Not mentioned in this Washington Post story is the news that there is now a fire in the No. 4 reactor at the site. German TV is reporting there is now partial meltdown in the open air, and the Japanese people are taking one shock after another: TOKYO — Japanese authorities raised Tuesday their rating of the severity of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis to the highest level on an international scale, equal to that of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Officials with Japan’s Nuclear Safety Commission reclassified the ongoing emergency from level 5, an “accident with off-site risk,” to level 7, a “major accident.” The reassessment comes at a time when the International Atomic Energy Agency says the plant is showing “early signs of recovery” but still in a critical condition. The plant’s debilitated reactors face constant threat of strong aftershocks, and the latest on Tuesday morning — a 6.2-magnitude temblor — caused a brief fire at a water sampling facility near Daiichi’s No. 4 reactor. The Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates the power plant, said that the critical process used to cool the hot fuel rods had not been interrupted, and radiation levels showed no signs of change. A level 7 accident, according to the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, is typified by a “major release of radioactive material with widespread health and environmental effects.” Radiation leaking from Fukushima Daiichi amounts to about 10 percent of that from the Chernobyl accident, a Nuclear Safety Commission official, who was not named, said on national television. According to the Kyodo news agency, Japan’s Nuclear Safety Commission reported Monday that the plant, at one point after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, had been releasing 10,000 terabecquerels of radioactivity per hour. The report did not specify when those radiation readings occurred. A release of tens of thousands of terabecquerels per hour, though, correspondents with the radiation leakage level that the IAEA uses as a minimum benchmark for a level 7 accident. “This corresponds to a large fraction of the core inventory of a power reactor, typically involving a mixture of short- and long-lived radionuclides,” an IAEA document says. “With such a release, stochastic health effects over a wide area, perhaps involving more than one country, are expected.” And of course, we are still avoiding the world “meltdown” — although, according to Rep. Ed Markey, the nuclear core has already melted through the reactor vessel.
Continue reading …ABC Slams ‘Bizarre,’ ‘Non-Reality-Based’ Birtherism, Didn’t Debunk 9/11 Truther Rosie O’Donnell
April 12, 2011 No Comment
On Tuesday's Good Morning America, reporter Jake Tapper attacked the ” bizarre,” “non-reality-based ” conspiracy theory about President Obama's birth certificate. Yet, the ABC program has not done a similar expose on the belief that the government was involved with, or knew of, the 9/11 terror plot. Speaking of the false idea that the President was born somewhere other than Honolulu, Tapper described it as the “bizarre conspiracy theory that is as seemingly persistent as it is erroneous. It is the lie that will not die.” In contrast, GMA lacked such outrage for truthers and repeatedly promoted Rosie O'Donnell, ignoring her own weird and baseless agenda.
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AlterNet : Families in Pennsylvania explain how the dash for gas in the US is affecting their way of life Cassie Spencer said she nearly “had a cow” when she returned home one day and saw her yard sprinkled with little red flags, like land mine markers in a war zone. Her 5-year-old daughter was playing in the midst of them. The family property had become a methane field. Cassie believes Chesapeake gas wells 3,000 feet away that she never saw and doesn’t profit from had somehow been sending methane onto her property and into her water, and onto her neighbors’ properties on Paradise Road in Wyalusing, Pennsylvania. Testing by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) traced the methane to Chesapeake wells but the company has denied responsibility. The Spencers’ house, once valued at $150,000, is now worth $29,000. They have a methane monitor in their basement, a methane water filtration system in a backyard shed. They leave the door open when they take showers because with no bathroom windows they are afraid the house could blow up. Their neighbors were forced to evacuate once already because of high methane levels. In the middle of their yard, a shaft resembling a shrunken flagpole vents gas from their wellhead. Next to the doorway, a huge “water buffalo” storage container, a signature imprint of the collateral damage brought on by gas drilling, sits like a bloated child’s pool, filled with water, not fit for drinking. “We moved here because we love the woods. We wanted to stay here our whole lives,” Cassie said, speaking of her family, her husband Scott and their two small children. “We’re not asking for a lot and now they’re taking it all away. In a million years, I never would have thought that people could do this and get away with it.” All the damage occurred before the wells had even been “fracked,” which is set to happen later this year, and could make things even worse. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, involves injecting a slurry of toxic chemicals, water and sand underground to release gas. Pennsylvania’s Governor Tom Corbett, and most of the state’s politicians have embraced gas drilling and the tandem practice of fracking as a terrific boost for the economy and a “clean” alternative to foreign oil. Water well contamination, spills, truck diesel emissions, migrating methane, and radioactivity waste leaked into rivers, have generally been dismissed as minor concerns or isolated problems. There is pressure to keep the picture positive despite more than 750 violations issued by DEP last year alone. A new directive supported by the gas industry now requires inspectors to first get approval from Harrisburg before writing any violations, a move considered unprecedented in the agency’s history. Recent visits to Bradford County, the heart of the Marcellus Shale region, tells a different story of the widespread human impact from gas drilling, not to mention a colossal reshaping of the natural environment. And more information is emerging about the dangers of fracking. A new report about to be released from Cornell University contends that fracking contributes to global warming as much, or even more, than coal. The research undermines the gas industry’s long-standing claim that natural gas is a clean energy source. But people who live in gas-drilling areas already have concerns. Quiet roads and designated bicycle routes are now major thoroughfares for gas industry trucks. A blue haze can be seen between trees. Trucks routinely carry weight that exceeds limits leaving small rural roads busted and dangerous. Roads are sprayed with drilling waste as a cheap ice suppressant in the winter and dust control in the summer. The waste eventually makes its way back into streams. Accidents, overturned vehicles and speeding violations are everyday occurrences. At night the landscape is transformed as bright lights from drilling rigs appear like mini skyscrapers. Red lights from a long line of trucks, their engines running, pinpoint water intake centers, the lifeblood of the fracking industry. Across from a daycare center and down the road from Wyalusing High School, smoke from a fire at TranZ, a bulk material supply operation for the gas industry, spews filthy odors into the morning sky. Not far from Paradise Road, methane bubbles percolate from the riverbed, drifting down the Susquehanna River. Residents in the community known as Sugar Run set up an entrapment tarp last fall when the bubbles were discovered, clicked a lighter and then watched flames shoot up the riverbank. Up the road, in the path of the bubbles, Carl Stiles’ home sits abandoned, inches of snow left untouched on the front steps. He left with his fiancé in mid-November after their blood tests showed high levels of barium and their home had radon levels three times the limit. They had been experiencing a myriad of health problems for months. “I had tremors on my right side, constant headaches, numbness. We both had heart attack symptoms, ” said Stiles, 45. Water tests in his well showed high levels of methane. A hole erupted in their front yard and spewed out a mysterious froth. Chesapeake gave the couple bottled drinking water but denied responsibility. Stiles said visits to local doctors were frustrating. He believes they discounted the possibility of chemical poisoning and he fears there was a conflict of interest because Chesapeake gives so much money to area medical centers. Finally, a toxicologist in Philadelphia told them to stop drinking their water and leave their home. They haven’t been back since. “Between the drill site and our house, there are so many people in Sugar Run who have water buffaloes, and they have a family up a mile away and he has two little kids and the same symptoms as me. Pennsylvania is going to be a wasteland. It’s going to be so contaminated no one is going to live there,” said Stiles who now lives in an apartment in Cambria County, where drilling is just getting started. He had to quit his job when he left and was just diagnosed with colon cancer. He wonders if the water caused it. As for his $75,000 house in Bradford County, “I couldn’t give it away,” he said. All over the region, residents are trying to figure out how to get out. Adron and Mary Delarosa, two young organic farmers, put all they had into building a one room home and starting an organic farm. One month after they settled in, a well pad went up, then another and another. A compressor station is planned. They’re concerned about how the diesel fumes from all the trucks were affecting their 2-year-old daughter. They don’t know what to do. They’re getting water tests. Joe Shervinski has a 12-acre spread in Wyalusing, with a windmill, solar panels, some cows and three domestic turkeys. He’s trying to figure out whether he should sell now while his water is still good and move out of state, but he doesn’t know where to go. Each month he fills a water jug and tries to light it as a DIY water test. Down the road from him, George and Charlene Miller, two retirees from New Jersey, thought they had found the perfect spot: 16 gorgeous acres with a brook, three ponds, space for gardening. George, a disabled veteran, built 40 birdhouses. A sign at the entrance to their home reads “Journey’s End” and Charlene spoke of wanting her ashes spread across the woods. “Then, one day I went out to get my mail, and all the trees were gone,” she said. Soon she’ll be looking at a huge rig, and the first round of drilling will last 26 days. The noise will be constant. Trucks carrying water, equipment, men and machinery will pass by her home. Another well is planned across the street in the opposite direction. “We’ll likely have to get a water buffalo,” she said. They’ve spent $1,000 on a private water test. Next they’ll test their pond as a kind of insurance policy in case the drilling ruins it. “We moved out here to get away from all of this, and it caught up with us quicker then we thought, ” she said. She seems more resigned then surprised. She already supplies water to her son, his wife and two young children who live in Montrose, about an hour away, surrounded by gas wells. The young family moved from Michigan to be close to her and George. They’re renting a home with an option to buy, but their water went bad and the landlord isn’t doing anything. He sends Charlene photos of flaring wells, and trucks with radioactive signage. “They’re being crushed, ” she said. Shale gas Gas Pollution Water Energy guardian.co.uk
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German hotelier claims his eight-year-old bird has been obsessed with the machine for years They say that opposites attract. But can a bird ever find love with a piece of agricultural machinery? Ja, says a German hotelier, who claims that a swan is besotted with his tractor. The eight-year-old mute swan, rather uncreatively known as Schwani (Swanny), has allegedly become so obsessed with the 39hp vehicle that every time the engine starts up, he waddles over to say hello. This is no flash-in-the-pan fling, according to observers from the village of Velen in Münsterland in north-west Germany: Schwani has been devoted to the blue tractor for years. “Ever since we bought the tractor three years ago, Schwani has been following it everywhere it goes,” Hermann-Josef Hericks told the tabloid Bild. But Veronika Schwill, who works at the hotel, said Schwani was not monogamous. “Schwani also finds diggers and machines on the building site next door interesting,” she revealed. Why can’t Schwani find love with another swan? wondered Bild. Animal behaviouralist Daniela Fiutak has a theory. “The swan presumably had contact with machines during puberty,” she said. “He sees the tractor as a sexual partner.” It would seem there is something in the water in Münsterland which sends swans into a flap. A few years ago a female called Petra hit the headlines after she fell in love with a pedalo shaped like a swan Germany is garnering a reputation as a world centre for daft animal stories, many of them of dubious veracity. First there were the gay penguins of Bremerhaven zoo, near Bremen. Then came Knut (RIP), the abandoned polar bear who was strummed to sleep by his guitar-playing keeper in Berlin. Last year, Paul the Octopus from Oberhausen (also RIP) became a sensation when he allegedly picked out World Cup winners with his tentacles before each match. It was also reported over the weekend that a penguin named Bonaparte has fallen for a rubber boot at the Sea Life Konstanz in the south of Germany. Germany Europe Animals Animal behaviour Helen Pidd guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Wisconsin’s Kitzinger, 80 was ‘shocked and appalled’ in retrospect not to have been told of major error
April 12, 2011 No CommentWaukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus, the Republican who now has ensnared the Wisconsin Supreme Election in stink and who has a history of doing this sort of thing has an 80 year old Democrat on the Waukesha County Board of Canvassers very upset. JSonline: The Democrat on the Waukesha County Board of Canvassers who was widely quoted as endorsing the county clerk’s official ballot count that flipped the state Supreme Court winner last week said Monday that she was never told about more than 14,000 missing votes from the city of Brookfield until shortly before a Thursday news conference. By then, the three-member board had finished its canvass, which had started midday Wednesday. The Waukesha County Democratic Party released a statement Monday ascribed to Ramona Kitzinger, 80, a member of the canvassing board since 2004. In the statement, Kitzinger said that even during the canvass of Brookfield’s votes during the day Thursday, no mention was made of the big mistake, something in retrospect she called “shocking and somewhat appalling.” Meanwhile, in Madison, the state’s top election official referred to “apparent negligence” by Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus. At a news conference Monday , Kevin Kennedy, executive director of the Government Accountability Board, said she needs to change her practices to bolster public confidence. The state agency will not certify the election results until it finishes its review of what happened in Waukesha County, board spokesman Reid Magney said. — “I am still very, very confused about why the canvass was finalized before I was informed of the Brookfield error, and it wasn’t even until the news conference was happening that I learned it was this enormous mistake that could swing the whole election. I was never shown anything that would verify Kathy’s statement about the missing vote, and with how events unfolded and people citing me as an authority on this now, I feel I must speak up.”
Continue reading …According to his University of Maryland faculty bio , Kevin Blackistone “is a former award-winning sports columnist for The Dallas Morning News from September 1990 to September 2006.” He has written for AOL's FanHouse; his most recent column is here ); he was likely released when AOL recently laid off its FanHouse employees as a result of what I refer to as ” Huffington's Heist .” In a Monday opinion piece at Politico (HT Hot Air ) entitled “NFL players need Obama's support,” Blackistone criticized the President of the United States for not supporting the players in their dispute with the league's owners, and — I kid you not — said it “differs very little” from the recent public-sector collective-bargaining controversy in Wisconsin. Blackistone even brought Martin Luther King into the mix (bolds are mine): … President Barack Obama refused early last month to support — or even get involved in — the players’ labor fight against NFL owners. He dismissed the players as millionaires fighting billionaires, saying he was more concerned about Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s attack on state-employee unions.
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Facebook founder faces more legal action surrounding the site’s ownership Mark Zuckerberg might have to create a “Don’t Like” button for people claiming they own all or a fraction of Facebook. Having seen off the Winklevoss twins on Monday, with whom he went to Harvard University and claimed he stole the idea for Facebook from him, now he faces a convicted fraudster who claims he has a contract giving him 84% of the giant social network. Paul Ceglia, from Wellsville, New York, said Zuckerberg signed a contract with him that shows he should be entitled to the lion’s share of the business – and late on Monday night released, through his lawyers in the US, a tranche of emails that purport to show him and the Facebook chief executive discussing, between July 2003 and July 2004, various matters relating to “thefacebook” – as the site was known in its early days. The case will be heard in federal court, following a ruling at the end of March that Ceglia and Zuckerberg live in different states – though the latter grew up in New York before going to Harvard, and then to California where he turned the company into the world-spanning social network, with around 600 million members. Ceglia claims in 2003 he hired Zuckerberg, then an 18-year-old first-year undergraduate at Harvard, to do some coding for a site called Streetfax (later Streetdelivery) that he was planning. Zuckerberg was paid $1,000 on a “work for hire” contract, Ceglia has contended in court, and then put to work on a project called “The Face Book” or “The Page Book” in which Ceglia invested $1,000. Certainly, when Facebook first launched, it was called “thefacebook” – but the other details are disputed by Facebook and Zuckerberg’s lawyers. Among the emails released by Ceglia through his lawyers, DLA Piper, is one in which Zuckerberg apparently tells Ceglia he is thinking of shutting the site down because it is having so little success, despite the payment made by Ceglia to keep it going. In response Facebook has said the emails, and the contract on which Ceglia claims to have Zuckerberg’s signature, are fakes – and point to Ceglia’s convictions on counts of fraud and past arrests. Ceglia was arrested and charged with criminal fraud and grand larceny in 2009, after the wood pellet company he and his wife run failed to deliver $200,000 worth of orders to customers in four adjoining states. A lawyer for the Ceglias then said the money had been invested in machinery, labour and subcontractors for the pellets. Ironically, Ceglia has also said that fraud charge was the reason he discovered his claim to Facebook – that it was only when looking through papers relating to those cases that he discovered the old contract with Zuckerberg. Ceglia first filed suit last summer, and has now added extra evidence in the form of the emails. DLA Piper has said that it performed “weeks” of due diligence on Ceglia’s claims to show that they stood up – including an “electronic analysis” of the contract where Ceglia signed up Zuckerberg. But the case is even more complicated. Andrew Logan, founder and chief executive of a company called StreetDelivery, claims that in 2003 Ceglia was working for him at the time he claims to have hired Zuckerberg to code Streetfax. That could mean that Ceglia’s hiring of Zuckerberg – and any intellectual property created there – actually reverts to Logan. For Ceglia, even if he wins he might lose. For Zuckerberg, though, it’s just another day proving that while failure is an orphan, success definitely has many, many parents. Facebook Internet Social networking Digital media Media business United States Charles Arthur guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Fmr Rep. Bart Stupak Goes To Work As A Lobbyist. Guess Who His Firm Represents?
April 12, 2011 No CommentIrony Alert: Bart Stupak nearly scuttled health care reform over his fear that federal dollars could be spent on abortions, even though the Hyde Amendment already makes that illegal to do so. No longer in Congress, Stupak has moved to a lobbying firm… with Planned Parenthood as a client . Just hours after announcing his move to K Street, former Rep. Bart Stupak is already getting some attention for an existing client of his new firm. The Michigan Democrat, who opposes abortion rights, is joining the law and lobbying firm Venable , which represents Planned Parenthood of Maryland. As a Member of the House, Stupak became a champion of the anti-abortion movement during last year’s debate over President Barack Obama’s signature health care overhaul. Stupak put the brakes on the overhaul with his amendment to bar federal funds from being used to pay for abortions, but he ultimately reached a deal on the issue with the White House. Some in the anti-abortion community were quick to point out the Venable connection to Planned Parenthood, which provides abortions. House Republicans have sought to cut federal funding for the health care provider from a spending bill to fund the government for the remainder of the current fiscal year. A Venable spokesman said that even if Stupak were to work for Planned Parenthood, it would be consistent with his Congressional voting record. Although Planned Parenthood does provide abortion services, much of its work focuses on women’s health, preventive care and birth control counseling. With all due respect to the Venable spokesman, I think as a woman, I’d prefer to keep Stupak as far away as possible from Planned Parenthood. His inability to think that women deserve the right to control their own bodies kinda hurts his credibility. Meanwhile, let’s hear it for DC Mayor Vincent Gray and six DC Council-members who were arrested yesterday protesting the Congress’ complete apathy to the district’s lack of say or representation in the congressional rider prohibiting them from using local money to fund abortions. Under the budget agreement reached Friday, the details of which are still uncertain, the city will likely be unable to spend city dollars on abortions for low-income women. It may also be banned from spending city money on needle exchange programs thought vital to curbing the spread of HIV in the city, where the disease is considered an epidemic. Also back: a school voucher program favored by Republicans. Angry that Congress appears ready to take away autonomy granted to the city in the last several years, Mayor Vincent Gray and six Council members including the chairman were among 41 people arrested Monday outside the Capitol while protesting the changes that might be inevitable.
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The first man in space features heavily in Russian cosmonauts’ pre-mission rituals. Tell us what superstitions you follow It was 50 years ago today that Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel in space. But as we celebrate the anniversary of this feat of human ingenuity, some may not be aware that an industry defined by precision and cutting edge technology is also one of superstition and ritual. The legacy of Gagarin himself is the backdrop to many of the rituals performed by Russian cosmonauts before they embark on a mission . They leave a red carnation at his memorial wall, visit his old office and ask permission from his ghost before launch. More bizarre is the tradition of male cosmonauts urinating on the right rear wheel of the bus used to transfer them to the launch site (women have the option of dashing a cup of their own urine on the wheel too). And while Nasa astronauts are apparently more reserved, they’ll still always eat a breakfast of steak and scrambled eggs on the morning of lift-off. What little rituals do you have before setting off on a big adventure or important task? Are you the superstitious type? Space Yuri Gagarin Russia Nasa guardian.co.uk
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British government accused of betrayal over decision to allow Libya’s former foreign minister to attend Doha conference Families of the victims of the Lockerbie bombing have accused the British government of “betrayal” after it allowed Moussa Koussa, the former Libyan foreign minister , to leave the UK to attend an international conference. Koussa, who defected to Britain at the end of last month, was en route to Doha in Qatar on Tuesday, where an international conference on the future of Libya is to be held with representatives from the Benghazi-based opposition. He is expected to return to the UK after the conference, but is free to travel as he pleases. Brian Flynn, the brother of JP Flynn, who died in the 1988 attack and now organises the Victims of Pan Am 103 Incorporated campaign group in New York, said the UK authorities had “crossed a line” by allowing Koussa to attend the conference and thereby suggest he is a peace negotiator rather than, as they believe, a key instigator of the bombing. “I think the British are being played by him … he has convinced them he can be valuable in this process, but he is not the suave diplomat in the suit sitting on the sidelines, he is one of the key guys who mastermined [the bombing of] Pan Am flight 103,” Flynn said. “He is a stated enemy of the British government. Our feeling is that the British government gave a nod to Lockerbie by questioning him two days before this conference, but that feels disingenuous. The Scottish and American prosecutors on Lockerbie are being betrayed by the politicians and the diplomats. Cameron has been good on Libya, but this sounds an awful lot like Tony Blair is back in charge.” Flynn’s organisation, the largest victims’ group in the US, seeks to discover the truth behind the bombing and win justice for those who died. He said the families believed the decision to allow Koussa to travel to the meeting in Qatar was part of a British strategy to encourage other defectors to flee to Britain from Gaddafi’s regime, as there was no way either the rebels or the regime would trust him as an intermediary. “He blatantly betrayed the Libyan regime and for more than 25 years he betrayed the Libyan people, so why is this the guy we are sending [to the talks]?” said Flynn. Koussa is said to be travelling to Doha in order to establish whether he has a role to play in the rebel movement along with other senior defectors from the Gaddafi regime – perhaps by brokering a deal between Tripoli and Benghazi. It is believed he has links with some leading rebel figures, including the opposition leader, Mahmoud Jibril. It is understood Koussa spent a week being debriefed by MI6 at a safehouse before being allowed to go free. He was questioned by Dumfries and Galloway police about the 1988 bombing, in which 270 people died, though was he was not a suspect. William Hague, the foreign secretary, had insisted that Koussa would not be given immunity from prosecution. He was helped to defect by MI6 after leaving Tripoli for Tunisia on what was initially described as a private visit. The hope in Whitehall is that Koussa’s lenient treatment by the UK authorities will send a positive signal to other would-be Libyan defectors. On Monday Koussa made his first public statement since leaving Libya 12 days ago. “I ask everybody to avoid taking Libya into civil war,” he told the BBC. “This would lead to so much blood and Libya would be a new Somalia. More than that, we refuse to divide Libya. The unity of Libya is essential to any solution and settlement.” Speaking in Arabic, Koussa made no reference in his statement to questions about his past and any knowledge or involvement in the Lockerbie bombing . It is understood he has a lawyer representing him. Jean Berkley, co-ordinator of the UK Families Flight 103 group, who lost her 29-year old son Alistair when the Pan Am flight was blown up in mid-air, said she was mystified by the decision to let Koussa travel. “It is very unexpected,” she said. “Is he the basis of a new Libyan opposition, or what? He doesn’t seem a very suitable person. Our aim is always to get more of the truth and we want a full public inquiry. Koussa must have some interesting knowledge. It is hard to know what to make of it. We will wait and see and watch with interest.” Robert Halfon, a Conservative MP, said the British people would be “very concerned that our country is being used as a transit lounge for alleged war criminals”. He added: “This sends the wrong signal to Gaddafi and those complicit in dictatorships everywhere. It should not be forgotten that Moussa Koussa was allegedly behind many IRA outrages, the Lockerbie bombing and the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher. He should be here in the UK or facing trial in the international courts for complicity in the Gaddafi regime.” Koussa’s links to the UK go back to the period when he was deputy foreign minister in the mid-1990s and was involved in talks that revealed the Gaddafi regime’s past support for the IRA. He was head of Libya’s foreign intelligence service in the 1990s – after the Lockerbie bombing. He was also involved in still inconclusive talks about the 1984 murder of Constable Fletcher. In 2003 he played a pivotal role in talks about surrendering Libya’s programme for weapons of mass destruction – the decision which paved the way for Gaddafi’s temporary rehabilitation with the west. In 2009 he took part in negotiations over the controversial return home of the convicted Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi. In the early 1980s, when he headed the London embassy, Koussa was thrown out of the UK after announcing plans to kill anti-Gaddafi dissidents. Lockerbie plane bombing Global terrorism UK security and terrorism Scotland Air transport Moussa Koussa Libya Middle East Robert Booth Ian Black guardian.co.uk
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