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- ALERT! La Salle Nuclear Plant Nearly Took Out Chicago! (Pissin’ On The Roses, April 19, 2013):

Chicago almost became a glowing radioactive sister city to Fukushima.

Yesterday we broke the story of  the La Salle Nuclear plant having to perform a Fukushima style direct-to-atmosphere venting of the primary nuclear containment  due to a lightening strike. As we indicated at the time, the amount of radioactivity released is unknown because the radiation monitors were not on a backup power supply.

Today in a follow on NRC event report, we find out that failures in the emergency cooling system resulted in the last ditch cooling attempt of directly venting the radioactive drywell to the atmosphere. The severity of those failures are underreported in the NRC event report, because it reads no different than if it the failures had been discovered during testing instead of being found out in the midst of a real life emergency resulting in the last ditch cooling effort of venting.

We explain the situation in more detail in the video, but gist of the analysis is as follows: Continue reading »

Tags: Chicago, Environment, Global News, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Technology

From the article:

“I’m not going to let you do to me what you did to Stanley McChrystal,” Emanuel said in an allusion to the Rolling Stones profile of McChrystal that Hastings wrote which led to the general’s resignation over disparaging comments made about President Obama.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel

- Reporter: Mayor Emanuel threatened me with ‘physical violence’ (PressTV, Jan 18, 2013):

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel allegedly grabbed a reporter by the arm in order to communicate “a threat of physical violence” in the course of an interview that went south during the presidential campaign.

“I’ve never experienced anything like this in my career from an American public official,” Buzzfeed’s Michael Hastings, author of Panic 2012: The Sublime and Terrifying Inside Story of Barack Obama’s Final Campaign, said on Current TV.

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Tags: Chicago, Global News, Government, Journalism, Michael Hastings, Politics, Rahm Emanuel, Stanley McChrystal, U.S.

- 500 Murders In Chicago Show Gun Bans Don’t Work (Investors, Dec 2, 2013):

Guns: The mayor of what is at once America’s most gun-controlled city and its murder capital wants an assault weapons ban like the one he pushed in 1994. Except it didn’t work then, and it won’t work now.

Nathaniel T. Jackson, 40, an alleged gang member with a long arrest record, was gunned down last week outside a store in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood, becoming the Windy City’s 500th murder victim in 2012.

Up to 80% of Chicago’s murders and shootings are gang-related, according to police. By one estimate, the city has almost 70,000 gang members. A police audit last spring identified 59 gangs and 625 factions; most were on the South and West sides.

Yet, in the view of Chicago’s mayor and former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, the answer to violence by crazies and criminals in his city and nationally is more gun control, not more gang and goon control.

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Tags: Chicago, Crime, FBI, Global News, Government, Guns, Politics, Rahm Emanuel, Society, U.S.

- These 12 Hellholes Are Examples Of What The Rest Of America Will Look Like Soon (The Economic Collapse, July 15, 2012):

Do you want to see where this country is headed?  If so, don’t focus on the few areas that are still very prosperous.  New York City has Wall Street, Washington D.C. has the federal government and Silicon Valley has Google and Facebook.  Those are the exceptions.  The reality is that most of the country has been experiencing a slow decline for a very long time and once thriving cities such as Gary, Indiana and Flint, Michigan have become absolute hellholes.  They are examples of what the rest of America will look like soon.  60 years ago, most Americans were decent, hard working people and there were always good jobs available for anyone that was willing to roll up his or her sleeves and put in an honest day of work.  But now all of that has changed.  Over the past decade, tens of thousands of manufacturing facilities have shut down and millions of jobs have left the country.  Cities such as Cleveland, Baltimore and Detroit were once shining examples of everything that was right about America, but now they stand out like festering sores.  The “blue collar cities” have been hit the hardest by the gutting of our economic infrastructure.  There are many communities in America today where it seems like all of the hope and all of the life have been sucked right out of them.  You can see it in the eyes of the people.  The good times are gone permanently and they know it.  Unfortunately, the remainder of the country will soon be experiencing the despair that those communities are feeling.

The following are 12 hellholes that are examples of what the rest of America will look like soon…. Continue reading »

Tags: Baltimore, California, Camden, Chicago, Cleveland, Collapse, Detroit, Economy, Flint, Gary, Global News, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, NEW ORLEANS, Oakland, Ohio, Philadelphia, Society, St. Louis, Stockton, U.S.

- Cops over classrooms: Chicago uses teachers’ salaries to pay for school police (RT, July 10, 2012):

The union that represents public school teachers in Chicago, Illinois says that the city lied about around $70 million in finances to fund the police department with money already put aside for educators.

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) has uncovered an agreement signed by city officials through a Freedom of Information Act request that they say shows that millions of dollars meant to go towards contractually obligated raises for public school workers were instead funneled to the Chicago Police Department (CPD) to compensate law enforcement for patrolling the halls of those very schools.

According to a post published on the website for the CTU, the documents obtained in the recent FOIA request reveal that the city took $70 million set aside for teacher salaries and unemployment benefits and sent it to the Police Department to use for paying the cops that were dispatched across Chicago’s school system last year.

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Tags: Chicago, Education, Freedom of Information Act, Global News, Government, Illinois, Police, Politics, Schools, Society, U.S.

In other related news:

- Arrested Protester Charges Mistreatment After Police Raid Apartment (CBS Chicago, May 18, 2012)

- Army Convoy Heading Towards NATO Summit As Chicago Law Enforcement Prepares For War With Protesters (Intel Hub, May 18, 2012):

Chicago police and security personal are set for what they seem to believe will be a full scale battle with protesters during this weekends NATO Summit.

With numerous protest groups set to launch widespread protests throughout the weekend, the police state is out like never before.

In a move eerily reminiscent of the Soviet Union and East Germany, multiple activists were arrested and literally disappeared just days before the summit.

An article published by RT quoted a National Lawyers Guild spokesman in regards to the pre crime arrests: Continue reading »

Tags: Barack Obama, Chicago, Dictatorship, Global News, Government, Military, NATO, New World Order, Obama administration, Police, Police State, Politics, Society, U.S.

- Iraq, Afghanistan vets to hand back medals at NATO summit (USA Today, May 16, 2012):

Thirty to 50 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars may have fought hard for or suffered for their medals, but this weekend, they plan to hand those medals back during the NATO summit in Chicago, MSNBC reports.

The group will stage the demonstration in protest of the war on terror, according to the itinerary for Sunday published on the blog Iraq Veterans Against the War.

The group will convene at 10 a.m. for music and speeches and at 3 p.m. march to the convention center where the NATO meeting will take place to return the medals, according to the intinerary.

If they are unable to hand their medals to NATO officials, they will toss them toward the convention center, MSNBC reports.

“We, Afghanistan and Iraq veterans from around the country will converge in Chicago on May 20 to ceremoniously return our medals to NATO generals,” according to the blog. “We were awarded these medals for serving in the Global War on Terror, a war based on lies and failed policies. This endless war has killed hundreds of thousands, stripped the humanity of all involved, and drained our communities of trillions of dollars, diverting funds from schools, clinics, libraries, and other public goods.” Continue reading »

Tags: Afghanistan, Chicago, Global News, Government, Iraq, Military, NATO, Politics, U.S., Veterans

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Tags: 1984, Barack Obama, Big Brother, Chicago, Dictatorship, Drones, George Orwell, Global News, Government, New World Order, Obama administration, Police State, Politics, Society, Surveillance, Technology, U.S.

See also:

- NATO Summit: Airport-Style Security Screenings For Chicago Trains

- Feds Sending Armed Agents To Chicago Three Weeks Before NATO Summit

- Milwaukee Red Cross Told To Prep For Chicago Evacuation During NATO Summit (Video)

- Blackhawk Choppers Buzz Chicago Skyscrapers – OEMC: Military Is Conducting Training Sessions (Video)

- It’s Not Just the Red Cross Preparing for an Evacuation of Chicago During NATO Summit (Intel Hub, May 9, 2012):

It has now emerged that it was not just the Red Cross and hospitals that were told to prepare for various emergency scenarios surrounding the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago.

To get some background on what is going on and the potential outcomes, watch the short video below:

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This topic was also discussed in detail with Drew Lamb on episode 14 of End the Lie Radio which you can see below as well:

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The local Chicago CBS affiliate recently reported that Benedictine University has been contacted by the American Red Cross chapter in DuPage County to set up emergency shelters.

This is being done in order to prepare for a potential evacuation of Chicago during the NATO summit and the Lisle campus of Benedictine University has been instructed to plan for up to 1,000 evacuees.

Keep in mind that is just one of the many locations being prepared for a potentially massive influx of evacuees.

Earlier the same local CBS affiliate reported that the Milwaukee Red Cross had been asked by both the City of Chicago and the Secret Service to set up shelters.

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Tags: Barack Obama, Chicago, Dictatorship, Fascism, Global News, Government, Military, NATO, New World Order, Politics, Society, U.S.

- Summit Could Mean Airport-Style Security On Metra Electric, South Shore Trains (CBS News, May 3, 2012):

CHICAGO – Some stations on the Metra Electric Line and South Shore Line could be shut down during the upcoming NATO summit, and passengers at other stations could face airport-style security screenings, due to the Secret Service security plan that could be released as soon as Friday afternoon.

CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine has exclusive details on those security measures, which the Secret Service is expected to officially unveil on Friday, or at the very latest, on Monday. Federal officials have promised the announcement will include a “comprehensive list of street closures and parking restrictions surrounding the NATO summit.”

The Secret Service has been battling with Metra and the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District over the security measures that will be needed on the Electric and South Shore lines, which both run directly under McCormick Place.

Metra and NICTD won round one of that battle, as trains on those two lines will continue to operate during the summit, although there will be significant delays at times, with trains possibly being stopped for security screening before passing McCormick Place.

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Tags: Chicago, Dictatorship, Global News, Government, NATO, New World Order, Police State, Politics, Secret Service, U.S.