12/30/2011 Russian nuke sub fire: Video of firefighters putting out blaze

Source: RT News
Date: 12/30/2011


The blaze on the strategic nuclear submarine Yekaterinburg started when a fire broke out in a dockyard in northern Russia. Eleven fire crews, a helicopter and a boat managed to localize the fire. Seven servicemen and two emergency workers were hospitalized with smoke inhalation. The reactor on the submarine, which is in the dock of the shipyard in Roslyakovo, Murmansk Region, has been halted and no radiation contamination was reported. Several crewmen remain on board the nuclear submarine.

12/29/2011 Cover-Up: Troops Exposed to Deadly Radiation with Dr. Doug Rokke

Source: Infowars Nightly News
Date: 12/29/2011
Infowars Nightly News from 12/29/2011 parts 1-3 of Dr. Doug Rokke depleted Uranium expert interview joined together for your convenience:

Alex talks with Dr. Doug Rokke on the military's continued use of depleted uranium. Rokke is a career army officer who was the Pentagon's most senior DU expert during the first Gulf War. Doug earned his B.S. in Physics at Western Illinois University followed by his M.S. and Ph.D. in physics and technology education at the University of Illinois.

Further reading:

1. Congressman Dennis Kucinich and Dr. Doug Rokke hold press conference about Depleted Uranium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign15 March 2004
2. The War Against Ourselves: An interview with Major Doug Rokke by Sunny Miller
3. starDUst: The Dr. Douglas Rokke Foundation Creating a safe world free of weapons of mass destruction including depleted uranium

12/30/2011 The Yakuza and the Nuclear Mafia: Nationalization Looms for TEPCO

Source: The Atlantic Wire
Date: 12/30/2011 10:42 AM ET
by: Jake Adelstein 

Mari Kurisato

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the monolithic corporation that controls all electric power in Greater Tokyo, and runs the Fukushima Daichii nuclear plant that experienced a triple meltdown following the March 11 earthquake, is on the brink of nationalization according to Japanese government sources. The official reason is that the firm may not be able to handle the massive compensation payments it owes to victims of the meltdown without going bankrupt. Unofficially, the firm has such long-standing ties to anti-social forces, including the yakuza—that some members of the Diet, Japan’s national legislature, feel the firm is beyond salvation and needs to be taken over and cleaned up. A Japanese Senator with the Liberal Democratic Party stated on background, "TEPCO's involvement with anti-social forces and their inability to filter them out of the work-place is a national security issue. It is one reason that increasingly in the Diet we are talking de facto nationalization of the company. Nuclear energy shouldn't be in the hands of the yakuza. They're gamblers and an intelligent person doesn't want them to have atomic dice to play with."
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