Patriot Act Extended

WASHINGTON — Minutes before a midnight deadline, President Barack Obama signed into law a four-year extension of post-Sept. 11 powers to search records and conduct roving wiretaps in pursuit of terrorists...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-moves-patriot-act-toward-4-year-extension-before-thursday-midnight-deadline/2011/05/25/AGnYjXBH_story.html

Heard of BRICS?

Declaration rules out use of force to solve international disputes.

http://chinawatch.washingtonpost.com/2011/05/for-peace-and-prosperity.php

Cores Damaged at Three Reactors

It's official.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703509104576325110776621604.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_News_BlogsModule

Damage Worse Than Feared

Wall Street Journal about Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703730804576318470827245128.html#project%3Djnuke0512_pg%26articleTabs%3Dcomments

'A Ticking Time Bomb'

This professor, Michio Kaku, also says: 'The nightmare is not over yet.'
And: 'You get this image of Homer Simpson operating the power plant.'


or here: http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2011/05/13/exp.arena.japan.nuclear.kaku.cnn?iref=videosearch

We care for you Japan

Unfortunately, the Fukushima power plant doesn't make the headlines. Not even a word in "Le Monde" ? Oh yes, today's article deals with the fact that Tepco is expecting to lose $ 9 billion dollars.
http://www.lemonde.fr/japon/article/2011/05/11/fukushima-tepco-annoncerait-une-perte-nette-de-9-milliards-d-euros_1519964_1492975.html
and not a word on the huge radioactivity on the site? That's just outrageous.
(See previous post.)

Two months after the HUGE earthquake and the following tsunami.
The plant, its six reactors in a whole load of mess and such a lousy coverage? Weird.
Let it be known that we care for Japan and all the tsunami victims.
And let it be known that we care about the situation in Fukushima nuclear power plant. We want more info, daily complete coverage about FNPP because we care for the Japanese, because we care for our planet and because we can handle the truth.

The Japanese Emperor and his wife show they care here:
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/11_25.html

A Figure: 700 in Fukushima NPP

700 millisieverts per hour...
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/09_23.html
"In Japan, 100 millisieverts is seen as the annual maximum permissible dose for those engaged in emergency repair work. But the current emergency situation has prompted raising the limit to 250 millisieverts."

What it means? Well, for now, it is impossible to work in the plantwithout being in great danger.
Or not totally impossible?
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110509x2.html
70 millisieverts per hour is safe... with less than four hours a year per worker... Workers needed.

To be continued...

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and the current crisis at the FFF
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Safety concerns unheeded

Where were safety concerns ignored? In Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.
When? In June 2010. You don't say...
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/01/japanese-pm-admits-government-and-tepco-ignored-safety-concerns/