Saturday, May 21, 2011

5/18/2011 | Feel like a radiated sitting duck? Things you can do to mitigate the problem.

Source: Farmwars.info
Date: May 18, 2011
by: By Barbara H. Peterson
At this point in time, most of us can say “no” to vaccines, genetically modified (GM) food, fluoride, and Big Pharma drugs. But we can’t “just say no” to radiation in the air all around us coming from Japan, and through oceanic contamination resulting from the BP Gulf incident. So, the difficult question is not how do we avoid this contamination, but rather, how we mitigate our exposure.
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5/21/2011 | Giant barge arrives at Fukushima plant to store radioactive water

Source: RIANOVOSTI
Date: 11:10 21/05/2011

Topic: Global consequences of Japanese quake

Giant barge arrives at Fukushima plant to store radioactive water
A giant water-storage barge has arrived at Japan's quake-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to store highly radioactive waste water from the basement of a reactor building, Kyodo news reported on Saturday.
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5/21/2011 | Nuclear plant workers suffer internal radiation exposure after visiting Fukushima

Source: The Mainichi Daily News
Date: May 21, 2011 Mainichi Time

The government has discovered thousands of cases of workers at nuclear power plants outside Fukushima Prefecture suffering from internal exposure to radiation after they visited the prefecture, the head of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said.
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5/21/2011 | China's Wen signals easing of Japan imports ban

Source: Reuters
Date: Sat May 21, 2011 4:39am EDT
by: Kim Kyung Hoon

(Reuters) - China is willing to increase agricultural imports from Japan, provided they meet safety standards, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Saturday while visiting the Japanese region battered by an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident in March.
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5/21/2011 | FROM SQUARE ONE / Primer on the Tokai megaquake

Source: Daily Yomiuri Online
Date: May. 21, 2011
by: The Yomiuri Shimbun

Chubu Electric Power Co.'s Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture, was shut down because of fears that a massive Tokai earthquake will occur.
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5/21/2011 | FROM SQUARE ONE / How dangerous is Hamaoka?

Source: Daily Yomiuri Online
Date: May. 21, 2011
by: The Yomiuri Shimbun

How dangerous is Chubu Electric Power Co.'s Hamaoka nuclear power plant compared with other nuclear power plants?
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5/21/2011 | Intricate bonds behind Taiwan aid

Source: The Japan Times
Date: Saturday, May 21, 2011
by: KO SHU-LING

Kyodo

TAIPEI — Taiwan, a country of 23 million people, has to date pledged approximately 5.9 billion New Taiwan dollars (about ¥16.7 billion) in relief funds following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan on March 11.
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5/20/2011 | Massive Texas Drinking Water Radiation Cover-Up Exposed: Top Gov Officials Knew All Along And Kept Silent

Source: Alexander Higgins Blog
Date: May 20, 2011 at 5:10 pm

Top Texas Government Officials Covered Up Unsafe Radiation Levels In Texas Drinking Water

An investigative report by a local Houston Texas news stations reveals numerous top-level Texas Government officials participated in a massive cover up by of dangerous levels of radiation in Texas drinking water.
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