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Radiation and Nuclear Powers Stations Japan is dangerously contaminated by radioactivity By Washington’s Blog
“With Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, and now with Fukushima, you can pinpoint the exact day and time they started,” he said, “But they never end.” Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks for 15 June 2011: Wikileaks Haiti cables show US deployed troops after the earthquake before Haiti granted permission
15 June 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks Asks For Anonymous Bitcoin Donations Forbes (blog) By ANDY GREENBERG WikiLeaks was built on the idea of anonymous, untraceable transfers of digital information. Now it wants to fill its coffers with equally untraceable injections of digital cash. On Tuesday the secret-spilling group announced via … http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/06/14/wikileaks-asks-for-anonymous-bitcoin-donations/ Continue reading
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As Rigging Came to Light: US, EU Backed Haitian Election, Deeming “Too Much Invested” to Pull Out By Dan Coughlin and Kim Ives
The United States and other international donors decided to support Haiti’s recent presidential and parliamentary elections despite believing that the country’s Provisional Electoral Council (CEP), “almost certainly in conjunction with President Préval,” had unwisely and unjustly excluded the country’s largest party, the Lavalas Family, according to a secret U.S. Embassy cable dated Dec. 4, 2009… Continue reading
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U.S. Agency Sabotages Haiti Earthquake Aid By Glen Ford
It was the unkindest cut of all. A U.S. Agency for International Development report claims Haiti, the United Nations and the Red Cross all conspired to exaggerate the death and displacement toll from last year’s earthquake. In doing so, it ‘calls into question both Haiti’s financial needs and the trustworthiness of its government.’ There are… Continue reading
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Are Nuclear Reactions Still Occurring at Fukushima? By Washington’s Blog
You also know that at least some of the subsequent explosions could have been caused by small-scale nuclear reactions called “prompt moderated criticalities”. But you might not know that nuclear reactions may still be ongoing. Continue reading
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Fukushima. The Risk for Workers: “Levels of Radiation Could Increase Exponentially” By Lucas Whitefield Hixson
The situation inside of Reactor 2 is much like that on the roof of Chernobyl. The heat, humidity, and radiation make a workers stay time a matter of minutes once inside of the reactor, even with full protective gear on. There is much work that needs to be accomplished inside of the reactor, but radiation… Continue reading
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Torture Firm Risks Incorporated Tied To Destructive Evictions in Haiti By Ansel Herz
Security forces who are tearing down makeshift tent camps inhabited by Haitians displaced in last year’s earthquake were trained by Risks Incorporated, a US private security firm involved in torture trainings in Mexico, a Narco News investigation has found. Three camps in Delmas, a district in central Port-au-Prince, have been destroyed in the past week,… Continue reading
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Take Action to Stop Violent Force Evictions in Haiti
Members of the Haitian National Police accompanied by agents of Mayor Wilson Jeudy of Delmas have been destroying camps in the Delmas neighborhood of Haiti’s capital. On Monday, May 23rd, they arrived after many people had left the camp to look for work and immediately began to destroy tents with batons. Continue reading
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Rape in Haiti: The Aftershocks Continue By Michelle Chen
This month, Port-au-Prince hailed Michel Martelly as he took office as president, trumpeting new hope for his disaster-stricken country. Elsewhere in the Haitian capital, hope was stifled in the smothered screams of women and girls. Continue reading
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Meltdown fears in Japan — RT
With a fourth explosion rocking the Fukushima nuclear plant on Tuesday, danger of the spent nuke fuel pool boiling and radiation levels at the facility’s gate increasing hundredfold, fears of a meltdown in Japan skyrocket. Continue reading
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BBC News – Massive explosion at Japan nuclear power plant
A massive explosion has struck a Japanese nuclear power plant after Friday’s devastating earthquake. A huge pall of smoke was seen coming from the plant at Fukushima and several workers were injured. Japanese officials fear a meltdown at one of the plant’s reactors after radioactive material was detected outside it. Continue reading
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BBC News – Massive explosion at Japan nuclear power plant
A massive explosion has struck a Japanese nuclear power plant after Friday’s devastating earthquake. A huge pall of smoke was seen coming from the plant at Fukushima and several workers were injured. Japanese officials fear a meltdown at one of the plant’s reactors after radioactive material was detected outside it. Continue reading
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Haiti aftermath: Self-government still a great fear By Mark Weisbrot
Foreign powers are trying to rob Haitians once again of their democratic rights. More than 200 years after Haiti liberated itself from slavery and from France, the rich countries still seem to have a great fear of Haitians governing themselves. Continue reading
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Cracking the Donor Discourse on Haiti By Kanya D'Almeida
Natural disasters anywhere have already proved to be enormously lucrative for superpowers with the capacity to step in and “rebuilt, recreate and reconstruct”. In Haiti, critics say “disaster capitalism” has taken on a whole new meaning. Continue reading
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Cuban medics in Haiti put the world to shame By Nina Lakhani
They are the real heroes of the Haitian earthquake disaster, the human catastrophe on America’s doorstep which Barack Obama pledged a monumental US humanitarian mission to alleviate. Except these heroes are from America’s arch-enemy Cuba, whose doctors and nurses have put US efforts to shame. Continue reading
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Haiti: The catastrophe continues By G. Dunkel
The situation for the homeless in Port-au-Prince is so grim that a 10-minute rain storm with high winds on Sept. 24 left at least five people dead, hundreds injured and thousands of shelters tents, tarps and sheets destroyed. As of Sept. 26 the government had not reported the toll for towns outside of the capital. Continue reading
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The Betrayal of Haiti By Ashley Smith
Six months after Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake, the promises of the world’s most powerful governments to provide billions in aid to one of the world’s poorest and weakest governments have been betrayed. Continue reading
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Interview: Hervé Junior Bijou – Haiti's needs are still desperate
Hervé Junior Bijou returned to Haiti on April 21 for the first time since the earthquake struck in January. He is from the town of Jérémie, where he graduated from law school in 2006. While studying, he co-founded an organization to provide legal assistance to detainees who could not afford an attorney—Haiti has no public… Continue reading
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Broadcasting Women's Voices in Haiti's Reconstruction By Beverly Bell
Haitian women have been increasingly vocal and active in social, political and economic issues since the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship in 1986. Though it has not come easily, their progress in changing gender relations of power within the home, within social movements and within the nation has been steady. Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 30 April, 2010: Food Aid Hurts Haiti's Farmers
30 April 2010 US Jewish communities building ties to Haiti Cleveland Jewish News By Larry Luxner PETIT-GOAVE, Haiti (JTA) — Not a single Jew lives among the 170000 inhabitants of Petit-Goâve, nor among the 20000 refugees from … www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2010/04/30/news/nation_and_world/doc4bda01c02f17d202332392.txt Continue reading
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