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...

A blog about football

and the current crisis at the FFF
http://sites.duke.edu/wcwp/

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/

Revise your vocabulary

...with MEMOVOC: http://www.memovoc.com/
Big thanks and kuddos to Hélène.

4 crucial years

And 4 years of hard work in the Japanese power plants if cleaning the mess is possible.

Worldwide military spending

Worldwide military spending edged up in 2010 to a record $1.6 trillion, a leading think-tank said on Monday.
And other impressive figures.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/10/us-military-spending-idUSTRE73937Y20110410

One thousand quakes

...since 3/11. Yes, one thousand quakes above 4° magnitude on the Richter scale.
439 quakes above 5°; 57 quakes above 6° and 4 above 7°
Much tremor in 34 days.

Pronouncing words

I was checking the pronunciation of obesity and I discovered a great site.
http://fr.forvo.com/word/obesity/

Terabecquerels

Terabecquerels and level 7
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/84805.html

Lies and omissions

And we're left to wonder what the situation really is as the earth keeps shaking.
Tonight in Japan, a 7.4°-magnitude earthquake strikes off coast of Miyagi, Japan

Closing Ranks: The NRC, the Nuclear Industry, and TEPCo. Are Limiting the Flow of Information from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.

Fighting landmines

The so-called Ottawa Process that led to the signing of the Mine Ban Treaty in 1997 was unorthodox, historic and unprecedented. The treaty is the product of an unusually cohesive and strategic partnership between non-governmental organizations, international organizations, United Nations agencies and governments.
The political initiative launched in October 1996 and culminating in the opening for signature of the Mine Ban Treaty in Ottawa, Canada, in December 1997 is known as the Ottawa Process. Coline Serreau played her part with this short film.

3/11 onwards or else

In case you're still more interested in Facebook than in the Fukushima world catastrophe,read this:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/28/earlyshow/living/parenting/main20047775.shtml?tag=stack
Otherwise, read that here:
"This sort of mistake is not something that can be forgiven," Edano said sternly Monday.
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/03/28
And remember this:
"Plutonium can be shielded by a sheet of paper" : here I quote NHK news anchor.
Ok! But don't forget that once in the body, it is baaaaaaaaaaaad. Real bad.
Remember, Plutonium's half-life is 24,000 years.BAAAAAD
Read here for more
http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2011/03/12/japans-radiation-exposure-how-serious-is-it/

Read more here in French:http://www.electron-economy.org/article-l-arriere-plan-nauseabond-de-ce-drame-la-puissance-de-ce-que-par-pudeur-on-nomme-le-lobby-nucleaire-le-monde-70278377.html

Hokusai REVISITED. We love you NIHON

The Great Wave off Kanagawa (神奈川沖浪裏, Kanagawa Oki Nami Ura, lit. "Under a Wave off Kanagawa")is a woodblock print by the Japanese artist Hokusai. An example of ukiyo-e art that inspired the impressionists.An example can be seen in Giverny, Monet's home. FRANCE LOVES JAPAN

Profit vs Life

Read the Guardian here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/12/japan-ministers-ignored-warnings-nuclear
and here from a Korean website/english:
http://www.peacemaking.co.kr/english/news/view.php?papercode=ENGLISH&newsno=1037&pubno=315&returl=%2Fenglish%2Fnews%2Flistall.php%3Fpapercode%3DENGLISH%26pageno%3D1%26q%3D%26ordertype%3D