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  • As Fukushima Continues Leaking, 3 Former TEPCO Execs Charged With Negligence

    Submitted by Claire Bernish via TheAntiMedia.org, Three former executives from the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) have been formally charged with negligence over the 2011 disaster at the company’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. In accordance with a ruling from a citizen’s panel last year — and despite two previous refusals by Tokyo prosecutors to […]Read More
  • PBOC Weakens Yuan To One-Month Lows

    Having yesterday expressed clearly that there was no desire to see the Yuan depreciate, The PBOC weakened the Yuan fix by 0.16% to one-month lows. This sent offshore Yuan notably lower back to post-RRR-Cut lows. For the 2nd day in a row, PBOC also decided to ‘skip’ open market operations (due to ample liquidity according […]
  • Art Berman Sees Oil Heading To $16, Will Lead To “Banking Bloodbath”

    As Nate Hagens noted, “people think that the economy runs on money but it runs on energy,” and as Art Berman details in the following interview how the current oil price collapse represents devaluation from over-investment in unconventional oil – and most commodities – because of cheap capital, and is simply a classic bubble. “Continued […]
  • Terminal American Apathy – A Population Perfectly Ripened For Authoritarian Control

    Authored by Brett Redmayne-Titley via ActivistPost.com, “Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.” – Aristotle When considering the cause of national apathy, Americans are evidently physiologically and socially similar to the junk food addled laboratory rat. Both tolerate repressive environments while confined against their will in a maze. In the natural […]
  • Peddling Non-Fiction

    Some folks were peddling fiction… for everyone else, there’s this reality! No child (or student, or poor person, or grandchild, or debtholder, or healthy person, or retiree, or African American, or family, or homeowner, or renter) left behind untouched… Now that is a legacy. Average: Your rating: None Average: 5 (5 votes)
  • N2bn Fraud: Twist As Judge Returns Oronsaye’s Case File

    The N2bn fraud case involving a former Head of Service, HoS, to the Federation, Stephen Oronsaye, would have to start all over again as the presiding judge, Justice J. T. Tsoho, has said he has been “instructed” to return the case file to Justice Gabriel Kolawole, who was initially assigned the case in July 2015. […]
  • N2.3bn Scam: Court Admits More Exhibits Against Akpobolokemi, Others

    A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Tuesday, admitted more exhibits against a former Director- General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Mr. Patrick Akpobolokemi and five others. Akpobolokemi is standing trial, alongside five others,  on a 13- count charge bordering on conspiracy, stealing and fraudulent conversion of funds, to the […]
  • PDP Reschedules National Caucus, BOT, NEC Meetings

    Party supporters raise flags in support of Nigerian President and Presidential candidate of the ruling People’s Democratic Party Goodluck Jonathan and Vice President Namadi Sambo during a rally in Lagos on January 8, 2015. Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday formally began his campaign for re-election, taking the fight to a key opposition stronghold with […]
  • I Will Support Pharmaceutical Companies In Nigeria To Produce Essential Drugs, Says Buhari

    4 Shares Share Tweet Share Email President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday assured pharmaceutical companies in the country of government support to enable them produce essential drugs locally, instead of relying on wholesale importation. Mr. Buhari spoke  when he received a team, led by Professor Olu Akinkugbe and constituted by the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library to […]
  • Cyber Security — The Topic Avoided by the Presidential Candidates

    FindLaw columnist Eric Sinrod writes regularly in this section on legal developments surrounding technology and the Internet. It already seems like the Presidential campaign has been going on forever.  There have been countless debates, speeches and statements by and among the candidates. Some topics such as immigration and whether to build a wall have been rehashed over […]Read More