North Korea conducted its third nuclear test on Tuesday in defiance of existing U.N. resolutions, drawing condemnation from around the world, including from its only major ally, China, which summoned the North Korean ambassador to protest. [Reuters] IT’S BEING described as having “greater explosive force” than the 2006 and 2009 tests, according to Reuters. China’s [...]
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Israel’s ‘False Flag’ Op, Posing as C.I.A.
The most interesting article you’ll read today is my must read for Saturday. It comes from Foreign Policy’s Mark Perry: Buried deep in the archives of America’s intelligence services are a series of memos, written during the last years of President George W. Bush’s administration, that describe how Israeli Mossad officers recruited operatives belonging to [...]
VA Earthquake Shuts Down North Anna Nuke Facility
**UDPATED** MSNBC is reporting the 5.9 earthquake that hit northern Virginia and across the east coast was the largest since 1897 and “released the equivalent energy of 10,676 tons of TNT.” The North Anna plant lost off-site power. Our birds began freaking out just minutes before it hit, so I knew something was up. It [...]
New York Times: Pakistan Arrests CIA Bin Laden Informants
With friends like these… Pakistan’s top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who fed information to the Central Intelligence Agency in the months leading up to the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, according to American officials. Pakistan’s detention of five C.I.A. informants, including a Pakistani Army [...]
Headline of the Week
or… The Daily Mail story is deeply depressing. David Sanger has been a must read during this unfolding nightmare. The decision to raise the level came two days after the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission warned publicly that the situation at the crippled plant was much bleaker than Japanese officials had indicated, either because they [...]
General Electric Mark 1 Reactor ‘Cheaper and Easier’ to Build
That’s the headline on WashingtonPost.com. Perhaps now all the people who were talking about “context” will put the continuing catastrophe in the same light, as in nuclear disaster that was foretold, sort of like BP, but this time instead of wildlife and habitat we have uninhabitable for humans as a sub-heading: Experts Had Long Criticized [...]
Japan: Fourth Reactor ‘Spewing’ Radiation
(CBS/AP) SOMA, Japan – A Japanese spokesman says a fourth reactor at a quake-damaged nuclear plant is on fire following an earlier explosion, and radiation is now spewing from it. The radiation level is now elevated to a point that may damage health, the spokesman said. – New explosion leads to spewing radiation The third [...]
Nuclear Politics in the Wake of Japan’s Catastrophe
Senior Obama administration officials said Monday that Obama remains committed to nuclear power, and that U.S. nuclear plants had been built to withstand the strain of strong storms and earthquakes. [...] Carney said Monday that although the crisis in Japan is still unfolding, the White House isn’t backing away from the proposed “clean” standard. He [...]
Sunday Politics and Japan’s Nuclear Catastrophe
[...] Tokyo Electric Power Co., owner of the two heavily damaged complexes, took the unprecedented step of pumping seawater mixed with boric acid into the core of another reactor, Fukushima Daiichi’s unit 1 reactor, to tame ultra-high temperatures from fuel rods that had been partially exposed. In keeping with the natural as well as mechanical [...]
The Japan Syndrome
**UPDATED** IWAKI, Japan AP (Mar 12, 10:42 PM EST) — A partial meltdown was likely under way at a second nuclear reactor, a top Japanese official said Sunday, as authorities frantically tried to prevent a similar threat from nearby unit following a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami. Some 170,000 people have been ordered to evacuate the [...]
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