About Those Drones

My "honorary sister" sent me this screenshot about the sightings of drones near New Jersey.

Mystery solved? 

Secret Iranian Side Deal: Obama Is A Bleepin' Idiot!

If President Obama really thinks the Iranian nuclear deal is a great benefit to mankind, then he's a f*cking idiot!

A side deal has been revealed by the Associated Press that allows Iran to do their own inspections, with their own personnel and equipment.

According to Fox News:

Capitol Hill opposition to the Iranian nuclear deal was stoked Wednesday by a bombshell report that Tehran will be allowed to use its own experts to inspect one of the country's most controversial nuclear sites.  

"Allowing the Iranians to inspect their own nuclear sites, particularly a notorious military site, is like allowing the inmates to run the jail," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a presidential candidate, said in a statement.  

The Associated Press reported Wednesday that, in an unusual and secret agreement with the U.N. agency that normally carries out such work, Iran can use its own experts and equipment in the search for evidence for activities that it has consistently denied -- trying to develop nuclear weapons. 

To read more (if you can stomach it), go here. 

U.S. Caves In To Iranian Nuclear Demands

Above, the Drudge Report's banner headline and a favorite ad of mine.

The idiocy of the Obama Administration knows no bounds. 

U.S. negotiators for a nuclear deal with Iran have caved in to Iranian demands.

According to the Washington Free Beacon:

LAUSSANE, Switzerland—The Obama administration is giving in to Iranian demands about the scope of its nuclear program as negotiators work to finalize a framework agreement in the coming days, according to sources familiar with the administration’s position in the negotiations. 

U.S. negotiators are said to have given up ground on demands that Iran be forced to disclose the full range of its nuclear activities at the outset of a nuclear deal, a concession experts say would gut the verification the Obama administration has vowed would stand as the crux of a deal with Iran. 

Until recently, the Obama administration had maintained that it would guarantee oversight on Tehran’s program well into the future, and that it would take the necessary steps to ensure that oversight would be effective. The issue has now emerged as a key sticking point in the talks. 

Concern from sources familiar with U.S. concessions in the talks comes amid reports that Iran could be permitted to continue running nuclear centrifuges at an underground site once suspected of housing illicit activities. 

This type of concession would allow Iran to continue work related to its nuclear weapons program, even under the eye of international inspectors. If Iran removes inspectors—as it has in the past—it would be left with a nuclear infrastructure immune from a strike by Western forces.a administration has vowed would stand as the crux of a deal with Iran.

To read more, go here. 

TEPCO Nuclear Incident Causing Abnormalities In Butterflies

Above, the Mothra mural at Toho Studios.  Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Jiji Press posted an interesting article.  It is on the effects of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear power plant on Japan's butterfly population.

According to the article:

Tokyo, Aug. 11 (Jiji Press)--Radioactive materials released due to the nuclear accident at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s <9501> Fukushima No. 1 power plant have caused abnormalities in butterflies in Japan, a team of researchers has said. 

"We conclude that artificial radionuclides from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant caused physiological and genetic damage" to pale grass blue butterflies, a species common in Japan, said an article published recently on the British journal Nature.

Will we be seeing giant mutated butterflies fluttering around Japan?

To read the full article, go here. 

Dollar Falls To New Record Low Against The Yen

Showing just how volatile the markets are in the wake of the March 11 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami and the current problems with two nuclear plants, the dollar fell against the Japanese yen to a new record low.

From the Wall Street Journal:

The U.S. dollar plunged to 77.32 yen, plowing through the previous record of 79.75 set 16 years ago, and its highest value since World War II.

This does not bode well for Japanese corporations who export goods or for tourists who plan to travel to Japan, especially those who may sign up for tours whose prices are tied to the prevailing foreign exchange.

For example, a tour costing 248,500 yen would cost (at today's exchange rate):

248,500.00 JPY = 3,180.20 USD*

*Source: Universal Currency Converter

This amount does not include airfare, which would be an additional cost of $1,200-$1,500, or more.

It is currently uncertain whether or not the exchange rate will stablize any time soon, if at all.

Keep watching...

To read the full WSJ article, go here.

American Spectator: Godzilla Redux

"The media is waiting for a nuclear meltdown. The media is waiting for Godzilla." - Rush Limbaugh, March 14, 2011.

The anti-nuclear energy wing of the media is salivating over the damaged reactors at two of Japan's nuclear power plants in the wake of Saturday's 9.0 earthquake.

This is not to make light of the situation in Japan. It it a very dangerous situation they're in. But one has to keep in mind that there are some who have their own agendas and those agendas influence the kinds of reporting of the situation.

The American Spectator puts it all in proper perspective in their article, "Godzilla Redux." To read the article, go here.