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Thousands of military and DOD peeps being evacuated.

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The obvious faults both geologically and in our thinking are showing themselves as powerful forces again. Japans nuclear disaster unfolds in slow motion, much like our economic system, and our food systems, and our dependence on toxic sources of energy.

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Lots of talk about I 131, but none on I 129. The latter isotope has a half life of 15.7 million years. This disaster is a geological event.

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Germany gains more energy from solar technology than Japan gains from all its nuclear reactors. Development in this area occurred much faster in the last years than many expected. Ten years ago no one would have believed we could gain 17 percent of our electricity supply from renewable energy. In the US the gigantic oil and nuclear industries dominate funding and research

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The Solar Roadways project is working to pave roads with solar panels that you can drive on.

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The ongoing Fukushima nuclear crisis has raised numerous concerns, the candor of pronouncements regarding the reality of circumstances being one of them. As many wonder what the future will hold, the events reported in this article suggest some possible conclusions, the facts being less than reassuring.

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The eruption of Mt. Fuji causes a nuclear power plant to explode and release clouds of radioactive particles.
From Akira Kurosawa's Dreams.

The after effects of a nuclear holocaust.
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"Capitalism and its countless horrors seems more credible to us than an alternative. We believe in capital, the deadly promise of endless growth. We cynically pay it tribute as though the rule of people over people and nature were something dignified.. A world of sharing and community is obviously nonsense. Still this nonsense has a system.."

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China rescuing its civilians working in Libya as well as showing military frigate off the coast of Libya. Note first graph. Only country in 'red' for oil exports from Africa to China is....Libya. Only larger area of exports to China from Africa is Angola. The US destabilized Sudan and caused a humanitarian crisis to stop it from trading peacefully with China. -- US wants to destroy any nation state that opposes its global samurai government. Obama is worse than Bush, with more military and more wars than Bush. Impeach Obama for causing humanitarian disasters and for offensive warfare on other countries. There were hundreds arrested recently outside the U.S. White House protesting Obama's wars.

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a photo gallery

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Pity President Barack Obama: Every time he tries to compromise with Republicans on energy reform by backing dirty or dangerous forms of power generation, a disaster occurs to demonstrate why pursuing such strategies is a bad idea.

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U.W physicist captures radioactive particles.

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As heroic workers and soldiers strive to save stricken Japan from a new horror--radioactive fallout--some truths known for 40 years bear repeating.

An earthquake-and-tsunami zone crowded with 127 million people is an unwise place for 54 reactors. The 1960s design of five Fukushima-I reactors has the smallest safety margin and probably can't contain 90% of meltdowns. The U.S. has 6 identical and 17 very similar plants.

Every currently operating light-water reactor, if deprived of power and cooling water, can melt down. Fukushima had eight-hour battery reserves, but fuel has melted in three reactors. Most U.S. reactors get in trouble after four hours. Some have had shorter blackouts. Much longer ones could happen.

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PHILIPPINES: The Partido Lakas ng Masa (Party of the Laboring Masses, PLM) expresses its deepest concern and sends its condolences to all the families and victims of the earthquake and tsunami that hit the North-Eastern coast of Japan last Friday. Our thoughts are also with all our Japanese friends and comrades and we pledge our solidarity and support to them in these dark hours.

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what a tyranny the US has become. Confiscating potassium iodide while keeping this drug Ex-Rad secret. Release both potassium iodide and Ex-Rad now. The "Fukushima 50" deserve it first. They are the volunteer workers at the Japanese nuclear disaster risking their lives on a known suicide mission to stop a full nuclear meltdown--from hitting Japan and hitting the USA. ---- "Reports of radioactive contamination and a potential meltdown at the complex have many Americans wondering how prepared our own government would be in the event something similar occurred here. More specifically, could the the health of residents living near a severely damaged nuclear reactor in the U.S. be ensured? Thanks to the advanced work of the men and women who develop our nation's military medicine, the answer is yes - but only if the government now takes the necessary steps. In what has to be one of the greatest accomplishments in the history of military medicine, the U. S. military has developed a radiation protection drug known as Ex-Rad that can give protection through DNA repair against otherwise lethal dosages of radiation. Ex-Rad, which is administered as an injection or orally, can be given either before or after exposure. While Ex-Rad officials are continuing to work with the FDA, it has successfully cleared two clinical studies showing it is safe."

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The weekly Public Access program, "A Growing Concern," will focus on the ongoing disaster at the Fukishima Nuclear Facility, and also discuss nuclear energy in general. I've heard little, if any corporate coverage about the inherent dangers of this technology. This is an excellent opportunity to go beyond this shallow coverage. Friday, March 18, 2011 at 7:00, channel 11.

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The corporate media is signaling that the Japan meltdown is winding down. Actually the situation is worsening, with the worst case becoming more likely.
I suggest this post be used for updates.

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I feel that this is an opportune time to write in praise of fire codes and building inspectors. Natural disasters are not natural. In large part, they are products of poverty, neglect, and exploitation...Vigilant regulation and careful public preparation for emergencies went far in making the destruction and death in Japan much less ghastly than it might have been.

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The given link (  link to org2.democracyinaction.org ) provides, if you want. Please take action now! Let's "strike while the iron is hot"!

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There will be a candlelight vigil at Pioneer Courthouse Square tomorrow from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. for the victims of the Japan earthquake and tsunami.

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Kelp is cheap and readily available, and contains iodine and hundreds of micromineral nutrients thst may ameliorate radiation poisoning

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Alexander is also proposing that working families receive a federal tax break for each family member traveling more than 20 miles round trip to work; Alexander say "these families should be permitted to receive a tax deduction or a minimum $300 tax credit for their entire annual fuel cost. As President of the United States, I would seek to make this retro-active back to January 1, 2011."

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In four separate segments, local Portland anti war and anti nuclear activist Lloyd Marbet, Executive Director of Oregon Conservancy Foundation, interviews Dr. Janette Sherman, MD, regarding her life long experiences with nuclear technology.

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TEPCO Hiding, Not Answering Phones
I called TEPCO today to talk to them about their criminal behaviors regarding the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant. The workers were too frightened to give any identifiers such as name or ID # and now they are not even answering their phones!

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to the nation who first dealt atomic death, then atomic "relief"

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...huge pools of water up in the higher level of the containment building above the reactors, which hold the spent fuel rods.... Some of GE's plants in the US feature this same design... "....a spent-fuel pool fire could very well produce damage similar to or even greater than Chernobyl".

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FOIA Documents Reveal Energy Northwest, a Public Utility, Plans Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Experiments While Seeking to Control Information Leaks to the Media.

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FOIA Documents Reveal Energy Northwest, a Public Utility, Plans Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Experiments While Seeking to Control Information Leaks to the Media.

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In 2006, the government predicted that the worst Japanese quake would be an 8.6, which would occur once every 500 years! (The current one was upgraded to 9.0 from 8.9 two days ago). They said that a 72 ft. tsunami would cause 2,700 deaths -- the current tsunami was just half as tall, but will probably be four times as deadly. And nuclear disasters weren't predicted either....

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TOKYO - Japan's nuclear safety agency says an explosion has been heard at Unit 2 of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. An agency spokesman speaking Tuesday on national television said the explosion was heard at 6:10 a.m. (2110 GMT).

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Last night, Japan's chief government spokesman Yukio Edano said night that a meltdown was "highly likely" at three of the plant's nuclear reactors on the country's shattered northeastern coast, the Kyodo news agency reported.

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After the US threatened to punish Japan for the majority of citizens' resistance to foreign exploitation and oppression, Japan signed january 21, 2011 the Special Measures Agreement to fund the USA military takeover of Japanese industries, facilities, security, etc. in Japan, expanding agreement from 1987 that was going to expire March 31, 2011. Just in time for the earthquake, tsunami, and radiation exposure great for increased profits for private mercenaries, US military contractors, water, oil, natural gas, credit/finance, food, housing, prisons, body bags, immunizations, control over media/communications/transportation/trade, prisons/camps.

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There is a second explosion at another reactor being reported on corporate media.

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bummer city

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Nuclear plant explosion in Japan. Begin precautionary measures...

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Iodide may help

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More current updates are with time posts toward bottom

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Japan's nuclear spokesman sought to calm public but assuring that vented radioactive steam would blow westwardly away from Japanese mainland. Nearest landfall -- west coast of U.S.A.

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Buy milk today to store up... Oregon milk and similar products will show signs of Japanese radiation without days if not hours.

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Chernobyl anyone?

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After decades of pollution of the Amazon basin, the oil corporation Chevron was fined $8.6 billion , the greatest environmental penalty of all time. How many catastrophes will be necessary until the population of industrial states become interested in environmental protection?

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"The invasion is on the Pentagon's drawing board. It is slated to be carried out ****irrespective of the demands of the people of Libya including the opponents of the regime, who have voiced their aversion to foreign military intervention in derogation of the nation's sovereignty."**** --- "This is not a non-violent protest movement as in Egypt and Tunisia. Conditions in Libya are fundamentally different. The armed insurgency in Eastern Libya is directly supported by foreign powers." --- "The real objective of "Operation Libya" is not to establish democracy but to take possession of Libya's oil reserves, destabilize the National Oil Corporation (NOC) and eventually privatize the country's oil industry, namely transfer the control and ownership of Libya's oil wealth into foreign hands. The National Oil Corporation (NOC) is ranked 25 among the world's Top 100 Oil Companies. (The Energy Intelligence ranks NOC 25 among the world's Top 100 companies. - Libyaonline.com)" --- "Libya is among the World's largest oil economies with approximately 3.5% of global oil reserves, more than twice those of the US." --- "In Yugoslavia, US-NATO forces triggered a civil war. The objective was to create political and ethnic divisions, which eventually led to the break up of an entire country. This objective was achieved through the covert funding and training of armed paramilitary armies, first in Bosnia (Bosnian Muslim Army, 1991-95) and subsequently in Kosovo (Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), 1998-1999). In both Kosovo and Bosnia, media disinformation (including outright lies and fabrications) were used to support US-EU claims that the Belgrade government had committed atrocities, thereby justifying a military intervention on humanitarian grounds."

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In an article which can only make me think the people at National Geographic regularly get stoned.

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calm down u.s. senator john kerry ~ president obama & other local boys from oahu hawaii all know the importance of family warmth

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Wikileakes revealed a disturbing reality about world oil supply. Saudia Arabia is where most all the worlds remaining oil reserves are. If Saudia Arabia fails to produce oil, the global economy tanks. Bush could never seem to address that Osama Bin Laden was Saudi for obvious reasons. The U.S. needs their oil too much.

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Is there room in a "clean energy standard" for nuclear and coal? What environmental harms and risks would Congress and the Obama Administration have to ignore in order to twist and stretch the definition of "clean" to include nuclear and coal power?

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