It's Happening.

[Montegriffo]

Because they’d tell half of Europe if it was harmful.

You think they covered up Chernobyl?

They covered up most of it for decades. Body count, radiation levels, all kinds of things.

Sure, the Soviets tried to hide it at first but the rest of Europe went batshit crazy about it. Butter from animals grazed in Northern England was withdrawn and we all ate New Zealand butter for years.
If this was even slightly dangerous the media would be competing with each other to tell us we were all doomed. Nothing sells papers like a bad news story.
If you follow the links it's nearly all American news media reporting it. I'm not saying your media is all ill informed, panic monkey, scare mongerers but your media is all ill informed, panic monkey, scare mongerers.

[Montegriffo]

Everything you need to know
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... ed-to-know
I have deliberately used a Guardian article because they are one of the most anti-nuclear power papers in the UK.

[Martin Hash]

So nothing much. Thanks for the info. (Kind of like Fugiyama.)

[Penner]

Everything you need to know
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... ed-to-know
I have deliberately used a Guardian article because they are one of the most anti-nuclear power papers in the UK.

Oh, so radioactive cloud isn't a dig deal then?

[Martin Hash]

Radioactive Cloud

[Speaker to Animals]

We all got a good dose of radiation a few years back in that big solar flair too.

Since I live in the mountains, my condo needs a system that remove the radiaoactive gas from the beneath the foundation and pumps it up above the roof to keep the radiation levels lower.

I got radiated pretty well not long ago for an x-ray.

Those raw vegans who go on banana diets to improve their health ingest a lot of radiation.

[Montegriffo]

Everything you need to know
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... ed-to-know
I have deliberately used a Guardian article because they are one of the most anti-nuclear power papers in the UK.

Oh, so radioactive cloud isn't a dig deal then?

Depends on the type of radiation.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Holy crap... Bank of America and Citigroup just called out the Fed Put. It's been an open secret for years, but I never thought I'd see a bank actually say it.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-0 ... ct-markets

BofA summarizes, "In every major market shock since the 2013 Taper Tantrum, central banks have stepped in (even if verbally) to protect markets. Following the Brexit
vote, markets no longer needed to hear from CBs as they rebounded so quickly that CBs didn’t need to respond. Buy-the-dip has a become a self-fulfilling put"

BofA explains:

The Fed put strike is falling with rising rates even if markets don’t realize it. As our Head of Global Economics, Ethan Harris, has pointed out, sitting at the lower bound in rates put the Fed in risk-management mode, meaning they had to be ultrasensitive to the risk of making a policy mistake as they had no traditional ammunition to fight a potential downturn. But as the Fed gradually increases rates, and with markets seemingly unconcerned, they will inherently become less sensitive to risk. In other words, the Fed put strike is falling both because the Fed is rebuilding ammunition, and because it recognizes that markets can better stand on their own. Of course surprise inflation remains the real killer as it would effectively handcuff the Fed from providing a high strike put, and will require much higher stress before they can step in.



However, we still need to see a shock to know where the Fed put strike is. Just because the Fed put strike is falling with rising rates doesn’t mean markets will recognize it until there is a shock of sufficient magnitude to test it. And while Powell is believed to have a largely similar policy stance as Yellen, until we see how he (and his new committee) react to financial stress, it’s hard to know exactly where the Fed put strike sits. This fact, along with the uncertainty of when we see a sufficient shock to test the Fed, makes calling an end to this environment difficult. For example, in 2017 the strong buy-the-dip mentality, and arguably solid fundamentals, prevented the Fed from being tested.

This is a turning point...

[SuburbanFarmer]

Nice little breakdown here, of the Great Shell Game.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-1 ... cent-fraud

So, the Fed has this thing called a balance sheet, which is actually a computer file, filled with entries that denote securities that it holds. These securities, mostly US government bonds of various categories and bundles of mortgages wrangled together by the mysterious government-sponsored entity called Freddie Mac, represent about $4.5 trillion in debt. They’re IOUs that supposedly pay interest for a set number of years. When that term of years expires, the Fed gets back the money it loaned, which is called the principal. Ahhhh, here’s the cute part!

You see, the money that the Fed loaned to the US government (in exchange for a bond) was never there in the first place. The Fed prestidigitated it out of an alternate universe. They gave this money to a “primary dealer” bank in exchange for the bond, which the bank abracadabraed up for the US Treasury. Well, not really. In fact, the Fed just made a notation on the bank’s “reserve” account that the money from the alternate universe appeared there. Somehow that money was sent via a virtual pneumatic tube to the US Treasury, where it was used to pay for drones to blow up Yemeni wedding parties, and for the Secret Service to visit pole dancing bars when the president traveled to foreign lands.

[Martin Hash]

This is how money is "printed." Right now, Government is willing to "print" money for the 0.01% but not for healthcare. They'll "print" money for the banks but not for Social Security. They'll "print" money for Foreign Aid but not for School Loans.

Money is imaginary, we can "print" it for whatever we want, and the 0.01% know this, and take advantage of it while all the rubes talk about deficits and other accounting bullshit.