British police arrested two Israeli men at Heathrow Airport.
They were accused of being disruptive on a British Airways flight from Las Vegas to London, and for making “…inappropriate and potentially threatening comments regarding Iran and the possible route of the aircraft.”
March 13, 2012, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission released a preliminary report on last year’s fire at the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant in Nebraska. It shows corporate incompetence that could have led to disaster, if the plant hadn’t already been shut down.
The nuclear reactors had been shut down for maintenance, and were shut down longer than planned because of flooding from the Missouri river.
The incompetence comes from a incorrectly installed electrical breaker panel, which began to smolder and eventually ignited. The breaker panel was not designed for the existing switches, and was mickey moused to fit. The result was that grease built up in the panel, overheated and caught fire.
There is more incompetence, in that the NRC learned that workers had noticed a burning smell coming from the panel at least three days before the fire broke out!
The NRC also discovered that the warning siren system for people living nearby is faulty, and there is no back up warning system in place!
This is proof that the greatest danger involving nuclear plants, are the corporations operating them!
The following statements are from John Boehner’s interview with the Wall Street Journal:
“My problem is not with our 89 freshmen, my problem is with a few senior members who—they always want more. They always want more than what you can produce….[Nancy Pelosi] went through the same problem with her side.”
“We got 435 members. It’s just a slice of America, it really is. We got some of the smartest people in the country who serve here, and some of the dumbest. We got some of the best people you’d ever meet, and some of the raunchiest. We’ve got ’em all.“
“I told them they have ocular rectitis. That’s when your eyes get confused with your butt, and it develops into (an unnecessarily fecal) outlook on life.”
When asked what was behind political scandals, money or sex, Boehner replied: “Rarely is money an issue.”
On March 11, 2012, Tokyo Electric Power Company officials claimed they’ve handed out $5.4 billion in compensation for the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi.
There’s a major problem; almost half the people who’re supposed to be getting that say they’re still waiting for it!
NHK reporting that about 40% of the people who’ve applied for the compensation are still stuck in application limbo. People say TEPCo is deliberately making the process difficult.
TEPCo didn’t even start paying out compensation until October 2011, when they were finally ordered to by the Japanese government! If 40% of the applicants are stuck in limbo, then who got that $5.4 billion paid out so far?
I’ve been following this tragedy since March 11, 2011, and the one constant in all this is the unbelievable level of incompetence within the government leadership, and with the corporations in charge of the nuclear power industry in Japan!
Today, March 11, 2012, an official report says the corporate & government leadership of Japan still don’t know what is really going on with the General Electric designed nuclear disaster reactors at Fukushima Daiichi!
Dozens of government sanctioned investigation teams have revealed the insufficient measures against tsunami, and the inadequate responses to the nuclear accident. But, no one knows just how bad it is inside the reactor units!
Of major concern: Radiation levels emitted from the power plant are still so high that TEPCo still doesn’t know where the high levels of radiation are actually coming from, so far everything they’ve been telling the media has been a wild ass guess! TEPCo (Tokyo Electric) has recently admitted that radiation levels are so high around some areas of the nuclear compound that they can not send people in to find out what’s going on!
You know, I’ve said it many times before, Bill Nye (that old science guy) has said it many times, the Ukrainians and Russians have said it: Why don’t they dump sand, lead and concrete on the damn thing?
On March 11, 2011, a 17 ton tourist bus was left on top of a two story community hall building, after the tsunami sucked itself back out to sea.
That was in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, Honshu, Japan (Nippon).
On March 10, 2012, nearly one year later, the bus was finally removed from the roof. Many survivors said it was a bad reminder of the tsunami. The owner of the bus company said the sight of his bus on the roof drove him to swear that he will operate his bus line again.
The bus had been sitting in a garage, 500 meters (1,640 feet) from its resting place, when the tsunami swept it away. Watch NHK reporter who filmed as she ran from disaster video to see the bus immediately after the tsunami.
Days after a UBS oil analyst said ten countries (allies of the U.S.) would be destroyed if Iranian oil was cut off, a dumb U.S. Senator proposes to cut off Iranian oil!
In a Friday interview with C-SPAN’s (Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network) Newsmakers program, democrat Carl Levin says he wants to use the U.S. Navy to blockade Iranian oil shipments.
Levin is inviting other countries to join in: “I think (these are) options that whoever is willing to participate should explore, including Israel and including the United States.”
Levin admitted that alternative oil supplies would have to be found for the allies of the United States. Mmmm, you mean like the United States now that it actually has too much oil on hand (recently the CEO of Exxon Mobil said the U.S. oil “…markets are well supplied.”)? Now we know the real reason for going to war against the World’s second largest petroleum producer (oil from Canada and North Dakota is actually creating a surplus in the U.S.).
Julius Walker, an oil analyst with Swiss based financial company UBS, says war with Iran could destroy ten countries, from lack of oil.
He told Business Insider that not only would the price of oil skyrocket past $250 per barrel, but the economies of ten countries could be devastated.
Those ten countries are actually allies of the United States (and some are already on the verge of collapse): China, India, Japan, South Korea, Turkey, Italy, Spain, Greece, South Africa and France. Maybe they won’t be allies for very long?
This is the result of the Japanese government, and the power company TEPCo, dragging their feet regarding the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster: 80% of the people that used to live near the General Electric designed disaster reactors are contaminated with iodine!
The contamination was discovered after researchers tested their thyroids. At least five people have 50 millisieverts of contamination, and one person has 87 millisieverts. This study looked specifically at iodine contamination.
In February the government of Fukushima released their study, which looked at over all radiation contamination, it wasn’t good.
Almost a year after the March 11, 2011, Mega Quake that led up to the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi, the Japanese government has finally started decontamination of roads around the GE designed disaster reactors!
On March 8, workers began spraying down a road around Naraha Town Hall. Observers say the radiation levels immediately dropped by 80%!
So why did the government wait so long to do it? IDK, but probably the real reason why they finally started the decontamination was to stop the exodus of people from that area. Japanese media reports say the government is hoping their late in coming decontamination efforts will convince people to return to their homes!
Last year, out of desperation several local governments tried to decontaminate on their own, but ran into funding and staffing issues. They appealed to the national government for help.