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March 6, 2013

Oh, The Places Your Ego Will Go! - Scott Grace

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March 5, 2013

Billions of Gallons Radioactive Waste Dumped & Leaking at Hanford



MsMilkytheclown1 ·Published on Mar 4, 2013

Hanford Dumped Billions of Gallons of Radioactive Waste in the 50s & 60s on the ground
Special Thank you to http://tinyurl.com/3ywthf5 for the beginning of the video!

The Hanford Site is a mostly decommissioned nuclear production complex on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington, operated by the United States federal government. The site has been known by many names, including Hanford Project, Hanford Works, Hanford Engineer Works or HEW and Hanford Nuclear Reservation or HNR. Established in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project in the town of Hanford in south-central Washington, the site was home to the B Reactor, the first full-scale plutonium production reactor in the world Plutonium manufactured at the site was used in the first nuclear bomb, tested at the Trinity site, and in Fat Man, the bomb detonated over Nagasaki, Japan.

Sunday Spin: Helping to understand Hanford
http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/spincontrol/2013/mar/02/sunday-spin-helping-understand-hanford/ for full article and 58 minute video. [... Hanford's] tanks are big. The largest are the size of a basketball court with a 75-foot wall around it. Inside the tanks are a "stew of different materials" that form a radioactive sludge, from which the liquid was supposed to have been pumped out years ago. [...]

67 tanks are 'suspected leakers' at U.S. nuclear site — "The stuff inside melts the instruments... eats rubber and plastic" (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/67-suspected-leakers-nuclear-site-stuff-inside-melts-instruments-eats-rubber-plastic-video

Of the 177 tanks, 149 only have a single wall, or shell, and 67 of those were "suspected leakers", but the rest were thought to be secure. Thought to be is a relative term, because in a container that big, a drop of even a fraction of an inch can represent many gallons of waste. You can't just drop a giant dipstick into the tank. As [Jane Hedges of Washington's Department of Ecology] explained, there's no easy way to get an extremely accurate measurement because lowering cameras or instruments into the tanks isn't practical. The stuff inside melts the instruments, and eats rubber and plastic. [...]

Getting the liquid out of the tanks is a problem. First, there's no good place to put it right now, because the more secure double-shelled tanks are also pretty full. Second, there's the danger of triggering evaporation of the liquid, which would cause a tank to heat up and create a deflagration. (AKA an EXPLOSION)

Washington nuclear waste tanks 'leaking'
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/02/2013223223927460308.html

Hanford - Washington
http://yosemite.epa.gov/r10/cleanup.nsf/sites/Hanford

Sequestration Could Hinder Hanford Nuclear Reservation Cleanup, Says Washington Governor
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/28/sequestration-hanford-nuclear-reservation_n_2779095.html

Radioactive waste leaking from six tanks at Washington state nuclear site
http://news.yahoo.com/six-washington-state-nuclear-tanks-leaking-governors-office-001058166.html

The latest news of 6 leaking tanks at Hanford
Hanford Watch president Paige Knight, Feb. 23, 2013
Study Slams Nuclear Waste Practices at Hanford
New York Times, Feb. 5, 2013
http://www.hanfordwatch.org/

CBS News: Mind-boggling mistakes at leaking U.S. nuclear site — "The chances of a catastrophic event are real" -Former Governor (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/cbs-news-mind-boggling-mistakes-at-leaking-u-s-nuclear-site-the-chances-of-a-catastrophic-event-are-real-former-governor-video

Dr. Helen Caldicott at A15 Hanford Rally
http://tinyurl.com/ap5ktth

*****Please see links and read info below this video*****


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March 5, 2013

Iran battles plague of 'genetically mutated' giant rats


2013-03-01 02:38:50 GMT2013-03-01 10:38:50(Beijing Time) SINA.com


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Tehran, the capital of Iran, is battling an invasion of "genetically mutated" giant rats. Iran has sent in sniper teams to clear Tehran's streets from the massive rodents weighting up to five kilos plaguing 26 district of the Iranian capital, the city's environmental agency said.

"They seem to have had a genetic mutation, probably as a result of radiations and the chemical used on them," Ismail Kahram, Teheran city council environment adviser and university professor Ismail Kahram told Qudsonline.ir.

"They are now bigger and look different. These are changes that normally take millions of years of evolution. They have jumped from 60 grams to five kilos, and cats are now smaller than them."

The "mutated rats" have been running rampant in the capital, as cats are scared off by their giant size and traditional poison appear to have no effect on them. To stop them storming of restaurants' backyards and scavenging public waste containers, the council has deployed ten snipers teams armed with infra-red sighted rifles.

http://english.sina.com/world/p/2013/0228/566711.html


- LIBOR, the Big Cheat exposed. World's oldest bank (1472), downgraded to junk status. Abdication of Queen 'Old money' Beatrix of the Netherlands. Investigation of Queen Elizabeth's palace spending by Parliament. Spanish Prince under indictment. Resignation of the Pope, Vatican hit by lightning the same night. Meteorite slams into Russia. 21 volcanoes erupting worldwide in the past two weeks. Plagues of locusts in Egypt, on their way to Israel. And now, mutant rats in Iran.

That, I did not see coming.

February 28, 2013

Everyday chemicals linked to diseases, warns World Health Organisation

Source: The Telegraph

By Andrew Hough
11:45PM GMT 19 Feb 2013


In a landmark report, the WHO warned “synthetic chemicals” had “serious implications” for human health. The global health watchdog suggested so-called “gender-bending” compounds found in toys, PVC flooring and even credit cards should be banned in order to protect future generations.

The study said that more research was needed to fully understand the links between endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) – found in many household and industrial products – and “specific diseases and disorders”.

It found links between exposure to EDCs and health issues such as testicular problems, breast, prostate and thyroid cancer, developmental effects on the nervous system in children and attention deficit hyperactivity in children.

The UN agency said the study, titled State of the Science of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals, was the most “comprehensive” report on EDCs to date because it has evaluated several chemicals and related evidence rather than focusing on just one.


Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9881992/Everyday-chemicals-linked-to-diseases-warns-World-Health-Organisation.html



- So it turns out that our solutions are the problem.....


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February 28, 2013

Social activist Stephane Hessel dies at 95



AlJazeeraEnglish · Published on Feb 27, 2013

French resistance hero and Holocaust survivor Stephane Hessel, whose 2010 manifesto Time for Outrage sold millions of copies and inspired protest movements worldwide, has died at the age of 95.

Hessel joined Charles de Gaulle in exile during World War II, was waterboarded by the Nazis, escaped hanging in concentration camps and took part in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.

The career diplomat was already celebrated as one of the last living heroes of the 20th century when, as a nonagenarian, he became the unlikely godfather of youth protest movements such as "Occupy " and Spain's "Indignados".
Al Jazeera's Bhanu Bhatnagar reports.


- A warrior for peace and human dignity. You will be missed.
February 20, 2013

UK Activists Look To Use Wasted Food



AlJazeeraEnglish

Published on Feb 19, 2013

Supermarkets around the world insist on having the very best products on their shelves. So much so that they're willing to throw away perfectly edible food, because it doesn't fit their size and cosmetic standards.

Al Jazeera's Laurence Lee reports from Kent in the UK on how campaigners are trying to save that waste.


- The Earth gives us all we need, and much more. There should be no such thing as ''poor.''


"Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas. A human being is a part of the whole called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." ~Albert Einstein
February 10, 2013

Denver Police Officers Won't Be Charged In The 2009 Landau Beating Case

By Sadie Gurman | The Denver Post | Updated: 02/09/2013 02:15:52 PM MST



The Justice Department on Friday informed a man who was beaten by three Denver police officers in 2009 that it will not charge any of them with civil-rights violations stemming from the case.

Alexander Landau, 23, said representatives from the department and the FBI called him at about 6:30 p.m. to inform him of the decision.

"They said they didn't feel like they had enough evidence to bring federal charges against any of the officers who were initially involved," Landau said.

The agents did not expound on the decision, he said.

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- Clearly the man just stumbled, fell, and hurt himself. Nothing to see here. Move along. Move along.



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