21 August 2012, the Environment Ministry of Japan has revised upward the estimated amount of radioactive waste in nine prefectures around Fukushima Daiichi.
As of now, there is 42,575 tons of waste, containing radioactive cesium levels of more than 8,000 becquerels per kilogram, in storage. Officials originally estimated that only 50,000 tons of debris would […] Continue Reading…
21 August 2012, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo) announced it has caught fish near the failed Fukushima Daiichi reactors that have as much as 38,000 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium!
TEPCo says they’ve caught 20 kinds of fish and shellfish from 5 locations along the Pacific coast, just 1 kilometer (0.62 mile) off Minamisoma City, […] Continue Reading…
A 45 year old Meridian Middle School counselor (in Idaho) admitted to police that he had more than one terabyte of child pornography on dozens of computers in his house. According to Ada County prosecutor, the school counselor also told cops he produced some of the porn.
A boy was found in his home and […] Continue Reading…
20 August 2012
USA (USA without periods means United States Army) General Martin Dempsey is in Afghanistan to find out why so many Afghan government forces are getting pissed off enough at U.S. forces that they open fire upon them. Dempsey is meeting with USMC General John Allen.
ISAF stated: “An International Security Assistance Force service […] Continue Reading…
“…users of targeted killing technology should be required to subject themselves, in the case of each and every death, to impartial investigation. If they do not establish a mechanism to do so, it will be my recommendation that the UN should put the mechanisms in place through the Human Rights Council, the General Assembly […] Continue Reading…
Declaration of Guayaquil
IN SUPPORT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ECUADOR
THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF UNASUR
The Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of UNASUR extraordinary meeting in the city of Guayaquil, on August 19, 2012, considering:
That the Minister of Foreign Trade and Integration of Ecuador, informed the Council that the citizen Julian Assange, […] Continue Reading…
“Inside this embassy in the dark, I could hear teams of police swarming up into the building through its internal fire escape……. If the U.K. did not throw away the Vienna Conventions the other night, it is because the world was watching.”-Julian Assange, 19 August 2012 statement from Ecuadorian embassy in London
“We are continuing […] Continue Reading…
IX Declaration of the ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America) Political Council
1. We reject intimidation threats uttered by government spokesmen in the U.K. of Great Britain for violating the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity of nations, and the principles of international law.
2. Categorically reaffirm our support for the sovereign right […] Continue Reading…
17 August 2012, the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) ordered an investigation into TIBOR, or Tokyo Inter-Bank Offered Rate.
It’s a system similar to Britain’s LIBOR, and tries to regulate interest and currency rates.
18 financial institutions in Japan have been ordered to reveal their TIBOR operations. Specifically the FSA is looking for evidence that bank […] Continue Reading…
“The higher the heat and the higher the humidity then the longer this will go.”-Phil Smith, Bucks County
More cases of West Nile virus being reported in the United States.
17 August, Bucks County, Pennsylvania reports first case for 2012.
17 August, New Haven, Connecticut reports first case for 2012.
17 August, Alabama officials reveal that at least […] Continue Reading…