Image via WikipediaIsraeli Security Firm in Charge at Japanese Nuke Facilities Prior to Disaster
Among the 50 Japanese workers who have remained at Fukushima amid the unfolding crisis, in an effort to bring the facility under control, are two individuals who were in Israel about three weeks ago, where they underwent training to transfer the operation of the security system to the Japanese themselves.
“We still haven’t been able to make contact with them, either by phone or e-mail,” Magna CEO Haim Siboni said yesterday. “We know they’re alive, but it’s not clear if they are healthy due to the high level of radiation at the reactor, which is life-threatening.”
.......Speaking to The Jerusalem Post on Monday, Magna’s head, Haim Siboni, said the thermal cameras also had the ability to detect the presence of radioactive clouds in the air, but added that Magna had not been able to gain access to the images recorded by the cameras at this time.
“Because we are using these special cameras, we can also identify radioactive clouds, due to the spectrum that our cameras can sense,” Siboni said.
Although Magna is able to gain remote access to its computer system, which receives the cameras’ images, Siboni said his company had not yet been authorized to do so.
“We have not been allowed to take control remotely yet,” Siboni said.
Magna has been asked to secure a second core at the Fukushima plant in the near future.
ANN COULTER: Don't Believe The Experts, Radiation Is Actually GOOD For You
Nuclear is not the Answer Dan Rathers
* The NOC outed by the White House prior to Iraq invasion - head of nuclear threat desk Brewster-Jennings intel
FRENCH FIGHTER JETS SWEEP LIBYAN CITY
Sarkozy: No-Fly Zone Has Begun.. Gaddafi Forces Defy Ceasefire.. Rebels Under Attack..Warplane Shot Down In Benghazi
Meet NASA's Shuttle Rocket Retrieval Ships
On Friday, NASA released a fascinating video from one of the lesser-known components of the soon-to-retire shuttle program.
For some reason, James O'Keefe doesn't want to be videotaped
The right-wing video prankster and smear artist asks that you don't film him giving a speech, please
- Fukushima - disaster or distraction?As Japan's nuclear station slowly regains power, experts ask what is the worst that can now happen.Fri Mar 18 2011 11:04:13 GMT-0600 (Mountain Daylight Time)
- Messenger achieves Mercury orbitNasa's Messenger spacecraft successfully enters into orbit around Mercury - the first probe to do so.Thu Mar 17 2011 20:43:30 GMT-0600 (Mountain Daylight Time)
- UK solar panel subsidies slashedThe UK government proposes cuts of up to 70% to the feed in tariff for large scale solar energy production.Fri Mar 18 2011 10:54:43 GMT-0600 (Mountain Daylight Time)
- Funds to maintain European rocketEuropean Space Agency member states are putting 240m euros into industry so that the Ariane 5 rocket can continue to be exploited.Fri Mar 18 2011 12:51:46 GMT-0600 (Mountain Daylight Time)
- Congo blocks oil search in parkDR Congo rejects a bid by the UK's Soco International to search for oil in the famous Virunga National Park, home to rare mountain gorillas.Fri Mar 18 2011 03:35:38 GMT-0600 (Mountain Daylight Time)
- Skull scan for former archbishopThe skull of former Archbishop of Canterbury Simon Theobald is given a CT scan 630 years after he was murdered during the Peasants' Revolt.
Wondering if your child’s condition is serious or not? WebMD discusses the possible signs of a serious health problem and what to do in case of a...
- Japan nuclear crisis: Closer to stabilization, but what about food supply? -Christian Science Monitor
- In Yemen, Opposition Encourages Protesters -
New York Times - Gaza rocket barrage hits Israel -
BBC News - Egyptians swarm polls in first vote since revolution -
Washington Post - Obama Says Coalition Prepared To Act In Libya -
NPR - Bahrain eases curfew as fourth protester dies -
Reuters - Dark days for the empire of the sun -
Globe and Mail
Libya rebels on the defensive as Gaddafi forces enter Benghazi
• Intense fighting as Gaddafi forces enter rebel stronghold• Jet, believed to be the rebels' only plane, is shot down• International leaders meet...
Iraq�s Neoliberal Constitution
The Iraqis wanted a country different from that which the Americans had come to Iraq for. They, or at least those who were involved in drafting the constitution, wanted nothing of the kind of economic and political system that Bremer and other U.S. officials had been attempting to create in Iraq ever since the occupation began. What the occupation authorities wanted was to fulfill “the wish-list of international investors,” as The Economist magazine had described the economic policies they began imposing in the country in 2003.2
As direct occupiers, the United States had enacted laws which give foreign investors equal rights as Iraqis in the domestic market; permit the full repatriation of profits; institute the flat tax system; abolish tariffs; enforce a strict intellectual property rights regime; sell off a whole range of state-owned companies; reduce food and fuel subsidies; and privatize all kinds of social services such as health, education, water delivery, etc.
By the time the next version was leaked in late July, the progressive provisions in the draft constitution had disappeared.
..........Complained one Kurdish member of the constitutional committee who was involved in the caucuses: “The Americans say they don’t intervene, but they have intervened deep. They gave us a detailed proposal, almost a full version of a constitution. They try to compromise the different opinions of all the political blocs. The U.S. officials are more interested in the Iraqi constitution than the Iraqis themselves, because they promised their people that it will be done August 15.”12 And it’s not that the officials were acting as neutral mediators, according to Othman. U.S. and UK officials, he said, are “being governed by their domestic agenda.” He also lamented how these officials were meeting with Iraqis individually in backroom meetings, saying “It’s not right and is counterproductive. If they have something to say, why don’t they come and address the whole committee?”13 Nechirvan Barzani, the Prime Minister of the Kurdistan regional government in Arbil and one of the United States’ closest allies, confirmed Othman’s charges. “The United States and the UK are working behind the scenes, dealing with all the groups, saying it should be like this and like that,” he said.14
Iraq's Constitution: From Dayton to Baghdad
In Baghdad today, as in Dayton 10 years ago, observers have established three major criteria for success. First, can the negotiators meet their self-imposed deadline? Second, can they produce a result that all three groups — in the Iraqi case the Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish communities — can abide by? And third, will that result provide a workable arrangement for the future government of a unified Iraq?Of these three considerations, the second is by far the most important. Any result that does not engage the three major parties will be worse than no result at all. It is right, therefore, that both the timetable and the actual contents of any constitution take second place to this essential requirement.This was certainly the calculus made by American diplomats a decade ago in Dayton. The results demonstrate their wisdom. Bosnia remains at peace today. True, the concessions made to each of the three ethnic groups at Dayton, in terms of local autonomy and power-sharing arrangements, produced an unworkable arrangement for government that continues to require international oversight.
Egypt considers constitutional amendments
Mohamed ElBaradei, an Egyptian presidential candidate and Nobel laureate, was attacked by thugs at a polling station in Cairo on Saturday, his brother told CNN.
The proposed amendments include limiting the president to two four-year terms, capping emergency laws to six months unless they are extended by public referendum, and placing elections under judicial oversight.
Opponents say the proposed amendments were rushed and fall short of the people's demands. Many demand a new constitution and claim an early referendum gives an unfair edge to the Muslim Brotherhood and remnants of Mubarak's National Democratic Party -- well entrenched and politically savvy groups that are much better prepared to mobilize voters than newer factions still scrambling to get organized.
Repression, Resistance And The CIA in Libya
Obama's potentially awkward Brazilian arrival
Just hours after declaring at the White House that he has helped put together a "strong" coalition to launch military action against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi if necessary, President Obama arrived in a country that abstained from voting on the critical United Nations Security Council resolution authorizing force.
Obama landed in Brazil on Saturday for a bilateral meeting at the grand Planalto Palace with President Dilma Vana Rousseff, the first female leader of Brazil, which was one of just five nations that voted to abstain on Thursday night's vote before the U.N. Security Council.
A Brazilian official told CNN that Rousseff's government believes U.N. resolution 1973 is too wide in scope because besides opening the door to member nations imposing a potential no-fly zone over Libya, the resolution also allows those nations to take "any means necessary" against the Libyan government.
( Shades of the runup to the Occupation of Iraq )
Feds order farmer to destroy his own wheat crops: The shocking revelations of Wickard vs Filburn
In arguing for S.501, the "Food Safety Modernization Act," there are all sorts of attorneys, legislators and internet commentators who keep claiming, "The government won't try to control the food production of small farms." They say, "Your backyard garden is safe" and that the feds won't come knocking on your door to control your seeds or foods.
As usual, these pushers of Big Government are utterly ignorant of the history in their own country. Not only CAN the U.S. government control and dictate to single-family farms what they can grow in their own backyards; the government has already blatantly done so!
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