Beef from Fukushima Prefecture has tested positive for cesium levels about legal limits. Officials say the contaminated beef was not shipped out.
Also, the number of prefectures with crops being hit by radiation continues to expand. Again, officials say the crops have not been shipped to market.
Swissnuclear, a pro nuclear power lobby group in Olten, Switzerland, was bombed on 31 March. Police suspect it was by anti-nuclear activists.
Two women were injured when the package they were opening exploded.
Swissnuclear works to promote the use of nuclear power.
Little Switzerland has five nuclear power plants. The government canceled plans to restart three old plants, after the disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant.
Tokyo Electric Power Company admitted that they did not provide radiation monitoring devices to sub-contractors. This is part of the reason three workers ended up in the hospital a little more than a week ago.
Japanese regulations requires all workers in nuclear power plants to have their own radiation monitor.
TEPCo officials said most of their radiation monitoring devices were washed away by the tsunami. Yet their is no evidence that they tried to get new monitors after the tsunami, in fact TEPCo officials say they will NOW get more radiation monitors. This will reduce work at the damaged nuclear plant, until the new radiation monitors arrive.
Just more proof that you can NOT trust corporations. And should we really trust what officials are saying about radiation levels?
In a move that smacks of guilt after passing the UNSCR 1973 against Libya, the UN has imposed sanctions against the Ivory Coast, and Laurent Gbagbo.
The civil war in Cote d’Ivore (Ivory Coast, a former French colony, or is it now?) has been raging on for much longer than in Libya, yet NOW the UN takes action?
And guess who was pushing for such action, why the same guys as in Libya, the French. It also helps that the African Union has been asking for UN action for a while now. So, when does the bombing start?
In a report issued by the Chinese Navy, it is clear they expect some kind of military confrontation in the future, with the United States.
The report was released March 31. It calls for increasing China’s ability to present a strategic deterrent and launch counterattacks at sea. The report is also clear about who they think they might have to launch counterattacks against: The United States.
Their reasoning is that the United States is reinforcing its regional military alliances, and increasing its involvement in Asian security affairs.
Chinese military officials are hoping their government will increase spending on more high tech weaponry. Welcome to the New Cold War.
The current G20 meeting, in China, is discussing many issues, including the disasters in Japan. But, what seems to be the focus is how to bring China into the SDR, and, China’s desire to remove the U.S. dollar as the international reserve currency.
The G20 is made up of bankers and finance officials from 19 countries, and the European Union. Their objective is to come up with finance and banking systems for a global economy.
Because of China’s growing economic strength, the G20 would like to have the Chinese yuan brought into the SDR. That is the Special Drawing Rights fund, which is currently as close as you can get to an international money. It is meant to make huge international transactions easier for members. The SDR replaced gold and silver as standards for international trade in 1969.
China is worried about continued reliance on the U.S. dollar as THE reserve currency for international trade. Many Chinese economist, and other economist around the world, believe the U.S. dollar’s value is overrated, and is unstable. They call the use of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency a “dollar trap”.
“Nations around the world have no way of restricting dollar issuance by the Federal Reserve. The current international monetary system lacks both stability and fairness.”- Xu Hongcai, deputy director at the China Center for International Economic Exchanges
Basically China wants a new international reserve currency, no more U.S. dollar. This will play into the hands of those who want a true international form of money.
“The so-called humanitarian raids have killed dozens of civilian victims in some neighborhoods of Tripoli.”-Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, the Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli
The Catholic official also said hospitals had been hit by coalition bombing. President Obama had stated many times that the bombing was to PROTECT civilians.
The Catholic report is in the current issue of Fides, the Catholic missionary newspaper.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is increasing radiation monitoring after milk tested positive for trace amounts of radiation from Japan.
The milk, with iodine-131, was found in California and Washington states.
Dairy cows probably ingested the iodine-131 after eating grass, or feed, that the isotope settled on after being blown here from Japan.
Officials insist the radiation levels are so low that the milk is still safe to drink. However, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is emitting higher levels of radiation now, and the predominate wind direction is towards North America.
Reuters says they have seen proof that President Barack Obama signed an order to actively support the rebels in Libya, even though there is proof that al Qaeda is also working with the rebels.
The order authorizes covert operations to get rid of Gaddafi. Reuters says the Presidential “finding” was sign two or three weeks ago. This means Obama was lying through his teeth the past two weeks about NOT targeting Gaddafi, and about Operation Odyssey Dawn being just about protecting peaceful civilians.
Because al Qaeda might be involved with rebels, this brings up another problem with arming rebels: “The whole issue on (providing rebels with) training and equipment requires knowing who the rebels are.”- Bruce Riedel, former CIA
Saudi Arabia and Qatar, who despise Gaddafi, are also willing to supply Libyan rebels with weapons. By the way, those countries are Wahhab Muslim, the same as al Qaeda, yet they’re our allies. Gaddafi is NOT a Wahhab Muslim. So why do we keep supporting the ones who (Wahhabis) attacked us on September 11, 2001?
‘‘I want more JETs to come and interact with the locals in the future but due to the current situation, I cannot welcome them open-handedly. I hope life gets back to normal as soon as possible.”-Hoshi Kazuyuki, assistant director at the international affairs section at the Miyagi prefectural government.
Organizers of the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) program worry that foreign teachers will think twice about teaching in Japan, after the 9.0 quake and tsunami, as well as radiation leaks from the nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture.
So far, many teachers from the United States, and Canada, have opted to stay and help with recovery efforts, even after one teacher from the U.S., Taylor Anderson, was killed in the disasters.