19 March 2013/07 Jumada l-Ula 1434/29 Esfand 1391/08 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
The hundreds of killed and wounded in the U.S., European and Israeli backed gas attack in Syria, includes government soldiers, but mainly civilian men, women and children.
Independent reports say some insurgent groups had been warning they were going to use WMDs. Yesterday a U.S., European and Israeli backed interim insurgent government elected a U.S. citizen to be their Prime Minister.
19 March 2013/07 Jumada l-Ula 1434/29 Esfand 1391/08 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
Tokyo Electric Power Company says they’ve restored cooling of spent fuel pools on the number 1, 2 and 4 reactors. This is the first time TEPCo mentioned Reactor 2 as being affected by the power outage. Cooling for Reactor 4 pool is being powered by emergency generators.
Cooling is still on hold for the fuel pool on Reactor 3, and a shared pool in Fukushima Daiichi’s compound. TEPCo hopes to have cooling restored by tomorrow.
TEPCo has inspected the switchboards from three high voltage distribution systems, and say it appears nothing is wrong with them. Ironically the electric power company still doesn’t know what caused the massive power outage.
19 March 2013/07 Jumada l-Ula 1434/29 Esfand 1391/08 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
Russian officials say they have documented that the chemical weapons attack in Aleppo province was launched by U.S., European and Israeli backed insurgents. Russian intelligence believe the insurgents captured the chemical armed rockets from the Syrian military.
The Syrian government says the insurgents got the WMDs from outside the country.
19 March 2013/07 Jumada l-Ula 1434/29 Esfand 1391/08 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
For the second day now, cooling of spent fuel pools on the General Electric designed reactors 1, 3 and 4 is not taking place (1, 3 and 4 are the ones that exploded). Another spent fuel rod pool and a water decontamination system are also affected.
Tokyo Electric Power Company says they’ve found the reason why they lost power yesterday; three high voltage distribution systems failed.
TEPCo says two were fixed but they can’t figure out the problem with the third, they suspect a switchboard. TEPCo officials said something shorted out the switchboards, but they don’t know what. Apparently all three systems must be working in order to cool the fuel rod pools.
TEPCo has two more days to fix the problem before temps in fuel pools exceed safety limits. If not they will resort to fire engines to pump water into the pools.
18 March 2013/06 Jumada l-Ula 1434/28 Esfand 1391/07 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
The Japanese government is filing a complaint with the UN Security Council, alleging violations of UN sanctions by DPRK.
Japanese Customs inspectors say they found aluminum rods on a cargo ship that had left North Korea, bound for China. The rods could be used for nuclear centrifuges, and are covered in the latest UN sanctions.
This is the first time Japan has found such contraband items from North Korea. The inspection of the ship was done under a 2010 UN sanctions rule.
18 March 2013/06 Jumada l-Ula 1434/28 Esfand 1391/07 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
Tokyo Electric Power Company reporting that for an unknown reason the cooling of stored nuclear fuel rods, at the GE designed Fukushima Daiichi power plant, has stopped.
There was an electrical power blackout affecting 2100 spent fuel rods in storage pools for reactors 1, 3 and 4. TEPCo says temps have been rising slowly but steadily every hour.
A forth pool with 6300 fuel rods was also affected, as well as the water decontamination system.
TEPCo does not know what is causing the power outage. They claim cooling of the melted reactors have not been affected.
17 March 2013/05 Jumada l-Ula 1434/27 Esfand 1391/06 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
A DPRK media source published an editorial calling for a Second Korean War:
“The Second Korean War has become an unavoidable thing, now that the U.S. and the south Korean puppet regime, barbarous provocateurs, push the situation to the extremity by resorting to the unprecedented ‘sanctions’ against the DPRK and the war drills to invade the north, condemning the DPRK’s legitimate satellite launch.
At last, time has come to put an end to the long cycle of the provocations and tensions which has lasted for a long time century after century.”-Rodong Sinmun
17 March 2013/05 Jumada l-Ula 1434/27 Esfand 1391/06 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
One of DPRK’s media outlets, Rodong Sinmun, published statements making threats of war with Japan.
Japan has been calling for more sanctions against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Japanese media say their military officials estimate that North Korea has 200 missiles aimed at Japan.
The commentary from Rodong Sinmun says that if North Korea is pushed to launch a nuclear strike, Japan will not be spared.
Iran’s commander of the Kermanshah Cavalry Division, General Ali Hajilou, claims that in the past three months his forces have captured U.S. supported al-Qaeda militants trying to cross into Iran from Iraq.
He says his troops’ actions prove the borders of Iran are secure.
17 March 2013/05 Jumada l-Ula 1434/27 Esfand 1391/06 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
Iranian Navy officials say an Australian ASW (anti-submarine/ship warfare) aircraft approached an Iranian helicopter carrier and a destroyer while they were off the coast of Sri Lanka.
“The Navy’s 24th fleet of warships, comprised of Khark chopper carrier and Sabalan destroyer, which was nearing Sri Lanka’s coasts after leaving Zhangjigang port of China and crossing the line of the Equator.…The reconnaissance plane changed its flight route immediately after receiving the warships’ warning but dropped some subsurface units detection devices…..all the dropped devices were hunted skillfully and by the timely action of the Iranian Navy forces.”-Admiral Siyavash Jarreh, Islamic Republic of Iran Navy (IRIN)