Environment
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Heal the Planet! By Satya Sagar
Even for a layperson, at very first glance, it is very clear that our planet is indeed at risk of sudden cardiac arrest. The symptoms are all there. Mother Earth suffers from dangerously elevated blood pressure, blockages of key arteries, toxic poisoning, smoked out lungs, a damaged liver and multiple injuries untreatable by existing antibiotics. Continue reading
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“Planetary Genocide”: Fukushima One Year Later : The Poisoning of Planet Earth By Dr. Ilya Sandra Perlingieri
As we approach the tragic one-year anniversary of Fukushima’s multiple nuclear reactors’ accident on March 11, that initially affected the entire Japanese population, we now know that this nightmare has engulfed all of us. Let us also not forget that this is the third nuclear attack on the Japanese (the first two were Hiroshima and… Continue reading
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One Year after Fukushima: Defining and Classifying a Disaster By Lucas W. Hickson
This coming week will mark the first anniversary of Fukushima’s multiple meltdown nuclear disaster. There is little data on how badly contaminated the now-abandoned area of forced evacuation is in the 20-kilometer (12-mile) zone around the Fukushima plant. The mainstream media has already begun trotting out assorted “experts” to assure anyone who might be still… Continue reading
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Video: Monsanto / GM: The Hidden Email the White House Hopes to Keep Under Wraps By Dr. Mercola
The White House has refused to release certain portions of a January 11 email sent from a Monsanto-linked lobbyist to top Obama administration policy analyst Peter Schmeissner. The email was requested by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Based on other emails they have already obtained,… Continue reading
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Fukushima, the Criminal Complicity of Governments & What May Be in Store for US Reactors
Video: Fukushima gave the world a crash course in cascading nuclear failure. What many do not know is that the damaged reactors were designed by General Electric, rely on 40-year-old containment technology, and are substantially similar to 32 reactors currently operating around the world, including 23 in the United States. Continue reading
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Video: Nuclear Expert: “Unit 4 is looking more and more like the leaning tower of Pisa right now”
Thom Hartmann talks with Paul Gunter, Director, [Beyond Nuclear’s] Reactor Oversight Project, regarding the latest on the Fukushima nuclear power plant. […] Continue reading
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Video: Blue Gold World Water Wars (2008)
This award winning documentary directed by Sam Bozzo is based on the book BLUE GOLD: THE FIGHT TO STOP THE CORPORATE THEFT OF THE WORLD’S WATER by Maude Barlow and Tony Clark. The film examines the problems created by the privatization and commoditization of water. Contains 30 minutes of bonus material, including deleted scenes and… Continue reading
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Occupy Denialism: Toward Ecological and Social Revolution By John Bellamy Foster
5 November 2011 — MRZine This is a reconstruction from notes of a keynote address delivered to the Powershift West Conference, Eugene, Oregon, November 5, 2011. Continue reading
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In Kenya, flowers for Europe reap hunger and destruction By Tony Iltis
As the global population approaches 7 Billion, we’re seeing an increasing number of articles declaring that overpopulation is responsible for all of the world’s ills. Africa in particular is regularly singled out as a continent where population growth causes poverty and famine. As this article shows, population growth is a minor issue, compared to the… Continue reading
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Da Nang International Airport – Agent Orange and the Removal of Dioxin
Between 1962 and 1971, the United States military sprayed 20,000,000 US gallons (80,000,000 L) of chemical herbicides and defoliants in Vietnam, eastern Laos and parts of Cambodia, as part of Operation Ranch Hand. Continue reading
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Dahr Jamail: Environmental Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico – The Escalation of BP's Liability
During a recent discussion in his office, Blanchard told Al Jazeera that the fishing waters off Louisiana are only producing one per cent of the shrimp they formerly produced. ‘Half of the local fishermen have shut down,’ he stated. ‘They are dying. And [as] for the fishing, every day they are hauling dead porpoises in… Continue reading
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Ultra-high radiation levels reported at Japan’s Fukushima plant
The radiation levels — 10,000 millisieverts per hour — are high enough that a single 60-minute dose would be fatal to humans within weeks, MSNBC reported. Tepco said Tuesday it found another spot on the ventilation stack itself where radiation exceeded 10 sieverts per hour, a level that could lead to death after just several… Continue reading
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Video Trailer: Just Do It — A tale of modern-day outlaws
Emily James spent over a year embedded in activist groups such as Climate Camp and Plane Stupid to document their clandestine activities. With unprecedented access, Just do It takes you on an astonishing journey behind the scenes of a community of people who refuse to sit back and allow the destruction of their world. Continue reading
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Fukushima: Growing resistance challenges pro-nuclear policies By Pierre Rousset
Every day brings new revelations on the gravity of the nuclear accident at Fukushima Daichi and on the mendacious policies which covered the activity of the nucleocrat lobby, on the breadth of the risks imposed on the population by the choice of the atom, on the denial of democracy. Continue reading
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Fukushima Cover Up Unravels By Washington’s Blog
As I’ve repeatedly noted, the Japanese government, other governments and nuclear companies have covered up the extent of the Fukushima crisis. Continue reading
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Getting Used to Life Without Food: Wall Street, BP, Bio-ethanol and the Death of Millions By F. William Engdahl
Our planet has everything we need to produce nutritious natural food to feed the entire world population many times over. This is the case, despite the ravages of industrialized agriculture over the past half century or more. Then, how can it be that our world faces, according to some predictions, the prospect of a decade… Continue reading
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Nebraska Nuclear Threat: As Predictable as Fukushima By Washington’s Blog
Nuclear accidents – like oil spills and financial meltdowns – happen because big companies push to make more money by cutting every safety measure in the books. The accident at Fukushima was predictable. Continue reading
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Fukushima city: officially safe thanks to new ‘creative’ safety standards — RT
‘What the government did was change the radioactivity control level, the standard levels from 1 millisieverts per year to 20 millisieverts per year. That is, 20 times looser [than] the standards before the accident and now they raised the standards so they can say it was as safe as before, but actually the standards have… Continue reading
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