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Fukushima Leaking Even MORE Radioactive Water, Squishing Sludge update 4/7/13

MsMilkytheclown1

Published on 7 Apr 2013

Dang, I’m running out of inventive titles for this Nuclear Catastrophe at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan (and the world). It occurs to me that Japan Wants someone to Bomb it into the Ocean so they don’t have to Deal with it any more. TEPCO gave up on it LONG ago (a day or so after the Earthquake/Tsunami) and wanted to throw it’s hands up and walk away. From their actions, they are simply going through the motions of trying to “fix” the triple plus meltdown hoping either someone bombs it into the Pacific Ocean, or Mother Nature shakes it into the pacific ocean.
I think my updates from now on should just be: “Fukushima, still fucked today. It’s just more fucked today than yesterday” and leave it at that. It’s all the same in the end, right?

Yes, MORE leaking radioactive water tanks with a lot of radioactive Strontium ETC.

Ooh, someone figured out how to reduce radioactive sludge to be smaller. Pop Quiz, where did the other radioactivity go to? Is it just more concentrated in volume, or did it “evaporate” back into the atmosphere? After all, BURNING the radioactive debris is “fair game” … and TEPCO already admitted to hoping it would “evaporate” due to storage problems! Did I mention nobody has offered to “take” said reduced radioactive sludge?

PM Abe (albeit an unfair election by the pronuclear – still being contested) insists on REBUILDING the Fukushima area – and “the future of Japan Depends on it’s rebuilding of the area?!!!! WTF. I swear they said that a while ago, if you can only imagine!!!

North Korea posturing to shot a missile at Japan. Just think about all the targets it could hit with all the Nuclear power plants there. (I’m biting my tongue here at the keyboard).

Ooh, here’s a good one, a single fish got the fuck out of Japan safely and hit the Oregon shores. And people were kind enough to put it in an aquarium and google at it.
Joni Mitchell Big Yellow Taxi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWwUJH…

Embassy evacuations due to North Korea threats.

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April 8, 2013 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

US Reviews New Preconditions For The Iran Uranium Swap because of shortage of medical isotopes

…..Currently, Canada’s only source of the isotope is the reactor in Chalk River, Ont., which produces about a third of the world’s supply. But the reactor has been plagued with safety and operational problems, leading to worldwide shortages, and its license is set to expire in 2016………

Image source ; http://seekingalpha.com/article/1317151-medical-isotope-producers-could-be-lucrative-investment-ventures?source=google_news (diagram only shows Canada producing 4 percent instead of 33 percent ???)

Noam Chomsky in conversation with Jonathan Freedland

From 1.36 mins for Chomsky`s statement on the Brasil/Turkey brokered deal

Iran’s Proposed Nuclear Fuel Swap

2010

In a deal brokered by Turkey and Brazil, Iran has agreed to turn over more than half (2,640 pounds) of its low-enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange for 265 pounds of medium-enriched fuel for medical isotopes for treating Iranian cancer patients. Under the terms of the agreement, the fuel will remain the property of Iran but will be monitored by the UN. David Cortright, a nuclear policy expert, says the swap is a positive development that the U.S. should support… 

http://kroc.nd.edu/newsevents/quickquestions/iran-s-proposed-nuclear-fuel-swap-621

US Reviews New Preconditions For The Iran Uranium Swap

Brokering a deal to swap Iranian uranium stockpiles, Brazilian and Turkish leaders started a collision between Tehran and Washington; utimately starting a fourth round of sanctions. Securing a crucial agreement with all the permanent members of the UN Security Council, the United States was moving into it’s fourth round of sanctions. Addressing the reporters the P-5 (US, Russia, China, Britain, and France) spoke to them after a closed door meeting drafting a resolution that was presented to the council’s 10 non permanent members.

Alu scholars selected a case in which to analyze their international relations elective. They were given a short time frame with which to come up with varied solutions. The solutions were then ran thru simulation to test the results.

The Brazil–Turkey initiative allows Iran to move ahead with it’s uranium enrichment. The P5 had reached a point of no return. Turkey and Brazil, both being non permanent members met with Iran and signed an agreement to ship 1.2 tons of low enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange later for 120kg of enriched isotope for it’s medical nuclear reactor in Tehran. Considered a breakthrough, in the aftermath of the long stalled negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, it failed to allay western concerns the Turkey is working secretly violating international agreements to seek nuclear weapons technology.

The Brazilian and Turkish leaders claimed a diplomatic goal and filed a motion for the sanctions to be lifted; this was followed by a draft resolution by the US to all their members of the Manhatten based chamber the next day. A New York based Foreign Council analyst Steven Cook stated, “The central thrust of US diplomacy has been that Iran is not trustworthy, that Iranian intentions regarding weaponization are clear and the deal isn’t as good as the Turks and the Brazilians were making it out to be.”

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1.7K Secret Files Expose Offshore’s Global Impact

Among the front men identified in the documents obtained by ICIJ is a U.K.-based operative who served as a director for a BVI company, Tamalaris Consolidated Limited, which the European Union has labeled as a front company for the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Line. The E.U., the U.N. and the U.S. have accused IRISL of aiding Iran’s nuclear-development program.
 
ICIJ’s 15-month investigation found that, alongside perfectly legal transactions, the secrecy and lax oversight offered by the offshore world allows fraud, tax dodging and political corruption to thrive.
 ICIJ's offshore tax havens investigation
By Gerard Ryle, Marina Walker Guevara, Michael Hudson, Nicky Hager, Duncan Campbell and Stefan Candea
April 3, 2013, 6:00 pm

Dozens of journalists sifted through millions of leaked records and thousands of names to produce ICIJ’s investigation into offshore secrecy ­

A cache of 2.5 million files has cracked open the secrets of more than 120,000 offshore companies and trusts, exposing hidden dealings of politicians, con men and the mega-rich the world over.

The secret records obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists lay bare the names behind covert companies and private trusts in the British Virgin Islands, the Cook Islands and other offshore hideaways.

They include American doctors and dentists and middle-class Greek villagers as well as families and associates of long-time despots, Wall Street swindlers, Eastern European and Indonesian billionaires, Russian corporate executives, international arms dealers and a sham-director-fronted company that the European Union has labeled as a cog in Iran’s nuclear-development program.

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