20 June 2011, NHK reporting that Tokyo Electric Power Company is now scrambling to find out why extreme radiation levels are coming from Reactor 4 building, at the Fukushima Daiichi nuke plant.
Reactor 4 was shut down for maintenance when the 11 March 2011 natural disasters hit. Early on most concerns were with the spent […] Continue Reading…
“All indications are that the institutions of the United States of America committed financial corruption by stealing the money of the Iraqi people, which was allocated to develop Iraq, (and) that it was about $17 billion.”-Iraq letter to United Nations
Remember when the Bush Jr administration said they were taking Iraqi oil […] Continue Reading…
A Turkish news source says the Turkish government has agreed to allow NATO to increase troop strength in Turkey. Turkey is a member of NATO.
Currently there are about 400 NATO personnel at the Turkish Izmir Air Station, but that could increase to the thousands as NATO personnel from Germany and Spain are moved in.
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“If you look at it genetically…you have to come to the conclusion that this strain was exposed to eight different classes of antibiotics in its creation. This does not happen in the wild where you have a strain that is resistant. This looks like, genetically, that it had to be engineered.”-Mike Adams, […] Continue Reading…
“Now we have the proof that in this case a human passed on the germ to the vegetables and then it was passed to other humans.”-Daniel Bahr, Germany’s health minister
German health officials are saying they have proof a kitchen worker passed on the deadly strain of e.coli. Officials say at least 20 […] Continue Reading…
The 11 March 2011 9.0 earthquake near Fukushima, Japan, caused liquefaction as far away as Tokyo.
Tokyo officials say they are now revising their current liquefaction zone map, because the 11 March quake revealed a potentially larger liquefaction zone.
The new map will affect future construction in Tokyo.
On 17 June 2011, Tokyo Electric Power Company turned on a water decontamination unit, recently installed at its damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. It failed.
Just five hours after turning the unit on, they had to shut it down. The radiation was far higher than what the decontamination unit was meant to handle.
TEPCo ran the […] Continue Reading…
In an obvious sign of government incompetence, parents and teachers decontaminated a local elementary school, on their own.
In Date City, about 80 people worked together to wash down a school contaminated with radiation. The national government said the radiation levels at the school were below the official safe limits, so they felt no reason […] Continue Reading…
Canadian postal workers went on limited strike because Canada Post wanted to cut their retirement and wages. The situation escalated when Canada Post locked out all urban postal workers, in effect laying off 48,000 employees.
Canada Post says they’ve been losing money and need to make drastic cuts in pay and benefits.
Here in the United […] Continue Reading…
After Canada Post locked out its postal workers, a full strike ensued. As a result the United States Postal Service will not ship to Canada.
According to the USPS press release, the halt on shipping to Canada began June 18. Mail can still be sent via the expensive USPS Global Express service.