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The U.S. and its allies are embarking on another regime change operation. Before they started their attacks on the Libyans, they admitted that there would be civilians casualties in an act of irony. They claim to be acting to save civilians, but they will be killing them.......Another sheeple sleeping situation
Whistler Blower Michael C. Ruppert ex CIA officer and author of Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil
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Ahmadinejad: Israel, US Plotting Iranian-Arabian Conflict
In public speech, Iranian president says he envisions new Middle East without presence of Israel, US and their allies.
Hezbollah and Iranian Revolutionary Guard operatives plan to attack Western targets in the coming days, a Lebanese report said on Tuesday.
The report was based on information gathered by Western intelligence agencies monitoring the “recent abnormal movements of cadres suspected of belonging to Hezbollah or the Iranian Revolutionary Guard,” the Beirut Observer website said.
Rise of New World Power – Without America
SANYA, China (AP) -- The leaders of the world's largest emerging economies started a one-day summit in southern China on Thursday, looking for a bigger role in global financial institutions and also welcoming a new member.
Thursday's summit comes at a crucial moment for the expanded five-member bloc known as the BRICS, which groups Brazil, Russia, India, China, and, for the first time, South Africa.
With the G-20 group of major economies seeking to remake parts of the global financial architecture, leaders of the five countries -- Chinese President Hu Jintao, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and South African President Jacob Zuma -- will be tested to see if they can overcome internal differences and act as a bloc with common goals.
"The key priority is for the BRICS to put creative ideas on the table rather than just react defensively to proposals put forward by the advanced economies," said Cornell University economics professor Eswar Prasad, former head of the International Monetary Fund's China Division.
Though largely an ad-hoc grouping at present, the BRICS have the potential to emerge as a new force in world affairs on the back of their massive share of global population and economic growth. With the inclusion of South Africa, the group accounts for 40 percent of the world's people, 18 percent of global trade and about 45 percent of current growth, giving them formidable heft when dealing with the developed economies.
US – World's Major Food Supplier – Must Import Wheat to Fill Corn Gap
What imported from Australia and Europe - rather than home-grown grain - may fill a hole in American corn supplies, a leading analyst said on Monday, as investors continued to puzzle over controversial US crop data.
The US Department of Agriculture on Friday stunned markets by keeping its estimate for domestic corn supplies at the close of 2010-11 unchanged at 675m bushels, despite stocks at the half-way point falling 170m bushels short of expectations.
The estimate - which implies domestic corn use slumping from a record 7.2bn bushels in the first six months of 2010-11 to 4.4bn bushels in the second half – reflected a forecast that livestock farmers will, in the face of record corn prices, switch to US soft red winter wheat in feed rations.
However, Macquarie analyst Alex Bos, while acknowledging there may be some US substitution of corn ahead, raised doubts over the level to which it was US wheat which would fill the hole.
San Onofre Nuclear Plant Holds Mock Nuclear Disaster Drill The mock disaster unveiled Tuesday involved a broken water pump inside one of San Onofre's two concrete containment domes. In the unfolding drill, the broken pump led to a release of radioactive steam into the surrounding air that forced the evacuation of inland southeast Orange County and northwest Camp Pendleton.
As potential nuclear accidents go, the scenario bore little resemblance to the March 11 earthquake and massive tsunami that knocked out backup generators at Fukushima Dai-ichi, damaging that plant's ability to keep nuclear fuel cool inside the plant. Heat buildup at the Japanese plant eventually resulted in a series of explosions and the release of radioactive steam into the environment.
Drills like the three-day exercise that began Tuesday are held every two years and have attracted little attention in the past.
Harry Sherwood, technological hazards branch chief for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said Tuesday's scenario had been planned long before the Japan disaster.
A team of about 30 observers from various federal agencies were on hand Tuesday to record and grade the responses of all Edison and emergency personnel who participated. The results will be assembled into a formal report to be released within 90 days.
No End in Sight for Fukushima Disaster
(NaturalNews) As the famous physicist Dr. Michio Kaku said on April 4th, "The situation at Fukushima is relatively stable now... in the same way that you are stable if you hang by your fingernails off a cliff, and your fingernails begin to break one by one."
(http://bigthink.com/ideas/37705). That same article also refers to the Fukushima damage assessment by the NRC's Nuclear Safety Team, which concluded that "cooling to the core of Unit 1 might be blocked by melted fuel and also by salt deposits left over from the use of sea water."
That's the same sea water, of course, that has been sprayed onto the fuel rods to prevent them from going Chernobyl. The unfortunate side effect of boiling off tens of thousands of gallons of sea water, however, is that is leaves behind a lot of salt. Japan now appears to have an abundance of radioactive sea salt that's unfortunately caked on top of the spent fuel rods and actually preventing much more water from reaching those rods. In a sense, spraying salt water on spent nuclear fuel rods is sort of like spraying them with a slow-acting insulation. It's only a matter of time, it seems, before that insulation make it impossible for water to keep the rods below meltdown temperatures.
Japan's Nuclear Volcano Erupts
"The risks associated with iodine-131 contamination in Europe are no longer "negligible," according to CRIIRAD, a French research body on radioactivity. The NGO is advising pregnant women and infants against "risky behavior," such as consuming fresh milk or vegetables with large leaves."
The group's warning underlines the dangers posed by the out-of-control facility which is causing unprecedented damage to earth, sea and sky. Fukushima is the nuclear death machine of which advocates of green technologies have warned for decades. But while the magnitude of the disaster grows larger by the day, the government's only response has been to expand the evacuation zone and try to shape news to avert a panic.
h/t to Jean Stoner
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