Fukushima
How did the Japanese government immediately respond to the Fukushima crisis?
By cutting off the funding for radiation monitoring, that’s how.
How did the Japanese government immediately respond to the Fukushima crisis?
By cutting off the funding for radiation monitoring, that’s how.
From the other Glimmer Twin’s first solo album, Talk Is Cheap (1988): Bookmark It
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Becomes the eighth state to legalize gay marriage – but it won’t take effect until January 2013 if it passes a referendum. Bookmark It
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8 pm eastern | 5 pm pacific |Virtually Speaking A-Z: This week in liberalism. | Stuart Zechman and Jay Ackroyd discuss current evens from the perspective of movement liberalism.| Plus What Digby Said. And last week’s post-show notes. Follow @Stuart_Zechman @JayAckroyd Listen live on BTR. Beginning midnight, listen here. 9 pm eastern | 6 pm pacific |Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd | Jay talks with filmmakers Frances Causey and Don Goldmacher about Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? the night before it opens at The Quad Cinema in NYC for a week long run, against the [...]
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Gary Weiss’s new book about Ayn Rand sheds more light on how Alan Greenspan became a true believer in the unregulated free-market economy that has brought America to its knees. More here. Bookmark It
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The Obama administration is quick to point the finger at foreign regimes that persecute truth-telling journalists, but slow to own up to its own repressive policies. From David Carr: Last Wednesday in the White House briefing room, the administration’s press secretary, Jay Carney, opened on a somber note, citing the deaths of Marie Colvin and Anthony Shadid, two reporters who had died “in order to bring truth” while reporting in Syria. Jake Tapper, the White House correspondent for ABC News, [...]
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From CounterPunch: What happened recently at the Hershey candy factory, in Palmyra, Pennsylvania, has to be considered one of the weirdest and most outrageous labor stories of the new year. First the outrageous part. According to a story in the New York Times (February 21), Exel, the logistics company hired by Hershey to oversee its Palmyra operation, was found guilty by OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) of intentionally failing to report 42 serious injuries in the plant over a [...]
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Does this mean the United States will have enough armed private contractors in place when uniformed Americans withdraw? Or is it simply time to declare victory and get out while we still can? Bookmark It
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11:17 am
How did the “American” government immediately respond to the Fukushima crisis?
By cutting off the funding for radiation monitoring, of course.
I’m not going to go looking for them and I wouldn’t want to blog-whore your place with a bunch of links anyway, but throughout the early months of “the crisis” I was all over this at my place… Cascadia, euphemistically known as the “Pacific Northwest”, is no stranger to radioactive fallout – I was born with a third thumb. The government shut-down monitoring all along the Pacific coast, throughout the Gulf of Alaska, and inland as far as Denver. They even shut down the monitoring at Hanford.
You didn’t think they’d tell you the truth, did you?
12:42 pm
Exactly. It follows the lead of the financial services sector that “escaped” prosecution for fraud and got “bailed out” by throwing the middle class under the bus. That ain’t all though. Not by a long shot – now we have a Monsanto lobbyist at the head of our food safety “watchdog” agency, the coal and other energy sectors completely unregulated (as far as greenhouse gases go) and committing (via Hanson at NASA) “crimes against humanity.” The corporate sector has basically BOUGHT Congress and now it matters not WHICH of the shills you pick to hang you, you’re still gonna hang after the “election.”
2:24 pm
Nothing wrong with a few good links to get people read –or re-read– good info, Ten Bears. They’d be most welcomed.
2:42 pm
All over the world, our elites are worthless!