Octopousse supporting the children of Fukushima!

…..Our aim since the beginning has thus been to finance the holiday in its entirety for people who have lost their homes and everything they once knew……

Octopousse is a project that will allow children from Fukushima to bring these kids to spend some “becquerel free” vacation in France.They have collected almost all the funding necessary. A little short so if you can help, it ll be appreciated if not check out the program anyway. It is going to be great for these children. Very happy about that. 😉

Their stay will last 15 days and each children will be coming with at least one of their parent. Translators, a nurse , a doctor and other volunteers will be present for the duration. This is a great environment for them to play outdoors. “The first week will be devoted to riding practice. The second will concentrate on reconnecting children with the freedom and spontaneity of play, for since the nuclear catastrophe, their time spent out-of-doors has been limited to half an hour a day and swimming in the sea and forest walks are completely forbidden.”

During their stay, the emphasis will be on outdoor activities and the rediscovery of a healthy diet. (including horse riding)

Most of the families we are in contact with are in dire financial situations.

Our aim since the beginning has thus been to finance the holiday in its entirety for people who have lost their homes and everything they once knew.

Link to fundraising site

Target 97 percent there for the kids Becquerel free holiday – 17 days left

http://octopousse.com/projets/accueil-denfants-de-fukushima/lang/en

French link

http://octopousse.com/naviguer

May 30, 2013 Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Bombing Iran’s Nuclear Facilities – leaves the entire Gulf States region uninhabitable

by Wade Stone
Global Research

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Every Spring and Summer, during a period of low pressure over the Persian Gulf, powerful winds known as the “shamals and sharqi,” sweep down from the north and north east into Saudi Arabia, whipping up ever more grains of sand as they head south and south west across the Arabian Desert. Frequently, these sandstorms become gargantuan in size – hundreds of meters high and kilometers wide and in length of dense roiling particulate, choking the lungs of those exposed, blocking out the sun completely and, by the time they are over, burying whole towns, sometimes even large cities like Riyadh, in a meter deep or more of sand.

The wind speeds range from 30 to 300 kilometers per hour, and they generally take a semi-circular route, heading back out to the southern gulf and the remaining Gulf States. Indeed, on an annual basis all of the Gulf States combined – UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, suffer through literally hundreds of such sand and dust storms. And most often the winds driving those sandstorms originate from the north and north east (Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and sometimes even Turkey).

NASA satellite image of typical shamal wind directions

Below is a map showing the location of Iran’s nuclear facilities and uranium mines. Now look again at the previous NASA satellite image and note the primary shamal wind direction.

Think “Fukushima x 10”: Bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities would leave the entire Gulf State region virtually uninhabitable.

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May 30, 2013 Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Exposed: Japanese Officials Upped Radiation yardsticks to Dodge Compensation Costs

H/t Mia

Exposed: Japanese Officials Upped Radiation yardsticks to Dodge Compensation Costs発覚！　日本政府は、賠償金の支払いを軽減するために、年間被爆許容線量を２０ｍＳｖ／ｙに、上げた！

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/26 
Andrea Germanos, staff writer

An investigation by The Asahi Shimbun shows that a higher level was sought to lower the number of evacuees and thus, limit compensation

A 5-millisieverts per year dose, the same level of exposure used as a yardstick to relocate residents after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, was proposed at an unofficial meeting of ministers in October of 2011, seven months after the disaster began, they then reported.

But just weeks later, the yardstick was upped to 20 millisieverts per year.

… at a meeting on Oct. 28, joined by Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura and Tatsuo Kawabata, internal affairs minister, the participants appeared reluctant to approve a yardstick other than 20 millisieverts.
[…]
“The prefectural government could not function with the population drain under the 5-millisievert scenario,” said a state minister who attended the meeting. “In addition, there were concerns that more compensation money will be needed, with an increase in the number of evacuees.”
[…]
The Abe administration in March decided to release by the end of this year a set of protection measures for evacuees returning to areas with doses of up to 20 millisieverts.
The move is apparently aimed at setting the stage for return of evacuees even if decontamination operation fails to achieve the target of 1 millisievert.
[…]

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Fukushima Rad News 5/29/13: Tepco Tools-Duct Tape

MissingSky101

Published on May 29, 2013

Photo: Duct tape, upside down orange traffic cone used to manage leaking material at Fukushima Unit 4
http://enenews.com/photo-dangling-rol…

All no-entry zones in Fukushima now revised
The boundaries of the last remaining no-entry zone near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant have been revised, giving former residents access to at least part of their community.
The town of Futaba co-hosts the Fukushima Daiichi power plant that suffered a meltdown accident in the March 2011 quake and tsunami. All of the townspeople have been forced to evacuate.

S.Korean reactors shut down over fake certificates
South Korea’s nuclear regulators have shut down 2 reactors amid revelations they used cables supplied with fake safety certificates.
The South’s Nuclear Safety and Security Commission said control signal cables for 4 reactors had failed to meet safety standards in performance tests, but the body that carried out the tests had forged their safety certificates. The plants are in Busan and Gyeongju.
The commission ordered 2 of the reactors shut down, and all the cables replaced. The other 2 were not in operation.

Panel reopens debates on nuclear waste disposal
A Japanese government panel has resumed discussions to review policy on disposing of high-level nuclear waste.
The government enacted a law in 2000 to bury vitrified waste deep underground. But the plan has been stalled amid objections from local authorities. The Science Council of Japan last year recommended overhauling the policy.

Monju reactor restart won’t happen in FY2013
Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority has officially decided not to prepare the restart of the Monju fast-breeder reactor in Tsuruga City in central Japan.
This means the currently offline prototype reactor will unlikely to be restarted before the end of next March. The reactor generates power using plutonium extracted from spent nuclear fuel.

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Fukushima & San Onofre breaking news COVER-UP THE SMOKING GUNS
Kevin Blanch 5/29/13
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqxLbk…

Solutions sought to eliminate “stockpiling” of spent nuclear fuel at Plymouth
Attorney General Martha Coakley and Senate President Therese Murray are lobbying members of the U.S. Senate to address some long unresolved issues
http://www.capecodtoday.com/article/2…

North Korea ‘will target Japan first’: Chilling new warning from rogue communist state as White House insists it does NOT have nuclear powers
North Korea has threatened to target Japan first and attack its capital, after the pariah state’s leader threatened to start war and launch nuclear missiles.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic…

Iran may be cleaning nuclear site to foil IAEA
UN nuclear watchdog official said it may not find anything after sanitization efforts at Parchin, diplomat says.
http://www.jpost.com/Iranian-Threat/N…

U.N.: Post-Fukushima collective thyroid dose about 3.3% the dose from Chernobyl
The health effects from the Fukushima nuclear accident are substantially smaller than those from the Chernobyl disaster, and the increase in cancer incidence in Japan will be negligible, according to a U.N. panel’s estimates.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disa…

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Jeremy Hammond: Assault on Hacktivism

breakingtheset

Published on May 29, 2013

Abby Martin talks to Abi Hassen, mass defense coordinator for the National Lawyers Guild, about the case of Jeremy Hammond, his plea deal, and its larger implications on freedom of information and online activism.

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