Fukushima Forever | Charles Perrow Recent disclosures of tons of radioactive water from the damaged Fukushima reactors spilling into the ocean are just the latest evidence of the continuing incompetence of the Japanese utility, TEPCO. The announcement that the Japanese government will step in is also not reassuring since it was the Japanese government that failed to regulate the utility for decades. But, bad as it is, the current contamination of the ocean should be the least of our worries. The radioactive poisons are expected to form a plume that will be carried by currents to coast of North America. Much more serious is the danger that the spent fuel rod pool at the top of the nuclear plant number four will collapse in a storm or an earthquake, or in a failed attempt to carefully remove each of the 1,535 rods and safely transport them to the common storage pool 50 meters away. Fukushima is just the latest episode in a dangerous dance with radiation that has been going on for 68 years. Initially the U.S.
Lost Girls Gimme absolute control, over every living soul,And lie beside me, baby - that's an order. - Leonard Cohen Briefly, I'm wondering what to make of Kola Boof. Nearly a quarter of the Sudanese poet's autobiography, Diary of a Lost Girl, describes her months spent in Morocco in 1996 as Osama bin Laden's unwilling mistress. Boof has been called a "fraud" (a "pathological liar" according to bin Laden biography Peter Bergen) for her iconoclastic portait of Osama as a Van Halen-loving, dope-smoking gangbanger, who "rambled on about his favorite TV shows: The Wonder Years, Miami Vice, and MacGyver." (Bergen and other authorities also assert that bin Laden was not in Morocco in 1996, though the same authorities also say little, or merely repeat bin Laden's own denial, concerning his reported visit to a Dubai hospital in July 2001 where he met with the CIA station chief and Saudi royals.) Either Boof is lying, bin Laden was bullshitting, or they're both telling the truth.
Sandy Hook Actor Conspiracy | #BigLouisiana ***update*** I have reworked this post a little to clarify a few things, but this about all I the time I am going to spend on this stuff – unless somebody wants to help me debunk these claims, or there is just a strong interest expressed in someone tackling the job! I think most people can judge for themselves and no debunking is needed. No matter what you do, no matter how thoroughly you debunk a conspiracy theory – some will still cling to the conspiracy theory and claim you are actually part of the conspiracy – someone hired to discredit them. I don’t like jumping on conspiracy bandwagons or even bringing them up, and I am not about to jump on this one’s bandwagon – but this conspiracy theory is gaining attention - so I guess I should at least point it out because the following image has gone viral: Sandy Hook Dad Smiling in the Wake of Massacre No one knows how they will act after a tragedy. Sandy Hook Prediction in Batman (Dark Knight Rises) Full Scene HD This bit is just plain odd.
Organic Consumers Association Docket No. APHIS-2012-0032 AND APHIS-2012-0019 I am writing to request that APHIS reject Dow Chemical's petition for nonregulated status of soybean designated as DAS-44406-6, genetically engineered for tolerance to 2,4-D, glyphosate (Monsanto's RoundUp) and glufosinate and soybean DAS-68416-4, genetically engineered for tolerance to 2,4-D and glufosinate. I oppose nonregulated status because it would cause the following: Increased Herbicide Use - Currently, only 3 percent of soy acreage is sprayed with 2,4-D. Deregulation of Dow's soy would drastically increase the use of 2,4-D. Source: "Implications of GM crop cultivation at large spatial scales," presentation given in Bremen, Germany, June 14-15, 2012, by Charles Benbrook, PhD, Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
The First Zombie-Proof House Somehow, ritual drunk-conversation concerning team captains for the apocalypse has become a major part of the lives of 20-somethings. Having been matured in the Grandaddy-crowned masterpiece film (put “A.M. 180” on and forget that you have a job) 28 Days Later and the best-selling Zombie Survival Guide, we’re all a little too ready to deal with the 2012 zombie apocalypse of our dreams. “The Safe House,” designed by KWK Promes, starts to get eerily close to something I could work with, if say 200 bludgeoned members of the undead army came over to eat their way into borrowing some sugar. “The most essential item for our clients was acquiring the feeling of maximum security,” begins the designers’ website in the summary of the structure. The house, with its movable walls, has only one entrance, which is located on the second floor after crossing a drawbridge.
PN The Illuminati Conspiracy Theories, and the Climate Denial Hoax Much has been made in the Conspiracy Theories about how the Illuminati control the world, and are also seeking total world domination. You can't have that both ways. Either they control everything, or they don't. Well, they don't, but they sure would like to. I've been aware of the Conspiracy Theories (which originated with the John Birch Society, funded by the father of the Koch brothers) since the late 1960s, and I most certainly enjoyed the Illuminatus fiction books by Robert Shea, and Robert Anton Wilson, which became very popular during the mid 1970s, and early 1980s. Now if you really, really dig into these Conspiracy Theories, you will find two things : A) Some come from people doing real researching into skullduggery in high places. B) The most popular and widely spread Conspiracy Theories, originate from Think Tanks funded by major Corporations. That's right! In other words, these Conspiracy Theories are a Psy-Ops designed to instill fear and confusion. Political Pages Main Page
Sandy Hook School Massacre Timeline The following timeline of the December 14, 2012 mass killing of 20 children and 8 adults in Newtown Connecticut attempts to demonstrate how the event was presented to the public by corporate news media. The chronological assemblage of coverage is not comprehensive of all reports published on the incident but rather seeks to verify how the storyline was to a substantial degree constructed by federal and state law enforcement authorities and major media around the theory that 20-year-old Adam Lanza was the sole agent in the massacre. This scenario became an established reality through the news media’s pronounced repetition of the lone gunman narrative and meme. This proposed scenario significantly obscured the fact that police encountered and apprehended two additional shooting suspects on the school’s grounds within minutes of the crime. May 17 First Selectman A. June 26 President George W. December 4 Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, New York State Police (NYSP) Superintendent Wayne E.
We're Eating What? The Drugstore in U.S. Meat. Food consumers seldom hear about the drugs oestradiol-17, zeranol, trenbolone acetate and melengestrol acetate and the names are certainly not on meat labels. But those synthetic growth hormones are central to U.S. meat production, especially beef, and the reason Europe has banned a lot of U.S. meat since 1989. Zeranol, widely used as a growth promoter in the U.S. beef industry, is a "powerful estrogenic chemical, as demonstrated by its ability to stimulate growth and proliferation of human breast tumor cells" similar to the "known carcinogen diethylstilbestrol (DES)," The Breast Cancer Fund, dedicated to identifying and eliminating environmental causes of breast cancer, is a "powerful estrogenic chemical, as demonstrated by its ability to stimulate growth and proliferation of human breast tumor cells in vitro at potencies similar to those of the natural hormone estradiol and the known carcinogen diethylstilbestrol (DES)."
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