Researchers at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Kyoto University and other institutes say the actual radiation pouring into the Pacific Ocean, from Fukushima Daiichi, is at least three times what Tokyo Electric Power Company is officially reporting.
The researchers say that at least 15,000 terabecquerels (1 terabecquerel = 1.0 × 10+12 becquerels) of radioactive iodine-131 and cesium-137 has entered the ocean!!! They say TEPCo is not monitoring airborne radiation that falls into the ocean.
In less than a day after Japan’s new policy chief Seiji Maehara recommended changes to Japan’s military policies, Russia has declared a no fly zone north of Japan.
The no fly zone could be part of Russia’s planned war games in the Sea of Okhotsk, northeast of Hokkaido. Japan is asking for details from Russia.
Russian officials are confirming that two of their Tu 95 Bear bombers flew around Japan. But insisted they were over international water. The Japanese scrambled fighter jets, the Japanese pilots confirmed the Russian bombers were over international water.
These incidents have got the fragile Japanese government on edge. Russia and Japan are disputing claims over islands north of Hokkaido.
On September 7, moderator Brian Williams opened up a question for Governor Perry by first reminding him that his state has executed 234 men under his watch, a bodycount much greater than any other governor, but before Williams could get to his question, the crowd broke into applause to laud Perry for his accomplishment.
“Have you struggled to sleep at night with the idea that any one of those might have been innocent?” Williams asked Perry.
“No sir,” responded the ‘christian’ governor Rick Perry, “I’ve never struggled with that at all.”
Now realize that Texas has executed innocent people! Which makes these Texas ‘christians’ even more sick in the head!
Other Texans are going to make sure everyone knows that innocent people have been executed under ‘christian’ Rick Perry’s watch: The 12th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty is October 22, in Austin at the Texas Capitol.
A woman lay belly-down on the floor of the Pimlico Race Course, handcuffed and beaten bloody by Baltimore Police. A man recorded the scene on his cell phone camera. Immediately the police grabbed the phone and erased the recording, including months of family recordings.
Now, thanks to the 1st Circuit of the U. S. Court of Appeals, which ruled that police business is public business, therefore can be recorded, the man who lost the recordings is now suing.
The American Civil Liberties Union is also suing: “It is antithetical to a democracy for the government to tell its citizens that they do not have the right to record what government officials say or do or how they behave in public.”-Deobrah Jeon, ACLU
On August 26, the 1st Circuit of the U. S. Court of Appeals held that videotaping police in the course of their public duties is “unambiguously” a free speech right protected under the First Amendment!
However, that is not stopping the state of Illinois from trying a man charged with eavesdropping, after he recorded an incident in which he was confronted by police on his mother’s property.
The man is facing five counts of eavesdropping, and could face 15 years in prison for each charge.
In the 1st Circuit of the U. S. Court of Appeals case Massachusetts police argued that their privacy rights were being violated every time someone recorded them on duty. The courts ruled that while a police officer is on duty they are no longer living a private life, they are on public duty. The appellate judges found that citizens have a First Amendment right to record government officials carrying out their duties in a public space!
Here’s something else to think about: If police claim they can not be recorded because it violates their privacy, and is a threat to security, then their own dash cams in their police cars are illegal! In fact all security cameras are illegal by that reasoning! Haven’t people tried to fight security camera use using that very reasoning, and lost? What gives police the special right to be excluded from public video and audio recordings?
Texans are suffering the worst fires in Texas history. Did you know that Governor Rick Perry slashed the state firefighting budget by 75%?
Earlier in 2011 Perry said he was planning on slashing funding for the volunteer fire department from $30 million down to $7 million! Back in May, Forest Service Director Tom Boggus told Reuters that volunteer programs were the number one defense against wild fires. Despite this, the Texas Forest Service is expected to see $34 million in cuts over the next two years, no thanks to Rick Perry.
Rick Perry recently tried to blame Obama for lack of funding for Texas firefighters: “It is not only the obligation of the federal government, but its responsibility under law to help its citizens in times of emergency.”
Perry’s cronies say their cuts are necessary to save money: “We understand the difficulty they have had in dealing with almost unprecedented numbers of fires this year. We also understand that in order to balance the budget, everybody needs to endure some reductions.”-Talmadge Heflin, Center for Fiscal Policy/Texas Public Policy Foundation
But get this, the ‘savings’ in cuts to Texas firefighting services have been totally negated by the cost of this year’s ongoing fires. So far damages are estimated to be $5 billion, and counting!
And yet the historic fires of Texas aren’t enough to stop ‘christian’ Rick Perry from campaigning for President of the United States!
Currently the Japanese constitution does not allow the sale of Japanese made weapons to other countries. It does not allow Japanese troops to be used outside Japan, although the government got around this by ordering their troops not to carry weapons on ‘peacekeeping’ missions.
Japan’s new policy chief Seiji Maehara, is recommending changing the constitution to relax criteria for weapons use by Japanese Self-Defense Forces taking part in UN peacekeeping operations. He says Japanese troops could help the U.S. by being able to actually fight alongside U.S. forces.
Also, Maehara claims that without letting the Japanese military industry sell weapons to other countries, and take part in advanced weapons development with countries like the United States, Japan’s military defenses could become technologically outdated.
Corporate bankruptcies in Japan have risen for the second month in a row, they blame the rising value of their yen, which is being pushed up by the falling U.S. dollar.
Credit research firm Teikoku Databank says 969 companies failed in August!
The strong yen is causing a drop in orders and exports, and causing trading losses in currency derivatives.
The research firm warns of a vicious spiral, with more companies shifting production overseas to escape the high yen, in turn cutting even more orders to Japanese firms and putting them at risk of bankruptcy.
Australia’s economy is doing much better that the U.S. economy, thanks to their deals with China, yet the state government of New South Wales is going to layoff 5,000 government employees, and cap government wages!
Also, Australia’s biggest steel maker, BlueScopeSteel, is laying off 1,000 workers! Back in July solar power companies announced they were losing 73 jobs per day in New South Wales!
September 8 saw 30,000 protestors hit the streets in Sydney.
The latest economic news out of Australia says consumer spending is up, 1%, and their export economy hit 1.2% growth. Household savings is at 10.5%. Analysts expect overall economic growth to expand by 4.3% by the end of the year. Much better than the U.S.
So why are Australians still losing their jobs?
BlueScopeSteel claims they’ve been losing money, no thanks to the rising Australian dollar! Company officials says most of their sales are overseas, and the high Australian dollar makes their products too expensive for international customers.
Workers and union officials say it’s really because company management is financially incompetent.
As the U.S. dollar falls, other currencies, like the Australian dollar is rising.
The Australian Solar Energy Society (AuSES) and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) says because the New South Wales (NSW) government has failed to adopt the ‘Fair & Equal Price for Solar Solution’ plan, at least 73 solar power jobs are being lost per day.
NSW officials want a four month delay before adopting the plan, but company officials say that by then their companies could be shut down. The plan would allow residents to put affordable solar power on their own homes, then sell excess power back to the grid. The plan would not cost anything to the state government.
This brings us to the strange announcement that NSW is going to lay off 5,000 of its own employees, and cap wages for the rest.
From what I could find, the only reason for the government layoffs are because the elites of Australia want to privatize everything. NSW’s Premier Barry O’Farrell claims it’s a necessary step in preparing for a much more competitive world (the overall bad global economy caused by the United States, like the falling U.S. dollar driving up the Australian dollar).
Residents of NSW aren’t taking this laying down, not like most people in the United Police States of Corporate America. Here’s what some of the September 8 protestors had to say: “IR laws, stick it up your barrell O’Farrell.”
“Our message to Barry O’Farrell is you are a horrible bastard. You’re a liar and we’re going to fight you every inch of the way.”-Matt, prison guard
The protestors also sang the old Twisted Sister song “Were not gonna take it.”
NSW firefighters also protested, at least 500 firefighters with dozens of fire trucks arrived in Sydney, and union bosses told the firefighters to be ready “to drag this government into the gutter…”!
“O’Farrell doesn’t give a stuff how hard we work, how smart we work, all he wants us to be is cheaper. We have to say no.”-Jim Casey, Fire Brigade Employees’ Union
When will the slaves of the United Police States of Corporate America say no?
The area of Japan that was hardest hit by Typhoon Talas, could get drenched by tropical storm Kulap.
Kulap is expected to move around Japan and hit Korea, but heavy rain is still likely to hit Shikoku and southwestern Honshu.
So far 54 people have been killed by Talas, and four of 12 dams made by landslides are about to burst. The landslide dams are blocking rivers in hard to reach areas. Officials hope to use specially designed buoys to monitor the water levels of the new lakes.