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Published: December 26th, 2011 at 12:00 am ET
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Wow.
From corresp. that Lucas got thru FOIA:
“Speaking of conversions – why doesn’t someone in the IRC convert the °C to IF data…for the stupid Americans.”
http://enformable.com/2011/12/march-30th-2011-why-doesnt-someone-convert-the-metric-data-for-the-stupid-americans/
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Nice dig indeed….buuuuut c x 9/5 + 32 = f hmm. So who’s the stupid one who didn’t give me enough tritium? They have an incredible way of showing their ineptitude don’t they.
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Kobe beef found to be imported illegally
Dec 28, 2011
The luxurious Kobe beef that has been offered in Vietnam in the past few years has in fact been illegally imported without passing any quarantine check, officials said.
Vu Ngoc Anh, deputy head of the General Customs Department, told Nguoi Lao Dong Newspaper that local customers had been duped into thinking in that they had consumed the real Kobe beef.
Anh said importers had declared with customs authorities that their products were just ordinary beef temporarily imported to be re-exported instead of Kobe beef to pass customs clearance.
The meat is then sold to restaurants which claim it is Kobe beef to deceive customers, Anh said.
“What has been served to customers is probably imported from …
http://www.tuoitrenews.vn/cmlink/tuoitrenews/business/kobe-beef-found-to-be-imported-illegally-1.56372
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe_beef
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Vietnam and Korea share experiences on nuclear safety and security
Báo ĐCS English – (CPV) – “Vietnam places top priority on using nuclear technology for peaceful purposes and ensuring its safety and security”, said Vice Minister of Science and Technology Le Dinh Tien at the “Towards the 2012 Seoul…
http://en.baomoi.com/Home/world/cpv.org.vn/Vietnam-and-Korea-share-experiences-on-nuclear-safety-and-security/217966.epi
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Nation gives top priority to ensuring nuclear safety
Dec, 28 2011
HA NOI — Viet Nam gave top priority to ensuring safety and security in the use of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, said Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Le Dinh Tien.
Viet Nam always pursued a comprehensive policy on nuclear energy and supported the disarmament and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and other weapons of massive destruction, he said at a forum yesterday.
The country continued supporting the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism and contributing to the international community’s common efforts in the disarmament and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons as well as in fighting all …
http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/Industries/219150/nation-gives-top-priority-to-ensuring-nuclear-safety.html
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Foie gras burger goes on sale in Japan
Dec 27, 2011
US fast-food chain Wendy’s, known for its square beef patties and baked potatoes, on Tuesday unveiled a foie gras burger as it sprang back into life in Japan
US fast-food chain Wendy’s, known for its square beef patties and baked potatoes, on Tuesday unveiled a foie gras burger as it sprang back into life in Japan.
Two years after shutting up shop because of falling profits, Wendy’s is hoping its exotic new menu will tickle the sophisticated Japanese palate.
The regular buns are still there but are joined by the foie gras burgers, which cost 1,280 yen ($16), and avocado and …
http://www.tuoitrenews.vn/cmlink/tuoitrenews/fun/foie-gras-burger-goes-on-sale-in-japan-1.56288
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How much sicker could it possibly get?
Yes, a lot, I know
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foie_gras
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foie_gras_controversy
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Wendy’s is back, plans 100 outlets in next five years
Bloomberg, Staff report
The U.S. fast-food chain Wendy’s Co. re-entered the Japanese market Tuesday after pulling out of the country in 2009, with plans to open 100 restaurants in the next five years.
The Ohio-based company opened a new outlet in the bustling Omotesando district in Tokyo, with a launching ceremony attended by top officials from the chain and business partner Higa Industries Co.
The burger chain estimates a potential of about 700 restaurants in Japan over the long term, according to …
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nb20111228n1.html
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Is duck or goose liver fight radiation ?
“Foie gras” burger
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National Propaganda Radio shilling for nukes again
http://www.npr.org/2011/12/27/144324421/as-nuclear-plants-age-no-easy-energy-solutions
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Jill Stein’s message of change, on which real hope depends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0-tDYKOrcY8
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Jill Stein for President
http://www.jillstein.org/
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Green Party of the United States Platform 2010
as adopted by the Green National Committee
“C. Nuclear Issues
• “The Green Party recognizes that there is no such thing as nuclear waste “disposal.” All six of the “low-level” nuclear waste dumps in the United States have leaked. There are no technological quick fixes that can effectively isolate nuclear waste from the biosphere for the duration of its hazardous life. Therefore, it is essential that generation of additional nuclear wastes be stopped.
• “The Green Party calls for the early retirement of nuclear power reactors as soon as possible (in no more than five years), and for a phase-out of other technologies that use or produce nuclear waste. These technologies include non-commercial nuclear reactors, reprocessing facilities, nuclear waste incinerators, food irradiators, and all commercial and military uses of depleted uranium.
• Current methods of underground storage are a danger to present and future generations. Any nuclear waste management strategies must be above ground, continuously monitored, and they must minimize transportation of wastes.
• The Green Party strongly opposes any shipment of high-level nuclear waste across the to the proposed Nevada waste repository at Yucca Mountain, or any other centralized facility. The Green Party believes that this proposal is part of a move to re-fire a fast-track, commercial nuclear industry by providing a means for “safe disposal.” We deny there is such a thing as safe disposal of nuclear waste.
“We propose making spent reactor fuel and other high level wastes safer by vitrification at the site where it is produced or now stored.
• We call for cancellation of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the nation’s first weapons complex nuclear dump in southern New Mexico.
• We call for independent, public-access radiation monitoring at all nuclear facilities
• We support applicable environmental impact statements and National Environmental Policy Act…
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“We propose making spent reactor fuel and other high level wastes safer by vitrification at the site where it is produced or now stored.
• We call for cancellation of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the nation’s first weapons complex nuclear dump in southern New Mexico.
• We call for independent, public-access radiation monitoring at all nuclear facilities
• We support applicable environmental impact statements and National Environmental Policy Act analysis with citizen participation at all nuclear sites.
• We support an immediate and intensive campaign to educate the public about nuclear problems, including disposal, clean-up, and long-term dangers.
• We oppose the export of nuclear technologies or their wastes to other nations.
• We oppose public subsidies for nuclear power, including Price-Anderson insurance caps and stranded cost recovery bailout
• We oppose the development and use of new nuclear reactors, plutonium (MOX) fuel, nuclear fuel reprocessing, nuclear fusion, uranium enrichment, and the manufacturing of new plutonium pits for a new generation of nuclear weapons.
• We oppose the deregulation of radioactive materials and wastes, which is allowing such wastes to be recycled into consumer products and to enter municipal waste landfills and incinerators. We call for the strict regulation, tracking, monitoring, and recapturing of radioactive materials and wastes.
• We call on the military to clean up depleted uranium contamination from testing ranges and battlefields, and to fully compensate exposed veterans and civilians who have been affected by depleted uranium exposure in the U.S. and elsewhere.”
http://www.gp.org/committees/platform/2010/index.php
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Thanks anne! Wow – that looks GOOD! I’ve never heard of her before…..
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Jill Stein
“Jill Stein (born 1950) is an American physician, activist, co-chair of the Green-Rainbow Party and candidate for President of the United States in 2012.[1][2] Stein was a candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in the 2002 and the 2010 gubernatorial elections.[3][4][5] Stein is a resident of Lexington, Massachusetts and a 1979 graduate of Harvard Medical School.[6] She serves on the boards of Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility and MassVoters for Fair Elections, and has been active with the Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities.[7]”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Stein
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Debris from the Japan tsunami arrives in Canada
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16345970
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What do you know about nuclear fracking? Do you approve of nuclear fracking?
What do you know about an Aug. 19, 2009 nuclear blast? Do you approve of the US use of nuclear blasts in the Mississippi basin?
Transmutation on the Ocean Bottom
June 20, 2011
“With the large releases of methane under the Gulf of Mexico by deep drilling and nuclear fracking of the basalt plain large quantities of methane ice have piled up on the bottom. Given time the bacteria will eat all the methane keeping the Gulf deep waters cool and making a lot of fish food. The use of Corexit emulsifier sinking the red coloured petroleum to the bottom will in time be transmuted by the bacteria.
“The radioactivity in the petroleum, fall-out from the August 19 2009 nuclear blast 10 kilometres under the alluvial fan of the Mississippi will also be transmuted by the bacteria. In biological systems radioactivity drops fifteen times faster than in a test tube.
“The practise of the US Navy to drop decommissioned nuclear reactors in the ocean depths may be the best solution for long term elimination of such materials. The bacteria eats the iron into “rusticles” as seen on the Titanic at 10,000 feet deep and transmutes toxic radioactive elements fifteen times faster than in underground bunkers….”
http://educate-yourself.org/zsl/transmutationoean20jun11.shtml
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Introducing The New Platomic Ocean.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJH-oYSQG0M&feature=related
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ATTENTION!
Christopher Busby is on Alex Jones right now!
http://www.gcnlive.com/playlists/live/channel2.m3u
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America’s farmlands to be carpet-bombed with Vietnam-era Agent Orange chemical if Dow petition approved
Dec 27, 2011
(NaturalNews) A key chemical of one of the most horrifying elements of the Vietnam War — Agent Orange — may soon be unleashed on America’s farmlands. Considered by world nations to be a “Weapon of Mass Destruction” (WMD), Agent Orange was dropped in the millions of gallons on civilian populations during the Vietnam War in order to destroy foliage and poison North Vietnamese soldiers. The former president of the Vietnamese Red Cross, Professor Nhan, described it as, “…a massive violation of human rights of the civilian population, and a weapon of mass destruction.”
A key chemical in that weapon — 2,4-D — is just months away from being dropped on agricultural land across the United States. Dow AgroSciences, which along with …
http://www.naturalnews.com/034500_Agent_Orange_Dow_2-4-D.html
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Exclusive: Dow seeking deregulation of GE corn resistant to 2,4-D, a major component of Agent Orange
http://www.naturalnews.com/034492_Dow_AgroScience_deregulation_2-4-D.html
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Our food supply and soil isn’t poisoned enough yet? We’re not falling quickly enough for them from Fukushima? Got to speed up the job? Who is at the helm of Monsanto, Dow, etc…??
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grammatical blooper: aren’t
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learn more about Dow here:
http://www.thetruthaboutdow.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Chemical
http://oraclesyndicate.twoday.net/stories/compensate-victims-of-us-chemical-warfare-in-vietnam/
http://thetheologianscafe.xanga.com/photos/07a3c175412224/
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0401-07.htm
“The Agent Orange Song” has been recorded by numerous artists, including Country Joe. To hear the “Agent Orange Song,” click this link http://countryjoe.com/jukebox.htm and then click on the song title, the first one on the list.
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“America’s farmlands are new hazardous waste dumps”
Seattle Times story was posted by a bright enenewser some months ago. From 1997, but obviously still relevant today
http://www.portaec.net/library/pollution/america.html
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The top 10 most censored Natural News stories of 2011
http://www.naturalnews.com/034491_censored_alternative_news_stories.html
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Tritium leak at River Bend
http://enformable.com/2011/12/tritium-leak-found-at-river-bend-nuclear-with-levels-up-to-48000-pcil/
I supposed that is what this alert also refers to:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_summary&edis_id=NC-20111228-33567-USA
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American Cancer Society Still Ignores Evidence on Avoidable Causes of Adult and Childhood Cancers
CHICAGO, IL, November 18, 2011 -/WORLD-WIRE/- The Cancer Prevention Coalition today advises that the American Cancer Society (ACS) 2011 report “Cancer Facts & Figures” ignores well-documented scientific evidence on the industrial and environmental causes of a wide range of cancers.
The ACS report lists 13 “Selected (Adult) Cancers,” and summarizes their known “risk factors,” or causes. Overwhelmingly, these are attributed to longevity, obesity, alcohol, smoking, and family history.
“However, and criminally,” observes …
http://world-wire.com/2011/11/18/american-cancer-society-still-ignores-evidence-on-avoidable-causes-of-adult-and-childhood-cancers/
President’s Cancer Panel: Environmentally caused cancers are ‘grossly underestimated’ and ‘needlessly devastate American lives.’
May 6, 2010
“The true burden of environmentally induced cancers has been grossly underestimated,” says the President’s Cancer Panel in a strongly reported report that urges action to reduce people’s widespread exposure to carcinogens. The panel today advised President Obama “to use the power of your office to remove the carcinogens and other toxins from our food, water, and air that needlessly increase health care costs, cripple our nation’s productivity, and devastate American lives.” …
http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/presidents-cancer-panel
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From article:
… about 41 percent of all Americans still will be diagnosed with cancer during their lifetime, and about 21 percent will die from it, according to the National Cancer Institute’s SEER Cancer Statistics Review. In 2009 alone, about 1.5 million new cases were diagnosed.
…The panel also criticized the U.S. military, saying that “it is a major source of toxic occupational and environmental exposures that can increase cancer risk.” Examples cited include Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, where carcinogenic solvents contaminate drinking water, and Vietnam veterans with increased lymphomas, prostate cancer and other cancers from thier exposure to the herbicide Agent Orange.
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wanted to say hi doc:)
ltns.
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Taco, hi ! WUBU2
Hope you are having some wondeful Holidays !
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REDUCING ENVIRONMENTAL CANCER RISK
What We Can Do Now
http://deainfo.nci.nih.gov/advisory/pcp/annualReports/pcp08-09rpt/PCP_Report_08-09_508.pdf
This is a large file, over 7 mg
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Radioactive pollution in Athens, Greece from Fukushima:
http://enformable.com/2011/12/radioactive-pollution-in-athens-greece-due-to-the-fukushima-nuclear-accident/
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US gubmint doesn’t have enough Potassium Iodide in stock:
http://enformable.com/2011/12/nrc-dhhs-limited-supply-of-ki-will-expire-in-months-with-no-replenishment-scheduled/
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US Nuclear Renaissance unlikely after Fukushima:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/12/a-new-study-released-today-said-that-theregulatory-fallout-from-the-fukushima-power-plantdisaster-in-japan-last-marchwill-pro.html
A new study released Wednesday said that the regulatory fallout from the Fukushima power plant disaster in Japan in March will short-circuit the U.S. nuclear renaissance of new power plant construction.
The report, “Nuclear Safety and Nuclear Economics,” was written and presented by Mark Cooper, a frequent critic of the nuclear power industry. The report can be found here. Cooper is a senior fellow for economic analysis at the Institute for Energy and the Environment at the Vermont Law School.
Cooper said that past nuclear disasters, such as the one at the Three Mile Island power plant in Pennsylvania in 1979, have tended to greatly raise regulatory barriers and have also severely multiplied the cost of reactor construction. After Three Mile Island, for example, the report said, the cost of nuclear power plant construction doubled in most cases and trebled or quadrupled in some rare instances.
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I think the cost of a plant should be lowered – we don’t need all that stupid containment structure. It obviously does not work.
We don’t need an EPA or and NRC – they don’t work.
I only demand one thing, and I will lobby to get it.
I think every nuclear power plant needs to purchase a pre-paid insurance policy that will handle the entire relocation, cleanup and restitution necessary if the plant fails – for any reason. And this can’t be some sham insurance – a real policy from a real company.
If they can get insurance – they run. If not, they close.
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Montanans Launch Recall of Senators Who Approved NDAA Military Detention. Merry Christmas, US Senate
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/december252011/ndaa-recall.php
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US NIH and CDC Financed and Approved Deadly Dutch Franken Flu Virus Experiment
http://therefusers.com/refusers-newsroom/us-nih-and-cdc-financed-and-approved-deadly-dutch-franken-flu-virus-experiment/
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America’s farmlands to be carpet-bombed with Vietnam-era Agent Orange chemical if Dow petition approved
http://www.naturalnews.com/034500_Agent_Orange_Dow_2-4-D.html
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Agent Orange Effect
http://vietnamartwork.wordpress.com/war-end-agent-orange-effect/
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Agent Orange: An Ongoing Atrocity
http://antiwar.com/orig/austin.php?articleid=3838
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Monsanto’s GM Corn Linked To Organ Failure
http://www.disinfo.com/2011/12/monsantos-gm-corn-linked-to-organ-failure/
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Experts: U.S. Nuclear Power Faces Higher Costs, Continued Major Challenges in 2012
Give Long-Term Uncontrollable Costs and Short-Term Pressure from Needed Post-Fukushima Safety Regulations, Nuclear Reactors Even Less Able to Take on Natural Gas, Other Alternatives
“Before Fukushima, the mythical ‘nuclear renaissance’ had already proven to be a bubble with the air rapidly leaking out of it. Fukushima will make it even more difficult to inflate. Fukushima is magnifying the economic problems that the ‘nuclear renaissance’ faced, which are the very problems that that have plagued nuclear power throughout its history. Nuclear power suffered from high cost and continuous cost escalation, high risk and uncertainty long before Fukushima. The nuclear reactor disaster at Fukushima will increase the cost and further undermine the economic viability of nuclear power in any country that conducts such a review. The Japanese government has recently estimated that the cost of power from nuclear reactors will be 50 percent higher than estimated seven years ago. My analysis shows this increase is consistent with the impact of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.”
“Carol Werner, executive director, Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI), said:
“While nuclear energy still enjoys considerable support from the Congress and very significant subsidies, escalating costs for new construction, and uncertainty over adequacy of safety design and compliance following the August earthquake in Virginia, have not fostered realization of the ‘so-called’ nuclear renaissance. There simply are too many other choices which provide greater certainty at lesser cost and without the enormous long-term unresolved problems and risks facing nuclear power.”…
“For decades, the nuclear industry has been plagued by:
* Failure of voluntary, self-regulation;
* Denial of the reality of risk;
* Lack of safety culture;
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* Lack of a comprehensive, consistent regulatory framework;
* The challenge of continuous change and the need to retrofit existing reactors;
* Failure to resolve important outstanding safety issues;
* Failure to require existing reactors to add safety measures because of cost; and
* Complexity, confusion and chaos in the response to a severe accident….
* “ Major policy reviews by governments have led several nations to decide to scale back or abandon their commitments to nuclear power (including important large industrial national like Japan and Germany);
* “Financial institutions have conducted extensive reassessments of the economic prospects of nuclear power and concluded that the costs will rise (e.g. USB);
* “Utilities with nuclear plants in several nations have been downgraded by rating agencies; and
*” Several major firms in advanced industrial nations have abandoned the sector or been forced to scale back their activities (e.g., Shaw Group, Siemens and Areva).
“As the Cooper paper concludes: ‘As all stakeholders re-examine all aspect of energy policy, the risks of nuclear reactors increase and the attractiveness of nuclear power compared to other options decreases.’”
http://salem-news.com/articles/december282011/nuclear-profits.php
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Nuke questions may stall power projects, experts warn
Mark Cooper, senior fellow for economic analysis at the Vermont Law School’s Institute for Energy and the Environment, predicted that safety-related fixes could boost the already-high cost of reactors by another 50 percent.
“Fukushima is magnifying the economic problems that the ‘nuclear renaissance’ faced,” Cooper said, “which are the very problems that have plagued nuclear power throughout its history.”
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/53194498-90/nuclear-energy-reactors-power.html.csp
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Gross nuclear misrepresentations
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/rc20111229a2.html
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Fukushima fallout chokes nuclear industry
http://afr.com/p/business/resources/fukushima_fallout_chokes_nuclear_ZdqCH5nuLedxlNZh0xF83M
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No-man’s land attests to Japan’s nuclear nightmare
http://news.yahoo.com/no-mans-land-attests-japans-nuclear-nightmare-161912721.html
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Indian Pt. and Fukushima: Alike or Not?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/opinion/indian-pt-and-fukushima-alike-or-not.html?_r=1
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Report: U.S. nuclear renaissance unlikely after Fukushima
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/12/a-new-study-released-today-said-that-theregulatory-fallout-from-the-fukushima-power-plantdisaster-in-japan-last-marchwill-pro.html
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Sheep and livestock virus on 4 Dutch farms
28 Dec 2011
A virus which causes newborn lambs to be deformed has been discovered on four Dutch farms. The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (nVWA) has checked eight farms for the Schmallenberg virus so far, following reports from farmers nationwide of sick animals.
The farms, where the virus has been identified in adult cattle and deformed lambs, are situated in various locations from Zwolle in the north-east of the country to Maastricht in the south-east.
Investigations will be carried out on 77 farms and the results will be published on the nVWA website each day. Farmers are under an obligation to report any instances of sick animals since 20 December.
The Schmallenberg virus, named after the …
http://www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/sheep-and-livestock-virus-4-dutch-farms
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Most of the reports come from the provinces of Gelderland and Overijssel. The Schmallenberg virus is carried by gnats.
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2011/12/sheep_virus_found_on_four_farm.php
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12/27/2011 — SPECTACULAR display of lightning and multiple eruptions @ Sakurajima Volcano
“December 28, 2011 — @ Sakurajima Volcano in Japan, several impressive eruptions occurred which produced large bolts of static discharge lightning, heavy clouds of ash, and large amounts of lava.
“The flashes are so bright.. the cameras adjust for daytime/freeze momentarily .”
http://www.youtube.com/user/dutchsinse#p/u/1/EHSdkHR-Ra4
12/26/2011 — Sakurajima Volcano — Static discharge lightning — EASTERN flank covered with lava
“Haven’t seen very many Sakurajima volcano eruptions that cover the EAST slope of the mountain. This one does just that. Also visible from the southwest/west camera view (the backside of the volcano by the road).
“Many thanks to the Japanese scientists who monitor this area.”
http://www.youtube.com/user/dutchsinse#p/u/4/ptg15-nvV8w
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thats some display anne!
thanks for posting
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For sure !
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Beautiful.
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Gary Null Protests against Nuclear Power / Shut Down Indian Point Rally
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPw2Tv1mwKY&list=UUEOoexFu9tj7n8CR7E376og&index=4&feature=plcp
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Dr Helen Caldicott Protests Nuclear Reactors @ No Nukes Rally Unified Arnie Gundersen & Chris Busby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nCN-c4yd2LM
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Wild boar’s diet is mushrooms in the mountain.
Their biological concentration is going on.
According to the emergency monitoring measurement ,a wild boar from Fukushima marked 13,300 Bq/kg. …
http://fukushima-diary.com/2011/12/biological-concentration-in-fukushima/
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Radioactive Boars Part of Chernobyl’s Legacy
To Japan Earthquake on Thursday, March 24, 2011
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/505/588/Radioactive_Boars_Part_of_Chernobyls_Legacy.html
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650,000 Bq/kg of Cesium from the soil of Kashiwa Chiba.
The Ministry of the Environment published the report to tell they measured 650,000 Bq/kg of Cesium from the soil of Kashiwa Chiba.
They announced it was 450,000 Bq/Kg at first. It is not explained why they made a miscalculation of 200,000 Bq/Kg.
If it was in water purifying plant, sludge which is more contaminated than 100,000 Bq/Kg requires special severe management.
The report says, …
http://fukushima-diary.com/2011/12/650000-bqkg-from-chiba/
population of 404,820
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashiwa,_Chiba
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BREAKING NEWS: FUKUSHIMA UNCONTAINABLE – 5.8 trillion becquerels of strontium leaked from Fukushima over weekend
Dec. 5, 2011
http://thetruthabout1111.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/breaking-news-5-8-trillion-becquerels-of-strontium-leaked-from-fukushima-over-weekend/
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HAARP, The Facts, The Evil
http://faithandsurvival.com/?p=1709
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Fukushima plant’s backup generator failed in 1991
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant failed to take preventive measures after a backup generator was inundated by a leaking pipe 20 years ago.
Former employees of the Tokyo Electric Power Company told NHK that the problem occurred in October 1991.
They said water leaked from a pipe and entered the basement of the Number 1 reactor’s turbine building. This caused the failure of one of the two backup generators.
A former engineer at the …
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/society.html
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Govt requests sites for waste soil storage
The government has officially requested permission to temporarily store radioactive waste soil in 8 municipalities around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Environment Minister Goshi Hosono on Wednesday met governor Yuhei Sato of Fukushima Prefecture and the mayors of 8 districts of Futaba County.
Hosono said Futaba County was chosen because areas exposed to over 100 millisieverts of radiation per year are concentrated there. He said this makes …
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20111228_24.html
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Residents reluctant to accept govt plan
Local residents are reluctant to accept the government’s plan to build a temporary facility for storing radioactive soil in Futaba County.
Kazumi Takano, who was evacuated from Futaba to Saitama Prefecture, says he does not know how long it will take for contaminated soil to become safe. His home is located 4.5 kilometers from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Takano says he objects to the facility being built in the area because there is not enough space to store contaminated soil from other regions in addition to soil from the town.
Haruo Takaoka, whose home is located 7 kilometers from the nuclear plant, says he hopes the storage facility will not be built in his town. But he also says that …
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20111228_31.html
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“Agency Smackdown, Round 2: A Critique of ‘the Nuclear Party’ ”
“The appointment of Dr. Jaczko did not have the support of the main nuclear industry trade association, the Nuclear Energy Institute, and that group has made an oblique plea for his departure.”
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/in-agency-smackdown-a-critique-of-the-nuclear-party/
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Hi Mack, thanks for the update. I’m very interested in the subject, but can’t find many news here in europe. It would be great if you’d continue to share the info available at your place!
*peace
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G E T “E N V O L V E D” at Enformable.com
http://enformable.com/envolved/
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Japan starts operating new centrifuges for enriching uranium
AOMORI (Kyodo) — Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. started on Wednesday the operation of new, more efficient centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture.
After a warm-up operation, the centrifuges — each capable of processing enrichment four to five times more efficiently than a previous one — will start producing uranium products around March, the company said.
In one year of operation, the new centrifuges can enrich one-third of uranium required for a 1-gigawatt reactor …
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20111229p2g00m0dm010000c.html
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Japan has year without executions
JAPAN has not executed anyone so far in 2011, the government says, setting it up to be the first year in nearly two decades the country has not carried out a single death sentence. However, the number of inmates on death row stands at a post-war high of 129 as …
http://newsonjapan.com/html/newsdesk/article/93906.php
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Well, I could make a pretty good argument that Japan has indeed executed more folks than ever in history – they just aren’t dead yet…
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James2,
Walking dead, and most inocent:
children in Saitama.
10 years old, female, Cs-134 = 0.51 Bq/Kg, Cs-137 = 0.53 Bq/Kg
9 years old, male, Cs-134 = 0.36 Bq/Kg, Cs-137 = 0.48 Bq/Kg, 4/2 ~ 4/5 + 7/28 ~ 8/21 + 8/24 + 9/1 ~→ evacuated to other city, drinking bottled water for most of the time.
3 years old, female, Cs-134 = 0.20 Bq/Kg, Cs-137 = 0.24 Bq/Kg, using water purifying system for cooking and drinking.
3 years old, female, Cs-134 = 0.18 Bq/Kg, Cs-137 = 0.26 Bq/Kg
3 years old, female, Cs-134 = 0.15 Bq/Kg, Cs-137 = 0.19 Bq/Kg, evacuated from 8/16 to 8/21, avoided school lunch on Tuesday and Friday, after June, ordered uncontaminated vegetables, beef, milk, and meat, bought water from Mie for drinking.
Note: (1) is one of the worst data out of Fukushima.
Whether they take care about food etc or not whether they evacuate to other city or not, they can be internally exposed.
4 of 5 are female.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2011/12/cesium-measured-from-5-of-18-children-in-saitama/
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They are breathing it !
Ever take rice and put in in salt shakers to keep the salt from clambering ? I do, in all my shakers !
Rice absorbs moister in the air !
Rice contaminated but may become more contaminated after testing, … publish and concealed the actual contamination data. Actual contamination data is so far from the published results that this table confuses you.
Rice which is actually contaminated even worse than the Japanese safety limit, is distributed. …
http://fukushima-diary.com/2011/12/safety-declaration-of-fukushima-rice-was-proved-to-be-a-lie/
Rice absorbs moister in the air after testing if not sealed !
Do we remember the mushrooms that were in grow house’s and still became contaminated ?
Or the infants milk that was declared contaminated by air !
Just as the oil and corexit in the GOM making people sick via lungs, the radiation in Japan is in the air, fog, mist and being absorbed by every living thing !
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As I said to you all last spring, as the fog rolls over Japan from the reactors the radiation is in the fog and will settle on all things as the morning comes and burns off the remaining fog, it will fall on all things !
See, I saw this with the oil corexit in the Gulf last year and it is a fact of science even before pollution !
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People of Japan, Please read this about rice and air !
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Japan, India agree to boost cooperation in security, economy
NEW DELHI (Kyodo) — Japan and India agreed to bolster cooperation in the security and economic fields to further strengthen their partnership, ahead of the 60th anniversary next year of the establishment of diplomatic ties, according to a joint statement the two nations signed Wednesday.
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in the statement that Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force and the Indian navy will conduct joint exercises …
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20111229p2g00m0dm009000c.html
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Japan PM says to invest $4.5 bln in India industrial corridor
Japan will invest $4.5 billion in the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor over the next five years, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said on Wednesday after meeting his Indian counterpart in New Delhi. The Delhi-Mumbai …
http://newsonjapan.com/html/newsdesk/article/93908.php
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Popular compact boosts Toyota in India market
BANGALORE, India — Toyota Motor Corp. has leaped to fifth place in the India new car market due to strong sales of its strategic compact car Etios, which it began selling in January.
“The car has received a good response from customers since its unveiling in December 2010,” said Hiroshi Nakagawa, president of Toyota Kirloskar Motor Private Ltd., which produces the model in Bangalore.
“Sales are driving production,” Nakagawa said. “We plan to triple annual production …
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nb20111229a5.html
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Japan scraps plan to give away 10,000 free flights to visitors
Dec. 29, 2011
The Japan Tourism Agency (JTA) has given up its plan to give away 10,000 free flights to foreigners to visit the country after the government…
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/japan-scraps-plan-to-give-away-10000-free-flights-to-visitors
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‘Goal-in’ – Yuko Ogura announces she is pregnant
Entertainment Dec. 29, 2011
TOKYO — “Talent” Yuko Ogura announced this week that she is pregnant. Ogura, 28, married hair stylist Isao Kikuchi, 40, in October.
Tabloid media splashed the news about on Wednesday, using the expression “goal-in” to describe her pregnancy.
Ogura says she is enjoying married life because her husband treats her like a …
http://www.japantoday.com/category/entertainment/view/yuko-ogura-announces-she-is-pregnant
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Tepco is told to weigh temporary state control
Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Yukio Edano told Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Toshio Nishizawa on Tuesday to consider putting the utility under temporary government control as one option to bolster its financial standing.
With the operator of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant and a government-backed fund working to craft a comprehensive special business plan for the company in March, Edano said, “I want the fund and Tepco to consider the plan without ruling out any possibility, including temporary government control.”
Edano also warned that Tepco should not think …
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20111228a6.html
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Evacuation zones to undergo major changes in spring
The government has decided on its basic policy of reclassifying evacuation zones around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant into three categories this spring now that a stable state of cold shutdown has been achieved.
The government also lifted the state of emergency declaration at the nearby Fukushima No. 2 power plant, which likewise was damaged by the earthquake and tsunami more than nine months ago.
Under the basic policy for reclassifying the evacuation zones that were set last April, the area will be divided into the three categories — including one covering areas with estimated annual radiation exposure of 50 millisieverts or higher, to which entry will …
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20111228a7.html
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