Tokyo Electric Power Company has given an estimate on the amount of radiation spilled into the Pacific Ocean, during the first week of April: 4,700 terabecquerels, 20,000 times the safe limits for an entire year! Contaminated water is still getting into the ocean.
Radioactive iodine levels on 02 April 2011, were 7.5 million times safe limits. As of 19 April, iodine levels had dropped to 1,700 times the safe limits.
“The Iranian military’s Ground Forces will deploy its peacekeeping troops in any region of armed conflict upon foreign ministry’s recommendation.”-Ahmad Reza Pourdastan, Iranian Army’s Ground Forces Brigadier-General
The Iranian general told foreign military attachés that Iran’s Army is ready for “peacekeeping” duties, anywhere in the world. This is supposedly in accordance with Iran being a member of the Untied Nations, and being willing to help with UN peacekeeping missions.
“Maybe I was right, maybe I was not right. I had a problem with the Saddam regime. I wanted to get rid of him and now I had this chance.”- Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, codenamed “Curveball”
The man that was the source for Bush Jr’s claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, codenamed Curveball, has admitted that he made the whole thing up.
Curveball was interviewed by the U.K. newspaper, The Guardian. Colin Powell was made a fool when he went before the United Nations, with a speech based on Curveball’s lies. Curveball says he was shocked to see that the U.S. actually believed his lies.
Curveball (Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi) made up the story about mobile WMD labs. He claimed he actually worked in one. Now he says it was all lies. As of today, April 21, 2011, no WMDs have been found in Iraq.
In another blow to world food supply issues, the nuclear disaster in Japan is making things worse.
Officials say that many livestock left behind in the 20km (12.4 miles) evacuation zone, have starved to death! There were about 30,000 pigs, about 600,000 chickens and about 3,000 cattle the evacuation zone, but the Fukushima Prefectural government believes most have died.
Farmers are demanding that someone go in and humanely put down the remaining livestock, rather than have them starve to death. YouTube video shows many cows starving to death. The farmers fear that their animals are too contaminated with radiation, to try saving.
“Resourced”? Is this new mil-speak for “operational planning”? Or “tactics”? How about pull your head out!
In an official announcement made on the Joint Chiefs of Staff web site, U.S. Admiral Michael Mullen, admitted that the U.S. was totally screwed up for the first eight years of the occupation of Afghanistan, ‘cept it wasn’t quite put like that in the official statement: Although the United States has been in Afghanistan for 10 years, the chairman said, only over the last 18 months has the effort been resourced correctly.
So basically, the first eight years were ‘incorrectly resourced’. This is the new way to say you’ve F’ed up, without actually saying it.
In an interview with a Pakistani news station, GEO TV, U.S. Admiral Michael Mullen said the U.S. will maintain bases beyond the 2014 troop pull out.
He also contradicted himself saying the U.S. will not maintain bases in Afghanistan. Mullen said that Bagram and Shindand air bases will be used by the U.S. to continue training Afghan government forces. It could be that officially the bases will be maintained by Afghan forces, yet there will be a U.S. “presence” on those bases. Talking out of both sides of your mouth is becoming a common thing with our leaders.
Robots from the Idaho National Laboratory have been searching through the damaged reactor buildings at Fukushima Daiichi.
They have discovered temperature and radiation levels too high for humans. Tokyo Electric Power Company officials say they will have to use air conditioners, and filtration systems, to bring heat and radiation levels down enough for workers to operate inside the buildings. Latest NHK video
After announcing that they will send military advisers to train Libyan rebels, France announced they will increase air strikes in Libya. France is a UN coalition member, but is not a member of NATO.
France was even reluctant to allow NATO to take official control of the coalition forces military actions against Libya. The latest decision by France, to increase air strikes, is independent of NATO.
The decision was made after rebel leaders met with French officials, and asked for more help.
To the people of the United States it’s one slap in the face after another. Recently President Obama gave a speech saying cuts need to be made to U.S. government spending. Then he gives $3 million so some students can study in China, and now he’s giving Libyan rebels $25 million in equipment!
On April 20, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made the announcement. Obama is joining with United Kingdom, France and Italy in openly taking sides with Libyan militants, some of who might actually be al-Qaeda, according to military officials, including NATO boss U.S. Admiral James Stavridis.
A company that was going to build two reactors in Texas, abandoned the plan.
NRG Energy, in cooperation with Toshiba, was planning on building two reactors in Texas. The company now says the investment environment has become too risky to continue with the plans. They will now write off U.S.$ 481 million on their taxes, for the canceled project.