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Saturday, April 2, 2011

2 April - Articles and Alternative News

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  1. Chris Hedges: The Collapse of Globalization
  2.  The uprisings in the Middle East, the unrest that is tearing apart nations such as the Ivory Coast, the bubbling discontent in Greece, Ireland and Britain and the labor disputes in states such as Wisconsin and Ohio presage the collapse of globalization. They presage a world where vital resources, including food and water, jobs and security, are becoming scarcer and harder to obtain. They presage growing misery for hundreds of millions of people who find themselves trapped in failed states, suffering escalating violence and crippling poverty. They presage increasingly draconian controls and force—take a look at what is being done to Pfc. Bradley Manning—used to protect the corporate elite who are orchestrating our demise. [Demonstrators carry an effigy of Ronald McDonald. (AP / Jacques Brinon)] Demonstrators carry an effigy of Ronald McDonald. (AP / Jacques Brinon)

    We must embrace, and embrace rapidly, a radical new ethic of simplicity and rigorous protection of our ecosystem—especially the climate—or we will all be holding on to life by our fingertips. We must rebuild radical socialist movements that demand that the resources of the state and the nation provide for the welfare of all citizens and the heavy hand of state power be employed to prohibit the plunder by the corporate power elite. We must view the corporate capitalists who have seized control of our money, our food, our energy, our education, our press, our health care system and our governance as mortal enemies to be vanquished.

    Adequate food, clean water and basic security are already beyond the reach of perhaps half the world’s population. Food prices have risen 61 percent globally since December 2008, according to the International Monetary Fund. The price of wheat has exploded, more than doubling in the last eight months to $8.56 a bushel. When half of your income is spent on food, as it is in countries such as Yemen, Egypt, Tunisia and the Ivory Coast, price increases of this magnitude bring with them malnutrition and starvation. Food prices in the United States have risen over the past three months at an annualized rate of 5 percent. There are some 40 million poor in the United States who devote 35 percent of their after-tax incomes to pay for food. As the cost of fossil fuel climbs, as climate change continues to disrupt agricultural production and as populations and unemployment swell, we will find ourselves convulsed in more global and domestic unrest. Food riots and political protests will be inevitable. But it will not necessarily mean more democracy.
  3. Stephen Lerner: Back at You, Glenn Beck
  4. Tom Burnett: 'Worse Than Chernobyl': When the Fukushima Meltdown Hits Groundwater
  5. Michael Schwalbe: A Primer on Class Struggle
  6. Ralph Nader:Obama's March Madness
  7. Stan Karp: Who’s Bashing Teachers and Public Schools and What Can We Do About It?
  8. David Korten: The End of Empire
  9. Robert Reich: The Awful, Unsaid Truth: We’re Heading Back Toward a Double Dip
  10. Robert Scheer: Obama's Fatal Corporate Addiction
  11. Caroline Arnold: Some Crazy Proposals for April Fools
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  1. [field_image_caption-raw]Nuclear Radiation 'The Greatest Public Health Hazard'
  2. [field_image_caption-raw]The Kill Team
  3. [field_image_caption-raw]Crews 'Facing 100-Year Battle' at Fukushima
  4. [field_image_caption-raw]Japan on ‘Maximum Alert’ as Nuclear Crisis Deepens
  5. [field_image_caption-raw]BP Gulf Disaster Impact Could Be Much Worse Than Expected
  6. [field_image_caption-raw]What Location Tracking Looks Like
  7. [field_image_caption-raw]Libya: Barack Obama Signed Secret Order For Covert Operations
  8. [field_image_caption-raw]London Marchers Protest Massive Spending Cuts in Britain
  9. [field_image_caption-raw]Having A Job May Not Be Enough To Make Ends Meet
  10. [field_image_caption-raw]Exposed: The US-Saudi Libya deal
  11. You invade Bahrain. We take out Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. This, in short, is the essence of a deal struck between the Barack Obama administration and the House of Saud
  13. Fukushima is going to dwarf Chenobyl. The Japanese government has had a level 7 nuclear disaster going for almost a week but won’t admit it.

    The disaster is occurring the opposite way than Chernobyl, which exploded and stopped the reaction. At Fukushima, the reactions are getting worse. I suspect three nuclear piles are in meltdown and we will probably get some of it.

    If reactor 3 is in meltdown,  the concrete under the containment looks like lava. But Fukushima is not far off the water table. When that molten mass of self-sustaining nuclear material gets to the water table it won’t simply cool down. It will explode – not a nuclear explosion, but probably enough to involve the rest of the reactors and fuel rods at the facility.

    Pouring concrete on a critical reactor makes no sense – it will simply explode and release more radioactive particulate matter. The concrete will melt and the problem will get worse. Chernobyl was different – a critical reactor exploded and stopped the reaction. At Fukushima, the reactor cores are still melting down. The ONLY way to stop that is to detonate a ~10 kiloton fission device inside each reactor containment vessel and hope to vaporize the cores. That’s probably a bad solution.

    A nuclear meltdown is a self-sustaining reaction. Nothing can stop it except stopping the reaction. And that would require a nuclear weapon. In fact, it would require one in each containment vessel to merely stop what is going on now. But it will be messy.

    Fukushima was waiting to happen because of the placement of the emergency generators. If they had not all failed at once by being inundated by a tsunami, Fukushima would not have happened as it did – although it WOULD still have been a nuclear disaster. Every containment in the world is built to withstand a Magnitude 6.9 earthquake; the Japanese chose to ignore the fact that a similar earthquake had hit that same general area in 1896.

    Anyway, here is the information that the US doesn’t seem to want released. And here is a chart that might help with perspective.

    Making matters worse is the MOX in reactor 3. MOX is the street name for ‘mixed oxide fuel‘ which uses ~9% plutonium along with a uranium compound to fuel reactors. This is why it can be used.

    The problem is that you don’t want to play with this stuff. A nuclear reactor means bring fissile material to a point at which it is hot enough to boil water (in a light-water reactor) and not enough to melt and go supercritical (China syndrome or a Chernobyl incident). You simply cannot let it get away from you because if it does, you can’t stop it.

    The Japanese are still talking about days or weeks to clean this up. That’s not true. They cannot clean it up. And no one will live in that area again for dozens or maybe hundreds of years.


  15. Fukushima meltdown now under way - could dwarf Chernobyl, says top physicist
    The last time Qadhafi was attacked, Chernobyl went off, the world united, and the imperialists retreated. The 2nd time Qadhafi was attacked, Fuk-you-shima went off, the world is uniting, but the imperialists are too stupid and arrogant to retreat more...
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    Japan under pressure to widen nuclear evacuation zone | World news | guardian.co.uk
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    • High levels of radiation detected outside current 20km zone • Prime minister plans to review nuclear energy policy • Concerns over water contaminated by reactor cooling operation

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U.S. confused by lack of press freedom in Turkey


http://pulsemedia.org/2011/02/22/u-s-confused-by-lack-of-press-freedom-in-turkey

Last week Turkey arrested four journalists suspected of links to the ultranationalist Ergenekon organization, which is accused of plotting to force a military coup against the ruling AK Party.

U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Francis Ricciardone responded to the arrests by stressing the importance of freedom of the press:

    Journalists are being detained on the one hand, while addresses about freedom of the speech are given on the other. We do not understand this.”

In the interest of adding to the ambassador’s confusion, I am submitting the following two recent news excerpts on the subject of press freedom. The first is from an article in The Guardian about the possible true identity of “Raymond Davis,” the American contractor who murdered between two and three people in Pakistan at the end of last month. The second is from the introduction to a Democracy Now! interview with American journalist Brandon Jourdan.

1. “A number of US media outlets learned about Davis’s CIA role but have kept it under wraps at the request of the Obama administration. A Colorado television station, 9NEWS, made a connection after speaking to Davis’s wife. She referred its inquiries to a number in Washington which turned out to be the CIA. The station removed the CIA reference from its website at the request of the US government.”

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'Death Squad': Full horror emerges of how rogue U.S. brigade murdered and mutilated innocent Afghan.
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Samsung Laptops Ship With Keylogger: WTF?!? - Technabob
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Foods That Contain Iodine
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 A new pattern of antibiotic resistance that is spreading around the globe may soon leave us defenseless�against a frighteningly wide range of dangerous bacterial infections
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It was Klebsiella pneumoniae, a bacterium that in hospitalized patients is one of the most frequent causes of pneumonia and bloodstream infection. This strain, though, contained something new, a gene that Walsh had never seen before. It rendered the Klebsiella, which was already resistant to many antibiotics used in critical care medicine, insensitive to the only remaining group that worked reliably and safely—the carbapenems, the so-called drugs of last resort. The one medication the investigators found that had any effect on the resistant strain was colistin, a drug that had been out of general use for years because of its toxic effects on the kidneys. Walsh named the enzyme that this gene produced New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase, or NDM-1, for the city where the man acquired the infection just before he returned home to Sweden.

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