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L'Autre Monde 13 février 2012: Le point sur Fukushima, le Moyen-Orient, l'économie et la fraude électorale aux USA
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L'Autre Monde 13 février 2012: Le point sur Fukushima, le Moyen-Orient, l'économie et la fraude électorale aux USA
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L'Autre Monde 13 février 2012
120 min / Radio de l'UQAM, CHOQ FM
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Au programme cette semaine:
- Actualité mondiale;
- L'État policier de sytle dictature technocratique et scientifique prend définitivement racine aux États-Unis et ailleurs dans le monde: Les USA sont maintenant déclarés un "champ de bataille" et tous les américains peuvent maintenant être enlevés et détenus par l'État et l'armée, sans recours judiciaire et procès formel;
- Militarisation et israélification de la police;
- Torture, Libye, Chine;
- Fukushima, le désastre se poursuit et les conséquences sur la population commencent à se faire sentir au Japon et partout sur le globe.
C'est en rendez-vous le lundi dès 15h pour l'émission la plus écoutée de CHOQ FM, la radio officielle de l'Université du Québec à Montréal !
***Hyperliens vers les sources des informations discutées sur l'émission d'aujourd'hui:
Élections USA – Ron Paul
Washington State Supreme Court - Okay for candidates to lie.
Government has no business trying to stop political candidates from deliberately lying about each other in campaign ads, a divided state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
Maine Caucus Strange Results Point To Fraud
Early reports from watchthevote2012.com showed that Ron Paul had won by quite some margin and even broke it down into counties.
However the official result was a win for Mitt Romney by only a few hundred votes despite the fact that we don’t have 100% of precincts reporting their results.
Excess Ballots Were Counted In Clark County, Nevada
More votes cast than voters.
If the government cannot prove the accuracy, honesty, and fairness of the elections by which they claim authority over the people, then the people are neither morally nor legally obligated to obey that government, pay its bills, or send their children to die in that government's wars.
Nevada vote fraud official
So far, the overall magnitude of the circumstances has gone largely unnoticed by the people of the US in general, but that didn’t deter NV GOP Chairwoman, Amy Tarkanian from filing her resignation the very next morning on Sunday, as obvious and rampant, widespread election fraud is sweeping through the country in an establishment elite attempt to hide the real results, in favor of a pre-chosen candidate, despite the wishes of the American people.
Dead People vote
Ron Paul South Carolina: 900+ Dead Voters = Lynch the Vote Riggers
South Carolina attorney general informs Justice Department of dead voters
In a letter dated Thursday, Wilson says the analysis found 953 ballots cast by voters listed as dead. In 71 percent of those cases, ballots were cast between two months and 76 months after the people died. That means they "voted" up to 6 1/3 years after their death.
The letter doesn't say in which elections the ballots were cast.
It doesn't matter which election it was detected in. If election fraud can happen in any election, it is happening in all of them. Even the dead voters can see that Iowa, New Hampshire, and now South Carolina are discredited with dead people voting, lost precinct ballots, and unverifiable electronic vote stealers machines. It no longer matters which politician wins this election; nobody will accept them as a legitimate government. They cannot prove they actually won the election honestly and fairly, so no American is legally or morally obligated to obey that politician's orders, pay the bills for their reckless spending, or sacrifice our children's lives in wars of their making.
Nobody can actually prove who won Iowa. We are just supposed to take the word of the government and the media at face value, even though this is the same media and government that lied to us about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, and who have insisted for going on ten years now that the economy is in a recovery.
So, how does it feel to be an occupied nation with puppet rulers and fake elections? Remember when the US and Israel "allowed" Gaza to have elections, trumpeting the triumph of Democracy? Of course, the trumpets went silent when the Gazan people elected leaders that the US and Israel did not approve of, and now the US and Israel pretend the elections never happened. Maybe now you understand that the reason the people in all those occupied nations with imposed puppet rulers are angry with the US, and it is not because of our freedoms. After all, we are no more free than those occupied people are. Free people select their own candidates. Picking from a pre-selected line up of puppets is not democratic; it is an illusion created to trick you into obedience to those who pull the strings.
You are an occupied nation ruled by puppets who serve a foreign nation, loot your wealth to feed that nation, enslave your children to fight that nation's wars of conquest, starve you, make you homeless, and call you envious when you complain. Amazing how much 21st Century America resembles Iran under the Shah, isn't it? Or Cuba under Batista. Or the Philippines under Marcos. Or Chile under Pinochet. Rampant corruption. Government sanctioned torture. Death squads. Rigged elections. Only the flag is different.
South Carolina Vote Results Will Be Invalid
I'm not expecting Ron Paul to have great results in South Carolina -- not because he has lack of potential there, but because the true voting result will be impossible to be confident of.
All of South Carolina's votes will be taken and tallied by electronic software with NO paper records.
This to me is shocking. The reason is because I'm a computer scientist and programming engineer. I can tell you that for something as important as the validity of an election there MUST be a paper trail which can be scrutinized if need be.
Republican Establishment Excludes Ron Paul From 2012 CPAC Event
Despite winning the event’s annual straw poll for the last two years running, Ron Paul has seemingly been excluded from this year’s CPAC conference, with Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich announced as keynote speakers but Paul appearing nowhere on the roster.
GOP! Redefining the phrase 'chicken shit!'
Ron Pauls Headquarters Attacked Last Night!
Hacking Democracy - Full Length
Ron Paul Seeking First GOP Win In Minnesota
Ron Paul has invested days of campaigning and money for television ads ahead of caucuses in Minnesota, where he’s hoping he can eke out the first win of his Republican presidential campaign.
The Texas congressman spent the most time in Minnesota of any competitors ahead of Tuesday’s voting and planned to see it through with a caucus-night party outside Minneapolis.
It reflects Paul’s strategy of concentrating on caucus states where he can amass national convention delegates even if he doesn’t win.
"These are all just simple mistakes. The missing precincts in Iowa. Excess votes in Clark County. Simple mistakes. That's all. Honest! This is not election fraud. Really. And now for the weather!" -- ABCNNBBCBSFOX
58% Landslide! Ron Paul Wins Adelson Late-Hour Caucus
Ever notice that when the votes are counted publicly Ron Paul wins, and everywhere the votes are counted in private Romney wins!
Romney supporter admits being paid on video.
Rand Paul Says Body Scanner Make FALSE Random Alerts As Part Of The Random Pat-Down Process
"Police State In This Country Is Growing Out Of Control!" Ron Paul Vow To Eliminate The TSA!
Video Report: Rand Paul Detained By TSA As Corporate Media Launches Cover Up
What the Constitution Says – Were Senator Paul’s Rights Violated When He Was Detained by TSA?
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) was refused entry into a secured area of the Nashville Airport today after he reportedly rejected a TSA pat-down.
According to the Senator, he was “detained” by TSA and forced to miss his flight.
Mr. Paul cited the U.S. Constitution, specifically Article 1, Section 6 that clearly protects Senators and Representatives from arrest if they are on their way to, or returning from, a session of their respective House.
Rand Paul: TSA Agents Barked At Me, Sure Felt Like I Was Being Detained
Today Rand Paul, speaking to the Daily Caller, described his detention by TSA agents yesterday in what many believe amounted to a clear cut violation of the Constitution.
Paul described his detention as a big ordeal that highlights the growing problems with the Transportation Security Agency and their police state actions.
For their part, the White House came out in defense of the TSA thugs who detained a sitting Senator as a possible terrorist, with Whit House spokesman James Carney attempting to change the narrative and reality of the story by claiming Rand wasn’t actually detained.
White House sides with TSA in Rand Paul standoff
The White House is standing by the Transportation Security Administration in its standoff with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and his father, Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas)
The elder Paul called the TSA a "police state" Monday after Sen. Paul was reportedly detained by TSA after he refused to take a pat-down from TSA officials at the Nashville International Airport.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Monday that he didn't have any reaction to Paul's comment about "police state."
But Carney sided with the TSA saying, "I think it is absolutely essential that we take necessary actions to ensure that air travel is safe."
Security Cam Video Of Sen Rand Paul Being Detained By TSA
Congressman Who Created The TSA Wants It Abolished - Rep. John Mica Has TSA REGRET Syndrome
Mais il veut les remplacer par des compagnies privées de sécurité...
CIA Chief Endorses Ron Paul
Fox News says Ron Paul is the biggest threat to Barack Obama. Not Mitt Romney
BREAKING: Ron Paul Rises Above Gingrich and Romney at Florida
‘My adversaries are BANKERS,’ leading French candidate says
He wants to split up France's largest banks.
LONDON (MarketWatch) — François Hollande, the candidate for the Socialist Party in France who is leading the opinion polls ahead of the presidential election this spring, proposed on Jan. 22 sweeping reforms of the European and French financial systems to combat speculation and restore growth.
U.S. flouts law at Guantanamo, despite Obama vow: U.N.
The United States is still flouting international law at Guantanamo Bay, despite President Barack Obama’s election pledge to shut the facility, the United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay said on Monday.
“It is ten years since the U.S. Government opened the prison at Guantanamo, and now three years since 22 January 2009, when the President ordered its closure within twelve months. Yet the facility continues to exist and individuals remain arbitrarily detained – indefinitely – in clear breach of international law,” Pillay said in a statement.
Activists Mark A Decade of Guantanamo With Enhanced Pressure on White House and Supreme Court
Sagiv Galai
Activist Post
It has been a decade now since Guantanamo Bay opened as an American military detention facility.
Today it stands, more visible and blunt than CIA black-sites and the Bagram prison, as a stabbing insult on Human Rights around the world.
The War on Terror has carried a load of disregard to civil liberties praised by this nation; illegal detention sites are just a single salient facet of the post-9/11 era...
Mitt Romney's Bain Capital 'earned' $342 million by bankrupting a company and firing 850 Floridians
Romney Collects More in Donations From the Five Biggest Banks Than All Other Candidates Combined
Mitt Romney to Receive Secret Service Protection
Just another way to send a signal that Romney is the anointed candidate. I am not going to bother voting this year.
The Man Behind Gingrich’s Money
The question of what motivates Mr. Adelson’s singular generosity toward the former House speaker has emerged front and center in the campaign. People who know him say his affinity for Mr. Gingrich stems from a devotion to Israel as well as loyalty to a friend. A fervent Zionist who opposes any territorial compromise to make way for a Palestinian state, Mr. Adelson has long been enamored of Mr. Gingrich’s full-throated defense of Israel.
No government can serve two masters. A government that serves Israel cannot, does not, and will not serve the people of the United States. A friend of Israel is no friend of America. Time to get Israeli subversives out of the US political process. America needs leaders who will put America first, second, and third.
For Newt, ‘World War III’ Is Just the Beginning
Newt Gingrich doesn’t just want to lay waste to his political enemies and a large part of the news media. The former House speaker and presidential hopeful wants to bomb a significant part of the planet, too.
Gingrich is on the record favoring American military intervention from North Korea to Lebanon. He recently threatened cyberwar with China and Russia. And on Monday, he called for an all-out assault to topple the Castro regime in Cuba. With such a wide range of targets, no wonder Gingrich has consistently said that the U.S. is in the middle of “World War III.” His plans for overthrowing the Iranian government? Just the beginning. In fact, if President Gingrich encounters any little green men while building his moon base (!), they had better pray to their astral maker for mercy.
Report: Gingrich-backer Adelson under criminal investigation for alleged bribery of foreign officials
American billionaire, close ally of Netanyahu, and main donor to Gingrich's campaign has been under federal investigation for his casino empire's alleged involvement in a corruption scandal in China, ABC reports.
Santorum: Iran Would Nuke America
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum implied that Iran would drop a nuclear bomb in the United States if it had the capability.
At a campaign stop in Missouri, Santorum told a crowd that a nuclear Iran would pose a direct threat, even to Missouri. “Once they have a nuclear weapon, let me assure you, you will not be safe, even here in Missouri,” he said.
Santorum: US wrong to condemn Iranian scientist killing
"Our country condemned it. My feeling is we should have kept our mouth shut," Santorum told about 200 people packed into a popular breakfast diner in Greenville.
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And while Santorum stresses values issues, he has also argued for a tough stand on Iran's nuclear capability. Responding to a question in Greenville, he said he supports missile strikes to stop its nuclear program, if Iran refuses to submit to inspections.
"If these are people who are developing a weapon to be used to either destroy the state of Israel or to spread terror -- a reign of terror -- around the world, we shouldn't be sitting on the sidelines and letting it happen," he said. "They cannot have a nuclear weapon, because you, in Greenville, will not be safe."
Rick Santorum’s claim that ‘no Palestinian’ lives in the West Bank
“All the people that live in the West Bank are Israelis. They are not Palestinians. There is no Palestinian. This is Israeli land.”
Rick Santorum: Dead Foreign Scientists Are A 'Wonderful Thing' (Video)
"On occasion scientists working on the nuclear program in Iran turn up dead. I think that's a wonderful thing, candidly," said Rick Santorum at a recent campaign stop in Greenville, South Carolina.
But it isn't just dead Iranian scientists that gladden Santorum's heart.
He continued: "I think we should send a very clear message that if you are a scientist from Russia, North Korea, or from Iran and you are going to work on a nuclear program to develop a bomb for Iran, you are not safe."
Santorum warns of "Eurabia," issues call to "evangelize and eradicate" Muslims
The Islamophobic rant Santorum delivered at an event organized by a known bigot was no less extreme than anything contained in Ron Paul's newsletters. But don't wait for the American mainstream press to discuss Santorum's disturbing views on Muslims as anything other than proof of his "authenticity."
Santorum compares himself to Jesus!
Speaking to a tea party group at Windham High School in New Hampshire on Thursday, the former Pennsylvania senator actually compared himself to the Christian savior.
Billionaire to back Santorum PAC
A billionaire Wyoming investor has pledged to give up to a half-million dollars in matching money to an outside spending group that supports Rick Santorum for the GOP presidential nomination.
Santorum: Either Iran will dismantle their nuclear program or we will
" When it comes to fighting Arabs and Muslims, I'm war ready.."
Okay Rick, if you feel that way about it, here's your rifle, and here's your parachute. We ran out of the desert camo for you but here is a left-over bright orange jumpsuit from Abu Ghraib for you to wear. We'll call Tehran and tell them you are on your way to kick their ass all by yourself. But you understand, given that IAEA has not found any evidence of a weapons program in Iran, and after that whopper you all told us about Iraq having nuclear weapons to get us to go along with attacking them, you will forgive us if we refuse to allow any more of our children to be blown to bloody bits in another war for Israel's benefit. No government can serve two masters, and right now, in the midst of the greatest economic crisis in our history, brought down on us by the biggest financial crime in history, America needs leaders who will put America first, and you just failed the test.
The Money Man Behind Rick Santorum: Who Is Foster S. Friess?
In this post-Citizens United era, every presidential candidate needs the backing of a super PAC, one of those independent political action committees that can accept unlimited contributions from corporations, unions, other groups and individuals. That even applies to President Barack Obama, who on Tuesday reversed himself and asked his financial backers to donate money to super PACs supporting his reelection campaign. Previously, the president had called unlimited spending by super PACs "a threat to our democracy." Now, says the president, to campaign without one would be to unilaterally disarm.
US elections: no matter who you vote for, money always wins
January 29, 2012, The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/jan/29/us-politics-vote-money-wins
The truly decisive element [in Republican presidential debates] has been ... money. Lots of it. This is not new. But since a 2010 supreme court ruling allowing unlimited campaign contributions by corporations and unions, it has become particularly acute. Moreover, the contributors can remain anonymous. The organisations that are taking advantage of this new law are known as Super Pacs. In 2008 election spending doubled compared with 2004. This year industry analysts believe the money spent just on television ads is set to leap by almost 80% compared with four years ago. Money in American politics was already an elephant in the room. Now the supreme court has given it a laxative, taken away the shovel, and asked us to ignore both the sight and the stench. This is not a partisan point. Almost two-thirds of Americans believe the government should limit individual contributions – with a majority among Republicans, Democrats and independents. The trend towards oligarchy in the polity is already clear. There are 250 millionaires in Congress. As a whole, the polity's median net worth is $891,506, nine times the typical US household. The influence of money at this level corrupts an entire political culture and in no small part explains the depth of cynicism, alienation and mistrust Americans now have for their politicians.
47% of Congress Members Millionaires — a Status Shared by Only 1% of Americans
November 16, 2011, ABC News Blog
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/11/47-of-congress-members-millionaires...
It’s no secret that many members of the U.S. House and Senate are millionaires — 47 percent of them — their salaries paid in part by the American taxpayers. The Center for Responsive Politics has crunched the numbers and released the results on its Open Secrets blog: “About 47 percent of Congress, or 249 current members are millionaires. In 2010, the estimated median net worth of a current U.S. senator stood at an average of $2.56 million. Despite the global economic meltdown in 2008 and the sluggish recovery that followed, that’s up about 7.6 percent from an estimated median net worth of $2.38 million in 2009 … and up 13 percent from a median net worth of $2.27 million in 2008. Fully 36 Senate Democrats, and 30 Senate Republicans reported an average net worth in excess of $1 million in 2010. The same was true for 110 House Republicans and 73 House Democrats.” “The vast majority of members of Congress are quite comfortable, financially, while many of their own constituents suffer from economic hardships,” said Sheila Krumholz at the Center For Responsive Politics. “Few Americans enjoy the same financial cushions maintained by most members of Congress — or the same access to market-altering information that could yield personal, financial gains.”
Refroidissement climatique:
Forget global warming - it's Cycle 25 we need to worry about (and if NASA scientists are right the Thames will be freezing over again)
The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years.
The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on the Thames in the 17th Century.
Global warming trend ended in 1997, new data shows
The supposed "consensus" on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years.
Global glacier melt stopped in 2003
New measurements show that the ice melt less than expected - in the Alps and the Himalayas, they are not shrunk since 2003.
IPCC was still pushing the shrinking glaciers story only last year, not having learned any lesson from their 2009 "Himalayagate" scandal in which the IPCC used a sample of just .0185% of the Himalayas to claim that all the glaciers would be gone by 2035, a claim they were later forced to retract.
Another "fuck you" from Mother Nature to Al Gore.
New sat data shows Himalayan glaciers hardly melting at all.
New scientific analysis of satellite gravity measurements has shown that ice is melting from glaciers around the world much less quickly than had been thought. The new research is important as worldwide glacier melt is thought to be one of the main factors which could drive rising sea levels in future.
The new research is published in hefty boffinry mag Nature.
Global Warming Summary – Scientific Evidence Rejects Anthropogenic CO2 Theory
This document provides a brief summary of the CO2 global warming issue – and shows why the theory is wrong.
ClimateGate Scientists Buried Study that Failed to Show Desired Result
In a previously overlooked email exchange buried among the thousands of ClimateGate files, leading climate scientists were tasked to produce a diagram that showed an “obvious” picture of “unprecedented warming,” but the result did not show this:”
Storm over climate change among weather forecasters
Only 19 percent of U.S. meteorologists saw human influences as the sole driver of climate change in a 2011 survey. And some, like the Weather Channel's founder John Coleman are vocal in their opposition.
"It is the greatest scam in history," wrote Coleman, one of the first meteorologists to publicly express doubts about climate change, on his blog in 2007. "I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; it is a SCAM."
NASA Satellite Shows That Global Temperatures Continue Their Plunge Into Record Cold
Strange that NASA’s Hansen isn’t talking about this remarkable event. It would be easy to get the impression that he has an agenda which has nothing to do with science.
http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/
What an amazing scandal that the hockey team isn’t talking about this.
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NASA Satellite Temperatures Approaching A Record Low
Temperatures Plunge As CO2 Soars
Record CO2 Growth Leads To Record Cold Global Temperatures
RSS Satellite Data Shows No Arctic Warming For Seven Years
Of orbits and ice ages
As described in a paper recently published in the journal Nature, Harvard Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Peter Huybers confirmed that slow changes in both the tilt and orientation of Earth’s spin axis combined to help determine when the major deglaciations of the past million years occurred.
"Okay then, how about a tilt tax? WE tax the over-populated countries because all those extra people are tilting the Earth!" -- Saint Al of the Gore
Adventures in Arctic Kayaking – Update: we’re stuck
UPDATE: kayakers already “stuck” in ice at 80.52397 degrees N
160 die due to extreme freezing temperatures
Extreme winter weather costs 160 lives in Europe
Bulgaria Reports New Record Low as Cold Spell Peaks
Temperatures in the town of Sevlievo, northern Bulgaria, plunged Wednesday morning to minus 31.4 C, a record low, which made the region one of the hardest hit by the severe cold spell in Eastern Europe.
Record cold in Kuusamo area
Yet another cold record for this winter was set in Kiutaköngäs near Kuusamo, where the temperature plunged to -38.7 degrees Celsius on Wednesday morning.
The record temperature was registered around 8am. One hour later, the cold had eased to a mere -35 degrees.
Other parts of northern Finland are also experiencing record cold. In Naruska, Salla, the mercury dropped to -36.8 degrees Celsius in the early hours of Wednesday. It was not much warmer in Taivalkoski, chilled to a cool -36.6 degrees.
Cold weather kills more than 80 in Europe; snow falls over Italy
Europe froze as the continent experienced some of its coldest temperatures in decades on Wednesday, the death toll from the weather topped 80 and countries battled to clear snow from roads and railways.
At least 80 killed as Europe cold snap sees temperatures plunge
In Ukraine on Wednesday the emergency ministry said that death toll had now reached 43 after 13 people died overnight. Most of the victims so far have been homeless people who froze to death on the streets, but at least seven have died in their homes. Another 720 people suffering from hypothermia or frostbite have required hospital treatment.
Poland's interior ministry said Wednesday morning that a further five people had been found dead in the previous 24 hours, bringing the death toll attributed to the freezing winter weather to 27.
Siberian cold front sweeps across Europe, bringing record low temperatures (28Pics)
Plummeting winter temperatures have claimed dozens of lives across Central and Eastern Europe as the region battles a big freeze that is expected to worsen over the next few days. At least 50 people have died, mainly in Ukraine and Poland, as an icy continental weather front from Siberia has dragged temperatures to as low as -27 degrees Celsius, and forecasters in Poland have said that thermometers could hit -30 later in the week. The cold weather has even travelled as far south as Bulgaria where temperatures in the capital Sofia fell to -20, the lowest in 50 years.
Low temperature record broken
Temperatures reached a record low on Haida Gwaii during last month's cold snap. The evening of Jan. 18, temperatures dropped to -16 degrees, beating the previous low set Nov. 26, 1985, when temperatures sank to -15.5.
Europe freeze: Heavy snow across continent
Heavy snow has caused disruption across Europe, carpeting much of Italy to the south and Turkey to the east.
The freeze that has swept south through the continent has caused at least 80 deaths, mainly in Ukraine and Poland.
Temperatures were so low that some areas in Romania along the shores of the Black Sea froze.
In central Italy, heavy goods lorries were barred from motorways and several top-flight football matches have fallen victim to the wintry conditions.
It's getting Colder and Colder!
In Switzerland, are always measured lower temperatures. Some places experienced the coldest February night for over 30 years.
Britain on snow alert as Europe freezes over
The Met Office’s severe weather warning, which is at its second highest level, urges people to be prepared as forecasters warned of up to six inches of snow across Cumbria, Lincolnshire, East Anglia, North Yorkshire, the Peak District and the Midlands.
Sub-zero temperatures are expected in much of the country, with the mercury likely to hit 15.8 Fahrenheit (-9C) across the Midlands.
The coldest temperature recorded in Britain on Friday night was 9.48F (-12.4C) in South Newington, Oxfordshire.
Snow falls in Rome for the first time in 26 YEARS
Best to stay in the warm! Weekend travel chaos looms with big freeze sweeping across the country… as last night’s temperature fell to -11C
Death toll from big freeze in Europe reaches 122 in a week
THE death toll from the big freeze that has hit much of continental Europe this week rose to 122 yesterday.
In Serbia, at least 11,000 villagers remained trapped by heavy snow and blizzards in the country’s mountains last night, officials said.
In some regions temperatures have plunged to a record low of -30C (-22F), with snowfall causing power cuts, traffic chaos and the closure of schools, nurseries and airports.
Snow falls in Rome for the first time in 26 YEARS as -36c temperatures across eastern Europe send death toll to 150
Serbia: 11000 trapped in remote villages by snow?
At least 11,000 villagers have been trapped by heavy snow and blizzards in Serbia's mountains, authorities said, as the death toll from Eastern Europe's weeklong deep freeze rose to 122, many of them homeless people.
Major snowstorm targets Denver area
Blizzard conditions whipped through Colorado on Friday, closing some 70 miles of interstate highway as heavy snow blanketed the region, according to the state's Department of Transportation.
Officials reported a total of 203 flight cancellations at Denver International Airport.
VENICE FREEZES!
I was in Venice late January 1986, just after the Challenger explosion. The canals were most assuredly NOT frozen and in fact my first wife and I did the usual gondola ride in and around the Plaza San Marcos.
See any ice? Still think the world is heating up, Al?
Ice age Europe: How the big freeze, with temperatures as low as MINUS 40, has turned Britain and the continent BLUE
Blue alert as mercury hits minus 50 C
A resident watches ice cascade outside a building in Yakeshi city of Hulunbuir, North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, Feb 5, 2012. Temperatures in Hulunbuir plummeted to minus 50.7 Celsius after a cold front hit the city last Friday.
Dozens freeze to death as temperatures plunge to MINUS 26C in parts of Eastern Europe
Heavy snow and a severe cold snap have killed at least 36 people across eastern Europe.
Poland, Serbia, Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic have all been hit by temperatures as low as -26C - causing schools to close, roads to be blocked and power cut.
Rome snow closes the Colosseum
After no big snowfall for 26 years, Rome is being hit by its second snowstorm in a week.
Snow blanketed Rome's suburbs over the weekend, and has settled in the capital's centre.
Tornadoes possible in southern U.S. as snow threatens
Parts of central and southern California were under a winter weather warning as a storm system was expected to sweep into the area late Sunday into Monday morning, with the weather service predicting 6 to 12 inches of snow.
Al Gore: Snow is a thing of the past
United Arab Emerates cold snap to continue till weekend
Mihevc wants apartments to cut back on heat
Citing concerns over global warming, Mihevc is asking the city's licensing and standards committee to review when city landlords are legally required to turn the heat on.
So ... when it is cold enough to need the heat, leave the heat off because the world is getting warmer.
I hope this idiot is not allowed to operate motor vehicles.
Snow hits eastern, central Europe hard
Parts of eastern and central Europe were hit hard by heavy snow and frigid temperatures for a second day Thursday, leaving hundreds trapped in cars, dozens of communities without power and at least one person dead. Some areas saw as much as three meters (10 feet) of snow.
See Al Gore: Snow is a thing of the past
No Need to Panic About Global Warming
There's no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to 'decarbonize' the world's economy.
‘Green’ Has Become Fabian Socialist ‘Red’
The likes of the right-of-political-centre UK Daily Telegraph’s Christopher Booker and James Delingpole have long been warning that the real political colour of so-called environmental groups is not ‘green’ but ‘red’ and that many environmentalists have a hidden agenda of leftist collectivism. Indeed, Delingpole recently authored/updated a must-read book on the subject entitled ‘Watermelons: The Green Movement’s True Colors’ / ‘Watermelons: How the Environmentalists are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Children’s Future’[1].
Économie:
INFLATION 2012 : Real Estate Down, Gas & Groceries Up
Harper considering raising OAS age to 67
"Our new retirement program is to work you until you drop, because we have to send all your retirements to poor struggling unhappy Israel!" -- Cadana
Now, did I not warn you Canadians to learn from the mistake we made here in the US allowing Israel to subvert our government? Did you listen to me? No! And here is the result.
20 Signs That Europe Is Plunging Into A Full-Blown Economic Depression
An economic nightmare is descending on Europe. With each passing month, the economic numbers across Europe get even worse. At this point it is becoming extremely difficult for anyone to deny that Europe is plunging into a full-blown economic depression. In fact, some parts of Europe are already there. In Spain the overall unemployment rate is over 22 percent, and in Greece one out of every five retail establishments has already been closed down. All over Europe, economic activity is rapidly slowing down, unemployment is skyrocketing and bad debts are unraveling. It isn’t even going to take a default by a nation such as Greece or a collapse of the euro to push Europe into an economic depression.
Baltic Dry Index Signals Renewed Market Collapse
Brandon Smith, Contributing Writer
Activist Post
Much has been said about the Baltic Dry Index over the course of the last four years, especially in light of the credit crisis and the effects it has had on the frequency of global shipping. Importing and exporting has never been quite the same since 2008, and this change is made most obvious through one of the few statistical measures left in the world that is not subject to direct manipulation by international corporate interests; the BDI...
Homeownership rates fall to 66% as downturn nears a bottom
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday that the nation's homeownership rate fell to 66% in the fourth quarter, continuing a seven-year drop from a fourth-quarter peak of 69.2% in 2004.
At the same time, U.S. home prices fell 1.3% in November from October and were 3.7% below 2010 levels, the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price index indicates.
STORY: Home prices drop in November for third straight month
Falling homeownership — and prices — reflect the worst housing downturn since the Great Depression. And while there are signs that the housing industry's downturn may at least be nearing a bottom, the impact of the collapse will be evident for years to come, economists say.
No one in their right mind can talk about "economic recovery", looking at numbers like this.
American Airlines Wants To Eliminate 13,000 Jobs, End Pension Plans
The parent of American Airlines wants to eliminate about 13,000 jobs – 15 percent of its workforce – as the nation's third-biggest airline remakes itself under bankruptcy protection.
The company proposes to end its traditional pension plans, a move strongly opposed by the airline's unions and the U.S. pension-insurance agency, and to stop paying for retiree health benefits.
AMR Corp. said Wednesday that it must cut labor costs by 20 percent. It will soon begin negotiations with its three major unions, but the president of the flight attendants' union quickly rejected the company's ideas as unacceptably harsh.
If these changes go through, I will never fly AMERICAN again.
And I say this because my late Dad was an aircraft instrument mechanic. The companies for which he worked had a love/hate relationship with Spencer, because he understood, VERY CLEARLY, that the instruments he was checking out, and calibrating to perfection, were the difference between life and death in the air.
If you don't have enough smart and well-trained people doing this kind of work, safety will suffer.
Apparently, to AMERICAN CEO Thomas Horton, this is an acceptable risk, but it is not one I am willing to take.
HSBC Laundering Billions?
A former employee of one of the world's largest international banks has provided WND with more than 1,000 pages of documents, including customer account ledgers for dozens of companies through which the financial institution was laundering money each month, according to the whistleblower. "I found many accounts through which hundreds of thousands of dollars were being flowed as a conduit on a monthly basis," John Cruz, an account relationship manager who worked in the HSBC southern New York region, told WND.
Mafia now "Italy's No.1 bank" as crisis bites: Reuters
(Reuters) - Organized crime has tightened its grip on the Italian economy during the economic crisis, making the Mafia the country's biggest "bank" and squeezing the life out of thousands of small firms, according to a report on Tuesday.
Beware Corporate Psychopaths – they are still occupying positions of power
As Mr Boddy warns: "The very same corporate psychopaths, who probably caused the crisis by their self-seeking greed and avarice, are now advising governments on how to get out of the crisis. Further, if the corporate psychopaths theory of the global financial crisis is correct, then we are now far from the end of the crisis. Indeed, it is only the end of the beginning."
Outlook Over the years I've met my fair share of monsters – rogue individuals, for the most part. But as regulation in the UK and the US has loosened its restraints, the monsters have proliferated.
In a paper recently published in the Journal of Business Ethics entitled "The Corporate Psychopaths: Theory of the Global Financial Crisis", Clive R Boddy identifies these people as psychopaths.
"They are," he says, "simply the 1 per cent of people who have no conscience or empathy." And he argues: "Psychopaths, rising to key senior positions within modern financial corporations, where they are able to influence the moral climate of the whole organisation and yield considerable power, have largely caused the [banking] crisis'.
And Mr Boddy is not alone. In Jon Ronson's widely acclaimed book The Psychopath Test, Professor Robert Hare told the author: "I should have spent some time inside the Stock Exchange as well. Serial killer psychopaths ruin families. Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies."
Cut to a pleasantly warm evening in Bahrain. My companion, a senior UK investment banker and I, are discussing the most successful banking types we know and what makes them tick. I argue that they often conform to the characteristics displayed by social psychopaths. To my surprise, my friend agrees.
He then makes an astonishing confession: "At one major investment bank for which I worked, we used psychometric testing to recruit social psychopaths because their characteristics exactly suited them to senior corporate finance roles."
Here was one of the biggest investment banks in the world seeking psychopaths as recruits.
Mr Ronson spoke to scores of psychologists about their understanding of the damage that psychopaths could do to society. None of those psychologists could have imagined, I'm sure, the existence of a bank that used the science of spotting them as a recruiting mechanism.
I've never met Dick Fuld, the former CEO of Lehman Brothers and the architect of its downfall, but I've seen him on video and it's terrifying. He snarled to Lehman staff that he wanted to "rip out their [his competitors] hearts and eat them before they died". So how did someone like Mr Fuld get to the top of Lehman? You don't need to see the video to conclude he was weird; you could take a little more time and read a 2,200-page report by Anton Valukas, the Chicago-based lawyer hired by a US court to investigate Lehman's failure. Mr Valukas revealed systemic chicanery within the bank; he described management failures and a destructive, internal culture of reckless risk-taking worthy of any psychopath.
So why wasn't Mr Fuld spotted and stopped? I've concluded it's the good old question of nature and nurture but with a new interpretation. As I see it, in its search for never-ending growth, the financial services sector has actively sought out monsters with natures like Mr Fuld and nurtured them with bonuses and praise.
S&P downgrades 34 Italian banks
Rating agency Standard & Poor's downgraded 34 Italian banks on Friday, including heavyweights UniCredit (CRDI.MI) and Intesa Sanpaolo (ISP.MI), citing a reduced ability to roll over their wholesale debt and expected weak profitability.
CBO: Taxes Will ‘Shoot Up by More Than 30 Percent’ Over Next 2 Years
(CNSNews.com) - The amount of money the federal government takes out of the U.S. economy in taxes will increase by more than 30 percent between 2012 and 2014, according to the Budget and Economic Outlook published today by the CBO.
At the same time, according to CBO, the economy will remain sluggish, partly because of higher taxes.
“In particular, between 2012 and 2014, revenues in CBO’s baseline shoot up by more than 30 percent,” said CBO, “mostly because of the recent or scheduled expirations of tax provisions, such as those that lower income tax rates and limit the reach of the alternative minimum tax (AMT), and the imposition of new taxes, fees, and penalties that are scheduled to go into effect.”
Romanian government collapses amid public outrage over austerity
The Romanian government collapsed Monday after weeks of protests over biting cuts meant to keep outside funding flowing to the troubled nation.
Prime Minister Emil Boc said he and his Cabinet were resigning “to defuse political and social tension,” the Associated Press reported.
Romania's government collapses after protests
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- Romania's government has collapsed following weeks of protests against austerity measures, the latest debt-stricken government in Europe to fall in the face of raising public anger over biting cuts. Emil Boc, who had been prime minister since 2008, said Monday he was resigning "to defuse political and social tension" and to make way for a new government. Thousands of Romanians took to the streets in January to protest salary cuts, higher taxes and the widespread perception that the government was not interested in the public's hardships in this nation of 22 million.
Hawaii feeling the pain at the pump
Hawaii continues to have the highest gas prices in the U.S., followed by Alaska with a $3.88 state average and California at $3.75.
AA to Cut Up to 15,000 Jobs
NBC 5 has learned that Fort Worth-based American Airlines may cut between 10,000 and 15,000 jobs across the company.
Sources familiar with the plan said they company plans to announce the cuts during a meeting Wednesday morning in Fort Worth...
Libye:
BBC "Reveals" After the Facts how British Special Forces Supervised and Spearheaded Libya Rebels to Victory
In a failed attempt to appear unbiased and objective, the BBC now “reveals”, almost a year after the information was relayed by several alternative media, that British Special Forces played a key role in steering and supervising Libya's "freedom fighters" to victory. Known and documented many of these so-called rebels were mercenaries under contract to NATO.
British efforts to help topple Colonel Gaddafi were not limited to air strikes. On the ground - and on the quiet - special forces soldiers were blending in with rebel fighters:
This is the previously untold BBC account of the crucial role part played by British and Allied Special Forces in leading the insurrection largely integrated by Al Qaedas affiliated operatives:
Kadhafi diehards seize former regime bastion
Diehard supporters of slain Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi seized control Monday of Bani Walid in a brazen attack on his one-time bastion that killed five people, officials told AFP.
The assault on a base of former rebels who helped oust Kadhafi was the first major offensive launched by his loyalists since the "liberation" of Libya on October 23, shortly after the fall of Bani Walid.
Libyans storm transitional government headquarters in Benghazi
Hundreds of angry protesters have stormed the Libyan transitional government's headquarters in the eastern city of Benghazi, carting off computers, chairs, and desks while the country's interim leader was holed up in the building.
I guess the Libyan people don't like their new puppet ruler, or their new private central bank and its debt-based currency that replaced the gold dinar.
Rival Libya militias battle in Tripoli
Exchanges of fire were heard and plumes of smoke seen coming from a district known as Tariq Al Shat in central Tripoli, eyewitnesses said.
A BBC reporter who drove past the area later said the fighting had ceased.
An interior ministry official told Reuters news agency the fighting was between militiamen from the city of Misrata, and a group from Zintan.
Gaddafi's green flag raised in Libyan town after bloody uprising... as civil war fears rise
Libya's ramshackle government lost control of a former Gaddafi stronghold today after locals staged an armed uprising.
Forces loyal to ousted, and now dead, leader Muammar Gaddafi seized control of Bani Walid and then raised in celebration the deposed regime's green flag on hundreds of buildings.
Ah, more "progress" in Libya, I see! Apparently, the people of Libya are not impressed in the least with the government which has been imposed upon them, courtesy of the US and NATO.
Pro-Gaddafi forces strike back, 'Libya out of control'
A five and half minute RT video.
Fighting has broken out in Libya between supporters of former leader Muammar Gaddafi and forces loyal to the new government. The head of the National Transitional Council has warned that the country is on the verge of returning to a state of civil war. Our correspondent Maria Finoshina says the NTC doesn't control the situation in Libya.
Libya militias prepare to retake Bani Walid from Gaddafi loyalists
A powerful sense of deja vu grips the men of Libya's national guard as they mass for battle in the freezing desert outside Bani Walid, the new frontline of a war most had thought was long over.
Last October, many of these same fighters battled their way into this desert town, one of the last pro-Gaddafi redoubts to hold out against the rebels.
Now they are back again after fighting this week resulted in the deaths of four soldiers and forced the closure of a small government garrison. Several dozen former Gaddafi administration officials arrested for war crimes in recent weeks were sprung from jail during the uprising.
Libya's "liberation" may well lead to an all-out civil war.
Apparently, courtesy of a catastrophic failure of imagination on the part of US and NATO leadership, this potential unintended consequence of such a "liberation" was something no one saw coming.
So what are NATO and the US going to do now, go back in and re-attack anti-government forces?!?
Torture and Abuse in Libya
Stephen Lendman, Contributing Writer
Activist Post
NATO's alleged "responsibility to protect" was subterfuge. Months of terror bombings left Libya a charnel house.
Africa's most developed country was ravaged. Tens of thousands were killed, multiples more injured, and millions left on their own to sink or swim.
When is war not war?
Torture and Plundering: Libya’s Militias Run Wild
NTC Unable to Keep 'Allies' in Line
It is a story told with alarming regularity in Libya. Two rival militias, both nominally allies of the National Transitional Council (NTC) engage in an intense gunbattle. When the guns finally fall silent and one of the factions has taken a base belong to the other, they proceed to take everything that isn’t nailed down.
Even those that weren’t directly involved in the battle rush in and start grabbing loot. Cars are stolen, and more battles break out when rival factions argue over who gets to take what. Mass looting may be a viable strategy in a video game, but it is really starting to wear thin among Libya’s public.
Ongoing atrocities by NATO-installed Libyan regime
The Libyan Transitional National Council (TNC) regime installed by the US-NATO intervention in Libya last year is responsible for ongoing atrocities, particularly against black-skinned Libyans, detainees and other alleged supporters of the previous Gaddafi government.
The reprisals against the Tawerghan population are only the latest revelations of war crimes committed by the US and NATO proxy forces. Amnesty International and Doctors Without Borders have recently published statements protesting against the systematic abuse and torture of prisoners in detention centers controlled by the TNC and tribes.
More "progress" in Libya, I see.
NATO’s Grisly Crimes in Libya: Extensive Evidence that NATO Deliberately Targetted Civilians
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28917
While Charles Ray - the US envoy here [Zimbabwe] - portrays himself as the face of the free world, a champion of human rights and democracy, and has been vociferous about his country's role in the Libyan invasion, it turns out that just like Vietnam and other illegal wars before it, Libya is turning into a major embarrassment for Uncle Sam.
A report released last week by human rights groups in the Middle East presents extensive evidence of war crimes carried out in Libya by the United States, NATO and their proxy "rebel" forces during last year's invasion, that culminated in the murder of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
The "Report of the Independent Civil Society fact-finding Mission to Libya" presents findings of an investigation carried out last November by the Arab Organisation for Human Rights, together with the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and the International Legal Assistance Consortium.
Based on interviews with victims of war crimes as well as with witnesses and Libyan officials in Tripoli, Zawiya, Sibrata, Khoms, Zliten, Misrata, Tawergha and Sirte, the report calls for the investigation of evidence that NATO targeted civilian sites, causing many deaths and injuries.
Civilian facilities targeted by NATO bombs and missiles included schools, government buildings, at least one food warehouse, and private homes.
The report also presents evidence of systematic murder, torture, expulsion and abuse of suspected Gaddafi loyalists by the NATO-backed "rebel" forces of the National Transitional Council. It describes the forced expulsion of the mostly black-skinned inhabitants of Tawergha and the ongoing persecution of sub-Saharan migrant workers by forces allied to the NTC and its transitional government.
The investigators report savage and repeated beatings of prisoners held without trial or charges, the summary execution of pro-Gaddafi fighters, and witness reports of "indiscriminate and retaliatory murders, including the ‘slaughter' (i.e., throat slitting) of former combatants."
The report exposes the human rights and democratic pretexts employed by the US, France, Britain and their NATO accomplices to carry out a colonial-style war of conquest. It makes clear that UN Security Council Resolution 1973, imposing a "no-fly zone" and arms embargo on Libya supposedly to protect civilians from repressive actions by Muammar Gaddafi, was in fact used to carry out a ruthless air war waged in co-ordination with "rebel" forces on the ground.
The report suggests that soon after the outbreak of anti-Gaddafi protests in Benghazi and other cities, opposition forces were receiving training from Western armed forces as well as weapons from NATO powers and allied Arab states. Opposition to Gaddafi that erupted last February following the fall of Mubarak in Egypt was rapidly taken into hand by the US, France, Britain and their agents within Libya to launch a pro-imperialist invasion.
As the report states: "From first-hand information available to the Mission, and secondary sources, it appears that NATO participated in what could be classified as offensive actions undertaken by the opposition forces, including, for example, attacks on towns and cities held by Gaddafi forces.
Equally, the choice of certain targets, such as a regional food warehouse, raises prima facie questions regarding the role of such attacks with respect to the protection of civilians."
The report gives only the palest picture of a brutal onslaught whose purpose was to turn the clock back 43 years to the conditions that prevailed under the US-UK stooge King Idris, who turned the country's oil resources over to American and British conglomerates and allowed the two powers to maintain large military bases on Libyan soil. The mass destruction and killing, which culminated in the levelling of Sirte and lynching of Gaddafi, make the UN-sanctioned claims of a war for "human rights" and the "protection of civilians" not only absurd, but obscene.
The rape of Libya was the Anglo-Saxons response to the revolutionary uprisings that ousted long-time pro-Western regimes in Tunisia and Egypt, two countries that border Libya. The aim of the invasion was to impose complete control on the country's oil resources, divert and suppress the growth of working class struggles throughout North Africa and the Middle East, and deal a blow to China and Russia, which had established close economic relations with the Gaddafi regime.
The war destroyed Libya. The NTC - an unstable coalition of ex-Gaddafi regime officials, Islamists, including some with links to Al Qaeda, and Western intelligence assets - itself estimates that the invasion claimed 50,000 lives and injured another 50,000. Rising infighting between the NTC's factions is opening the door to full-scale civil war between rival clan-based and regional militias.
Just this weekend, amid warnings from NTC Chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil of looming civil war, a crowd demanding the resignation of the transitional government forced its way into the NTC's headquarters in Benghazi. Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, the vice president of the NTC, promptly resigned.
The report on US-NATO war crimes is also a further indictment of the assortment of "left" parties, intellectuals and academics who parroted the human rights pretexts of Washington and NATO and thus gave open or backhanded support to the invasion of Libya.
And still, the so-called International Criminal Court is deafeningly silent.
"But hey; we got the oil flowing in the 'right direction', didn't we?!?" - Official White House Souse.
U.S. behind deliberate murder of Qadhafi: Russia
Russia has accused the United States and NATO of large-scale violations of human rights during the military operation in Libya, including the deliberate murder of its leader Muammar Gaddafi and the killing of hundreds of civilians.
The NATO forces “made the overthrow and murder of the Colonel their main goal,” said the Russian Foreign Ministry in its first report on the state of human rights in the world.
Citing unnamed sources, the report said the order to liquidate Qadhafi was given to U.S., French and British commandos. The Russian Foreign Ministry details numerous instances of mass killings of hundreds of civilians and destruction of infrastructure in NATO bombing raids in Libya.
U.S. military supplies for Africa ops surge
Analyst suggests hike indicate 'boots on ground' soon
New questions are being raised about the Obama administration's plans for U.S. troops on the ground in Africa, where Libya and Ivory Coast are in turmoil and other nations are unstable, as documentation reveals federal officials are planning massive increases in U.S. fuel purchases for military operations there.
Information obtained by WND reveals the most recent fuel procurement, #SP0600-10-R-0242, includes nearly 29 million U.S. gallons of jet fuel, up from only 11.6 million in 2007; plus 13.9 million U.S. gallons diesel fuel, up from 8.2 million; 154,000 gallons premium unleaded gasoline, up from 59,000; and about 200,000 gallons aviation gasoline. There are no earlier figures are available for that category.
Department of Defense contracting documents dating back to 2004 were examined, and the escalation in fuel planning was evident.
In late 2004, for instance, the Defense Logistics Agency identified a three-year need for 1.7 million U.S. gallons of diesel, 1.3 million gallons of jet fuel and just under 16,000 gallons of premium unleaded gasoline, in #SP0600-05-R-0009.
That particular acquisition was destined for use at Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, a coastal east African nation positioned between Somalia and Eritrea and which also borders on the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
As that specific contract approached its end, DLA in 2007 issued a new solicitation, #SP0600-07-R-0216, for fuel for Camp Lemonier – a solicitation representing the beginning of an exponential increase in U.S. military fuel consumption in the region.
The new contract called for more than quadruple the previous amount of diesel fuel to 8.2 million gallons, an eightfold increase in jet fuel to 11.6 million gallons and more than triple the previous total for premium unleaded gasoline to 59,000 gallons.
That procurement, whose "ordering period" was February 2008 through January 2011, came several months before the Bush administration's official unveiling of the newly created U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), whose sphere of responsibility would include all of Africa excepting Egypt.
Libya rebels to get $25m of US military equipment under Pentagon proposal
The US plans to send $25m worth of non-lethal equipment to the rebel opposition in eastern Libya, in a move likely to further entangle the west in the two-month-old civil war.
The proposal to send surplus Pentagon equipment, including vehicles, medical supplies, protective vests, binoculars and radios, follows Italy's decision to join Britain and France in sending military advisers to the Libyan opposition and a French pledge to intensify air strikes.
The Libyan government has warned that such moves will further prolong the conflict and "encourage the other side to be more defiant".
NATOs Libya Putsch likely Means Losing Afghanistan
NATO's war on Libya is to drive the Chinese out of North Africa according to Paul Craig Roberts (ex Reagan official). Pakistan is already desperate to leave US influence, after Raymond Davis and more drones. Pakistan can offer China a land route to Iran and the Gulf - to secure its energy needs. Once Pakistan gives up US influence - Afghanistan is truly lost.
Syrie:
Dozens dead as rebel bomb wave rips Syria's second city RussiaToday
Is this another Hill & Knowlton PR Incubator babies scam like Kuwait?
The bloodiest 24 hours yet: '18 premature babies die in Homs hospital after power cut caused by fifth day of shelling by Assad troops'
Babies did survive without incubators in the past, or none of us would be here! So this sounds like another variation on the infamous "stolen incubators and dead babies" hoax staged by PR firm Hill & Knowlton to anger people into supporting the invasion of Iraq.
US closes Syrian embassy, presses Assad to go
The US closed its Syrian embassy Monday and Britain recalled its ambassador to Damascus in a dramatic escalation of Western pressure on President Bashar Assad to give up power, just days after diplomatic efforts at the United Nations to end the crisis collapsed.
The US evacuated all its diplomats from the country as Syrian forces intensified a shelling assault on the restive city of Homs. The offensive began Saturday, the same day Syria's allies in Russia and China vetoed a Western- and Arab-backed resolution aimed at trying to end the brutal crackdown on dissent.
U.S. closes Syria embassy, pulls out all staff
The United States closed its embassy in Syria and pulled out remaining staff on Monday over serious security concerns as President Bashar al-Assad’s regime intensified its bloody crackdown.
US President Barack Obama stressed it was important to resolve the ongoing conflict diplomatically, framing it as very different from the situation in Libya, where Western military intervention helped oust Moamer Kadhafi.
So, the US has closed its embassy in Syria; such an act is normally a prelude to some kind of major military attack happening against whatever country out of which we've pulled our diplomatic staff, no matter how often the words "diplomatic solution" are used.
Russia, China veto UN Security Council resolution on Syria
The United Nations Security Council has just voted on a draft resolution concerning the ongoing violence in Syria.
Of the voting members, Russia and China were the only ones to vote against the draft, but as permanent members of the UNSC they both hold veto power, and the resolution has not been passed as a result.
The news follows days of heated political debates in the UNSC, with many members supporting a Western-backed draft calling for foreign nations to put an end to what some called the “Syrian killing machine.”
Russia and China were the only permanent Security Council members opposing the draft, reminding others that it was not their place to intervene in another country's domestic affairs.
Fukushima:
Plutonium From Fukushima Has Now Circled The Planet
Sayer Ji, Contributing Writer
Activist Post
A recently published study in the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity confirms that the radioactive fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster reached Europe (Lithuania), and included plutonium, the most deadly manmade element (nanogram for nanogram) in existence...
Fukushima Diaries - 4.2 Shallow Quake directly under Fukushima Nuclear Plant - Quake not showing on USGS map. Fukushima Truth and Arnie Gundersen's latest video - Japan dumping Waste in Tokyo Bay
Fukushima Diaries has information that there was a 4.2 shallow quake directly under the Fukushima Nuclear Power plant, but USGS site does not have it on it.
Since the USGS site does not have it, I have to wonder if it was an earthquake or something else, since it was directly under Fukushima?
The TEPCO camera is back online from what I can tell. There is a very bright light coming from the right of Reactor 4. Reactor 4 has been in a critical stage the last couple of days since January 1st. It has been losing water at an unprecedented amount.
Fukushima diaries had the fact that TEPCO sent out an emergency email to the media regarding the critical stage of Reactor 4 after a New Years day quake.
The water level is decreased naturally because of water evaporation, as it used to take 3 hours to be decreased by 50 mm (17mm/h), but from 2PM to 5PM today it was decreased by 240 mm within 3 hours.(80 mm/h).
The fallout from Fukushima, since January 1st has been more than the whole month of November.
After the earthquake, it turned out that the fallout amount in Fukushima from 1/2/2012~1/3/2012 spiked up to be 558.1 Bq/m2 (Cs-134 and 137).The total fallout of Fukushima of November was only 347.7 Bq/m2 for 30 days, which is less than the fallout of the 2 days of 1/2 and 1/3.
Also, the total fallout of Tokyo of April was 570 Bq/m2 for 30 days.
After the earthquake, it turned out that the fallout amount in Fukushima from 1/2/2012~1/3/2012 spiked up to be 558.1 Bq/m2 (Cs-134 and 137).
Cesium levels rise sharply in Fukushima after New Year’s quake — Chiba too
Breaking News: After the quake of 1/1, Fukushima had fallout more than 30 days of Nov, Fukushima Diary, January 5, 2012:
- After the earthquake, it turned out that the fallout amount in Fukushima from Jan. 2 – Jan. 3 spiked up to be 558.1 Bq/m2 (Cs-134 and 137)
- The total fallout of Fukushima of November was only 347.7 Bq/m2 for 30 days
Fukushima - Very Dire- Situation can affect the World. No water in Reactor 4 - Rods were boiling 1/1/12. Reactor 4 still not holding water. Another quake at Fukushima 1/8/12 not on USGS. TEPCO cam - not real?
Fukushima Diary has some dire information today. Remember Reactor 4 is the spent fuel reactor/containment area. There thousands of rods in reactor 4.
I wrote about Fukushima 3 days ago.
I have the information that the amount of radiation released since the first of January was more in the 5 days then all of the month of November in that post.
Now, it is being revealed there was/is no water in Reactor 4 and it was/is boiling. An earthquake New Years Day ruptured pipes there it seems. Since then there have been more quakes at Fukushima that USGS does not acknowledge.
leaked information from an actual Fukushima worker: The pool was boiling without water.
TEPCO - Webcam - pictures/evidence of it being faked.
Report: Spent Fuel Pool No. 4 boiled after powerful New Year’s quake, says plant worker
Fukushima Diary translates a Jan. 8 update by sickened Fukushima author Emiko Numauchi
Reactor 4 : Spent fuel pool was boiling without water after 1/1/2012
Emiko Numauchi
Information from an actual Fukushima worker [...] according to her post
- After the earthquake of 1/1/2012, the pipe of spent fuel pool for reactor 4 was broken
- Pool completely lost its water
- Pool was boiling without water
- [The worker said:] Sooner or later, the truth will have to to be widely
known. Believe it or not, you will only regret. Wear a mask at least.
(SOURCE)
But the fallout of this plant, write and solve it heard the information from the workers.
Broken pipe in the cooling pool of Unit 4 that the earthquake of January 1 so the state is now boiling.
Let me get the help and words he heard “Come out of hiding information is later overwhelmed anyway, I believe I believe in free will, I’ll only regret it later.
How to put a mask The Serve.
For more information about Numauchi, see: Emiko Numauchi of Minami Soma, aka “Numayu”, Speaks Up, May Testify in the Japan’s Diet About Her Health Problems
See also:
- Report: Huge, mysterious spike in cesium fallout after New Year's quake (CHART)
- Cesium levels rise sharply in Fukushima after New Year's quake -- Chiba too
- Report: Tepco sends "emergency" mail about Reactor 4 -- Water level decreasing at 5 times normal rate in tank near spent fuel pool -- Link to New Year's quake unclear
- Powerful quake rocks Tokyo region on New Year's Day
Report: Huge, mysterious spike in cesium fallout after New Year’s quake (CHART)
Mysterious Spike in Cesium Fallout in Fukushima on Jan 2, 2012 (Updated with Chiba Information), EX-SKF, January 6, 2012:
[...] Only the people on the net paid attention to the data and it was not reported by the MSM. The Ministry of Education and Science issued the result of the fallout measurement [...]
The huge spike looks a few sigmas away from the norm, even with the wind speed picking up on January 2, 2012.
On Twitter, people in Tokyo were reporting strange white powder floating in the air several days ago, and people in Ibaraki and Chiba Prefectures were reporting elevated air radiation levels. [...]
About the chart, EX-SKF says:
This person tweeted the pic with three overlapping charts comparing (from the top): (1) amount of snow on the ground and amount of rain, (2) amount of cesium fallout, and (3) wind speed (average speed in black, maximum speed in blue, and maximum instantaneous speed in red), from December 1, 2011 to January 6, 2012
NRC March Email: Spent Fuel Pool No. 4 was likely dry enough to lead to catastrophic explosion — Structural damage to pool area known to exist — Pool leakage likely
In response to today’s post: Fukushima Worst-Case: Beyond 250km could be evacuation zone if fuel in SFP No. 4 melts -- Covering pool, reactors with sand mixture was considered as last resort
March 29th, 2011 – Status of 3 Units and 4 pools – Realistic Scenarios, Enformable, Dec. 15, 2011:
From: Brown, Frederick
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 10:56 PM
[...]
SFP 4: 1331 bundles. Full core offload about 120 days ago. No checker boarding of hotter fuel. Structural damage to pool area is known to exist, and structure may not support a full pool weight load. Pool leakage likely, requiring addition of water periodically. Pool was likely dry enough to have cladding/water reaction which produced enough hydrogen to lead to catastrophic explosion that destroyed secondary containment.
Fukushima Worst-Case: Beyond 250km could be evacuation zone if fuel in SFP No. 4 melts — Covering pool, reactors with sand mixture was considered as last resort
Government envisioned Tokyo evacuation in worst-case scenario, AJW by The Asahi Shimbun, Jan. 7, 2012:
[...] In a worst-case scenario, the central government would have requested the evacuation of Tokyo and everyone within a 250-kilometer radius of the damaged Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
Goshi Hosono, minister in charge of the nuclear disaster [...] said the government had not disclosed the report, which had been submitted on March 25, out of concern over public reaction.
“We had refrained from publicizing it because we were afraid that it could cause the public to grow excessively worried,” he said. [...]
The Scenario
· Melting of 1,535 fuel assemblies, an equivalent of fuel used for two reactors, kept in a spent fuel storage pool at the No. 4 reactor
· If another hydrogen explosion took place at the No. 1 reactor, workers would be forced to flee and suspend recovery operations
· Resulting in an enormous amount of radioactive material released from the pool in two weeks
Beyond 250-km
High radiation levels could have extended beyond the 250-km radius, and people in those areas would have also been advised to relocate
Less Worse Worst-Case Scenario
If the release of cesium was limited to an equivalent of one reactor, the mandatory evacuation zone would have been a radius of 110 km and recommended evacuation a radius of 200 km
Decades?
It would have taken several decades for radiation levels to decrease naturally in the mandatory and voluntary evacuation zones
Worst-Cast Last Resort
Blocking radiation by covering the damaged reactors and the pool with 1,100 tons of materials mixed with sand and water each was considered a last resort to contain the crisis
Lithuania: Radionuclides thought to be from Chernobyl actually from Fukushima, May Be Spent Fuel
Plutonium out of the Fukushima reactors did indeed travel far and wide....What's more, the authors of the paper seem to think that plutonium came from the spent fuel.
Includes extended, illustrated abstract, and links to download fulltext.
OURCE: http://shadow-city.blogzine.jp/net/2012/01/post_08a1.html
Breaking News: Whistle-blower talks, container vessel is melting like honeycomb, Fukushima Diary, Jan. 3, 2011 [Emphasis Added]:
A whistle-blower of Tepco leaked the actual situation of Fukushima plant.
He left his comments on a Japanese forum. Here are the messages. [...]
2011/12/20 (Tue) 01:52 [Translation]
Taking a part of the concrete slag sample. Put it into the lead case (Chiyoda technol) and take it to a lab. I don’t know if it’s because they gave sea water to cool down or because it’s brackish area, if natrium (sodium salt) of sea water made a chemical reaction with calcium carbonate in the concrete to become diuranate natrium (sodium diuranate) or not, it looks yellow as yellow cake.
Probably the iron part of the core is uranium pellet unreacted – not sure yet because it’s still before the analysis.
It’s beyond the max reading of 500X100 CPM. These yellow concrete slags come out from under the building one after one. It means that the container vessel is melting like honeycomb at least – doesn’t it? Otherwise why would metal uranium comes out of there ?
2011/12/28 (Wed) 04:37 [Translation]
Made up my mind to take out the slags from the shelter to take pictures of them.
Wore protective clothing. When it’s taken out, it was over 400 ℃ but now it’s cooled down to 100 ℃.
Can you see this big metal crystal (extremely radioactive) and the oxidized concrete looking like yellow cake? Can you believe it is out of the container vessel. It’s over 500 mSv/h, my geiger counter went over the limit.
Was scared so put it back to the shelter soon as I took a couple of the pictures.
Read the full report here
Radionuclides from the Fukushima accident in the air over Lithuania: measurement and modelling approaches – Abstract, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, Dec. 27, 2011:
Lujanienė G, Byčenkienė S, Povinec PP, Gera M.; Environmental Research Department, SRI Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Lithuania
· Radionuclides from the Fukushima accident in the air over Lithuania
· Activity concentration of (239,240)Pu
· One aerosol sample
· Collected from 23 March to 15 April, 2011
· Found to be 44.5 nBq/m(3)
· Activity ratio of (238)Pu/(239,240)Pu in the aerosol sample was 1.2, indicating a presence of the spent fuel of different origin than that of the Chernobyl accident
Nice to know some people in the public spotlight are actually informed about what’s going on in the world
PODCAST #164 – Shane Smith, Brian Redban, The Joe Rogan Experience, Dec 6, 2011 [*WARNING* ADULT LANGUAGE]:
Interview with Shane Smith, Founder of Vice Magazine (NYT piece on Smith here)
Transcript Summary
Smith:
I was just in Japan. Whats going on down there… you want to talk about Mad Max.
The actual reactors, the steel containment of the reactors is now melting into the groundwater and into the soil.
There’s major cities of 500,000 people that are being completely irradiated. They’re not telling people the truth and the kids are really angry and frustrated and the gov’t is denying it [...]
If it f—- up even this much… If it f—- up even a tiny bit [...]
In the Ukraine an area the size of France is still completely irradiated and you’re just like wow what the f—? How is this even a f—— option.
Rogan:
How is this a possibility that you could have one mistake. Even a natural disaster, or tsunami [Note: It now appears the earthquake was a contributing factor in the meltdowns (SOURCE)…]
An online presentation shows irradiated water moving through pacific. It’s f—— terrifying.
Smith:
It’s beyond terrifying and what’s happening in Japan now, it just shows you what can they do… how are they going to evacuate a million people? Where are they going to evacuate them too?
Rogan:
You can be a two hour drive [Tokyo] from a nuclear disaster like that? That doesn’t seem safe.
Smith:
Tokyo… it feels kind of like a ghost town, a lot of people have left, its gone beyond future, now its like post-future if that’s the future then we should drink a lot today, because its not going to be pleasant.
Rogan:
I’m going there for the first time in February for the UFC… going to Tokyo … I’m [terrified?]
Brian Redban:
You’re terrified?
That’s saying something for the host of NBC’s ‘Fear Factor‘ to be terrified. New episodes of Fear Factor air Mondays at 9/8c.
Click play button below to listen to audio clip (NSFW):
Download the podcast here
ABC Australia: Physicians call for much wider evacuations in Japan — Gov’t continues to significantly under report radiation levels
USGS: Two magnitude 5.0+ quakes hit eastern Japan — One in Ibaraki, one near Sendai
Mainichi: Massive radioactive waste buildup in Tokyo suburbs like Kashiwa, Abiko, Inzai — First time center over capacity since September
The Municipal government [in Kashiwa] suspended the operation of one of its main incinerators again on Jan. 5 as a storage facility at the waste disposal factory was filled up with incinerated ash contaminated with radioactive substances emitted from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant
- The operation of the city’s Nambu (south) Clean Center had previously been suspended for about two months from last September
- [Now] storing about 200 metric tons (about 1,049 waste drums) of incinerated ash whose radiation levels are higher than the national limit of 8,000 becquerels per kilogram for landfill
- There is also about 30 tons of incinerated ash left in the incinerator
- Radiation levels in the city are higher than those in surrounding areas, and therefore up to 70,800 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram — higher than the national limit — have been detected
- Municipalities around the city of Kashiwa are also storing massive quantities of incinerated ash contaminated with radiation
- Chiba Prefectural Government proposed to its neighboring cities of Abiko and Inzai that they store incinerated ash temporarily
Report: Worst vegetable mutation — Harvested north of Tokyo in June (PHOTO)
The worst vegetable mutation, Fukushima Diary, Jan. 4, 2012:
Vegetable mutation: sample taken in June, Saitama
Tweet from @masason, CEO of Softbank [A top Japan telecommunications company, 1.5 million twitter followers]
これは酷い blog-imgs-45.fc2.com/f/u/k/fukushim… （2011/7/13） ６月埼玉にて収穫””
Translation
This is horrible. (7/13/2011) Harvested in June, Saitama.
Bed Bath and Beyond recalls radioactive tissue holders after they set off police radiation monitors aboard a delivery truck
Bed Bath and Beyond Inc is recalling tissue holders because one of its materials emits low levels of radiation, the company said on Friday.
The California Department of Public Health said Friday the boxes called 'Dual Ridge Metal Boutique tissue boxes' with the model number DR9M, contain radioactive cobalt-60.
According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRD), there is no health threat from the item, the company said in a statement.
Cobalt 60 does not exist in nature, It is a synthetic isotope created by neutron activation. Cobalt 60 emits beta particles and due to the short half-life of about 5 years, is a powerful source! Cobalt 60 is used to sterilize medical equipment and for food irradiation.
Fukushima Day 308 - USA,Canada & Europe Radiation FALLOUT FORECAST + HAZMAT levels in USA
NRC March Email: “The walls of the Unit 4 spent fuel pool have collapsed, and there is no water in there”
March 16th, 2011 – Unit 4 SFP walls have collapsed – Fuel may no longer be intact, Enformable, Jan. 11, 2012:
From: Boska, John
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:31 AM
To: Guzman, Richard
Cc: Pickett, Douglas
Subject: Developments in Japan
Importance: High
Rich, please review and comment, for distribution to our branch.
In a briefing with Joe Giitter that just ended, we were informed that the situation is now much worse in Japan. The walls of the Unit 4 spent fuel pool have collapsed, and there is no water in there. There were a large number of fuel assemblies in the pool, and the fuel may no longer be intact. The radiation levels are increasing so much that it may prove difficult to work on the other 5 reactors at the site, which could lead to more fuel damage and releases. [...]
SOURCE: Enformable.com
Read the full email here
Sickened Fukushima author: Concrete parts under Spent Fuel Pool No. 4 are dropping onto ground -Source
Source: http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/kmasa924/28796996.html
By: Emiko Numauchi 沼内 恵美子, Minamisoma resident and author of a novel about the battle of Okinawa
Date: Jan. 9, 2012
Translation by Fukushima Diary
“Concrete parts under the spent fuel pool are dropping on the ground”
Google Translate:
Babelfish Translation:
More recent video of workers at Spent Fuel Pool No. 4:
WATCH: 10-fold spike in Fukushima radioactivity discussed at Tepco press conference — I suppose it was blown up by wind says spokesman
January 6, 2012 Tepco Press Conference:
Transcript Excerpts
Reporter: According to the reading of environmental radioactivity levels as of Jan. 4, 2012, the amounts of cesium-134 and cesium-137 have increased by nearly 10 times from Dec. 27, 2011 to January 2, 2012. I suppose that something went wrong and that led to this increase. What do you think caused this increase?
Tepco Spokesman Junichi Matsumoto: [...] No trouble has occurred during that period. So I suppose that the radioactive materials were blown up by something like wind and that led to that increase.
Fukushima Residents - Recent Quakes feel like bombs/explosions underground, not normal quakes
I really feel the need to keep Fukushima in the spot light. I feel people need to understand Fukushima is still a major problem.
Today Fukushima Diary
has information about the quakes that are happening there. Many have posted they are not normal quakes but the feel more like explosions/bombs going off underground.
Fukushima citizens tweet that recent series of the earthquake feel different from usual ones.
I think everyone has noticed it if they live in Fukushima since 311, and paid attention to earthquakes. Suddenly, the way of shaking has changed, isn’t it ? feels like something is exploding underground, like a bomb.
Defective Meter? Temperature in Reactor 2 doubles, rises above 100ºC — Tepco assuming low possibility of re-criticality
Breaking News: Possible rapid increase of temperature at Reactor 2, Fukushima Diary, Jan. 13, 2012:
One of the heat gauges at or near the bottom of the container vessel of reactor 2 measured heat over 100℃. [...]
· 17:00 1/12: 48.4℃
· 23:00 1/12: 102.3℃
· 5:00 1/13: 116.4℃
[...] Tepco still asserts it’s in the state of cold shutdown. They assert it’s not because the fuel has moved or recriticality happened, only because the gauge was broken.
SOURCE: 47News
Read the report here
Japan Lawmaker: Gov’t may be concealing recent explosion at Reactor No. 4
On Jan. 13, an LDP member of the Upper House of the Japanese Diet — Satsuki Katayama — wrote that the gov’t may be concealing a recent hydrogen explosion at Reactor No. 4.
Translation by EX-SKF:
Just then, there was a communication from the ex-council member of Minami Soma City to the mayor [of Soma City] that there was some kind of explosion at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant on January 9 (probably at Reactor 4 building) and the government is hiding it. I don’t know whether it’s true or not, but if it is, it is probably a hydrogen explosion, not a nuclear explosion.
Katayama says she was speaking with Hidekiyo Tachiya, mayor of Soma City (north of Minami Soma City) when the mayor related the “rumor” to her. But
Translation by Fukushima Diary:
Now I heard that the city mayor of Minamisoma got the phone call from a former city councilor to tell, on 1/9/2012, at Fukushima plant, (Probably at reactor 4) some kind of explosion happened, and the government is concealing it. I’m not quite sure if it’s true or not, but it probably is not a nuclear explosion but a hydrogen explosion. (Even by a hydrogen explosion, radiation is scattered in a huge scale. I wondered why the person can stay that cool in such a situation. Probably he has already seen hell, he might be used to dealing with the fear and the stress by living in the 50km area.)
More from EX-SKF
“I have no idea why she’s allowed to talk loose like this in her official blog. So far, it doesn’t seem to have gathered much attention in Japan, and many on Twitter ridicule her.”
Both sites mention helicopter activity around that time in the Tokyo-area
- Fukushima Diary: “On 1/10/2012, this blog posted about the unusual amount of helicopter observed in Kanto area”
- EX-SKF: “Some people are connecting this “rumor” to the massive deployment of the Self Defense Force helicopters on January 9″
Two M4.6 quakes in two hours near Fukushima at same location and depth (MAPS)
Japan Meteorological Agency | Earthquake Information
18:23 JST 09 Jan 2012 Ibaraki-ken Oki M3.7 1
17:50 JST 09 Jan 2012 Ibaraki-ken Oki M4.6 2
16:10 JST 09 Jan 2012 Ibaraki-ken Oki M4.6 2
13:51 JST 09 Jan 2012 Ibaraki-ken Oki M4.0 1
Just In: Japanese Expert Says Fukushima II (not I) Nuke Plant’s Containment Vessel Has Been Damaged by the Quake, EX-SKF, January 8, 2012:
· Information from Iwakami Yasumi’s USTREAM channel
· Workshop of an Osaka citizens’ group “Kansai network to stop the disaster-debris acceptance”
· One Japanese expert, Hiromitsu Ino, said a Containment Vessel at Fukushima II (Daini) is broken
· They are trying to repair it
· Probably caused by the earthquake, not tsunami
· Hiromitsu Ino is professor emeritus at Tokyo University
· His area of specialty is metallic materials science
Apparently Tepco’s president believes there is a problem: Tepco President apologizes for accident at Fukushima DAINI nuclear plant... not just Daiichi
An unconfirmed report from August seems to have been on target: Report: Smoke seen rising from Fukushima Daini after quake but before tsunami
A hydrogen explosion was feared at Daini: New data shows Fukushima Daini nuke plant prepared to vent steam from all four reactors -- Feared that containment vessels might be damaged by pressure
Did Daini’s radioactive water leak from containment vessel? ANOTHER NUKE PLANT: Fukushima Daini has 3,000 tons of radioactive water in reactor buildings
Canadian Official: Iodine-131 in rainwater was above recommended level for drinking water during March — “It should not exceed the guideline” — Gov’t failed to disclose findings
Radioactive iodine in rainwater: Public was in the dark, Montreal Gazette by Alex Roslin, January 14, 2012:
After the Fukushima nuclear accident, Canadian health officials assured a nervous public that virtually no radioactive fallout had drifted to Canada.
But last March, a Health Canada monitoring station in Calgary detected an average of 8.18 becquerels per litre of radioactive iodine (an isotope released by the nuclear accident) in rainwater, the data shows.
The level easily exceeded the Canadian guideline of six becquerels of iodine per litre for drinking water, acknowledged Eric Pellerin, chief of Health Canada’s radiation-surveillance division.
“It’s above the recommended level (for drinking water),” he said in an interview. “At any time you sample it, it should not exceed the guideline.”
Canadian authorities didn’t disclose the high radiation reading at the time.
Where’s the data?
· The data still isn’t posted on Health Canada’s web page devoted to the impacts of Fukushima.
· Pellerin said he doesn’t know why Health Canada didn’t make the data public. “I can’t answer that. The communication aspect could be improved.”
How’s the Data?
· Some of Health Canada’s numbers are much lower than those reported by other radiation researchers. Simon Fraser University nuclear chemist Krzysztof Starosta found iodine levels in rainwater in Burnaby, B.C., spiked to 13 becquerels per litre in March – many times higher than the levels Health Canada detected in nearby Vancouver [March in Vancouver averaged only 0.69 becquerels per litre of I-131 in rainwater for the gov't, just 1/20th Starosta's levels].
· Rain was tested only at the end of each month, [the 8-day half-life of I-131 may help explain the significantly lower numbers, as much of it had decayed] after a network of monitoring stations sent samples to Ottawa. This meant the radiation spikes last March were only discovered in early April, after rainwater samples were sent to Ottawa for testing – too late to alert the public, including those who collect rain for drinking and gardening.
Read the full report here
See more from reporter Alex Roslin here:
- http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/After+Fukushima+fish+tales/5994237/story.html
- http://www.montrealgazette.com/touch/story.html?id=599428
Physician suspects Canada will see more cancers, decreased fetal viability, decreased fertility from Fukushima — We expect them to be generational
After Fukushima, fish tales, Montreal Gazette by Alex Roslin, Jan. 13, 2012:
[...] Dr. Dale Dewar wasn’t convinced. Dewar, a family physician in Wynyard, Sask., doesn’t eat a lot of seafood herself, but when her grandchildren come to visit, she carefully checks seafood labels.
She wants to make sure she isn’t serving them anything that might come from the western Pacific Ocean.
Dewar, the executive director of Physicians for Global Survival, a Canadian anti-nuclear group, says the Canadian government has downplayed the radiation risks from Fukushima and is doing little to monitor them.
“We suspect we’re going to see more cancers, decreased fetal viability, decreased fertility, increased metabolic defects – and we expect them to be generational,” she said. [...]
Journalist: Hospital did no treatment on dead Tepco worker, simply called police — Officers took body away for autopsy
Autopsy Planned (or Done) for the Worker Who Died at Fukushima I Nuke Plant?, EX-SKF, Jan, 12, 2012:
(UPDATE from Ryuichi Kino: The police took the body right after the ambulance arrived at the hospital. So the worker had been dead. He’s asking how TEPCO (who had the personnel at the hospital) considered the whole situation.) [...]
According to the partial transcript of the TEPCO press conference on January 12, 2012 (independent journalist Ryuichi Kino asking TEPCO’s Matsumoto):
· The worker was “treated” on-site for 2 hours by the TEPCO doctor, which Kino said was rather unusual in the case of cardiopulmonary arrest.
· When the worker arrived at the hospital in an ambulance, the hospital did no treatment and simply called the police, according to Kino, and TEPCO’s Matsumoto didn’t deny it. (So the worker was dead already.)
Then the hilarity ensued as the following:
Kino: “The hospital called the police to conduct an autopsy. Did TEPCO know about it or was involved in the decision?”
Matsumoto: “TEPCO had a personnel waiting at the hospital, but no we weren’t involved in the decision to do the autopsy.”
Kino: “TEPCO personnel was at the hospital? So you knew that the police would conduct autopsy?”
Matsumoto: “Well, not directly, but from a subcontractor who was informed by the police that night.”
Kino: “So you did know the worker was dead on January 9 but kept telling us he was receiving treatment, for two days?“
Read the rest here
January 9th is also the date of a rumored explosion at the plant: Japan Lawmaker: Gov't may be concealing recent explosion at Reactor No. 4
Strange: Dramatic drop in background radiation just before radioactive cloud detected in Australia
Brief large spike in local background radiation. What caused it?, Sunshine Coast Computer Club by Peter Daley, Jan. 9, 2012:
Time
- 8th January 2012
- Geiger Counter Alarm starting going off at around 6.30 pm
- Raised radiation levels lasted until around 9.45 pm
Location
- Sunshine Coast, Australia [Queensland]
Conditions
- Wind direction was NNE at 22degrees
Equipment & Setup
- Gammascout Geiger Counter
- Alert alarm was set to go off at .50 uS/Hr, and to record data every 10 minutes
Results
- Visual observations showed actual peaks reaching .80 uS/Hr
- Even though this chart of the downloaded 10 minute interval recorded data is not showing the true peaks that occurred, it is still dramatic
- If the maximum visual observed peak had been recorded, the peak on this chart would be over twice as high!
Analysis
- The beginning of the chart would be considered average background for our area.
- Background radiation levels here, with 4 years of recorded data to refer to, has averaged around .10 uS/Hr.
- The background radiation level was peaking 8 times above average during this event!
Conclusion
- Either some of the radioactive fall out from Fukushima has briefly reached us, or there is some seismic activity N/NE of our location in the Pacific Ocean which has released a spike in radon gas. Just a theory.
Other Thoughts
- I was shocked to hear the Geiger alarm going off
- The dramatic drop in background reading just before the spike is also interesting. Anyone have any ideas?
- I promised members that I would post any unusual radiation data, I just didn’t expect to be doing this so soon
Jan. 6 tweet by Kinosita Kouta, a Japanese Journalist (Translation via Fukushima Diary)
At my lecture at Shirahama, I talked about my concern about the organic damage to the brain by radionuclides in Tokyo area for the first time. I feel like it’s going faster than we ever expected. The bad points of the personality are becoming more obvious, not answering the question directly and stick to different topics, forgetting about contents of the conversations. I often feel like, this person was not like this.
In the following interview broadcast within the last few weeks, a Chernobyl researcher reveals recent findings showing impaired neurological development in birds from radiation-contaminated areas that was influencing their ability to survive (e.g. escaping predators, finding food):
Plant Status of Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station,TEPCO : Press Release, Mar 12,2011:
[...]
No radiation impact to the external environment has been confirmed.
We will continue to monitor in detail the possibility of radioactive material being discharged from exhaust stack or discharge canal.
There is no missing person within the power station.
We are presently checking on the site situation of each plant while keeping the situation of aftershock and Tsunami in mind.
A seriously injured worker is still trapped in the crane operating console of the exhaust stack and his breathing and pulse cannot be confirmed.
Anthony’s reply to Bmurr reminded me that this was never posted…
Regulators bear down on OPPD nuke plant, Omaha World-Herald, Dec 14, 2011 (Emphasis Added):
At the troubled Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station
· Problems continue to emerge
· Federal regulators again are increasing their level of oversight
· [NRC] is creating a special panel of inspectors to oversee improvements and repairs at the reactor
· What essentially was a planned two-month outage is heading toward its ninth month as a result of this summer’s flooding
· Water surrounded OPPD’s buildings at Fort Calhoun, but the fuel was in no danger, officials have said.
· Even before Tuesday’s decision, Fort Calhoun had the worst grade a reactor can have and still operate
· Because of the additional problems that surfaced this summer, the NRC is moving Fort Calhoun into a different type of oversight
· Other reactors have been placed in this outside-the-norm review process
· Some have taken years to get back on line
· NRC [...] will not estimate a time for the plant to resume operations
· The NRC now controls when the plant starts
The Fire
· The June fire’s cause isn’t fully known, [an NRC spokeswoman] said
· The general consensus has been that it was unrelated to the flooding
The World-Herald fails to note why the fire was of such importance… fortunately the AP did
Two of the new violations are related to a small fire at Fort Calhoun that briefly knocked out the cooling system for used fuel in June.
12:45p EST: M4.1 quake hits Fukushima — Strongest intensity registered in Futaba County, home of Daiichi plant (MAPS)
January 12th, 2012
Watch (free) on Twitvid: Interview with Fukushima woman losing hair, nails, teeth — 87 minutes
January 12th, 2012
“Very shallow” M4.8 quake hits Fukushima region (MAP)
Kyodo: Fukushima Daini “not so fatally damaged” as Daiichi — Gov’t now making claims of cold shutdown ‘conditions’ at BOTH plants
January 12th, 2012
Reuters: Child leukaemia doubles near French nuclear plants says gov’t study — Result is statistically significant -IRSN expert
January 12th, 2012
CNN: Fukushima mothers outraged over newborns being exposed to radiation — Officials now considering widespread testing of breast milk
January 12th, 2012
M5.8 quake hits 60 km from Fukushima plant — Followed by multiple M4s (MAPS)
January 12th, 2012
Marine Chemist: “I’m convinced there are ongoing leaks”– A century of contamination? — Cesium levels not decreasing, same as July
January 11th, 2012
Kyodo: Worker at Fukushima nuclear plant dies
US: “Japan reports 5 persons have received lethal radiation doses” in first 5 days of Fukushima crisis
March 16th, 2011 – Japan reports 5 persons have received lethal radiation doses, Enformable, Jan. 11, 2012:
From: Feintuch, Karl [NRC Staff]
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 9:17 AM
[...]
Events in Japan (caution regarding maturity and reliability of following information) (Definition U = Unit)
* U1,2,3 have fuel damage
* U2 containment now appears to be intact.(contrary to earlier announcements)
* U1,2,3 have lost secondary containment integrity
* 60 mrem/hr dose at site boundary
* Z-H (Zirconium-Hydrogen) fire in U4 spent fuel pool
* U5, U6 fuel pool temp reported at 80 degC
* Multiple Z-H fires reported in spent fuel pools
* US to supply Japan with KI doses
* Japan reports 5 persons have received lethal radiation doses
* INPO appears to be lead in coordinating for US nuc industry
[...]
SOURCE: Enformable
See the full email here
AGAIN: Tepco President mentions ‘accident’ at Fukushima *DAINI*, not just Daiichi
Jiji: 5 billion becquerels of beta radiation in 10 liters of decontaminated water — Includes strontium and cesium
Kyodo: 300 tons of highly contaminated water found under Reactor No. 3 — Tepco checking how it got there
300 tons of tainted water found near No. 3 unit at Fukushima plant, Kyodo, January 13, 2012:
Tepco said Thursday
· Around 300 tons of water
· Contaminated with relatively high amounts of radioactive substances
· Found in an underground tunnel
· Near the No. 3 unit
· It will check how the contaminated water accumulated in the area
· Some water with lower concentrations of radioactive materials was also found in a tunnel near the No. 1 unit
Kyodo added that “on Wednesday, contaminated water was found to have accumulated in two underground tunnels”.
Report: Radiation levels double within 20 days of decontamination by Japan forces
Radiation level increased double within 20 days after decontamination, Fukushima Diary, January 12, 2012:
From 12/6/2011 to 12/20/2011, Japanese self defense force went to Fukushima to decontaminate. [...]
As expected, they successfully proved decontamination is meaningless.
· Self defense force struggled to decontaminate the flags of the Iidatemura town hall on 12/20/2011.
· 12/20: 1.57 microSv/h
· 12/29: 2.87 microSv/h
· 1/10: 3.26 microSv/h
· Between the stones of the path, dead leaves were already put.
Radiation levels spike in Miyagi milk — Highest since March
Cesium Level in Raw Milk in Southern Miyagi Is Rising, EX-SKF, January 13, 2012:
(SOURCE: http://www.r-info-miyagi.jp/r-info/food/#)
From Miyagi Prefecture’s website, the result of measurement of radioactive cesium in raw milk collected at “Sennan Cooler Station” in Shiroishi City in southern Miyagi from March 25 till December 20, 2011:
November 22: 2 becquerels/kg
November 29: 4 becquerels/kg
December 6: 21 becquerels/kg
December 13: 14 becquerels/kg
December 20: 22 becquerels/kg
Fukushima Radiation Spreads Worldwide
The University of California at Berkeley detected cesium levels in San Francisco area milk above over EPA limits … and even higher than they were 6 months ago.
Finnish public television says that cesium from Fukushima has been detected in lichens, fungi and elk and reindeer meat in Finland.
The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency confirmed a radiation cloud over the East Coast of Australia.
The West Coast of Canada is getting hit by debris from Japan … and at least some of it is likely radioactive.
Japanese, Canadian and American Officials Have “Betrayed” their Citizens By Hiding Radiation … “Akin to Murder”
In interviews and public statements, some current and former government officials have admitted that Japanese authorities engaged in a pattern of withholding damaging information and denying facts of the nuclear disaster — in order, some of them said, to limit the size of costly and disruptive evacuations in land-scarce Japan and to avoid public questioning of the politically powerful nuclear industry.
So the failure of the American, Canadian and other governments to test for and share results is making it difficult to hold an open scientific debate about what is happening.
Indeed, governments have been covering up nuclear meltdowns for 50 years to protect the nuclear power industry … to make sure that the elites get even richer.
Nuclear power can be safe, if it is handled correctly, and thorium cycle reactors are used.
If we had used those trillions of dollars used to bail out Wall Street to create that kind of nuclear power instead, we would be far less dependent on petroleum products for US energy production.
Thyroid cancer, fracking and nuclear power
An Activist Post Special Report
Rady Ananda
Thyroid cancer cases have more than doubled since 1997 in the United States, while deadly industrial practices that contaminate groundwater with radiation and other carcinogens are also rising.
New information released by the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) estimates that 56,460 people will develop thyroid cancer in 2012 and 1,780 will die from it.
That’s up from 16,000 thyroid cancer cases in 1997 – a whopping 253% increase in fifteen years, while the US population went up only 18%...
Radioactive tissue holders found at Bed, Bath & Beyond reveal hypocrisy of failed national security
How much radiation do these tissue holders emit, exactly? Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman David McIntyre said, on the record, that standing near one of these tissue holders for 30 minutes a day would expose you to the equivalent of "a couple of chest X-Rays" each year. The Illinois Emergency Management Agency went even further, issuing a release stating that every 10 hours spent near the product would expose you to the equivalent of one chest X-Ray (http://beaconnews.suntimes.com/news/9990656-418/no-immediate-threat-of-lo...).
In case you were wondering, a chest X-Ray is not a small dose of radiation.
After Fukushima, fish tales
After the world’s worst nuclear accident in 25 years, authorities in Canada said people living here were safe and faced no health risks from the fallout from Fukushima.
They said most of the radiation from the crippled Japanese nuclear power plant would fall into the ocean, where it would be diluted and not pose any danger.
Dr. Dale Dewar wasn’t convinced. Dewar, a family physician in Wynyard, Sask., doesn’t eat a lot of seafood herself, but when her grandchildren come to visit, she carefully checks seafood labels.
She wants to make sure she isn’t serving them anything that might come from the western Pacific Ocean.
Doctors unsure why thyroid cancer cases on the rise
"But we are certain it has nothing at all to do with those leaking nuclear reactors around the planet, because General Electric paid us a lot of money to say so!"
Title: New Photos From Inside Fukushima Daiichi
Source: SimplyInfo
Date: Jan 16, 2012
· These images appear to be from late 2011.
· The upper side corners remain. Those were eventually removed.
· All images appear to be from a video from NHK broadcasting. (Many thanks to Mary W for finding them).
· North East corner of unit 4 circles [Photo 1 below] indicate breaks in the outer building frame.
· The green vertical line [Photo 1 below] shows where the building begins to angle off vertical.
Tepco Drills a Hole in Fukushima Reactor … Finds that Nuclear Fuel Has Gone Missing
After drilling a hole in the containment vessel of Fukushima reactor 2, Tepco cannot find the fuel. As AP notes:
The steam-blurred photos taken by remote control Thursday found none of the reactor’s melted fuel ….
The photos also showed inner wall of the container heavily deteriorated after 10 months of exposure to high temperature and humidity, Matsumoto said.
TEPCO workers inserted the endoscope — an industrial version of the kind of endoscope doctors use — through a hole in the beaker-shaped container at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant’s No. 2 reactor ….
CBS Evening News: Radioactive waste from ‘decontamination’ buried in elementary school playground (VIDEO)
Title: A rare look inside Japan’s evacuation zone
Source: CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley
Date: Jan 16, 2012
The Japanese government has started an ambitious clean-up effort to make the area around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant safe for humans to return. Lucy Craft got a rare look inside the project.
Finland announces detection of cesium from Fukushima — Found in animals, plants, fungi
*Google Translation*
Title: Fukushima cesium found in the Finnish woods
Source: YLE (Finland Public Television, BBC counterpart)
Date: Jan 17, 2012
Finnish forests are small amounts of radioactive cesium, which is derived from Fukushima nuclear power plant in the March accident. Radiation and Nuclear Safety of the cesium-134 and 137 have been found in lichens, fungi as well as elk and reindeer meat. Radioactivity not detected drinking water, milk and food for sale.
Radiation collected in late summer and autumn samples, which were found Fukushima cesium.
Radiation and Nuclear Safety, the accident caused by the increase in Fukushima Finnish radiation dose is negligible. Fukushima the accident increased the amount of artificial radioactivity in Finnish natural products of the highest per cent. [...]
Report: High levels of cesium detected in Osaka Bay soil — 600 km from meltdowns
*Google Translation*
Title: Cesium 9,686 Bq / kg soil in Osaka Bay seabed emergency essentials – 1 / 14, strontium-90 detected!
Source: http://dub314.blog.fc2.com
Date: Jan 14, 2012
Cesium 9,686 Bq / kg soil in Osaka Bay seabed emergency essentials – 1 / 14, strontium-90 detected! -
Kind of analysis [core] MAX 9,686Bq/kg
1 / Bay / Osaka grab bottom sampler, December 29
Kansai International Airport near the seabed soil
· Cesium 134 7,271Bq／Kg
· Cesium 137 705Bq／Kg
· Strontium-90 28Bq／Kg
2 / Bay / Osaka grab bottom sampler, December 29
浜寺, seabed soil near the river mouth of the Yamato
· Cesium 134 8,924Bq／Kg
· Cesium 137 762Bq／Kg
· Strontium-90 31Bq／Kg
3 / Bay / Osaka grab bottom sampler, December 29
An Zhichuan estuary to pay near-bottom soil reel
· Cesium 134 3,527Bq／Kg
· Cesium 137 269Bq／Kg
· Strontium-90 ND (not detected)
Tsuna / Awaji
· Cesium 134 2,590Bq／Kg
· Cesium 137 172Bq／Kg
Part 4 / Osaka Bay, Whangarei / Nippon December 29
· Cesium 134 783Bq/kg
· Cesium-137 39Bq/Kg
· Strontium-90 ND
Thoughts on why the ratio of cs-134 to cs-137 is so high?
See also:
- Cesium-137 levels 100 times normal levels in Osaka, 350 miles SW of Fukushima -- First-ever detection of cesium-134
- Osaka detects radioactive substances in sewage sludge
Gundersen: Fukushima risk underestimated — 5% of young girls will get cancer living in 20 milliSv/y for 5 years — “Actually worse than that” — Hot particles NOT included & only counts cancers, not other effects (VIDEO)
Title: Cancer Risk To Young Children Near Fukushima Daiichi Underestimated
Source: Fairewinds Associates, Inc
Author: Arnie Gundersen, Nuclear Expert
Date: Jan 17, 2012
Transcript Excerpts [Emphasis Added]
[...] That gets me to the issue of BIER, Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation. [...]
Now in Japan, the Japanese government is allowing people to go back into these radiation zones, when the radiation exposure is 2 rem. What that means is that they are willing to say that your chances of getting cancer are 1 in 500 if you go back into these areas that are presently off limits, and the exposure levels are 2 rem or 20 milisieverts in a year.
But it is worse than that. The number that we are using in the BIER Report is for the entire population, old people and young. And old people are going to die of something else before a cancer gets to them, whereas young people have rapidly dividing cells and they live a longer time, so they are more likely to get cancer. So if you go into the BIER Report and you look at Table 12-D, you will see that young women have a 5 times that number chance of getting cancer than the population as a whole. So young girls in the Fukushima Prefecture are going to get 5 times the exposure they would get from 2 rem. That means that about one in 100 young girls is going to get cancer as a result of the exposure in Fukushima Prefecture. And that is for every year they are in that radiation zone [at 20 milliSv/y]. If you are in there for 5 years, it is 5 out of 100 young girls will get cancer.
Now the BIER Report only addresses cancer, and of course, there are other effects of radiation that are not included in BIER, so it is actually worse than that.
Two more items: The first is that the BIER Report does not address hot particles. Now we have been over that extensively on the site, and you will see that imbibing it (a kid gets radioactive cesium on their hands and they swallow it, or breathing it in), is not included in the BIER Report.
And the last piece brings us over to Ian Goddard’s video, and that is this assumption by the Japanese and International Atomic Energy Agency, that at some point, this radiation is really so hard to measure that it does not count anymore. Well, the data indicates that just the opposite is happening. And that brings me to Ian Goddard’s video. I will be back at the end of the video to try to summarize everything we have talked about today. [...]
Well, I would like to thank Ian Goddard for that excellent analysis and sum up what all of this means. According to the National Academy of Sciences, the BIER Report, Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation, the chance of someone in Fukushima receiving a cancer is about 1 in 500 at the threshold that the Japanese have set. But it is worse than that: Young girls are 5 times more radio-sensitive than the data indicates. So what that means is that at least 1 in 100 young girls is likely to get cancer if they go back in under those radiation limits. And that does not include hot particles and it does not include what Mr. Goddard has clearly shown is a problem of low-level exposures perhaps being worse than linear.
Read the report here
M4 quake centered near Fukushima plant — Only 10km deep — Level 3 of 7 intensity in Iwaki (MAPS)
Title: Earthquake Information
Source: Japan Meteorological Agency
Date: 22:33 JST 18 Jan 2012
22:29 JST 18 Jan 2012 Fukushima-ken Hamadori M4.0
NHK: Internal radiation exposure damages DNA — Plutonium hot particle seen in cell — Avoid touching the “death ash” (VIDEO)
Title: NHK reported the risk of internal exposure in June 2009
Source: Fukushima Diary
Date: January 21st, 2012
NHK broadcast a TV program about internal exposure risk of the victims by Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs though they keep reporting it’s not risky since 311.
In 2009, NHK broadcast a TV program to all over Japan, which was about the damage caused by internal exposure.
On the TV show, NHK introduced the picture of alpha ray emit from a particle left in a cell, which is Plutonium.
[...] even though they take out the part of skin cancer, the surrounding skin cells look normal but the DNA is actually damaged. [...]
They even call it a “death ash” to avoid touching but now they are making us eat it. [...]
Read the report here
Oysters growing at double normal speed in North Japan — “Rafts would have sunk from weight of oysters”
Calgary Sun: “No need to panic – probably” about Fukushima fallout that rained on Canada — Gov’t “hasn’t even released the data”… More
Title: Platt: Fukushima fallout hit home
Source: Calgary Sun
Author: Michael Platt
Date: Jan 22, 2012
Emphasis Added
· There’s no need to panic — probably
· But not knowing whether to shrug or cower over radioactive iodine falling on Calgary as a result of a meltdown in Japan last year has Canada’s top nuclear critic wondering why
· Health Canada hasn’t even released the data, saying it’s too small an amount to be worthy of public comment — and the same silence has applied for much of the Canadian data collected so far
· Health Canada confirms that last March, after the Fukushima nuclear accident, a Calgary monitoring station detected an average of 8.18 becquerels per litre of radioactive iodine, stemming from Japan
Dr. Gordon Edwards, a university professor, is president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility and a former advisor on nuclear matters to Ottawa and the Ontario government
· “Why aren’t they just reporting this stuff and not commenting — they seem to take it upon themselves to deny there’s any danger, even enough to let people know what’s happening”
· He’s been pointed when saying radiation from Fukushima will lead to higher rates of cancer in Canada — though he’s also quick to say the risk is tiny on a per-person basis
· Now he’s asking questions about rain which fell on Calgary shortly after the nuclear disaster last March, containing radioactive iodine well above the Health Canada guidelines for drinking water
· Edwards says Calgarians should at least have known there was a spike beyond recommended levels, especially as rain-bourne radiation concentrates in vegetation and the food chain
· “It’s not up to Health Canada to decide for everybody else what they should do”
Dr. Paul Gully, Health Canada’s senior medical advisor
- Officials with the federal agency say raising red flags over a “one off” sample of radioactive rain is fearmongering
- “Even if the level in water was close to what the upper limits would be, that would still mean someone would have to consume two litres a day, all year, in order to reach a level where they might possibly be at risk”
- “Therefore, for a level to be identified in Calgary in rainwater on one occasion, really means there is no risk — not in the past and not now”
- “Be reassured if there was a problem, and Health Canada does continuous monitoring, then Canadians would be informed”
Read the report here
Fact Check
1) Gully: A “one off” sample of radioactive rain [...] “identified in Calgary in rainwater on one occasion”
>> According to the Montreal Gazette reporter who initially published the Calgary radiation data:
· One Off? “Rain was tested only at the end of each month, after a network of monitoring stations sent samples to Ottawa. This meant the radiation spikes last March were only discovered in early April, after rainwater samples were sent to Ottawa for testing – too late to alert the public, including those who collect rain for drinking and gardening.”
· Just Calgary? “Some of Health Canada’s numbers are much lower than those reported by other radiation researchers. Simon Fraser University nuclear chemist Krzysztof Starosta found iodine levels in rainwater in Burnaby, B.C., spiked to 13 becquerels per litre in March – many times higher than the levels Health Canada detected in nearby Vancouver [March in Vancouver averaged only 0.69 becquerels per litre of I-131 in rainwater for the gov't, just 1/20th Starosta's levels].”
2) Gully: “Someone would have to consume two litres a day, all year, in order to reach a level where they might possibly be at risk”
>> The Calgary Sun article quotes Gordon Edwards, a former advisor on nuclear matters to Ottawa and the Ontario government:
“There are certain people who might be concerned — for instance, a pregnant woman [...] When a baby is growing inside, that baby should not be getting a dose of radiation at a critical moment of development, because when an embryo gets radiation, one damaged cell can multiply. A fetus is far more susceptible to radiation. Is a fetus likely to be harmed by this level of radiation? No, but could it be, yes.”
Top Gov’t Official: Fukushima nuke report was so shocking we decided to treat it as if it didn’t exist -Kyodo
Title: Cabinet kept alarming nuke report secret
Source: Kyodo
Date: Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012
Fearful of scaring public, existence of document was denied for months
The government buried a worst-case scenario for the Fukushima nuclear crisis that was drafted last March and kept it under wraps until the end of last year, sources in the administration said Saturday. [...]
“The content was so shocking that we decided to treat it as if it didn’t exist,” a senior government official said. [...]
The document forecast that in a worst-case scenario the plant’s crippled reactors would intermittently release massive quantities of radioactive materials for about a year.
The projection was based on a scenario in which a hydrogen explosion would tear through the No. 1 reactor’s containment vessel, forcing all workers at the plant to evacuate because of the ensuing lethal radiation levels. [...]
The Cover-up
· After the document was shown to a small, select group of senior government officials at the prime minister’s office in late March, the administration of then Prime Minister Naoto Kan decided to quietly bury it, the sources said
· In order to deny its existence, the government treated it as a personal document of Japan Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Shunsuke Kondo, who authored it, until the end of December, the sources said
Read the report here
40 microSv/h detected from radioactive gravel site used for schools, homes — Measured one meter above source
Title: Radiation of 40 microsieverts per hour detected at Namie quarry
Source: Mainichi Daily News
Date: Jan. 21, 2012
Up to 40 microsieverts of radiation per hour have been detected from gravel at a quarry in Fukushima Prefecture that shipped tainted gravel for construction work, government officials have said. [...]
Between 11 and 40 microsieverts of radiation per hour were detected one meter above gravel held at eight storage sites in the open, while 16 to 21 microsieverts were detected in three locations covered by roofs.
Officials said they will release the results of detailed analysis of the data as early as next week. [...]
Read the report here
Report: Concern Reactor 2 will not last long enough to begin removing melted fuel — PCV wall very corroded
Jan. 20 Tweets from Happy20790 ハッピー translated by Fukushima Diary:
https://twitter.com/#!/Happy20790
Tweet 1
From the video of endoscope, SUS pipes were not so corroded but carbon pipes have gone so corroded. We are supposed to start taking out the fuel debris in 10 years from now but I bet it does not last so long.
Tweet 2
The coating of the PCV wall is also being ripped off and the wall itself is very corroded though it’s better spec than system7. It must have been such a heat. Hatch of the operation control or airlock are even thinner so I’m worried about that too. I suppose rubber packing is also damaged.
“Fukushima worker Happy20790 concern[ed] reactor can not last until they manage to take out the fuel debris”-Fukushima Diary
AP: Integrity of Reactor No. 4 building a major concern among experts — Collapse of spent fuel pool could be even worse than 3 reactor meltdowns
TEPCO spokesman Junichi Matsumoto [...] said officials are investigating the cause of that leak, but that it was unlikely the pipe had been loosened by the many aftershocks that have hit the plant.
The structural integrity of the damaged Unit 4 reactor building has long been a major concern among experts because a collapse of its spent fuel cooling pool could cause a disaster worse than the three reactor meltdowns.
Radioactive leaks at crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant increase two months after it was declared safe
Fukushima Day 329 - NRC:96 Reactors in HIGHER QUAKE ZONES + leaks at 2 USA Nuclear Reactors
HEPA Air Filters in California Recorded Radiation Levels 538% Above Normal
A test of a HEPA air filter stationed in California recorded radiation levels at 351% and 538% above normal background levels.
The tests, conducted by the Enviroreporter, show levels much higher than normal background levels that are most likely coming from the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
It is clear that, despite a large scale misinformation campaign conducted by various governments and sock puppets throughout the internet, an increase in radiation HAS been seen in the United States after the Japan Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Frozen Fukushima leaking water
Up to 8.5 tons of radioactive water have leaked from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. TEPCO, the plant’s operator, failed to winterize the reactor’s cooling system, leading to fractures in its pipes due to frozen water inside.
"But Al Gore said we didn't have to worry about freezing any more!!!!!!!"
NEW Radiation Remedies, Update 26. Jan. 2012
Citizen Precautions:
1) Green Tea: Historically, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, surprising healing data would emerge. People not vaporized on the spot suffered radiation sickness. Cancers came later. Those who drank copious amounts of green tea tended to recover. White tea, especially Silver Needle, may be even more effective.
2) Clay Baths: Healing clay or bentonite has drawing power, pulling toxins out of the body. Clay baths have been taken to help heal the body of exposure to heavy metals, industrial and agricultural poisons and radiation. Drink plenty of water to avoid dehydration. Amount of clay ranges from 1 Tbs. to 1 cup per hot bath.
Bentonite is available at pharmacies. More exotic clays, rose, green and white, are stocked by health food stores. A particularly powerful clay is mined in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming: http://www.pascalite.com/ Rinse off after thirty minute soak.
A foot-bath is also effective. It can be as simple as a bucket, of wide enough diameter for the feet, set on a folded towel to help retain water warmth, the legs and bucket wrapped in a towel. 1 Tbs-1/4 cup clay. Might be a useful time sit in comfy chair and disengage from electronics, just close eyes, very soothing.
Mothers of autistic children report improvement using clay baths. Appalled at the shock of a happy child suddenly screaming into nightmare and remoteness following vaccination, mothers have activated into solution-mode. Clay baths are an ancient form of healing and are real.
3) Bentonite Veggie/Fruit Wash: The white clay, bentonite, is used by the nuclear industry to sop up radiation from its numerous spills and mishaps. If you use a salad spinner to rinse produce, try a soak of bentonite water, ~1 Tbs/gal. for 10 minutes. Pour off; rinse.
4) Baking Soda and Sea Salt Baths: The usual protocol calls for one pound baking soda and one pound sea salt. This is a bit weird--the water can actually turn opaque-gray and slimy if there's been significant radiation exposure--from medical procedures or mishaps. Be sure to drink water while soaking, and rinse off in shower afterward.
5) Lugol's Iodine: solution is taken by drops. With the 2.2% solution, the general recommended dosage is 1-2 drops in a glass of water with 1tsp apple cider vinegar, depending on body weight, 2x/week, (or 3x in the event of nuclear emergency. Are we there yet, EPA? ) Follow directions on your particular bottle; do not exceed dosage. Lugol's is inexpensive and the bottle contains 1200 doses, sufficient to share. Lugol's source:
http://www.bloodrootproducts.com/Lugol%27s-Lugols-Iodine-C22.html
7. September, 2011: Re Lugol's Iodine, I have just spoken with the very knowledgeable herbalist at the above link. Given the magnitude of Fukushima's ongoing radioactive fallout, it is now recommended to apply Lugol's daily--apply it topically to inner wrist or tummy, 1-4 drops. The herbalist stressed that Lugol's may be our most important remedy--Impaired thyroid function is now "normal" due to reasons discussed in the four radiation articles here. (See right sidebar.) Impaired thyroid function is associated with the diabetes epidemic, Alzheimer's, cancers, depression, chronic fatigue, etc. As an aside he is currently finding radioactive contamination at 1,000% normal in 1-2% of the herbs he tests (and rejects.)
10. Sept. Update: In applying therapeutic Lugol's iodine to wrist or tum topically, a guideline is as follows: If the iodine smear is absorbed in less than 12 hours, Houston we have an iodine deficiency. That can mean:
1. Meager intake.
2. Or, very high radioactive-iodine fallout, increasing need. As Japan/US/EPA have suppressed data, who's to know?
I have had a disturbing revelation in that regard. As a nutritionist, I have included sea veggies in my diet routinely for many, many years. I started on Lugol's Iodine by mouth mid-March. Ergo, all bases covered, or so I thought.
On the reco of the herbalist who formulates Lugol's, I began applying Lugol's topically on a daily basis. And watched appalled as the iodine was absorbed quickly.
Folks, this is not a drill. See to your families?
6) Sea veggies: contain natural iodine. The Japanese have high intake of edible seaweeds and till now have enjoyed exemplary health and longevity. Maine Coast Sea Veggies, a source in the US, has had a predictable increase in international orders when, say, a nuclear power plant in Europe vents radioactivity:
"Marine phytochemicals found only in sea vegetables have been shown to absorb and eliminate radioactive elements and heavy metal contaminants from our bodies. "
http://www.mountainroseherbs.com/
When Chernobyl blew, at least some of the children received potassium iodide. Why are parents, under Fukushima-cloud, not being advised that they and especially their children are at risk of thyroid cancer?
Governmental-let's- pretend, and media-silence, stand as a colossal breach of public duty.
7) Kombucha: A probiotic cultured from teas. Most medical research on its efficacy comes out of Eastern Europe and Germany, where MD's prescribe it. Kombucha is now available in health food stores in the US and some supermarkets. It can be made at home. See why-do and how-to at following link; scroll down:
http://feastandfamine.blogspot.com/2009/05/flying-pig-flu-power-up-immunity-with.html
8) Aloe vera Leaf Cancer Remedy: See your doctor, but this Brazilian remedy is worth a look. A Friar Minor living in the Amazonian hinterland learned it from the locals, and shared it with the world.
http://www.healingcancernaturally.com/aloe-vera-honey-rum-treatment.html
9) Zapper: The Naturopath, Dr. Hulda Clark, developed a zapper to deal with parasites and diseases. It was somewhat complex. More user-friendly and affordable 9V-battery-powered zappers have been developed, some utilizing Dr. Wilhelm Reich's research. Don Croft's version was reportedly sent to a Chernobyl First Responder, dying of radiation sickness and cancers. The man used it 24/7 and is said to have recovered. http://www.worldwithoutparasites.com/
10) Food: We don't yet know how radioactively-contaminated global agriculture may become. If fresh produce gets to be off-limits, it would be wise to have dry goods in pantry. Dried nettles are very high nutrient and delicious added to soups, beans, grains; ditto dried mushrooms, dried garlic, onions, peppers, spinach, spices, sea veggies. Stock in mung beans, which are very easy to sprout.
Quinoa cooks in twenty minutes and was called the "mother grain" in Inca times. Rice from the Far East is looking iffy. Brown and red rice take 45 minutes to cook, delicious/nutritious drizzled with soy sauce.
Our fast-paced society may return to higher-nutrient foods and meals together.
Teas from Japan and China may not be safely available. Chlorella, a valuable tonic and chelator of heavy metals and toxins, is grown in Japan, alas. Existing stocks represent a premier food. Hawaiian-grown spirulina, also an excellent superfood, might be purchased now as well.
The following link was sleuthed by savvy-friend and contains a moving account by a Japanese physician, speaking of heroes, who gives an account of staying at his hospital in devastated Nagasaki and insisting all staff and patients be fed macrobiotic foods and absolutely no sugar. His patients recovered from radiation sickness, and he and staff were able to remain a vital and healing presence in the midst of radioactive rubble:
Nuclear power plants may be a wrong turn for living things, and they've been built on tsunami-vulnerable coasts and fault lines. Common sense has not prevailed. Natural disasters and human error do happen. Best scenario, don't live near one, though millions do. It might be sensible to stock in some of the radiation remedies and nutritious foods for your family, for community.
Governments Worldwide Raise Acceptable Radiation Levels Based Upon Politics … Not Science
Instead of Protecting People, Governments Cover Up by Raising “Safe” Radiation Levels
American and Canadian authorities have virtually stopped monitoring airborne radiation.
Neither American nor Canadian authorities are testing fish for radioactivity.
Does that mean that we don’t have to worry about radiation from Fukushima?
It is a little hard to know, given that what is deemed a “safe level” of radiation is determined by politics … rather than science. For example, current safety standards are based on the ridiculous assumption that everyone exposed is a healthy man in his 20s – and that radioactive particles ingested into the body cause no more damage than radiation hitting the outside of the body.
Unprecedented phenomenon from using saltwater in Fukushima reactors — Forming new uranium compounds able to travel long distances
Seawater can corrode nuclear fuel, forming uranium compounds that could potentially travel long distances, either in solution or as very small particles. Uranium clusters could form on the surface of a fuel rod exposed to seawater and then be transported away, surviving in the environment for months or years before reverting to more common forms of uranium, without peroxide, and settling to the bottom of the ocean. There is no data yet on how fast these uranium peroxide clusters will break down in the environment, Navrotsky said.
All the explosions (quakes) people have been feeling around Fukushima that are listed as earthquakes on the Japan sensors. The fact that they could not find the fuel rods when they looked in Reactor 2, was obvious something big is going on at Fukushima.
Now TEPCO has announced 70 million becquerels per hour of radiation is being leaked into the air.
[Tepco] on Monday reported an increase in radioactive materials leaking from damaged nuclear reactors [...]
The total amount of radioactive cesium that leaked from the containment vessels of the No. 1 to No. 3 reactors reached 70 million becquerels per hour, up 12 million becquerels from the December level [...]
Tepco Admits that Radiation Levels from Fukushima Are RISING
Fukushima Operator Admits 20% Increase In Radiation
JiJi Press – one of Japan’s largest news sources – reports:
Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Monday reported an increase in radioactive materials leaking from damaged nuclear reactors at the Fukushima … plant.
The total amount of radioactive cesium that leaked from the containment vessels of the No. 1 to No. 3 reactors reached 70 million becquerels per hour, up 12 million becquerels from the December level, the power firm said.
It seems that radioactive dusts were stirred up because plant workers went inside reactor buildings and removed rubble, TEPCO officials said.
While it is possible that the increased radiation is simply due to dust being stirred up, there is some evidence that the increase in radiation corresponds with recent earthquakes.
Or it could be due to the possible escape of nuclear fuel from the nuclear container vessels.
Indeed, a Fukushima whistleblower allegedly claims that radioactive fuel is coming out from beneath the containment building:
Hot Rain: High Radiation Levels Recorded In Michigan
Radiation readings from the EnviroReporter have revealed high levels of HOT particles in Michigan, possibly from the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Radiation levels after a storm in the area read 561% over normal background levels. Then, after a second storm, the levels were even higher, 6.5 times higher than normal accepted levels to be exact.
Michael Collins, the founder of EnviroReporter recently published a detailed article on the readings:
Multiple Earthquakes at Fukushima. Video of quake and fire. Are they Explosions at nuclear plant?
I had been looking at the Japanese quake site this morning and noticed many Earthquakes at Fukushima today and yesterday. There are more listed on the site linked above. Notice the size of these quakes.
17:11 JST 24 Jan 201217:07 JST 24 Jan 2012Fukushima-ken Oki M4.5
20:55 JST 23 Jan 201220:45 JST 23 Jan 2012Fukushima-ken Oki M5.1
20:49 JST 23 Jan 201220:45 JST 23 Jan 2012Fukushima-ken Oki M5.1
-20:23 JST 23 Jan 201220:18 JST 23 Jan 2012Fukushima-ken Oki M4.5
Upon going to Fukushima Diary this morning they have very compelling information up about the 4.5 quake that happened yesterday and listed above. Here is what they have up as the top story:
Earthquake at Fukushima : could it be an hydrogen explosion ?
A Judge Rules Vermont Can’t Shut Nuclear Plant
A federal judge on Thursday blocked Vermont from forcing the Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor to shut down when its license expires in March, saying that the state is trying to regulate nuclear safety, which only the federal government can do.
"You will eat your gamma rays, AND YOU WILL LIKE IT, SLAVES!!!" -- Official White Horse Souse
Department of Energy Low Dose Radiation Exposure Study Exposed
The Department of Energy is far from an unbiased source on the Nuclear Industry. They have openly admitted in publicly released promotional videos that they are working to support our nations nuclear industry.
They have consistently attempted to change the accepted mainstream science on the dangers of radiation and redefine low dose radiation exposure as harmless.
The recent study is nothing short of junk science that will be used to continue to downplay the dangers of the low level amounts of radiation frequently released by our nations nuclear power plants.
Japan Professor: “Inconceivable” that no records were kept by gov’t early on in Fukushima crisis — Top official says records will be ‘created’ soon
Title: Minutes of past gov’t meetings on Fukushima crisis to be created
Source: Kyodo
Date: Jan 24, 2012
Japanese industry minister Yukio Edano on Tuesday apologized for the government’s failure to take minutes of meetings of a taskforce dealing with the Fukushima nuclear crisis and said that he has instructed the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency to compile them soon based on notes taken by meeting attendees. [...]
Radiation dose spikes thoughout Tokyo area after yesterday’s quake (CHARTS)
Title: National radioactivity concentration
Source: atmc.jp
Date: Last updated Jan 24, 2012 at 17:30 JST
Graphed data created based on reports from [...] http://radioactivity.mext.go.jp/ja/monitoring_by_prefecture/
All MEXT monitoring stations in and around the greater Tokyo area showed significant spikes in radiation. This includes Tokyo (Shinjuku), Saitama, Kaangawa, Chiba, and Ibaraki.
Yesterday’s M5.1 quake in Fukushima occurred at 8:45p, about 30 minutes after a M4.5 hit nearby. The charts at the bottom give a more precise idea of the timing of the radiation spikes measured throughout the Tokyo area.
Tepco admits radiation levels from Fukushima increasing — Now releasing 70,000,000 Bq/hr — Reactor 3 leaking most
Title: TEPCO Notes Rise in Radioactive Leaks from Damaged Reactors
Source: Jiji Press
Date: Jan 23, 2012
[Tepco] on Monday reported an increase in radioactive materials leaking from damaged nuclear reactors [...]
The total amount of radioactive cesium that leaked from the containment vessels of the No. 1 to No. 3 reactors reached 70 million becquerels per hour, up 12 million becquerels from the December level [...]
It seems that radioactive dusts were stirred up because plant workers went inside reactor buildings and removed rubble [...]
Last month, the leaked amount was put at 10 million becquerels each for the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors and 40 million becquerels for the No. 3 reactor.
Read the report here
Radiation dose spikes in Ibaraki northeast of Tokyo after last night’s 5 intensity quake — Highest level measured since April — Double average
Title: Dose at Tsukuba(KEK)
Source: HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION, KEK
Date: Jan 24, 2012
Measured at: Oho 1, Tsukuba 305-0801, Japan [50 km northeast of Tokyo, 150+ km from Fukushima]
Detector: GM counter (photo)
Below, the spike appears to begin around 20:00 on 1/23 and reaches almost 0.2 microSv/h, about twice the normal level:
Local gov’t survey: Deteriorating health reported by residents — 60% affected after fleeing radiation — Were 40km away from Fukushima plant
09:31 PM EDT on January 29th, 2012
Impossible? Worst-case scenario prompted gov’t to send reinforcement to Fukushima plant — “We could not even announce the fact that we compiled such a simulation” -Top Official
07:47 PM EDT on January 29th, 2012
Tepco: “Radioactively contaminated water” came from ruptured frozen pipes — Only cesium was removed — NHK had claimed no radioactivity
CBC on TMI: Reports of enormous increase in cancer deaths — Infant mortality rates doubled — Birds disappeared — Many mutations observed (VIDEO)
Title: Counting the Costs: Three Mile Island
Source: Listener’s Choice from CBC Radio
Date: June 6th, 2008
Gwen Anderson was only twenty-three years old when she first heard “Counting the Costs: Three Mile Island” on CBC Radio. Now it’s twenty-three years later, and Gwen earns a living doing the same kind of work that the men at Three Mile Island did. She requested this Ideas documentary from Winnipeg. It originally aired on October 13th, 1986.
Transcript Summary
- Reports we are getting say infant mortality rates doubled
- More important is the enormous increase in cancer deaths in children in the four counties surrounding TMI compared to the numbers previous to the accident that the health department listed even on say leukemia
- Animals and plants damaged substantially
- We have done an in-depth report on plant life
- We are seeing many mutations
- We saw the leaves the first year
- All the birds on the farm disappeared
- The trees, it looked like winter
- Not only did we see complete defoliation, we saw trees defoliated at different levels
Full 4-hour broadcast here:
Download the full broadcast here: http://dailysplice.com/directory/CBC-Radio-Listeners-Choice-podcast/episode-160542#
Tepco: Frozen water ruptures pipes at Fukushima plant — Cooling system stops at Spent Fuel Pool No. 4
01:04 AM EDT on January 29th, 2012
NHK: Gov’t to check chromosomes of Fukushima wildlife — “Plant and animal appearance”, “reproductive function” as well
02:18 PM EDT on January 28th, 2012
Leftovers: Local gov’ts testing school lunches AFTER children have already eaten -Yomiuri
Radioactive Leak at California Nuclear Power Plant
Officials at the San Onofre nuclear power plant shut down one of the facility’s two units Tuesday evening after a sensor detected a possible leak in a steam generator tube.
AP: Many tubes found damaged at San Diego-area nuke plant — “Unusual” says NRC — Cause unknown — Radiation could have escaped… Developing
Rare quake hits near troubled Illinois nuke plant releasing radioactive steam — “That’s right, she said earthquake” (VIDEO)
Ca chauffe à Fukushima
Rien ne va plus à Fukushima Daiichi. Il ne suffit pas qu’un gouvernement décrète un arrêt à froid pour qu’une catastrophe incontrôlable soit subitement réglée...
Depuis janvier 2012, l’inquiétude grandit à nouveau, car la température monte, et malgré une injection d’eau beaucoup plus importante dans le réacteur n°2, la température pourrait atteindre aujourd’hui, selon Fukushima Diary, 90°C. Or, un « arrêt à froid » selon les autorités japonaises n’a lieu qu’à partir du moment où la température est inférieure à 80 °C.
Les autorités locales de Fukushima demandent à Tepco de fournir des informations heure par heure, preuve que l’inquiétude est vive depuis cette montée brusque.
Par ailleurs, selon Hiroaki Koide, la NSC (Commission de Sécurité Nucléaire Japonaise) procéderait actuellement à la distribution de pastilles d'iode stable auprès de la population non-évacuée située dans un rayon de 30 km, voire 50 km autour de la centrale accidentée.
Il semble qu’une brusque montée de la radioactivité ait précédé cette montée de température (lien).
La situation redevient donc critique à Fukushima.
Mais ce n’est pas que l’unité 2 qui a des soucis...
L’unité 3 a montré des signes extérieurs d’activité, comme ce panache de fumée ou de vapeur qui s’élève au dessus de la ruine le 7 février 2012 :
L’unité 4, avec sa piscine qui fuit, a fait aussi une belle démonstration de réchauffement subit le 6 février 2012 :
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et actualités à suivre sur Fukushima Information, Fukushima Diary, Gen4 et EX-SKF
Les évènements des derniers jours dans le détail par Trifouillax :
11/02/2012
10/02/2012
La température de l'unité 1F2 n'est toujours pas maîtrisée par Tepco
09/02/2012
Comme prévu, Tepco stoppera son dernier réacteur nucléaire encore en production le 26 mars
08/02/2012
07/02/2012
06/02/2012
Infos Tepco : relevés des paramètres de niveau d’eau, de pression et de température
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/index5-j.html#anchor01
Article du Monde : La température pourrait avoir remonté dans le réacteur de Fukushima
Documents diffusés par Tepco le 12/02/2012 :
One thermometer high at Fukushima No.2 reactor
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says one of the thermometers in the damaged No.2 reactor has been indicating a rise in temperature.
Tokyo Electric Power Company says one of the 3 thermometers at the bottom of the reactor read 71.7 degrees Celsius as of 4 PM on Sunday, as compared to about 45 on January 27th.
The temperature rose about 25 degrees in about 10 days.
Fukushima Nuclear Reactors In Nuclear Meltdown Once Again
Several Fukushima Nuclear reactors are overheating again as TEPCO says water is failing to cool them down and Boric acid is being injected - a tell tale sign of a nuclear meltdown.
Jiji: Japan gov’t picked facilities to treat people with radiation exposure — Fukushima hospitals failed to cope with nuclear victims
Nuclear agency approves first nuclear reactors since 1978
ATLANTA – The Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the nation's first nuclear power plant in a generation on Thursday, clearing the way for Atlanta-based Southern Co. to build two reactors at its Plant Vogtle site near Augusta.
01:44 PM EDT on February 7th, 2012
San Onofre Whistleblower: This is extremely significant — They had an actual tube rupture — This is very, very significant (VIDEO)
Exposed? Asahi: Water may not be reaching part of melted nuclear fuel from Reactor No. 2, says unnamed Tepco official
09:47 AM EDT on February 7th, 2012
NHK: Unknown temperature rise at Reactor No. 2 troubling Tepco — Says it hasn’t gone down even after increasing volume of cooling water on Tuesday (VIDEO)
08:25 AM EDT on February 7th, 2012
Tepco: Recriticality “probably” did not occur at Reactor No. 2 — “Difficult to judge” whether temperature rising or falling
05:00 AM EDT on February 7th, 2012
US gov’t kept worst-case Fukushima scenario secret from public — “Possibility of radiation exceeding safe levels for thyroid doses in Alaska”
03:24 AM EDT on February 7th, 2012
Bloomberg: “Nuclear reaction threat” as temperature rises — Head of Japan nuke institute: “Nobody is sure about the location of melted fuel — A similar incident will probably occur again”
12:27 AM EDT on February 7th, 2012
Tepco Handout: Reactor No. 2 hits highest temperature this year — RPV now at 72.2°C
Kyodo: Highest radioactivity levels detected in Aichi since March 14 — Greater Tokyo area also increased (CHARTS)
Title: Translation of Kyodo News Article
Source: Kyodo
Date: Feb 7, 2012 at 18:45
Japanese to English Translation by Rooks
NRC Approves First New U.S. Nuclear Reactors in 30 Years … Fatal Flaws In Fukushima Design NOT Fixed
The geniuses at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have given the green light for new nuclear power plants in the U.S. … which don’t include safety upgrades which were demonstrated vital by the Fukushima meltdown.
February 12th, 2012 | 10 comments
Tepco: 91.2°C at Reactor No. 2 — Reporter suspicious of instrument failure claim since it’s steadily rising in small increments
09:22 PM EDT on February 12th, 2012
Mystery: Radioactive black substance reported 25km from Fukushima — Latest measurement over 95 µSv/h — Strong alpha emitter detected (PHOTOS)
03:56 PM EDT on February 12th, 2012
Fukushima Worker: I don’t think temperature gauge is broken — Likely area is getting heated
02:47 PM EDT on February 12th, 2012
NHK: Gov’t report said if Fukushima containment vessels were damaged, Tokyo would be voluntarily evacuated
01:07 PM EDT on February 12th, 2012
Official: Flakes fell like snow after first Fukushima explosion — “It was like a movie”
09:58 AM EDT on February 12th, 2012
Mayor near Fukushima: “I’ve lost almost all body hair from chest down” — “Nosebleed hasn’t stopped”
09:12 AM EDT on February 12th, 2012
Mainichi: Fukushima gov’t requests temperature updates every one hour — Wants prompt warning of potential risks from increase
08:21 AM EDT on February 12th, 2012
Asahi Reporter: Tepco graph shows spike above 90°C at Reactor No. 2 — Exactly how high have temperatures gone?
07:35 AM EDT on February 12th, 2012
NHK: Highest temperature since claim of ‘cold shutdown’ — Asahi: Could force gov’t to revoke declaration
02:42 AM EDT on February 12th, 2012
82°C at Reactor No. 2 — Keeps rising even after injection of more water — Tepco “set to dump in boric acid”
February 11th, 2012
*JUST IN* Nikkei: Reactor No. 2 hits 78.3°C — Melted fuel may be moving inside RPV -Tepco
03:55 PM EDT on February 11th, 2012
Japan Journalist: It’s now 78°C in Reactor No. 2 — Can’t disclose source
02:50 PM EDT on February 11th, 2012
NHK: Tepco “believes” Reactor No. 2 is in a state of cold shutdown (VIDEO)
02:16 PM EDT on February 11th, 2012
Reactor No. 2 temperature shoots to 75°C — Tepco increasing water injections again — 5°C from warning level
12:59 PM EDT on February 11th, 2012
A Media Retrospective: Is the nuclear fuel in Spent Fuel Pool No. 4 damaged?
11:57 AM EDT on February 11th, 2012
Asahi: Parts of Spent Fuel Pool No. 4 footage “were unclear” — No “change in shape” of fuel assemblied “observed” -Tepco
10:42 AM EDT on February 11th, 2012
7°C temperature increase at Reactor No. 2 (VIDEO)
February 11th, 2012 | 43 comments
NYT: Gov’t to focus on 8,000+ square miles most contaminated by Fukushima fallout — “Nobody really knows how to clean up radiation” says worker
10:13 PM EDT on February 10th, 2012
US gov’t secretly injected people with plutonium — Disabled school children fed radioactive oatmeal (VIDEO)
05:32 PM EDT on February 10th, 2012
Troubled Calif. nuke plant may not even apply for a renewal license — Says 4,000 tons of high-level radioactive waste stored onsite
12:41 PM EDT on February 10th, 2012
“This is a developing story”: NBC has learned there’s been a leak at Hanford — “Radioactive reading” near cracked container of radioactive waste
10:48 AM EDT on February 10th, 2012
“Sophisticated Press Manipulation”: Journalist’s detailed critique of PBS Frontline’s Fukushima program
February 10th, 2012
Tepco releases video of Spent Fuel Pool No. 4: Debris that fell on racks of fuel rods “apparently” caused no damage (VIDEO)
Title: TEPCO says no damage to spent fuel at Fukushima
Source: NHK
Date: Friday, February 10, 2012 20:37 +0900 (JST)
[... Tepco] on Friday released video of the storage pool at the No.4 reactor building taken by an underwater camera the previous day.
The utility says the footage shows debris fell onto the rack containing the fuel rods but apparently caused no damage. Visibility in the pool is reportedly about 5 meters. [...]
The No.4 reactor was offline and had no active fuel when a powerful earthquake and tsunami disabled the plant on March 11th last year.
But a hydrogen explosion blew off the reactor’s roof and sent wreckage into the pool, making it difficult to assess conditions inside.
Read the report here
February 10th, 2012
Tepco prepares to film Spent Fuel Pool No. 4 — “You can vaguely discern the fuel rods” says worker
07:48 AM EDT on February 10th, 2012
Japan Media: “Wasteland” at Fukushima Daini perfect place for Tepco to set-up decontamination factory
12:06 AM EDT on February 10th, 2012
“Highly Unusual”: Authorities demand stop to construction of new reactors — Officials worried releases of gas and toxic liquids will severely affect nearby residents -Chinese Media
09:41 PM EDT on February 9th, 2012
Yomiuri: Fukushima Daini was ‘near meltdown’ admits head of plant — “At the moment, I can only say we’ll maintain a STATE of cold shutdown”
08:18 PM EDT on February 9th, 2012
Explosion at Reactor No. 1 reportedly caused by damage from quake: NRC
06:00 PM EDT on February 9th, 2012
Newly published photos of bird abnormalities in areas contaminated with radiation, via USC study (PHOTOS)
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