French officials sat NATO is almost ready to help with actions against Libya, possibly in a few days.
The Arab League stated that they did not want the military actions against Libya to become controlled by NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). Arab League leader Amr Moussa said, “What is happening in Libya differs from the aim of imposing a no-fly zone.”
Many EU countries, like Italy & U.K., have asked NATO to take command of the operations against Libya.
Ten prefectures have radioactive tap water, according to the Japanese government.
Fukushima, Tochigi, Gunma, Saitama, Chiba, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Niigata and Yamanashi prefectures.
Tap water in Tochigi and Gunma revealed radioactive iodine and cesium.
Radioactive iodine alone was found in Saitama, Chiba, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Niigata and Yamanashi prefectures.
It must be noted that several different government agencies are involved with testing for radiation levels. People have been told the radiation levels exceed safety levels, but officials think that at this point there is not health threat.
Over the weekend food products from Fukushima Prefecture were banned due to radiation contamination. Now 3 more prefectures have been added to the food ban.
Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gunma prefectures have now been told their food products are contaminated was well. Earlier Ibaraki Prefecture had spinach test positive for contamination, but wasn’t told to stop shipments.
Once again the government is confusing people by saying the radiation levels in the food had exceeded established safety levels, but was not harmful if eaten.
Workers were evacuated from the Fukushimah Daiichi nuclear plant after smoke started pouring from reactors 2 & 3. Planned water spraying had to be stopped.
White smoke/steam coming from reactor 2, from a crack in the roof, it is probably from the spent fuel pool.
Reactor 3 more serious; black/gray smoke coming from whats left of the reactor (reactor 3 exploded last week).
There is speculation that the smoke might be related to the recently increasing radiation levels.
Masataka Shimizu, chief executive of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), hasn’t been seen in a week.
He’s in charge of the company dealing with one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters, Fukushima Daiichi. Many Japanese want to know where he is.
Even the BP (British Petroluem) CEO held press conferences during the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster last year.
USAF C-17 transport from Vandenburg Air Force Base, in California, has left for Japan loaded with 17 tons of boric acid.
The boric acid is from the stock pile at the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in California. It’s to be used on the reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
People living in parts of Fukushima Prefecture have been told not to drink tap water. Japanese officials say the radiation levels in the water are now higher that government safety limits.
The confusion comes from Japanese officials also saying that there is no immediate health risk from drinking the water.
Already, oil trading in Europe has seen oil prices jump $2.00 per barrel since Friday.
It is due to the attacks on Libya.
In a CNNMoney survey 16 out 23 leading economists say rising oil prices are the number one threat to any economic recovery.
Interestingly The Federal Reserve showed little concern over rising oil/fuel prices during its March 15 meeting.
While Germany abstained from voting on UNSCR 1973, it is going to help the U.S. bomb Libya anyway.
The German Luftwaffe will replace USAF/NATO units in Afghanistan, so those units can be used against Libya.
Chancellor Angela Merkel specifically mentioned replacing NATO AWACS units.
The German magazine Der Spiegel has published photos that show U.S. troops in Afghanistan taking part in “trophy killing” of Afghans.
“The guys in my group have murdered an innocent Afghan. He was my age. They planned everything out. I knew about it, but didn’t believe that it would actually happen. Almost everyone in the group knows full well what happened, and they think it’s ok. I’m the only one who doesn’t. I want to do something about it, but I don’t have the courage.” -Facebook posting by alleged whistleblower
Some of the photos show that the victims were handcuffed together. Another photo shows a dead victim with their pants pulled down, and a U.S. soldier grinning. Kind of like the Abu Ghraib photos from Iraq, but this time people were murdered.
“We apologize for the distress these photos cause. The actions portrayed in these photographs remain under investigation and are now the subject of ongoing U.S. court-martial proceedings.” -U.S. Army
Notice that the U.S. Army apologizes for the photos, not the actions of their troops. Army officials have stated that the troops violated policies, but there is no apology to the victim’s families.
The U.S. soldiers, part of the Stryker Brigade, are a self described “Kill Team”. They faked enemy ambushes so they could justify killing unarmed men.
Der Spiegel magazine published only 3 of the 4,000 photos, because most of the photos were too “disgusting”. The photos are being used in the court martial hearings.