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Photos show Iranian nuclear facility site was destroyed

(Pictures) Image shows Iranian missile site was destroyed, Washington Post, By , 29 Nov Two weeks after a mysterious explosion at an Iranian missile base, a Washington-based research group has released a satellite image showing extensive damage to the site.

The image of the compound, near the city of Malard, doesn’t provide any clues as to what caused the Nov. 12 explosion, which Iranian authorities described as an “accident” involving the transport of ammunition. But it does make clear that the facility has been effectively destroyed…. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/image-shows-than-an-iranian-missile-site-was-destroyed/2011/11/28/gIQA7KZW5N_blog.html

November 30, 2011 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

16000 zombie nuclear warheads in USA

the weapons sit “zombified” which means they are off-line but could be returned to active service within hours to six months. There are more than 16,000 zombified warheads in the United States.

Zombie nukes may be in your backyard!,  11/14/2011 Catholic Online (www.catholic.org Nuclear installations pepper America.

See how close nukes are to your home with this interactive map. Continue reading

November 15, 2011 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual, USA, weapons and war | Leave a comment

Fukushima rescue squad volunteer dies from internal radiation

Dr. Sakiyama cunningly switched the subject to the Fukushima plant workers, but the issue here is not the plant workers. It’s the rescue squad members, it’s the volunteers, it’s the residents, who have been exposed, willing or not, to radiation that could kill over time, and who are without any shred of safeguard for their health. If they die, it is because of “stress”. 

Fukushima rescuer dies from internal radiation, 13 NOVEMBER 2011, THE CANADIAN A woman in a public forum asked a question to the two panelists: Why did my friend die? The event was held in Sapporo City on November 6, 2011.

VIDEO Transcript  On October 26, a friend of mine in Osaka passed away. He was a rescue squad member and had been sent to work in disaster-affected areas for a long time, such as Iwate or Fukushima.
In July, he was found to have been internally exposed to radiation. All his team members had been, too. But their mission didn’t end. Rescue people are those who went through very hard training and have a strong will to do something for the sake of others. So they continued to carry out their mission, even though they knew they had been exposed to radiation.

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November 14, 2011 Posted by | health, Japan, Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

USA’s under cover terrorism against Iran

VIDEO US confesses to covert ops against Iran Press TV 13 Nov 11 Washington is seeking to stop Iran’s nuclear program by means of maximum covert operations including the assassination of Iranian scientists.

Speaking at the Republican presidential debate in Spartanburg, South Carolina, on Saturday former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich openly advocated increased covert terrorism against Iran.He suggested employing “maximum covert operations to block and disrupt the Iranian program including taking out their scientists, including breaking up their systems. All of it covertly, all of it deniable.”  Continue reading

November 14, 2011 Posted by | Iran, Resources -audiovicual, secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | Leave a comment

Japanese people using crowdsourcing to track radiation

 Safecast Draws on Power of the Crowd to Map Japan’s Radiation PBS Newshour 10 Nov JEFFREY BROWN: Now, tracking the spread of radiation in Japan eight months after the tsunami caused a nuclear accident.

Japanese people are using new technology and the power of crowdsourcing to find hotspots.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/july-dec11/japanradiation_11-10.html

November 11, 2011 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | 2 Comments

VIDEO on AQ Khan, the CIA, and nuclear black market

 Khan and his network were known, identified, surveilled, funded and even protected by the CIA from its very inception.

 is it time to ask how much control the CIA really has over the nuclear black market, and whether this is all more than a mere question of “incompetence”?..

VIDEO   http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2011/10/19/the-eyeopener-cia-the-nuclear-black-market-a-case-study/     The EyeOpener- CIA & the Nuclear Black Market: A Case Study ,  19. October 2011 The Business of Arming the Nation’s Enemies James Corbett BoilingFrogsPost.com October 20, 2011 Continue reading

November 1, 2011 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

Japan – protest by Fukushima women


VIDEO    http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/women-from-fukushima-gather-to-find-hope-in-t/blog/37555/             Women from Fukushima gather to ‘find hope in the despair’ of nuclear disaster  by Laura Kenyon, Greenpeace International – October 28, 2011
 Yesterday close to two hundred women from Fukushima began a three-day sit-in outside the Tokyo office of Japan’s Ministry of Economy calling for the evacuation of children from areas with high radiation levels and the permanent shut down of nuclear reactors in Japan currently switched off. Their peaceful protest is a powerful – almost radical – act in a country where standing up for something can often mean ostracism from one’s community. These are not women who regularly participate in civil protest. These are mothers who fear for their children’s safety and future. These are grandmothers separated from their families. The fact that they have put their own lives and families on hold for these three days reflects the harrowing situation these women and their families have found themselves in since the nuclear disaster.  Continue reading

October 29, 2011 Posted by | Japan, opposition to nuclear, Resources -audiovicual | 1 Comment

Video: Why Indian Point nuclear plant should be closed

VIDEO   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/17/indian-point-nuclear-nrdc-report_n_1015377.html

 Indian Point Nuclear Plant Should Be Closed, Report Says, Huffington Post 10/17/11  A report released Monday says southern New York State’s Indian Point Energy Center should be closed, despite pressure to keep it open.

The Indian Point Energy Center is located along the banks of the Hudson River in Westchester County, less than 40 miles north of New York City. The report, commissioned by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Riverkeeper, suggests that the plant can and should be closed, in favor of readily available alternative energy options, Continue reading

October 18, 2011 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual, safety, USA | Leave a comment

The catastrophic level of radiation to Japanese from Fukushima nuclear disaster

 In March, 2006, 20 years after the accident, the people whose health had been damaged in Russia, the Ukraine and Belarus numbered 7,000,000. 

excerpt from: Fukushima Meltdown: The World’s First Earthquake-Tsunami-Nuclear Disaster[Kindle Edition] Takashi Hirose http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005OD75J2/?tag=theasipacjo0b-20

Japan’s Earthquake-Tsunami-Nuclear Disaster Syndrome: An Unprecedented Form of Catastrophe, Japan Focus 26 Sept 11, Hirose Takashi  “……From day one the situation had reached the highest level for nuclear accidents, Level 7, and from day one the government knew this, but it concealed that information from the people, thus causing far more people to be irradiated than otherwise would have been the case.

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September 27, 2011 Posted by | health, Japan, media, Resources -audiovicual | 1 Comment

The World’s First Earthquake-Tsunami Nuclear Disaster

In the past, on television only scholars who are proponents of nuclear power have given commentary as “experts”. We listened to them telling their fantastic lies and offering their impossibly optimistic predictions, and as a result the people, having been given none of the facts, have gone on living as normal right up to the edge of the collapse.  Now everything the “experts” told us has proved wrong, and the worst has happened.  What is remarkable is that these people who failed to predict the genpatsu shinsai syndrome are shameless enough to put on their “expert” masks, reappear on television, and give their commentaries on the accident.  The people responsible for the horror of this nuclear accident are the people who promoted nuclear power.  The people in the TV stations who brought in this criminal gang and put them on the air day after day are equally responsible. 

(Book: Newly translated into English) Japan’s Earthquake-Tsunami-Nuclear Disaster Syndrome: An Unprecedented Form of CatastropheJapan Focus 26 Sept 11, Hirose Takashi The seismologist Ishibashi Katsuhiko (presently Emeritus Professor at Kobe University) predicted that a nuclear power plant accident like the present one was possible, and issued warnings from the late ‘90s.  People had been warning of the danger of earthquake-caused nuclear accidents since the 1970s, but Ishibashi, from the specialized standpoint of seismology, proposed a new concept, which he called genpatsu shinsai [Translator’s note: this expression literally means Nuclear-Power-Plant-Earthquake Disaster.  As there is no English expression for this (the phenomenon itself is new) in this work we will render it as genpatsu shinsai syndrome.]. By this he meant a situation in which, as the damage from the earthquake widens, the situation is made doubly worse by nuclear radiation damage. It was in the hope of preventing this that he was issuing warnings.  Continue reading

September 26, 2011 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

Fukushima nuclear power plant still spewing radiation

 
VIDEO  http://midnightwatcher.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/japan-finds-radiation-spread-over-a-wide-area/  Japan finds radiation spread over a wide area, Midnight Watcher’s Blogspot  BY MITSURU OBE – “The first comprehensive soil survey from areas around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant showed extensive ground contamination and another report warned of the continued threat to Japan’s food chain, underscoring the major challenges the country still faces in its radioactive cleanup efforts….

 

 

September 25, 2011 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | 1 Comment

VIDEO – Fukushima radiation worse than Chernobyl

VIDEO http://english.aljazeera.net/video/asia-pacific/2011/09/201191845015428149.html Experts say Fukushima “worse than Chernobyl”, Al Jazeera,  Steve Chao  18 Sept 11, Experts estimate the radiation leaked from Fukushima nuclear plant will exceed that of Chernobyl. Experts say that the total radiation leaked will eventually exceed the amounts released from the Chernobyl disaster that the Ukraine in April 1986. This amount would make Fukushima the worst nuclear disaster in history.At least one billion becquerels of radiation continue to leak from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant each day even though it is now more than five months after the March earthquake and tsunami that damaged the facility.

September 19, 2011 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

VIDEOS on Japan’s anti nuclear protests

  VIDEOS Thousands in Tokyo Protest Nuclear Lies, Incompetence and Censorship, Paul langley’s Nuclear History Blog, 12 Sept 11,   http://bmkimages.photoshelter.com/gallery/9-11-Anti-Nuclear-Protest/G0000Ngv_w1kzWQw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxPS8fiEpjA&feature=share

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJfZAaXDNCk

‎9/11/2011
Japanese Police attack an anti-nuclear protest in Tokyo

MARKed TRAIL Says:… September 11th, 2011 at 4:36 pm

Big anti-nuclear demonstration outside TEPCO! One sign says, ‘To the world from Japan, sorry‘.
@Shogannai Says:
September 11th, 2011 at 5:04 pm

Breaking news: Police attack an anti-nuclear demonstration in Tokyo minutes ago as shown by “tokyorich”

http://nuclearhistory.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/thousands-protest-nuclear-lies-incompetence-and-censorship-in-tokyo/

September 12, 2011 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

Japan’s crisis of radioactive waste in sewage plants

VIDEO  Radioactive waste swamps Japan sewage plants – Asia-pacific – Al Jazeera English   3 Sept 11, Environmental experts warn of new crisis over build up of contaminated sewage far from Fukushima plant.

Environmental experts in Japan are warning of new fallout from the country’s nuclear crisis.

Radioactive waste is piling up at several sewerage plants, well away from the crippled Fukushima reactor.

Months after the tsunami and earthquake that triggered the nuclear meltdown, the government still has no policy on what to do with the waste.

September 5, 2011 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

Pictures of Fukushima’s nuclear ghost town

PICTURES  Eerie echoes of Chernobyl: Inside Fukushima’s nuclear ghost town abandoned by people fleeing the fallout, Mail Online 4 Sept 11,By Daniel Miller, 4th September 2011
Inside Fukushima’s nuclear ghost town abandoned by people fleeing the fallout | Mail Online

September 5, 2011 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment