MedicalConspiracies- Japan to issue gravest Fukushima nuclear warning in two years: agency 21 Aug 2013

 

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21 Aug 2013
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Japan to issue gravest Fukushima nuclear warning in two years: agency 20 Aug 2013 Japan will dramatically raise its warning about the severity of a toxic radioactive water leak at the Fukushima nuclear plant, its nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday, its most serious action since the plant was destroyed in 2011. The deepening crisis at the Fukushima plant will be upgraded from a level 1 "anomaly" to a level three "serious incident" on an international scale for radiological releases, a spokesman for Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) said. That will mark the first time Japan has issued a warning on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES) since the three reactor meltdowns.

 

Fukushima bay radiation levels highest since measurements began 20 Aug 2013 Reports from Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, say that measurements of radioactive tritium in seawater -- seeping out of the nuclear complex via groundwater into the sea -- show levels at 4700 becquerels per liter, the highest tritium level in the measurement history. The highest tritium levels have come in the past 15 days, the same reports show. TEPCO also revealed that the highest levels of radiation in seawater were detected near reactor 1. Previous measurements showed the levels at 3800 becquerels per liter near reactor 1, and 2600 becquerels per liter near reactor 2, but the measurements have been showing increased radiation levels in the past 2 weeks.

 

Tank leaks 300 tons of highly radioactive water at Fukushima plant 20 Aug 2013 An estimated 300 tons of highly radioactive water has leaked from a tank at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, with much of the polluted water apparently seeping into the ground. Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, said Aug. 20 it has been unable to specify the area of the tank from where the water leaked. A radiation level of 100 millisieverts per hour was detected near the surface of a puddle around the tank.

 

Fukushima operator says workers dusted with radioactive particles 19 Aug 2013 The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said on Monday two workers were found to be contaminated with radioactive particles, the second such incident in a week involving staff outside the site's main operations center. Two dust monitors sounded alarms earlier on Monday outside the operations center, where radiation levels are usually low enough to avoid the need for full face masks, Tokyo Electric Power Co said in an emailed statement. Two workers waiting for a bus at the end of their shift were found to be have been contaminated with radioactive particles, which were wiped off their bodies before they left the site, Tokyo Electric, also known as Tepco, said.

 

Tepco preparing to remove 400 tons of highly irradiated spent fuel from damaged Fukushima reactor building 15 Aug 2013 The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is preparing to remove 400 tons of highly irradiated spent fuel from a damaged reactor building, a dangerous operation that has never been attempted before on this scale. Containing radiation equivalent to 14,000 times the amount released in the U.S. atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, more than 1,300 used fuel rod assemblies packed tightly together need to be removed from a building that is vulnerable to collapse, should another large earthquake hit the area. Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) is already in a losing battle to stop radioactive water overflowing from another part of the facility, and experts question whether it will be able to pull off the removal of all the assemblies successfully.

 

UK government destroyed Guardian hard drives over Snowden story 20 Aug 2013 British government officials ordered the destruction of hard drives at the Guardian offices in London that purportedly contained information relating to NSA leaker Edward Snowden, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has revealed. They took the action even though Rusbridger explained it was pointless, he said. The Guardian's NSA reporting is written, stored and edited in New York, he told them, and journalist Glenn Greenwald, the lead reporter on the story, lives in Brazil. The officials from GCHQ, Britain's equivalent of the NSA, were apparently unaware of the concept of information in the cloud - and seemed satisfied that they had been able to destroy something tangible. [GCHQ barbarians are so stupid that the *light* from stupid is going to take ten billion years to reach the earth.]

 

White House was given 'heads-up' over David Miranda detention in UK 19 Aug 2013 Britain was facing intense pressure on Monday to give a detailed explanation of the decision to detain the partner of the Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald after the White House confirmed that it was given a "heads-up" before David Miranda was taken into custody for nine hours at Heathrow. As the UK's anti-terror legislation watchdog called for a radical overhaul of the laws that allowed police to confiscate Miranda's electronic equipment, the US distanced itself from the action by saying that British authorities took the decision to detain him... The prospect of an investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission is likely to have been enhanced by the disclosure that the US authorities were given advanced notice of Miranda's detention after his name appeared on a passenger manifest.

 

David Miranda detention legally sound, says Scotland Yard 19 Aug 2013 Using the Terrorism Act to detain the partner of a Guardian reporter who wrote about US and UK security services was "legally and procedurally sound", Scotland Yard has said. It was responding to claims it misused its powers by holding David Miranda for nine hours at Heathrow on Sunday. Independent reviewer of terrorism legislation David Anderson QC has said the length of detention was "unusual".

 

Snowden reporter: Won't be silenced by detention 20 Aug 2013 An American journalist who has written stories based on documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden said Monday he'll publish with more fervor after British authorities detained his partner. London police detained David Miranda under anti-terror legislation as he arrived at Heathrow Airport in London airport Sunday. Miranda, who is in a civil union with reporter Glenn Greenwald, arrived Monday in Rio de Janeiro, where he lives with the journalist. A defiant Greenwald, who reports for the Guardian newspaper in Britain, promised he was going "to write much more aggressively than before" about government snooping.

 

David Miranda: 'They said I would be put in jail if I didn't co-operate' 19 Aug 2013 David Miranda, the partner of the Guardian journalist who broke stories of mass surveillance by the US National Security Agency, has accused Britain of a "total abuse of power" for interrogating him for almost nine hours at Heathrow under the Terrorism Act. In his first interview since returning to his home in Rio de Janeiro early on Monday, Miranda said the authorities in the UK had pandered to the US in trying to intimidate him and force him to reveal the passwords to his computer and mobile phone. "They were threatening me all the time and saying I would be put in jail if I didn't co-operate," said Miranda.

 

Snowden case: Brazil 'concerned' after UK detention 18 Aug 2013 Brazil says the detention under British terror laws of one of its citizens at London's Heathrow airport caused "grave concern" and was "unjustified". David Miranda, the partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald who published documents leaked by Edward Snowden, was held at Heathrow for nine hours on his way to Rio de Janeiro. "At 08:05 on Sunday 18 August 2013 a 28-year-old man was detained at Heathrow Airport under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000. He was not arrested. He was subsequently released at 17:00," said a statement issued by the Metropolitan Police.

 

Glenn Greenwald's partner detained at Heathrow airport for nine hours under Terrorism Act --Officials confiscated electronics equipment including his mobile phone, laptop, camera, memory sticks, DVDs and games consoles. 18 Aug 2013 The partner of the Guardian journalist who has written a series of stories revealing mass surveillance programmes by the US National Security Agency was held for almost nine hours on Sunday by UK authorities as he passed through London's Heathrow airport on his way home to Rio de Janeiro. David Miranda, who lives with Glenn Greenwald, was returning from a trip to Berlin when he was stopped by officers at 8.05am and informed that he was to be questioned under schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000. The controversial law, which applies only at airports, ports and border areas, allows officers to stop, search, question and detain individuals.

 

War court conducts secret hearing in 9/11 case 20 Aug 2013 An Army judge ordered alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his co-defendants removed from the war court Monday and held the first secret hearing of the 9/11 capital tribunal on a government motion that's so secret the public cannot know what it was. Army Col. James L. Pohl, the judge, ruled that an open hearing would present a risk to national security, without specifying how. He rejected a defense request to include the men who, if convicted, could be executed for conspiring in the worst foreign domestic attack on U.S. soil, including 2,976 counts of murder. At issue was a motion labeled AE52 and listed as "government consolidated notice regarding ex parte, in camera filing and motion for finding" - in short, a secret request from the government for a secret ruling from the judge.

 

Guantanamo Bay: 9/11 trial lawyer criticizes conditions at secret prison 18 Aug 2013 The defense attorney for the nephew of the alleged Sept. 11 attack mastermind patsy got a first look at a mysterious prison where former CIA captives are kept here, and Sunday declared conditions at odds with the Geneva Convention governing how prisoners are treated. Pentagon defense lawyer James Connell said he spent 12 hours on Thursday with his client Ammar al Baluchi inside the compound called Camp 7, a secret camp where captives who were waterboarded overseas and others are kept incommunicado. He took "hundreds of photos," he said, all now in the hands of intelligence officials, and has objections to raise, first with the prison commander. If the commander does not comply, Connell said, he would file a motion with the chief war court judge.

 

US military judge weighs sentence for Bradley Manning 20 Aug 2013 A US military judge on Tuesday began deliberating on a sentence for Bradley Manning, the soldier convicted of espionage for giving classified government documents to WikiLeaks. The judge, Colonel Denise Lind, opened the proceedings at 9:30 am (1330 GMT) and adjourned within five minutes to begin her deliberations on Manning's punishment over the massive leak. "I will announce the sentence tomorrow morning at the earliest," Lind said.

 

CIA admits organising 1953 Iran coup [LOL, and *so many others.* But, do we also have to wait sixty years to find out that 9/11 (and 7/7) was an inside job? Too bad WikiLeaks doesn't release those files.] The CIA has admitted to orchestrating the August 1953 coup that toppled Iran's prime minister after he tried to nationalise his country's oil wealth from Britain, according to a declassified document. George Washington University's National Security Archive, which obtained the documents under the Freedom of Information Act, a law that promotes government transparency, said that a secret internal history marked the most explicit CIA admission, on Sunday. "The military coup that overthrew Mosadeq and his National Front cabinet was carried out under CIA direction as an act of US foreign policy," the document said, using an alternative spelling of Mossadegh.

 

Syrian army routs 'rebels' from Assad home province 20 Aug 2013 President Bashar Assad's troops drove rebel fighters [aka cannibals and terrorists] out of his Latakia home province Monday as U.N. inspectors began probing the alleged use of [US-supplied] chemical weapons in the Syrian conflict. As the U.N. team left their Damascus hotel for an undisclosed destination, Jordan said it was receiving U.S. technical assistance to prepare for any possible chemical warfare in neighbouring Syria. Syrian state news agency SANA, meanwhile, said the army recaptured territory in northern Latakia, including a remote mountainous region where rebels launched operations this month.

 

Pakistan Court Charges Musharraf for Killing of Benazir Bhutto 19 Aug 2013 A Pakistani court indicted Pervez Musharraf in the 2007 assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, escalating legal challenges to the ex-military dictator since he ended his self-exile in March. A judge read out charges that Musharraf was complicit in Bhutto's killing as he failed to provide adequate security at a political rally she was attending, state-run Pakistan Television reported, citing court proceedings. Six other people were also indicted and the hearing was adjourned till Aug. 27.

 

Egypt arrests Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie 20 Aug 2013 Egyptian authorities early Tuesday arrested the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, another demoralizing blow to the Islamist organization amid a crackdown by the military to silence dissent and build support for its control of the nation. Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie was arrested in a Cairo apartment. Most of the Brotherhood's top leaders, including Khairat Shater, its chief strategist and financier, and former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, who was overthrown in a coup last month, are in detention or have gone underground.

 

Mubarak one step nearer to freedom after Egypt court ruling 19 Aug 2013 Egyptian former president Hosni Mubarak, who was arrested after his overthrow in 2011, can no longer be held on a corruption charge, a court ruled on Monday, a decision his lawyer said removed one of the last obstacles to his release. In scenes that captivated Arabs, the man [US-installed dictator] who ruled Egypt for 30 years appeared in a courtroom cage on charges ranging from corruption to complicity in the murder of protesters. Monday's ruling, which could bring Mubarak a step closer to freedom, coincided with another decision from the public prosecutor to press new charges of inciting violence against his successor as president, the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Mursi.

 

U.S. seeks more access in Philippines for 'temporary' military deployments 15 Aug 2013 The United States has formally asked for greater access to civilian and military facilities in the Philippines to deploy aircraft, ships, troops and equipment in a first round of talks on a new security deal, Philippine officials said on Thursday. The Philippines and the United States held a day of talks to boost regular visits by U.S. forces to its former colony to enhance the Philippine military's ability to maintain maritime security and tackle [US-created] disasters. Officials said the talks focused on allowing the rotation of ships, aircraft and troops and the storage of equipment.

 

Documents show multiple injuries to Boston bomb suspect 20 Aug 2013 Boston bombing suspect patsy Dzhokhar Tsarnaev suffered multiple serious injuries before his capture, including a skull fracture and a gunshot to the face, according to newly unsealed court documents. The 19-year-old was caught in a shootout with by police four days after the April 15 bombings, yet managed to escape in a car. He was captured the next day while hiding in a boat in the backyard of a home in Watertown, Mass. His 27-year-old brother, Tamerlan, was killed during the earlier confrontation with by police.

 

Iron Gate to be Installed at Sandy Hook Driveway 20 Aug 2013 Officials in Newtown say crews will soon install a black iron gate to block the driveway of the school where a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six educators in December. The gate will replace concrete barriers and orange traffic cones at the entrance to Sandy Hook Elementary School. First Selectman Pat Llodra tells The Newtown Bee that the gate will improve the property's image and be a better deterrent to the occasional visitor to the site.

 

Man alerts TV station, then opens fire on police at Atlanta-area school - investigators aren't saying why 20 Aug 2013 A man walked into an Atlanta-area elementary school, ordered a school employee to call a local TV station and fired multiple shots at police Tuesday -- but investigators aren't saying why. No one was injured in the shooting at Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in unincorporated DeKalb County outside Atlanta, county Police Chief Cedric Alexander said Tuesday afternoon. The suspect, identified as Michael Brandon Hill, 20, was wearing black and was armed with an AK-47 assault-style rifle when he fired about six shots at police before surrendering peacefully when they returned fire, officials said. Investigators examined what they believed to be the man's car after police dogs indicated the presence of explosives, he said. Police later said no explosives were found. Court records show that a man of the same name and age was charged with making terroristic threats in Henry County, Ga., south of Atlanta, in March and was sentenced to three years' probation and anger counseling. The details of that case couldn't immediately be determined.

 

Suburban police cancel anti-terrorism trainings 18 Aug 2013 Authorities in suburban Chicago have canceled an anti-terrorism training after objections from an advocacy group claiming the trainer was anti-Muslim. The North East Multi-Regional Training group planned the Monday training with Sam Kharoba in Lombard. Kharoba is director of the Florida-based Counter Terrorism Operations Center. His class was called "Islamic Awareness as a Counter-Terrorist Strategy." Last week, the Chicago branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations raised questions over statements Kharoba made about Islam in a 2011 Washington Monthly article and supposed inaccuracies in his materials.

 

Flight from Boston makes emergency landing in Philadelphia after smoke smelled aboard plane 18 Aug 2013 A flight from Boston to Baltimore made an emergency landing in Philadelphia tonight after smoke was smelled on the plane, officials said. JetBlue Airways flight 827 landed safely shortly before 6 p.m. at Philadelphia International Airport, said Victoria Lupica, a spokeswoman for the airport. The 95 passengers and four crewmembers on the plane were safely evacuated after the plane landed, said a statement from JetBlue spokeswoman Victoria Lucia.

 

Scientists plan controversial lab-made bird flu 19 Aug 2013 Scientists who sparked an outcry by creating easier-to-spread versions of the bird flu for research purposes want to try such experiments again using a worrisome new strain. This time around, the U.S. government is promising extra scrutiny of such high-stakes research up front. Since it broke out in China in March, the H7N9 bird flu has infected more than 130 people and killed 43. The findings from the earlier man-made H5N1 strains haven't changed how health authorities are monitoring that virus in the wild, said University of Minnesota professor Michael Osterholm, who was on the federal advisory board that first sounded the alarm over the issue.

 

Flu shot or mask for health care workers 19 Aug 2013 (NY) Almost four years after the state started and then abandoned a mandatory flu shot policy for health care workers, the Cuomo administration is trying a new approach: Health care workers who aren't vaccinated will have to wear surgical masks when they are near patients. The policy, quietly put in place through the regulatory process last month, will take effect once Health Commissioner Nirav Shah declares that flu is "prevalent," which is an annual occurrence. Flu season in New York generally runs between October and May.

 

10,000-gallon tank explodes at Pa. plant; 1 dead 19 Aug 2013 A 10,000-gallon fuel oil tank exploded at an industrial park on Monday and went flying across a road, killing a worker who was welding nearby. The tank spilled 7,500 gallons of fuel and flooded a dike encircling the area, but the spill was contained, firefighters said. The explosion happened Monday evening at Brownies Oil Co. in the Reynolds Industrial Park in Mercer County, in western Pennsylvania.

 

Mega barf alert: Shipping Continued After Computer Inspection System Failed at Meat Plants 18 Aug 2013 A troubled useless new computer system used by inspectors at the nation's 6,500 meatpacking and processing plants shut down for two days this month, putting at risk millions of pounds of beef, poultry, pork and lamb that had left the plants before workers could collect samples to check for E. coli bacteria and other contaminants. Inspectors say that they were forced to use old paper forms to complete some of their work, but that in many cases it was too late. The shutdown of the system is only the latest in a series of computer troubles affecting some 3,000 federal meat inspectors who are using the new technology.

 

Cruz will renounce Canadian citizenship 19 Aug 2013 Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) announced Monday evening that he will renounce his Canadian citizenship, less than 24 hours after a newspaper pointed out that the Canadian-born senator likely maintains dual citizenship. The Dallas Morning News wrote in a story posted late Sunday night that Cruz likely remains a Canadian citizen, by virtue of being born there to an American mother. Having never renounced that citizenship, Cruz was technically a Canadian and an American citizen, according to legal experts.

 

Ted Cruz releases birth certificate 19 Aug 2013 Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) released his birth certificate Sunday amid questions about whether he is eligible to run for president. Cruz was born in Canada in 1970, to an American mother and Cuban father. By virtue of his mother's status, Cruz instantly became a U.S. citizen. He released his birth certificate to the Dallas Morning News, verifying what he has previously asserted.

 

Gag me with a chainsaw: Reports: Scott Brown eyeing run for president 18 Aug 2013 Former Massachusetts senator Scott Brown told Iowa State Fair visitors on Sunday that he is "exploring a possible run" for president in 2016, according to reports. According to WBZ Channel 4, Brown, a [Wall Street-owned] Republican, told a CBS affiliate that he is measuring interest in his "brand of politics." The Iowa State Fair is a frequent stop for possible Oval Office contenders. In 2010, Brown, a former state senator for the Bay State, won a special election for the Senate seat Ted Kennedy once held. Two years later, he lost that post to Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat.

 

Howard Dean returning to Iowa 15 Aug 2013 Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, who says he's open to making another bid for president, will travel next week to Iowa, a move that will surely stoke further speculation that Dean may run in 2016. The former presidential candidate will speak Wednesday at the Iowa Federation of Labor convention. A spokesman for Dean's independent group, Democracy for America, said Dean will be talking next week about the organization's "Purple to Blue Project," a plan aimed to help Democrats win state House and Senate seats. [Hopefully, Wall Street troll Al Sharpton won't lie about Howard Dean again, calling him 'racist' so the Democrats get stuck with another bad candidate--on purpose. That's what Sharpton did in 2004, at the behest of his Republican campaign managers. See: A GOP trickster rents Al Sharpton 03 Feb 2004.]

 

Obamas Welcome New Puppy to White House 20 Aug 2013 President Barack Obama and his family have welcomed a playful new addition to the White House, a new dog called Sunny. The black Portuguese Water Dog joins the first family's other four-legged friend of the same breed, Bo. "Sunny is the perfect little sister for Bo - full of energy and very affectionate - and the First Family picked her name because it fit her cheerful personality," said a post on the White House blog.

  

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