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Comment by Chris on October 23, 2013 at 10:25pm

World Action Now on Fukushima - Harvey Wasserman

Sign The World Community Must Take Charge at Fukushima petition HERE

Comment by Chris on October 23, 2013 at 10:16pm

This must be a well kept secret. Why else would Tokyo be awarded the Olympics?

Disaster Spiraling Out of Control at Fukushima as Japan's Prime Min...

Massive quantities of heavily contaminated water are pouring into the Pacific Ocean, dousing workers along the way. Huge, flimsy tanks are leaking untold tons of highly radioactive fluids.

AlterNet / By Harvey Wasserman

October 11, 2013  |  

 

Japan’s pro-nuclear Prime Minister has finally asked for global help at Fukushima. It probably hasn’t hurt that more than 100,000 people have  signed petitions calling for a global takeover; more than 8,000 have viewed a  new YouTube on it.

Massive quantities of heavily contaminated water are pouring into the Pacific Ocean, dousing workers along the way. Hundreds of huge, flimsy tanks are leaking untold tons of highly radioactive fluids. 

At Unit #4, more than 1300 fuel rods, with more than 400 tons of extremely radioactive material, containing potential cesium fallout comparable to 14,000 Hiroshima bombs,  are stranded 100 feet in the air.

All this more than 30 months after the earthquake/tsunami led to three melt-downs and at least four explosions. 

“Our country needs your knowledge and expertise” he has said to the world community.  “We are wide open to receive the most advanced knowledge from overs...

But is he serious?...

...“If you calculate the amount of cesium 137 in the pool” at Unit #4, “the amount is equivalent to 14,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs,” says Hiroaki Koide, assistant professor at the  Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute 

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World Action Now on Fukushima - Harvey Wasserman

Comment by doone on October 21, 2013 at 3:55pm

Canada and USA News

Killing the planet and funding your enemies all rolled up in one big bad decision

by digby

There are many substantial reasons for the president and the Democratic Party to oppose the Keystone Pipeline on the merits. But if this report is true, it is the single most potent political reason not to do it. And if they agree to it anyway, knowing they are helping to finance enemies who already have so much money they can overwhelm the political system, there really is no hope for them:

A new study released today concludes that Koch Industries and its subsidiaries stand to make as much as $100 billion in profits if the controversial Keystone XL pipeline is granted a presidential permit from U.S. President Barack Obama. 

The report, titled Billionaires' Carbon Bomb, produced by the think tank International Forum on Globalization (IFG), finds that David and Charles Koch and their privately owned company, Koch Industries, own more than 2 million acres of land in Northern Alberta, the source of the tar sands bitumen that would be pumped to the United States via the Keystone XL pipeline.

"The Kochs have repeatedly claimed that they have no interest in the Keystone XL Pipeline, this report shows that is false," said Nathalie Lowenthal-Savy, a researcher with IFG.

"We noticed Koch Funded Tea Party members and think tanks pushing for the pipeline. We dug deeper and found $100 billion in potential profit, $50 million sent to organizations supporting the pipeline, and perhaps 2 million acres of land. That sounds like an interest to me."

Nathalie continued, “We all know they will use that money to fund and expand their influence network, subvert democracy, crush unions like in Wisconsin, and get more extremists elected to congress."

And, by the way, if this is true the unions need to do some soul-searching and ask themselves if the promise of a few jobs is really worth funding their greatest enemy.

Comment by doone on October 21, 2013 at 12:59pm

World Leaders in various categories

Comment by Ali on October 20, 2013 at 4:39pm

@davy
I agree with you I also saw some pictures of U.S. children draw some drawings on the rockets that that landed on Iraq and Afghanistan. or the Israeli kids 

Comment by Davy on October 20, 2013 at 2:23pm

It is sad when you see pictures like this. She would not really understand the reason for this!

Comment by Ali on October 19, 2013 at 6:46pm

A little girl hold the Independence flag of the State of "South Arabian", with a weapon. it's part of large movement demanding independence from the north. ( the picture is from a twitter account).

Comment by doone on October 17, 2013 at 9:30pm

 YAAAAAAAAAAS the government shutdown is finally over!

Comment by Chris on October 17, 2013 at 4:13am

International Monetary Fund strongly suggests countries tax the ric...

Tax the rich and better target the multinationals: The IMF has set off shockwaves this week in Washington by suggesting countries fight budget deficits by raising taxes.

Tucked inside a report on public debt, the new tack was mostly eclipsed by worries about the US budget crisis, but did not escape the notice of experts and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).

“We had to read it twice to be sure we had really understood it,” said Nicolas Mombrial, the head of Oxfam in Washington. “It’s rare that IMF proposals are so surprising.”

Guardian of financial orthodoxy, the International Monetary Fund, which is holding its annual meetings with the World Bank this week in the US capital, typically calls for nations in difficulty to slash public spending to reduce their deficits.

But in its Fiscal Monitor report, subtitled “Taxing Times”, the Fund advanced the idea of taxing the highest-income people and their assets to reinforce the legitimacy of spending cuts and fight against growing income inequalities.

“Scope seems to exist in many advanced economies to raise more revenue from the top of the income distribution,” the IMF wrote, noting “steep cuts” in top rates since the early 1980s.

According to IMF estimates, taxing the rich even at the same rates during the 1980s would reap fiscal revenues equal to 0.25 percent of economic output in the developed countries.

“The gain could in some cases, such as that of the United States, be more significant,” around 1.5 percent of gross domestic product, said the IMF report, which also singled out deficient taxation of multinational companies.

In the US alone, legal loopholes deprive the Treasury of roughly $60 billion in receipts, the global lender said.

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Comment by Lester Unega Waya on October 16, 2013 at 11:34am

Doone.
Re;
"I don’t want an authoritarian police state to be able"

It can't be that bad as a lot of Americans now live in China"

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