The Young Turks · Published on Jun 9, 2014

It may be a new trend: Republicans getting arrested immediately following elections. This year four members of the GOP - one a candidate and three others campaign employees - were arrested immediately following the vote's conclusion on Primary election night. Are we looking at a new trend? The Young Turks' Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

missingsky102·Published on Jun 1, 2014

Radiation Leaking/Diablo Canyon Nuke Plant/California

The Radiation Network has issued a ALERT of the Diablo Canyon Area (Shell Beach)http://www.radiationnetwork.com/
http://tinyurl.com/lusddfq

EQ-20140530-410254-USA Common Alerting Protocol
Magnitude: 2.3
Mercalli scale: 1
Date-Time [UTC]: 30 May, 2014 at 19:43:53 UTC
Local Date/Time: Friday, May 30, 2014 at 19:43 in the evening at epicenter
Coordinate: 35° 34.800, 120° 52.800
Depth: 4 km (2.49 miles)
Hypocentrum: Shallow depth
Class: Micro
Region: North-America
Country: United States
Location: 15.32 km (9.52 miles) E of Cayucos, California, United States

Location NPP Distance
USA ********DIABLO CANYON Npp******* 25.47 km
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=seism_index&rid=410254

EQ-20140531-410312-USA Common Alerting Protocol
Magnitude: 3.8
Mercalli scale: 2
Date-Time [UTC]: 31 May, 2014 at 02:59:29 UTC
Local Date/Time: Saturday, May 31, 2014 at 02:59 at night at epicenter
Coordinate: 33° 35.400, 118° 22.200
Depth: 1 km (0.62 miles)
Hypocentrum: Shallow depth
Class: Minor
Region: North-America
Country: United States
Location: 17.27 km (10.73 miles) W of Rancho Palos Verdes, California, United States

Location NPP Distance
USA San Onofre Npp 49.35 km
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=seism_index&rid=410312

Navy Tests To Determine If Unhealthy Radiation Is Lurking On Treasure Island
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/10221485-navy-tests-to-determine-if-unhealthy-radiation-is-lurking-on-treasure-island/

6 Hanford workers get medical treatment after vapor exposure
http://www.king5.com/news/hanford/6-Hanford-tank-farm-workers-get-medical-treatment-after-vapor-exposure-261146861.html

Radiation Madness, Methane Madness, GeoEngineering 6/1/2014
http://tinyurl.com/mu5z3lf

Top Science Journal: "Time bombs" at WIPP nuclear site? "High alert over risk of new explosions" in hundreds of plutonium-contaminated drums — AP: 4 years may be needed just to seal off area where drums stored — Experts go down to check if ground 'still stable' (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/top-science-journal-time-bombs-at-wipp-nuclear-site-high-alert-over-risk-of-new-explosions-in-350-plutonium-contaminated-drums-ap-4-years-may-be-needed-just-to-seal-off-these-drums-g

New emails reveal concern over plutonium chain reaction in WIPP containers — "There shouldn't be a 'significant' reaction... criticality safety issues are not my area of expertise" — "Significant amount of plutonium" — No mention of kitty litter
http://enenews.com/emails-reveal-concern-over-plutonium-related-nuclear-chain-reaction-in-wipp-containers-there-shouldnt-be-significant-reaction-reactivity-of-plutonium-and-criticality-safety-issues-are-no

[Video] Kodiak bear suddenly dies running uphill in Alaska / "Heart attack" ?
http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/05/video-kodiak-bear-suddenly-dies-running-uphill-in-alaska-heart-attack/

missingsky102·Published on Jun 7, 2014

The continuing series of workplace safety incidents at Hanford -- just last week six more workers received medical attention after breathing toxic vapors -- shines a light on a little-known exception for the government-owned nuclear waste site in southeastern Washington.

Unlike every other workplace in the state -- from the BP oil refinery at Cherry Point to corporate offices in downtown Seattle -- the 586 square mile Hanford Site is exempt from federal and state workplace safety oversight and enforcement.

http://www.king5.com/news/investigators/Hanford-workers-left-without-honest-broker-on-safety-261773531.html

''Furthermore, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and public health experts do not recommend that people in the United States take precautionary measures beyond staying informed. And going forward, we will continue to keep the American people fully updated — because I believe that you must know what I know as President.'' - President Barack Obama, March 17, 2011 link

Posted: Apr 29, 2014 11:04 PM CST Updated: Apr 30, 2014 3:02 PM CST
Posted by Jane Sander, Reporter


NBC Right Now spoke with a former Hanford worker exposed to chemical vapors on the job. He
wasn't a tank farm worker. He was a truck driver at the Hanford site.

RICHLAND, WA - Lonnie Poteet arrived outside a tank farm to deliver some fuel and quickly started feeling symptoms from exposure to chemical vapors.What he didn't know was a nuclear waste spill happened hours before at the tank farm.

"I was already burning from my glove line to my t-shirt line and the side of my face and I was already starting to lose a little bit of vision in my right eye," Poteet said. It all happened so fast. On July 27th 2007, Lonnie Poteet, a contracted worker, drove up to site to deliver some fuel.

At the time, CH2M Hill was managing the tank farm cleanup and failed to notify all workers about the spill. The spill reportedly happened at 2:10am. Poteet arrived at the fence line of the tank farm at 10:00am.

"Very frustrated. When they told their crews that showed up that day to go to work to stay in because they had a potential spill, they held them back, but notified nobody else. They put me in harms way. Specifically they asked me to be there as late in the day as possible. They knew I was coming. Why didn't they say something?" Poteet said.

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IB Times
By Jerin Mathew | IB Times – Sat, May 31, 2014



Unaired excerpts of the interview by NBC of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden contain the whistleblower's statements about the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The four-hour interview of Snowden by journalist Brian Williams was condensed into a 60-minute programme by NBC. The network showed portions of the interview that were not included in the prime-time broadcast.

In one of the portions, Snowden questioned the US intelligence agencies' inability to stop the 11 September, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York, despite having massive amount of surveillance. He noted that the country had all necessary intelligence resources prior to the attack, but it failed to stop the attacks.

Read his comments about the terrorist attack below:

"You know, and this is a key question that the 9/11 Commission considered. And what they found, in the post-mortem, when they looked at all of the classified intelligence from all of the different intelligence agencies, they found that we had all of the information we needed as an intelligence community, as a classified sector, as the national defense of the United States to detect this plot."

"We actually had records of the phone calls from the United States and out. The CIA knew who these guys were. The problem was not that we weren't collecting information, it wasn't that we didn't have enough dots, it wasn't that we didn't have a haystack, it was that we did not understand the haystack that we have."

"The problem with mass surveillance is that we're piling more hay on a haystack we already don't understand, and this is the haystack of the human lives of every American citizen in our country."

"If these programs aren't keeping us safe, and they're making us miss connections — vital connections — on information we already have, if we're taking resources away from traditional methods of investigation, from law enforcement operations that we know work, if we're missing things like the Boston Marathon bombings where all of these mass surveillance systems, every domestic dragnet in the world didn't reveal guys that the Russian intelligence service told us about by name, is that really the best way to protect our country? Or are we — are we trying to throw money at a magic solution that's actually not just costing us our safety, but our rights and our way of life?

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The reality is that institutional establishments, institutions of codified thought, and institutions of societal influence and power, meaning philosophies, dogmas on one hand and corporations and governments on the other, each have a high propensity to engage in denial, dishonesty, and corruption to maintain self-preservation and self-perpetuation.

The result is a continuous culture lag where social progress by way of incorporating new socially-helpful scientific advancements is constantly inhibited. It is like walking through a brick wall as the established power orthodoxies continue to perpetuate themselves for their own interests and comforts.

The profit mechanism creates established orders which constitute the survival and wealth for a few groups of people. The fact is that no matter how socially beneficial new advents may be, they will be viewed in hostility if they threaten an established financially-driven institution. Meaning social progress can be a threat to the establishment. So to put this into a sentence: "Abundance, sustainability and efficiency are the enemies of profit."

Progressive advancement in science and technology which can solve problems of inefficiency and scarcity once and for all, are in effect making the prior establishment's servicing of those issues obsolete. Therefore in a monetary system corporations aren't just in competition with each other, they're in competition with progress itself. That is why social-change is so difficult within a monetary system. In other words, the established monetary system refuses to allow free-flowing change.

We have to understand that government as we know it today, is not in place for the well being of the public, but rather for the perpetuation of their establishment and their power. Just like every other institution within a monetary system. Government is a monetary invention for the sake of economic and social control and its methods are based upon self-preservation, first and foremost. All a government can really do is to create laws to compensate for an inherent lack of integrity within the social order.

In society today the public is essentially kept distracted and uninformed. This is the way that governments maintain control. If you review history, power is maintained through ignorance.

~Peter Joseph

UPI
By Brooks Hays
June 5, 2014 at 11:19 AM


The sugar substitute Truvia proves deadly to fruit flies.
(Drexel University)

PHILADELPHIA, June 5 (UPI) --One of the most popular sugar substitutes on the market is also an insecticide -- masking the bitterness of coffee one minute, killing fruit flies the next.

Millions of people every day put the sweetener erythritol in their coffee and tea. Its consumers know it better by its slightly more appetizing trade name Truvia, in which erythritol is the main ingredient. No matter what it's called, the sugar substitute dramatically reduces the life expectancy of fruit flies.

According to a new study, published this week in the journal PLOS ONE, fruit flies that consumed Truvia lasted just 5.8 days. Flies that consumed other artificial sweeteners, or nothing at all, lived between 38.6 and 50.6 days.

"I feel like this is the simplest, most straightforward work I've ever done, but it's potentially the most important thing I've ever worked on," said senior author Sean O'Donnell, a professor of biology and biodiversity at Drexel University.

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greenenergy336·Uploaded on Mar 12, 2010

Germany is serious about clean renewable energy(solar power) in private homes as well as in industries. Shouldn't we be doing more? http://tinyurl.com/greendiyenergy101