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Better late then never. Almost a full month after the March 11 earthquake generated a tsunami strong enough to cripple the Fukushima nuclear power plant, TEPCO has finally released a video of the 45 foot waves coming to land and resulting in the biggest nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl. As CNN explains what is patently obvious, the video shows the giant wave generated by the historic March 11 earthquake… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : zero hedge Discovery Date : 09/04/2011 18:00 Number of articles : 2
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Norman Lamb, a government whip, says Lib Dem MPs and peers will not support reform bill unless their demands are met David Cameron has been warned that he will have to endorse sweeping changes to the government’s planned NHS reforms when a senior adviser to Nick Clegg threatened to resign unless a series of demands are met. Norman Lamb, a government whip who is the Liberal Democrat leader’s senior parliamentary adviser, warned that his party’s MPs and peers would be unable to support the health and social care bill if their concerns are ignored. Lamb’s warning came as the British Medical Association claimed the tight NHS settlement, which will raise its budget in line with inflation, is leading to an “accelerating withdrawal of services”. Growing numbers of patients are being denied treatment for conditions such as infertility. Lib Dem sources stressed that Lamb, who briefed Clegg ahead of his intervention on the BBC’s Politics Show, was not speaking on behalf of the deputy prime minister, who is not pressing any demands during a two-month “listening exercise” on the NHS reforms launched last week. But the Guardian understands that Lamb’s four demands will need to be met if Lib Dem MPs and peers are to vote in favour of the bill when it is revived in June after the “listening exercise”. Lamb, the former Lib Dem health spokesman, demanded changes to the bill that would abolish primary care trusts and hand 60% of the NHS budget to GP-led consortiums by 2013. They include: • Abandoning the 2013 deadline and adopting an “evolution, not revolution” approach. • Following the school reforms and allowing GPs to opt into consortiums. • Keeping “clusters” of PCTs to observe the “performance management” of GPs. Lamb told the BBC that he accepted reform of the NHS was vital and agreed with handing greater powers to GPs. But he warned that rushed reforms would pose a “financial risk” to the NHS. “My real concern is the financial risk of doing it too quickly, because then you lose services, patient care suffers,” he said. “The financial risk is that at the moment the plan is to transfer responsibility to GP consortiums, new organisations. There’s no evidence about how these organisations will work but they’re supposed to be up and running by April 2013.” Lamb indicated that unless his demands were met the bill would be blocked by Lib Dems. “Let’s stick to the principle, which is really good, but let’s not destroy it by getting the process wrong,” he said. “This package is not going to work unless we can get people on board and that includes addressing the concerns that I’ve raised.” He made it clear that he would resign if he is not happy: “I’ve said that if it’s impossible for me to carry on in my position I will step down. I don’t want to cause embarrassment but I feel very strongly about this issue.” Andrew Lansley, the health secretary who fell out with Lamb before the election during a row over the imposition of a so-called “death tax”, vetoed his appointment as a minister. Lansley will struggle to meet Lamb’s demands because he is likely to feel that allowing GPs to opt into the reforms, in the way that schools can choose to become academies, would risk creating a two-tier health service. Lansley will embark on the latest stage of his listening exercise when he hears from nurses at the Royal College of Nursing annual congress. Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the RCN, expressed support for Lamb’s criticisms: “Norman Lamb is a man that knows his way round the health service. He has got a huge amount of credibility. The government would do well to be cognisant of what Norman Lamb is saying.” Health policy Health NHS Public sector cuts Public services policy Public finance Nick Clegg Liberal Democrats Liberal-Conservative coalition Nicholas Watt Denis Campbell guardian.co.uk
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Sir Gus O’Donnell, the cabinet secretary, blocked attempt by former PM to hold judicial inquiry into phone-hacking allegations Sir Gus O’Donnell, the cabinet secretary, blocked an attempt by Gordon Brown before the general election to hold a judicial inquiry into allegations that the News of the World had hacked into the phones of cabinet ministers and other high-profile figures. As News International prepares to pay compensation to victims of the illegal practice, the Guardian understands that Britain’s most senior civil servant took steps to prevent an inquiry on the grounds that it would be too sensitive before last year’s general election. The then prime minister, who warned Peter Mandelson in 2009 that his phone had been hacked on behalf of the News of the World, wanted a judicial inquiry after new evidence of the illegal practice emerged that summer. The Guardian revealed in July 2009 that Rupert Murdoch’s News Group newspapers had paid more than £1m to settle legal cases that threatened to reveal illegal phone hacking by private investigators on behalf of News of the World. The revelations were of acute political sensitivity because Andy Coulson, editor of the News of the World between 2003 and 2007, was by then David Cameron’s communications director. Coulson was asked to appear before the Commons culture select committee after the publication of the Guardian disclosures. O’Donnell told Brown, who lost the support of the News of the World and its sister paper, the Sun, in the autumn of 2009, that it would be inappropriate to hold a judicial inquiry so soon before the election. Coulson was by then one of the most senior members of Cameron’s inner circle and was appointed as the Downing Street director of communications after the general election. He has consistently denied any knowledge of wrongdoing, and resigned from No 10 in January saying coverage of phone hacking had made his job impossible. The disclosure that O’Donnell blocked an inquiry came as Boris Johnson called for a “truth and reconciliation” commission to establish the full facts about phone hacking. In an interview on Sky News, the mayor of London said: “Plainly the police need to get on with it. But I would like to see the entire newspaper industry, what we used to call Fleet Street and indeed the media generally, have a general truth and reconciliation commission about all this. I think all the editors and all the proprietors should come forward, put their hands up, say whether they know of any of their reporters or employees who may or may not have been engaged in these practices which have now been exposed at the News of the World. I think that would be a very healthy development.” Johnson spoke out after News International issued a public apology on Friday to eight victims of phone hacking. These included the actor Sienna Miller, the former Labour culture secretary Tessa Jowell, the football agent Sky Andrew and the publicist Nicola Phillips. Charlotte Harris of Mishcon de Reya, which represents Andrew, said she was advising her client not to accept compensation until he sees all the documentation in the possession of News International. Harris told Radio 4′s The World This Weekend: “Sky Andrew has been finally offered an apology and we are thinking about what to do. There isn’t actually a particular figure they have offered us for anything. The position Sky is taking is not disimilar to that of Sienna Miller and Nicola Phillips. It is: isn’t this a bit early, we are just about to have disclosure of the documents, we need to have a look and see what has happened and get to the bottom of it and then we’ll see where it goes from there.” Asked if she would advise her clients not to settle without disclosure of notes and emails, Harris said: “Yes. What we have at the moment is an apology and an admission, having been working on this for a very long time. We haven’t even got near the truth yet. We have got orders that mean we are now going to be able to have a chance at getting to the bottom of it, so we need to find out. How are we meant to know what to accept if we don’t know the full extent of what has happened?” Harris added that thousands of phones could have been monitored. “If you consider that if you hack into one person’s phone, you have access to everyone who has left a message for them. And then, if you go into the person who has left a message, you get all of theirs. You have got to be running into several thousand, just from that methodology. To put a figure on it, it is certainly not a handful – maybe 4,000, 6,000, 7,000 – a huge amount of people.”The Guardian understands Gordon Brown was so concerned that News of the World was targeting Labour figures that he warned Peter Mandelson his phone had been hacked. Mandelson approached the information commissioner, but he did not confirm that his phone had been hacked. Critics of Murdoch have urged the government not to decide on his bid to take control of BSkyB until the allegations have been fully investigated. But advisers to the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, say he is prevented by law from taking the scandal into account when he considers whether it is appropriate for News Corporation to be allowed to buy all of BSkyB. The £8bn merger, which the minister has already said he is minded to approve, is being examined on its impact on “media plurality”. However, Hunt’s lawyers say that phone hacking cannot be considered in an inquiry as regards plurality. They say it could only form part of a “suitability of persons” test into whether Murdoch and the bosses of News Corporation were appropriate individuals to own BSkyB. That test was designed to prevent pornographers, for example, becoming media owners – but it cannot now be invoked in the case of the Murdoch merger. The Enterprise Act that covers the UK’s merger rules only allows one referral on one set of grounds, which means £8bn deal could only ever have been referred for political approval on either media plurality or suitability of persons grounds, but not both. A Cabinet Office spokeswoman said: “We never comment about any advice from a cabinet secretary to a prime minister on any issue.” Nicholas Watt Patrick Wintour Dan Sabbagh guardian.co.uk
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You know what the administration reminds me of ? Those crazy, dysfunctional households that are in utter chaos before Jo, the Super Nanny, arrives. “We have to let the kids stay up all night because if we don’t, then they’ll scream and no one will get any sleep.” Reinforcement of negative behaviors to avoid short-term disruption because YOU DON’T HAVE CONTROL OF YOUR CHILDREN. So every time they scream, you give them what they want because you don’t know how to say no. Any lessons there, I wonder? Of course not. Senior Advisor to the President David Plouffe conceded this morning that some of the cuts the White House agreed to in order to avoid a government shutdown were draconian. In an interview on “This Week” with anchor Christiane Amanpour, he called the cuts both “draconian” and “historic.” “The Senate majority called what the Speaker was asking for, just in February,” Amanpour said, “he called it ‘draconian.’” She pointed it the cuts were now being called historic. “I mean, which is it? Is it draconian yesterday and historic today?” Amanpour pressed. “Well,” Plouffe replied, “some of the cuts were draconian. Because it’s not just the number, it’s what composes the number.” “So in this budget deal,” he said, “the President, Senator Reid, you know we protected medical research, community health centers, kids in Head Start. We were not going to sign off on a deal that cut those things,” Plouffe said. “The President was comfortable with the composition of this deal that, again, there were some tough cuts in there… but in these fiscal times, everyone is going to have to make tough decisions. So it was a historic deal for the American people.” Plouffe insisted the budget that the White House, the Senate and House agreed to preserved the country’s ability to invest in and “win the future.” No, no, no, David. Let’s be clear. The only really tough decision people have is now convincing themselves to vote for a president who rode in on a wave of high hopes, and floats out as the mere lesser (barely) of two evils. Because this budget crap is campaign kabuki, and you insult our intelligence by pretending otherwise. This morning the New York Times praises Pete Peterson as the prescient man who saw the budget debate coming, never quite drawing the obvious conclusion: He dedicated $1 billion to manufacturing the budget “crisis.” We’re surrounded by brazen liars and craven fools.
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Although the American Dream might be to have your own home with a white picket fence, when having babies, is it really ideal to exist in such isolation? I often find myself fantasizing about living in one of those documentaries on tribal cultures. I am willing to bet they are not making play dates or arrangements for walks with their running strollers. Their everyday life is spending time together as mothers, even while working side by side. Of course, I am romanticizing images I have seen on PBS, but I can’t help but wondering what life must be like where community is something that just is, not something you have to search for. For the average Western mom who doesn’t live in a hippie haven, “mommy groups” are where mommies get together. I decided to try one these groups, but I found myself wanting to rebel against all the soft singing, and I felt a bit disturbed by the mass breast-feeding. Don’t get me wrong, I am a breast-feeding advocate and will probably continue with it until things get awkward, but something about a group of babies scarfing, snuffling, suckling and spitting up made me want to dry heave. I don’t know why; maybe it was too many exposed nipples or sincere, Earth Mother faces. Where I so desperately wanted this experience to feel natural, I couldn’t help thinking that the encounter with these other mothers was contrived. I found myself drowning in a sea of self-conscious conversations with moms who were way more competitive than I was prepared for because I had forgotten my scorecard. I found that there were three main types of competitive mom friends. One type was the “comparer.” They would ask questions about your baby just so that they could compare your baby’s progress to theirs. I found myself actually saying, “Oh, wow, your baby does back flips? That’s amazing! What? Oh, no, my baby is not rolling over yet. Is it okay that I still love her?” Then there are the “openly judgmental” moms, who have no problem telling you to your face what a terrible parent you are. There was one mom who was sure to let me know what a disgrace I was for not potty training my newborn infant. Supposedly she would just make some secret noise and her baby would poop gold pellets into her hand. I guess I am going to hell for using diapers, even if they are seventh-generation. Another mom told me I probably poisoned my child because I wasn’t a vegan during my pregnancy, and she didn’t seem too impressed that they were organic chicken nuggets. The last category is the “one-upper.” With these moms, no matter what your story about your baby may be, theirs is infinitely more dramatic. Mind you, it is not just about how great their baby is but also how much more difficult their experience of parenting is. If things are good for you, it’s better for them, or if you are having a tumultuous time, their torment is exponentially more grave. I found myself in conversations that went a little like this: Me: “Man, I am so tired today. My baby was up a bunch last night because she had gas.” Other parent: “Yeah, my eyes are bleeding because I haven’t slept for seven weeks. My baby had so many farts in his large intestines that he transformed into a Japanese Blowfish and has been piercing my flesh with his quills, causing me massive internal damage from the poison.” Or: Me: “My baby started clapping her hands to the music the other day! It was so adorable!” Other parent: “Yeah, my daughter was doing that in utero. Now she is playing Haydn’s concerto in C major for the cello. I think when she starts standing on her own, I will introduce her to the violin, as well — you know, so her brain doesn’t go idle.” So what do I do? I want to be communal, one with the universe; I want mom friends. I need mom friends. I need someone to analyze my baby’s vomit for an obnoxiously long time. I want to hear about how someone else deals when their baby pees in the bath. Do you pretend that you didn’t notice like I do? Maybe I need to stop being such a wimp and start teaching my baby Sanskrit or something, so that I can fit in.
Continue reading …A pattern is emerging on Charlie Sheen’s My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat Is Not an Option tour: Crash and burn at one show only to “win” at the next . He did it once again this weekend, scoring a standing ovation at Connecticut’s Oakdale Theatre last night after a disastrous show…
Continue reading …Fred Armisen’s Barack Obama opened Saturday Night Live last night with a summary of the budget deal: “On one got everything they wanted, and everyone walked away unhappy.” The unhappiness trickled down to Congress, Congressional cleaning staff and interns, Tea Partiers, Mitt Romney, the New York Times, and kids who…
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Delegation led by South African president Jacob Zuma may also meet rebel leadership in Benghazi as fighting continues Leaders of five African countries arrived in Tripoli on Sunday to meet Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in an attempt to broker a ceasefire and a political resolution to the deadlocked two-month-old conflict. The African Union delegation, led by the South African president, Jacob Zuma, may then fly on to Benghazi, the heartland of the rebels, to press for a diplomatic settlement. The initiative came as Nato air strikes once again pulled the rebels back from the brink of a significant defeat by stalling a government assault on the strategic town of Ajdabiya, the gateway to the revolutionaries’ de facto capital, Benghazi. Air strikes destroyed a total of 25 tanks around Ajdabiya and the besieged western city of Misrata. Nato gave permission for the African leaders’ planes to enter Libyan airspace. The aircraft were the first to land at Tripoli’s Mitiga airport since the international coalition imposed a no-fly zone over the country more than two weeks ago. Several hundred Libyan civilians and military personnel gathered to greet the delegation with an eclectic mix of tribal singing and dancing, bagpipes, brass band and the ubiquitous loyalist chant of ” Allah, Muammar, Libya wa bas [that's all we need]“. Zuma, who arrived aboard a South African air force plane, made no comment before leaving in an armoured convoy. Earlier, a statement from the African Union delegation said its objective was to bring military operations in Libya to an end and to mediate between the regime and the opposition on a political resolution. “We hope that mediation will lead to a constructive dialogue for a political settlement of the crisis based on the aspirations of the Libyan people,” said the Mauritanian president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. The other members of the team are the presidents of Congo-Brazzaville and Mali and the Ugandan foriegn minister. The African Union initiative follows a proposal last week by the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for a three-point plan covering a ceasefire, political negotiations and a humanitarian corridor. However, opposition forces insist they will not consider any political deal that involves Gaddafi or members of his family retaining power. Proposals put forward by the regime so far have included Gaddafi or one of his sons overseeing political change in Libya. It is far from clear how this gap could be bridged. Nato said its forces destroyed 11 tanks around Ajdabiya and 14 tanks on the outskirts of Misrata, the sole rebel-dominated town in the west of the country, host to fierce fighting for about six weeks. “The situation in Ajdabiya and Misrata in particular is desperate for those Libyans who are being brutally shelled by the [Gaddafi] regime,” said Lieutenant General Charles Bouchard, the Canadian commander of Nato’s Libya operations. A Red Cross ship docked in Misrata at the weekend, bringing medical supplies to civilians in the besieged port city, about 100 miles from Tripoli. The Libyan government has refused to take journalists based in the capital into Misrata, citing safety reasons, but civilians and doctors by phone have described coming under attack from shelling and sniper fire. Many of the victims are reported to be children. Last week, Nato said Misrata was its “number one priority”. The air strikes on Ajdabiya, 90 miles from Benghazi, helped reverse days of setbacks for the rebels which saw Gaddafi’s forces fight their way in to the heart of the town on Saturday. Shelling around the southern entrance to Ajdabiya could be heard on Sunday morning but it died away in the afternoon following the air strikes. Among the vehicles hit were six carrying government soldiers. Their charred bodies were scattered around the still burning vehicles a few hours later. “Nato has to do this to help us every single day. That is the only way we are going to win this war,” a 25-year-old rebel, Tarek Obeidy, told Reuters while standing over the bodies. The rebels said government forces shot down a Russian-made helicopter sent into the fight by the rebels two days earlier. Nato forced a MiG jet fighting for the rebels to land because of the UN-imposed no-fly zone. Many areas were deserted after civilians fled the prospect of Gaddafi’s troops taking it for a second time in as many weeks. Thousands of rounds of discarded bullet casings marked the site of some of the most intense fighting over the weekend. The sudden change in the rebels’ fortunes once again demonstrated how reliant they are on Nato air strikes to hold off government assaults. Nato faced humiliation if Gaddafi’s army forced its way through Ajdabiya once again and threatened Benghazi, the city the western allies launched the first air strikes to defend. Rebel defences around Benghazi are little in evidence, other than a line of artillery about 15 miles from the city. Libyan officials said that the regime was preparing a new constitution, although failed to give details or say whether Gaddafi would retain power. One official, Ibrahim Moukhzam, said: “Constitutions are not designed to fit around individuals. They are designed to serve the nation and any citizen can find a place for them in this constitution. “Muammar Gaddafi as a Libyan individual can find his place in the constitution. The vast majority of people want him to stay. He is a symbol. He has many jobs and tasks.” Asked if it would be a presidential republic or another political system, Moukhzam said it would be a “Libyan version”. Gaddafi made his first public appearance in several days at the weekend, visiting a school in Tripoli where he was greeted by chanting and ululating supporters. Meanwhile, three western journalists are believed to be in the custody of the regime after being detained by government forces near Brega, in the east of the country, last week. A photographer for the Associated Press, who was missing after becoming separated from colleagues near Ajdabiya on Saturday, has been found. Libya Middle East Arab and Middle East unrest African Union Jacob Zuma Nato Muammar Gaddafi Harriet Sherwood Chris McGreal guardian.co.uk
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