Engineering Disaster Alert: Boone Dam, Tennessee

flyingcuttlefish:

Many nuke plants downstream from this failing dam

MORE: ENE-News (recent) – Officials ‘Alarmed’ at Press Conference on Dam with Nuclear Plants Downstream: ‘Movement’ in foundation 100s of feet underground; Rock dissolving — “Sinkhole is indication of bigger problem” — “Urgency of issue is obvious” — Examining “every possible type of failure” (VIDEO)

Godlike Productions forum thread – BOONE DAM FOUNDATION CRUMBLING

Red Flag blog - ALERT — Sinkhole Under Tennessee Boone Dam – 7 Nuclear Reactors Downstream

TVA announces that Boone Lake water levels will remain below normal

What about when the snow melts?  – Question on Zero Hedge article comments.

Nov. 1, 2014 – Tenn. – Sinkhole Under Dam Emergency

[ updates will go here later ]

Originally posted on Head Space:

Potential Technological Hazard/Engineering Disaster

TVA’s Boone Reservoir Dam, Tennessee Photo Credit: David Grace

North America – USA | State of Tennessee, Boone Reservoir Dam
Location: 36°26′25″N 082°26′18″W
Present Operational Age: ~63 years
Damage Level: Critical
Evacuees: unknown

TVA Region Map

February 27th, 2015 at 1:30 am ET

Officials ‘Alarmed’ at Press Conference on Dam with Nuclear Plants Downstream: ‘Movement’ in foundation 100s of feet underground; Rock dissolving — “Sinkhole is indication of bigger problem” — “Urgency of issue is obvious” — Examining “every possible type of failure” (VIDEO)

January 26th, 2015 at 1:02 pm ET

Official: Urgent, worrisome situation at major dam with nuclear plants downstream — We don’t know what’s going on — “You’ve got water able to get by that dam… coming out downstream… which, of course, shouldn’t be happening” — Danger of collapse called not ‘imminent’ — Cracks found in another dam nearby, water seeping from…

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FBI – The Terror Factory + Chicago Police’s “black site”

Why Does the FBI Have to Manufacture its Own Plots if Terrorism and ISIS Are Such Grave Threats?

By Glenn Greenwald

“The FBI and major media outlets yesterday trumpeted the agency’s latest counterterrorism triumph: the arrest of three Brooklyn men, ages 19 to 30, on charges of conspiring to travel to Syria to fight for ISIS (photo of joint FBI/NYPD press conference, above). As my colleague Murtaza Hussain ably documents, “it appears that none of the three men was in any condition to travel or support the Islamic State, without help from the FBI informant.” One of the frightening terrorist villains told the FBI informant that, beyond having no money, he had encountered a significant problem in following through on the FBI’s plot: his mom had taken away his passport. Noting the bizarre and unhinged ranting of one of the suspects, Hussain noted on Twitter that this case “sounds like another victory for the FBI over the mentally ill.”

In this regard, this latest arrest appears to be quite similar to the overwhelming majority of terrorism arrests the FBI has proudly touted over the last decade.”   . . .  (more)

http://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/26/fbi-manufacture-plots-terrorism-isis-grave-threats/

Also explaining the uses of ‘terrur bogeyman’ – BBC documentary - “The Power of Nighmares”

The Power Of Nightmares Adam Curtis [BBC 2] < video

AND -

Boing Boing - First-hand reports of torture from Homan Square, Chicago PD’s “black site”

“. . . In the wake of last week’s revelations about Homan Square, the off-the-books “black site” where Chicago PD disappear prisoners for violent, aggressive interrogation, four of the site’s victims have come forward to describe the highly racialized human rights abuses at the secret site. . . “

“. . . . Three other men, Kory Wright, Deandre Hutcherson and David Smith, have also told the Guardian they were held in 2006 inside Homan Square, where they say they were handcuffed by both wrists with their arms spread. Hutcherson says he was punched in the face while in this position, before an officer stepped on his groin “like he was putting a cigarette out”.”

http://boingboing.net/2015/02/28/first-hand-reports-of-torture.html

 

Horror at Party Beach – Fukushima Feb. 19

 

Mid-Atlantic Ridge Jumpy

While we watch these big quakes off Japan (ENE News report, Quake Watch report) and the 6.7 quake at the bottom of South America, the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is extra jumpy at the same time as Brazil tremors with 1.5-3M smaller quakes.

Earlier we posted about a series of large quake on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in 2013.

The RSOE map doesn’t get the Brazil info but they have a good map of the ridge.

CLICK ON IMAGE FOR FULL SIZE

Feb. 13 – The Watchers – Very strong and shallow M6.9 earthquake hit Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Now, today there is a quake swarm across Brazil with the same thing going on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. It shows on this Brazil earthquake monitor site –   www.moho.iag.usp.br/portal/events

screen shot:

Note: Worrisome Canary Is. is up off Morocco (not on the above map).

USGS Map of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

Fun with Gilda Radner (SNL @ 40)

LINK – http://youtu.be/vusxDinuFws

LINK – http://youtu.be/zKxjBsO-Bvk

Zero Hedge: HSBC Bank: Secret Origins To Laundering The World’s Drug Money

HSBC Bank : Secret Origins To 26/11 Mumbai Attacks

#SwissLeaks what the media has termed it is a trove of secret documents from HSBC’s Swiss private banking arm that reveals names of account holders and their balances for the year 2006-07. They come from over 200 countries, the total balance over $100 billion. But nowhere has the HSBC Swiss list touched off a more raging political debate than in India.

That’s why to obtain and investigate the Indian names, The Indian Express partnered in a three-month-long global project with the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and the Paris-based Le Monde newspaper. The investigation revealed 1,195 Indian HSBC clients, roughly double the 628 names that French authorities gave to the Government in 2011. The new revelation— published as part of a global agreement — is expected to significantly widen the scale and scope of the ongoing probe by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) appointed by the Supreme Court.

For years, when banks have been caught laundering drug money, they have claimed that they did not know, that they were but victims of sneaky drug dealers and a few corrupt employees. Nothing could be further from the truth. The truth is that a considerable portion of the global banking system is explicitly dedicated to handling the enormous volume of cash produced daily by dope traffickers. . . .

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-16/hsbc-bank-secret-origins-laundering-worlds-drug-money

More at Rudolph Elmer (whistel-blower banker)  … and  in comment here

 

 

Fukushima Explosions & Emissions in Feb. are Alarming

LINK – http://youtu.be/put5qp8C6JU

LINK – http://youtu.be/nXbEY3rc1BE

Feb 8 – Majia’s Blog – Unit 3 Seems to be the Source of Today’s Emissions < PHOTOS

Feb. 2 – Not All Alleged Is Apparent blog – DATA of ‘Fallout Signatures’ on Radiation Monitors Suggest Fukushima Still Going Re-Critical Underground At Times. Airborne Fallout Continues To Come Down Across the Northern Hemisphere.
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FUKUSHIMA-DAIICHI HAS GONE RE-CRITICAL AS RECENT AS NOVEMBER 2014 ! 
FISSION CHAIN REACTIONS CONTINUE !

We’ve all been watching the “live” cams at Fukushima and discussing the newer events at ENE-News’ forum. This comment from califnative has good pictures of a steam release caught on video.

 

Weeping Willow captured white smoke over Fukushima-
http://youtu.be/YY1OLGugy_s?t=4m7s

Check after the 26 min. mark of this video-

LINK – http://youtu.be/EZS2vjTA1S8

LINK –  http://youtu.be/GmRdt3G-cMg

Some pictures - CLICK IMAGE FOR FULL SIZE -

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