The Asahi Shimbun

Exceedingly high radiation levels found inside crippled reactor buildings at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant were labeled by nuclear regulators as an “extremely serious” challenge to the shutdown process and overall decommissioning of the site.

The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) said a huge amount of radioactive materials apparently had attached to shield plugs of the containment vessels in the No. 2 and No. 3 reactors. Continue reading “Radiation levels at Fukushima plant far worse than was thought”

RT

Scotland will enter national lockdown from midnight, with people legally required to stay at home until February, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said, warning that existing Covid-19 rules may not be enough to stop its spread.

“It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year,” Sturgeon said on Monday as she outlined the new lockdown in parliament.   Continue reading “New lockdown in Scotland with public legally required to stay home amid spread of new Covid-19 variant”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Lawmakers in New York have proposed one of the most tyrannical and utterly worrisome pieces of legislation we’ve seen. They want to ban citizens from having body armor to protect themselves from bullets. As no one has ever beaten anyone to death with a bullet proof vest, the intentions behind this bill are clear and have no other purpose other than making it easier for government to kill citizens and harder for citizens to protect themselves from bullets.

New York, who has some of the strictest gun laws in the country, now wants to make it a misdemeanor and potential felony for people to purchase or possess a passive means of resistance to bullets. Continue reading “Proposed Bill Bans Body Armor, Makes Possession a Crime, Forces Citizens to Turn it In or Face Arrest”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Over the years, the Free Thought Project has run many headlines with the phrase “taxpayers held liable” included in it after cops were caught maiming, raping, kidnapping and killing people. Many of these excessive force, murder, and wrongful arrest lawsuits were brought against police departments because the departments and prosecutors refused to hold the offending officers accountable and lawsuits were the only form of justice the victims could seek.

While no amount of money can ever undo the damage caused by some of these officers, it was at least some form of seeking justice. In Iowa, however, all that is changing after the Iowa Supreme Court just severely limited the amount of financial damages a victim of police crimes can be awarded. Continue reading “State Supreme Court Bars Victims of Police Crimes from Seeking Punitive Damages in Lawsuits”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

In our annual look back (and forward) post, we mused that the advent of central bank-supported digital currencies was the top financial story of 2020, buried deep under the landslide of health and political developments from covid to the US presidential election; we also said that the most important narrative of 2021 would be how fast – and where – digital currencies would be rolled out first.

Yet while we recently speculated that China would be the first major economy to unleash a digital currency, little did we know that the first country to officially make the jump to a “fully digital” economy would be…  Venezuela!? Continue reading “And The First Country To Move To A 100% Digital Monetary System Is… Venezuela”

Unz Review – by Fred Reed

As part of wokedom’s fantasy-ridden fascination with indigenes, sports teams, such as the Redskins and Braves, race to change names. (For Washington’s team, the Federal Folders has been suggested.) Outraged conservatives see the changes as nauseating prissiness by historically illiterate ninnies. It is every bit of this. Still, the teams should be renamed. What civilized nation would name teams after murderous, torturing stone-age savages? Which the Indians were.

Yes, I know. Quite. Today one shouldn’t refer to torturing stone-age savages as torturing stone-age savages. No, the Indians were contemplative, spiritual beings at one with nature, living simply and nobly, like a pudding of Buddha and Henry David Thoreau.
 Continue reading “The Nobility of Savages”

Daily Mail

Bikini clad revelers are celebrating the New Year in Miami, seemingly unperturbed by the city’s rising number of COVID-19 cases.

On Saturday, hundreds of youngsters were seen soaking up the sun on South Beach, as others flocked to a nearby hotel for a raucous pool party.  Continue reading “Thousands of maskless sun seekers pack Miami beaches and pool parties”

WLKY

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Highlands area home was vandalized early Saturday morning.

Numerous messages were written on the home using red and white spray paint. The phrase “Where’s my money” was tagged on the front door along with other messages on the porch. The message seems to be a response to the proposed $2,000 stimulus check increase that was blocked by Sen. McConnell in December. Continue reading “Sen. Mitch McConnell’s Highlands area home vandalized with spray paint”

Business Insider – by Joshua Zitser

Early Friday morning, police were called to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home after vandals defaced the garage door and a severed pig’s head, covered in fake blood, was left on the driveway.

The white garage door of the Pacific Heights property was covered in graffiti. It read: “$2k CANCEL RENT!” Continue reading “Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco house vandalized with a pig’s head, spray-painted anarchist symbol and graffiti about $2,000 stimulus checks”

RT

Paris police chief, Didier Lallement, has caused a stir after quoting Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky in his official New Year greetings cards, sent out to hundreds of elected officials and institutions across the region.

After a tough 2020 and apparently seeking to inspire some camaraderie heading into the new year, Lallement drew on a passage from the founder of the Bolshevik Red Army in which Trotsky attempted to rally his “comrades” against the Russian bourgeoisie. Continue reading “Paris police chief faces backlash for including Trotsky quote in New Year greetings card”

RT

With the vaccine not providing immediate immunity to the coronavirus, over two hundred Israeli citizens have been diagnosed with the disease days after getting the Pfizer/BioNTech jabs, local media reported.

The number of those who got Covid-19 despite being vaccinated was at around 240 people, according to data from Channel 13 News. Continue reading “Hundreds of Israelis get infected with Covid-19 after receiving Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine – reports”