dow Jones industrial average plummeting more than 600 points in its sixth-biggest drop. Standard & Poor’s cut in the once-untouchable U.S. credit rating to AA+ from AAA late Friday night shook global markets and added to worries that the world’s largest economy is sinking inexorably toward a double-dip recession. In a panicky day of tumultuous trading on Wall Street, even a pledge by President Obama to double down on efforts this fall to come...

Marco got Bob lost in the debate.

The Greater Depression Is Upon Us By David Galland 07/15/11 The phrase “Greater Depression” was coined by Doug Casey a decade or so back, as a way of describing the economic crisis he foresaw as inevitable, and which is now materializing. Doug Casey now believes that the unfolding crisis is going to be even worse than he first imagined, and the longer the rest of us at Casey Research study the tea leaves, it is hard to disagree that the Greater Depression is still ahead. Consider: * The eurozone is growing increasingly desperate. Watching the heads of Europe dither and...

Italy Getting Uglier: Main Index Down Nearly 3%, As Short-Term Yields Explode Joe Weisenthal Jul. 11, 2011, 8:06 AM It took awhile -- the early trading wasn't so chaotic -- but the Italy minimeltdown people were waiting for all wekend is on. The main index is now down about 2.8% (see chart to the right). 2-year yields are exploding higher, preparing to break through 4%.

This morning, Issa and Senator Charles Grassley released a letter that they sent yesterday to Attorney General Eric Holder. It is explosive, to say the least. You should read it in its entirety; here are some excerpts: Yesterday, Acting ATF Director Kenneth Melson participated in a transcribed interview regarding Operation Fast and Furious and related matters with both Republican and Democratic staff. He appeared with his personal counsel, Richard Cullen of McGuire Woods LLP. His interview had originally been scheduled through the Justice Department to occur on July 13 in the presence of DOJ and ATF counsel. As you know,...

Body language expert Tanya Reiman told Bill O’Reilly recently that Obama lied – He was no friend of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Reiman said that Obama had “contempt in his eyes” and displayed it with his body language when he was with Benjamin Netanyahu. It was obvious. Narcissists don’t like being challenged. Now we know the rest of the story…Obama went into a rage after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lectured him on his suicide plan for Israel. NewsFavor reported, via Doug Ross: Shortly after the photo-op meeting and “working lunch” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the one that...

/begin my excerpts Nuclear Fuel could have Melt through Pressure Vessels ... Government Report On Jung 7, the whole content of government report to be submitted to IAEA has been revealed, regarding TEPCO's Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Plant. The report points out the possibility that molten nuclear fuel leaked out of the bottom of damaged pressure vessels in Reactor Unit #1 to #3 and accumulated in the containment vessels. Molten nuclear fuel falling down to containment vessel is called "melt-through" and this is the worst case which is beyond meltdown. It also says that the location in pressure vessel where...

Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant experienced full meltdowns at three reactors in the wake of an earthquake and tsunami in March, the country's Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters said Monday. The nuclear group's new evaluation, released Monday, goes further than previous statements in describing the extent of the damage caused by an earthquake and tsunami on March 11. The announcement will not change plans for how to stabilize the Fukushima Daiichi plant, the agency said. Reactors 1, 2 and 3 experienced a full meltdown, it said.

Anthony Weiner doesn't want to talk about that photo anymore, so much so his office will call the cops on you if you try and make him. A week after a crotch-shot appeared on the married Congressman's Twitter feed, Weiner's "certitude" regarding his junk is still national news, as much as he and the 21-year-old co-ed who the image was directed at wishes it weren't. At least we've all learned a lot about the "confident security" provided by those $11.25 Jockeys. Weiner made it clear that he was done talking about the issue and wanted to get back to work,...

Two damaged reactors may have holes in their containment vessels: TEPCO data At least two reactors at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant may have holes in their containment vessels, according to a report released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) on May 24, a finding that could hamper efforts to meet a government-sanctioned timetable to end the crisis. TEPCO, the operator of the troubled nuclear power plant, said in the report that meltdowns had occurred at the No. 1, 2 and 3 reactors. The report revealed for the first time the possibility of the No. 1 and...

A layman's guide to the situation at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant BY RYOMA KOMIYAMA STAFF WRITER /snip Q: What happens if fuel rods melt? A: Melted fuel rods cannot be easily cooled by water because they are completely deformed. They become like a chunk of concrete. Cooling them requires the continued injection of water. In this case, intense heat from melted rods on the bottom made holes in the metal pressure vessel, causing the contaminated water to leak. Q: What are these holes like? A: There are several of them. Their total size is about the same...

N-reactor cooling failed before tsunami The Yomiuri Shimbun An emergency cooling system of the No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant malfunctioned after the March 11 earthquake and before the tsunami hit, data released by plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. have revealed. According to a large cache of data concerning plant operations from March 11 to 14 released Monday by TEPCO, the No. 1 reactor's isolation condenser, which operates on direct-current power, began to malfunction shortly after the Great East Japan Earthquake struck the Tohoku and Kanto regions. /snip According to the data, the No....

TEPCO: Meltdown at No. 1 reactor started much earlier than initially reported The meltdown at the No. 1 reactor of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant started only five-and-a-half hours after the March 11 tsunami struck, hours earlier than Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s earlier estimate. TEPCO originally said the meltdown began on March 12, and implemented measures to contain the crisis based on this assumption. It had said the water level in the core started to drop around 9:30 p.m. on March 11, and the fuel rods became fully exposed just before 9 a.m. on March 12. But new...

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) admitted for the first time on May 15 that most of the fuel in one of its nuclear reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant had melted only about 16 hours after the March 11 earthquake struck a wide swath of northeastern Japan and triggered a devastating tsunami.

Meltdown may have occurred also at Nos. 2, 3 reactors TOKYO, May 16, Kyodo An adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Monday that the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant had failed to inject water into the Nos. 2 and 3 reactors for more than six hours after the March 11 massive earthquake and ensuing tsunami. Goshi Hosono, tasked with handling the nuclear crisis, said at a press conference that Tokyo Electric Power Co. had not been able to cool down the reactors' cores due to loss of external power for a long time after the quake,...

Are the American people losing faith in the U.S. economy? The statistics that you are about to read might surprise you. Not everyone believes that the U.S. economy is dying (there are still millions out there that will swallow anything that the mainstream media tells them), but the reality is that there is a growing chunk of the population that has completely lost faith in our leaders and in our economic system. A brand new Gallup poll has found that the number of Americans that believe that we are in a "depression" is actually larger than the number of Americans...