U.S. bombs Japanese civilians: Hiroshima

Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan (DemocracyNow.org, Aug 6, 2014); CC Liu and Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; Follow the White Rabbit (A Million Windows, Feb. 3, 2011)

American “Enola Gay” dropping the bomb on innocent Japanese civilians at home far from the war zone for the profit of the U.S. military-industrial complex (gtrebekah.edublogs.org)

Nagasaki civilians were bombed by the USA first major war crime, a crime against humanity so enormous that no American thinks much about it except to offer limp excuses that cannot hold up (Nagasaki Museum/US Army handout (latimes.com)

.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 69 Years Later

Japan (sunrisejetphotogallery)

“I hate war,” Koji Hosokawa told me as we stood next to the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Japan.

 

The skeletal remains of the four-story building stand at the edge of Japan's Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. The world watches in horror this summer as military conflicts rage.

• [These "conflicts" are fomented by the U.S. military-industrial complex.]

The U.S. military-industrial complex loves to bomb Buddhists (amillionwindows)

.

They're leaving destruction in their wake from Afghanistan, to Libya, to Gaza, to Syria, to Iraq, and Ukraine...

Protesting and demanding change in Ukraine

[Ukraine is where U.S. Senator, failed presidential candidate, released POW, torture survivor, Arizona Republican John McCain is both eliminating the civil rights of Americans with indefinite detention bills (written with a shameful Joe Lieberman). There he has been stirring up Cold War-era tensions with Russia by offering Ukraine covert U.S. military intervention and promises of overt sanctions].

• VIDEO: McCain calls U.S. "cowardly" for not arming Ukraine
• U.S. stealthily devastates Japan yet again: Fukushima under HAARP
• Atomic Cover-Up: The Hidden Story Behind the U.S. Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• "From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Japan’s Atomic Tragedies" (Amy Goodman)

Never far from the dead and injured, nuclear-armed missiles stand by ready to rain down ultimate devastation, waiting for the horrible moment when hubris [our overarching American pride and exceptionalism], accident, or inhumanity triggers the next nuclear attack.

 

“I hate war,” Hosokawa reiterated. “War makes everyone crazy.”

Nagasaki Festival

 

(FTWR) Imagine 20 bulky, drunk Japanese men carrying a two ton golden shrine, hauling [it] up several flights of stairs.

We are experiencing the Kunchi matsuri Festival in Nagasaki City, Japan (where they affectionately call it O-kunchi).

Kunchi started as a festival to celebrate the harvest season, then came to be an occasion to oust hidden Christians, and nowadays it’s primarily just a holiday.

 

500,000 displaced, 10,000 injured by Israel

The city districts make their own floats; one float was a beautiful ship with kids playing drums, and one of them was also trying to catch as many painted wooden fish from the ground as possible. We also find traditional Dragon Dance and, of course, the use and abuse of sake [a distilled rice alcoholic spirit that leads us to wonder if the name Naga-saki isn't a reference to "dragon-brew," naga-alcohol]... More 

• From atomic bombings to Fukushima, Japan pursues a [money making] nuclear future despite a devastating past
• Hiroshima organizes scientific teams and medical treatment centers to receive victims of radiation poisoning
• U.S. Jewish leader Henry Siegman to Israel: Stop Killing Palestinians and End the Occupation
• Gaza ceasefire: After 1,800+ Dead, What Led Israel to Stop the Assault — and What Comes Next?
• VIDEO: Norman Finkelstein and 25 others arrested at Israeli U.N. Mission protesting Gaza assault
• Henry Siegman, leading voice of U.S. Jewry, on Gaza: "a slaughter of innocents"

"Evacuate your cities." U.S. threat letter to Japan, circa 1945

Who is "Siri," Goddess of the iPhone?

Amber and Bela Larson, Wisdom Quarterly; Jennifer Van Grove (mashable.com)

Sri Sri Lakshmi devi, the Indian mythological source of "Siri" (amijha)

Siri was not blond like Marvel's Goddess Thor until Scarlett Johannson made her so in "She."

.

"Who are you?" I ask Siri, attempting to unravel some of the mystery behind the iPhone 4S virtual assistant by going directly to the source. No such luck. "Who I am isn't important," she tells me.

 

Let's stop being coy, Siri. Who you are is important. We both know that. So important that you may be a threat to Google's Android platform.

 

The world's best app is Audible not Siri.

And so I went to one of Siri's makers, Gary Morgenthaler, venture capitalist, Siri investor, and Siri board member, for a better answer to the question, Who is Siri?

Let's start with her name. Like any doting parent, Morgenthaler and the founding team behind Siri, especially CEO Dag Kittlaus, felt the newborn's existence was of such significance that she warranted a very special moniker. And so they turned to baby name books. 

[The Hindu Goddess Siri]

Is "Siri" (Inc.) based on Lakshmi or Freyja?

The team put together a shortlist of potential names, but Siri stood out.

Siri, a variant of Sigrid, is a Scandinavian and Norwegian girl name that means beautiful or fair victory.

The Indian name Siri is associated with Goddess Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity.

 

Siri, to those who gave her life, became an amalgam of those meanings; they defined her appellation as, "beautiful woman that leads you to fair victory and wealth." [Obviously, they overlooked some of Siri's more colorful meanings.] More

• Ven. Uppalavana Theri: a Historical Lakshmi
• Sri Lakshmi in Buddhism, Goddess of Luck
• Christian God Yahweh had a wife: Asherah

Lakshmi

Koausa.org, edited by Wisdom Quarterly

Meditating Lakshmi, mother of Cupid (Kama)

The  devi  or goddess Lakshmi represents wealth and prosperity, material and spiritual. The word lakshmi (laxmi)  is derived from the Sanskrit laksme, meaning "goal."

Lakshmi, therefore, represents the goal of life, which includes worldly as well as spiritual prosperity. In ancient Vedic and more recent Hindu mythology, the Goddess Lakshmi, who is also called  by the honorific Sri, is the divine spouse or consort of Lord Vishnu, whom she provides with wealth for the maintenance and preservation of Great Brahma's creation (this world-system).

 

Sri Lakshmi is depicted in female form. [In Buddhism devas are transformational beings capable of adopting whatever form they please as Alexander Pope notes of Greco-Roman-European fairies (woodland dryads)]:

For when the Fair in all their Pride expire,

To their first Elements the [Spirits] retire:

The Sprights of fiery Termagants in Flame

Mount up, and take a Salamander's Name.

Siri, who sent this picture?

Soft yielding Minds to Water glide away,

And sip with Nymphs, their Elemental Tea.

The graver Prude sinks downward to a Gnome,
In search of Mischief still on Earth to roam.

The light Coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair,
And sport and flutter in the Fields of Air.

Know farther yet; Whoever fair and chaste

Rejects Mankind, is by some Sylph embrac'd: 

For Spirits, freed from mortal Laws, with ease

Assume what Sexes and what Shapes they please.
 

...When kind Occasion prompts their warm Desires,
When Musick softens, and when Dancing fires?
 

'Tis but their Sylph, the wise Celestials know,
Tho' Honour is the Word with Men below....

Lakshmi is shown with four arms and four hands. She wears red clothes with a golden lining and is standing on a lotus. She has golden coins and lotuses in her hands. Two elephants (sometimes four) are shown next to her, symbolism conveying the following spiritual themes:

• Her four arms represent the four cardinal directions in space and symbolize omnipresence and omnipotence of the goddess. The red color symbolizes activity. The golden lining (embroidery) on her red dress suggests prosperity. The idea conveyed here is that she is always busy distributing wealth and prosperity to devotees. The lotus pedestal signifies that while living in the world, one should enjoy its wealth but not become obsessed with it. Such a living is analogous to a lotus that grows in dirty water but is not wet or defiled by it.

• 

  Radha, divine consort (WQ)

  Her four hands represent the four ends of human life: dharma (duty, social obligation, righteousness), kama ([Buddhist chanda] genuine desires beyond the sensual), artha (wealth), and moksha (liberation from death and rebirth). Whereas the front hands represent activity in the physical world, the back ones indicate the spiritual activities that lead to spiritual perfection.
• Since the right side of the body symbolizes activity, a lotus in the back right hand conveys the idea that one must perform his or her duties in the world in accordance with dharma [a Vedic idea distorted by the Indian caste system]. Fulfilling one's real duties as a human being on a spiritual quest leads to moksha (liberation), which is symbolized by a lotus in Lakshmi's back left hand. Golden coins falling on the ground from her front left hand illustrate that she provides wealth and prosperity to her devotees. Her front right hand is shown bestowing blessings... More

Cowboy-Indian Alliance: No tar sands! (video)

Ashley Wells, Xochil, Wisdom Quarterly; Amy Goodman (DemocracyNow.org, April 28, '14)

Cowboy-Indian Alliance protests Keystone XL pipeline in DC after Obama Admin delay

 

Thousands of people rallied in Washington, D.C., on Saturday calling on Pres. Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline. 

The protest was organized by the Cowboy Indian Alliance, a group of ranchers, farmers, and tribal communities from along the pipeline route who have set up the "Reject and Protect" encampment near the White House. The rally came a week after the Obama administration announced it had again delayed a decision on approval or rejection of the pipeline that would carry super-polluting tar sands oil from Alberta to the Gulf Coast. 

Neil Young protests Keystone XL pipeline

Gary Dorr of the Nez Perce Nation, an organizer of the Reject and Protect encampment, Art Tanderup, a Nebraska farmer and Cowboy Indian Alliance member who took part in the protest, and actress and activist Daryl Hannah, who has been arrested three times for protests against the Keystone XL discuss the continued resistance to the pipeline. More



Ralph Nader on TPP, GM Recall, Nuclear Power, and "Unstoppable" movement

Ralph Nader on "Unstoppable" movement

Ralph Nader has a new book, Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State. He points out the common concerns shared by a wide swath of the American public, regardless of political allegiances.

Japan, U.S. expand nuclear power programs

Both the Left and Right oppose mass government surveillance, nebulous business free trade agreements, our unreformed criminal justice system, and finally punishing the criminal behavior of bankers and Wall Street traders destroying the economy. Nader, who is a longtime consumer activist, also discusses the U.S. push for the sweeping Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact, General Motors’ new bid to escape liability for its deadly ignition defect, the revived nuclear era under Obama, and challenging U.S. militarism through the defense budget. More

• Tornadoes kill 17, level homes in Arkansas and Oklahoma 
• US grows military presence in Philippines with 10-yr pact 
• Anti-TPP activists protest Obama speech in Malaysia 
• Egypt Court issues mass Death Sentence for Brotherhood
• Afghan Panel: new secret prisons found on NATO bases 
• U.S. expands Russia sanctions; separatists seize European monitors in Ukraine 
• Nigerian schoolgirls remain missing after abduction by [CIA-created] Boko Haram

• White House issues new guidelines on sexual assault
• Senate drops mandate for public disclosure of drone deaths
• Iraq: Attacks kill 57 ahead of parliamentary election
• Central African Republic: MSF suspends medical aid in town after attack
• Death toll from tornadoes in U.S. rises to 28
• Entire state of California in drought; governor notes Climate Change link
• Assad seeks re-election in Syria; 14 killed in Damascus
• Pro-Democracy "April 6 Movement" banned in Egypt
• Obama defends foreign policy during Philippines visit
• EU, US announce new sanctions on Russia
• US Sec'y of State John Kerry apologizes for Israeli "Apartheid" remarks [He neglected to check with his donors, handlers, and lobbyists before accidentally telling the truth. Sorry.]
• Ethiopia: bloggers, journalists arrested before Kerry’s arrival
• Reid condemns GOP "Sugar Daddies" for stalled legislation

Fukushima disaster: 3rd Anniversary (video)

Editors, Wisdom Quarterly; John Lear, host David Ruben (C2C); DemocracyNow.org

Fukushima disaster, Japan, March 11, 2011. 50 million people were almost evacuated, but it was easier to lie about the danger of three failed reactors instead (caravantomidnight.com)

 

Fukushima memorial (Dandemura/flickr)

According to retired airline captain John Lear -- (whose father invented the Lear Jet), a former CIA-pilot and current whistleblower, who appeared on Coast to Coast on March 1, 2014 -- the tsunami and subsequent Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster (Daini) was done on purpose.

 

Fukushima disaster, TEPCO (rt.com)

Japan had hired Israel to run this and other plants for it. But when Israel discovered that Japan was selling refined nuclear byproducts (weapons grade fissionable material, presumably), to punish Japan, Israel detonated a nuclear blast strategically to cause a massive tsunami, which led to the destruction of the plant and a massive nuclear fallout not only for the island but for the ocean and entire planet.

Kukushima in 2012 (uprisingradio.org)

(More and more one can see what drunken, racist, spouse-abusing Hollywood insider Mel Gibson was talking about when he yelled in a very candid and drunken rant about the state of Israel, a boon for the CIA in the Middle East, and its role in many of the world's conflicts).

"The tsunami that hit the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was caused by an atomic bomb set off by Israelis," Lear stated. Lear implicated Israel's Mossad (spy ring) in the John F. Kennedy assassination and attributed Hurricane Katrrina's destruction of New Orleans to HAARP guided by the U.S. military-industrial complex.

• John Lear: therealjohnlear.com, thelivingmoon.com, immaculatedeception.com

Former-Japanese PM talks about  how Fukushima meltdown was worse than Chernobyl

 

Former PM now opposes nuclear power

(DemocracyNow.org) Three years ago today (March 11) a massive earthquake triggered [by a nuclear detonation by Israel triggered] a devastating tsunami that struck Japan’s northeast coast. It resulted in an unprecedented nuclear crisis: a triple meltdown at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power station. 

As Japan marks the anniversary with continued uncertainty around Fukushima’s long-term impact, Democracy Now was joined by Naota Kan, Japan’s Prime Minister at the time (2011). It’s rare that a sitting world leader changes his position completely, but that’s what Kan has done. 

 

What does radiation do to human body?

He explains how he came to oppose nuclear power while still in office, as he weighed Tokyo’s evacuation: "It’s impossible to totally prevent any kind of accident or disaster happening at the nuclear power plants," Kan says. "And so, the one way to prevent this from happening, to prevent the risk of having to evacuate such huge amounts of people, 50 million people, and for the purpose, for the benefit of the lives of our people, and even the economy of Japan, I came to change [my] position, that the only way to do this was to totally get rid of the nuclear power plants."

Chomsky: from Hiroshima to Fukushima, Vietnam to Fallujah, state power harms all

• "The Lopper" (Seinfeld) arrested in Los Angeles: LAPD arrest man in severed head case (AP) Los Angeles police say they've solved the case of a severed human head found two years ago near the Hollywood sign.
• Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine
• VIDEO: Giant snake attacks and eats crocodile in Australia
• 4 California universities: top schools in world rankings
• The Sochi Paralympics could be the political showdown
• How to Punish Russian Dictator Vladimir Putin

• Malaysia Airlines: What we know about the missing plane With no confirmation that the Boeing 777 had crashed, hundreds of distraught relatives still waited anxiously Monday for any news. 
• Affirmative action amendment has some Asian-Americans furious (Josie Huang with Leslie Berestein-Rojas) In the last month, a proposal to reinstate affirmative action at California’s public universities has inflamed some Asian-American groups unlike any recent issue. 
• See how SoCal recycles its raw sewage What may sound like the ugliest place in SoCal is actually very beautiful: Orange County's Groundwater Replenishment system, where toilet waste is turned into tap water.
• VIDEO: Malaysian jet 370, with 239 on board, missing en route to Beijing

1. Light Graffiti Made With The Wave Of A Magic Wand
2. Elizabeth Kolbert On The Vanishing Of Species
3. Modular Phones Are A Brilliant Idea. It’s Too Bad We May Never Have Them.
4. Keurig Wants To Lock Down Its Pods With Coffee DRM
5. Solar-Powered Drone Designed To Fly For 5 Years Nonstop
6. Pacemaker Membrane Can Keep Heart Beating Perfectly
7. Apple CarPlay Puts iOS In Your Dashboard
8. Native American Tribe Adopts Its Own Bitcoin Clone
9. Ask Anything: Why Is The Milky Way A Spiral?
10. A Cheap, Promising Way to Filter Water: Through A Twig
    

How to CLEAN up radioactivity naturally

Dev, Dhr. Seven, Kalyani, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; Paul Stamets (fungi.com)

Wild mushroom, Amanita muscaria, toadstool among fall leaves (Lila Daley)

We may make new problems, but Nature already has the solutions (brownsgas.com)

 

Is there anything HEMP can't do?

Fukushima? There are natural ways of dealing with radioactive contamination. Here we present three.

 

One is known but has always been ignored as it does not serve the petrochemical industry, the oily arm of the military-industrial complex (MIC). It is the use of Brown's gas (Co2 + H2O), which untested is dismissed as unreal, a product of water electrolysis.

The hydrogen gas produced by the H20 split burns cleanly, welds, cuts, and when used on radioactive contamination decontaminates it. How is a mystery, one not explored by a culture totally dependent on oil, gasoline, and toxic fuels and chemicals.

Mycological Society of SF (thekitchn.com)

The other two are more amazing because they occur naturally -- mushrooms (fungi, particularly the psychoactive varieties) and hemp (industrial, non-psychoactive cannabis). Paul Stamets (fungi.com) has already demonstrated the ability of mushrooms to rehabilitate soil contaminated by oil spills. How miraculous are the nature devas to be able to deal with nuclear contamination?

• Fukushima exploded; state says never mind
• Fukushima: crowdsourcing Geiger readings
• VIDEO: Fukushima across the Pacific

How Mushrooms Can Save the World

Fungi Perfecti Catalog (fungi.com)

(DiscoverMagazine.com, 05-31-13) Crusading mycologist Paul Stamets says fungi can clean up everything... global problems like radioactive waste, global warming, oil spills, and cancer. ...expert collaborating with Stamets to decontaminate the zone around...

(RevolutionLoveEvolve) Underground Solutions: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

An inspiring and fascinating lecture about various ways mushrooms can help heal humanity and the Earth, Stamets expands on themes outlined in his TED Talk "Six Ways Mushrooms Can Save the World" (Bioneers 2011). He has been a mycologist, one who studies mushrooms, for over 30 years. He has discovered new species and pioneered countless techniques in the field of edible- and medicinal-mushroom cultivation. In 2010 he received the President's Award from the Society for Ecological Restoration. He has written six books on mushroom cultivation, use, and identification; his books Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms and The Mushroom Cultivator (coauthor) have been hailed as definitive texts. His newest book is Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save The World.

 

How mushrooms can clean up radioactive contamination 

(Permaculture.co.uk, 04-16-11) ...Burning the mushroom will result in radioactive ash.... it's a fascinating proposition and potentially very valuable for radiation decontamination.

Can hemp, marijuana, and mushrooms fix Fukushima?

(CannabisCulture.com, 10-16-13) CANNABIS CULTURE - Certain mushrooms, cannabinoids.... According to one website, "food radiation should not exceed 500 Becquerel/Kg."...Not only are decontamination efforts ineffective, but TEPCO...

 

What is hemp? (hemp.com)

Hemp is a weedy crop, not a drug to smoke.

Hemp is a variety of cannabis grown for fiber and seed. Hemp is incredibly valuable, often called a “cash crop.” Hemp is a very hearty plant and grows very quickly in very diverse soil conditions. Cultivation of hemp for industrial purposes in many civilizations has gone on for over 12,000 years. 

Mushrooms far from Fukushima show high levels of cesium

(ajw.asahi.com, 11-21-12) ...Another problem is that decontamination work in mountainous areas is extremely difficult.... "I also don't want to explain why we can't provide the mushrooms because that could lead to negative publicity that radiation is also a...

A Tale of Two Forests: Addressing Postnuclear Radiation...

(ehp.niehs.nih.gov) They also continue to eat mushrooms, berries, and other local forest foods despite... Radioactive cesium can in some cases be washed or wiped off smooth... The committee concluded there is little need to decontaminate entire forests.

Fukushima radiation threatens to wreak woodland havoc

(JapanTimes.co.jp, 02-17-13) ...However, radiation levels are lower there than they are in some parts of Tokyo; ...Additionally, mushrooms can absorb contaminants from the air or rain if they're... Could the mushrooms be used to decontaminate soils? 

Radiation continues 18 years after Chernobyl

(OrionMagazine.org) Eighteen years after the Chernobyl disaster, radiation continues its deadly work. ...Revisiting the accident "that could never happen here" ...“Yesterday, all afternoon, he picked the mushrooms from the woods..... declaring, “it proved unreal [sic] to fully decontaminate settlements... 

Japan's costly nuclear radiation cleanup may not work

(Nuclear-News.net, 08-16-13) ...The mushrooms that used to provide a livelihood for foragers are... First, there is a risk that radioactive isotopes can return to decontaminated...

The Truth About Hemp (thetruthabouthemp.org)

Hemp is a variation of Cannabis sativa. It is the most useful plant known to humankind. In fact, its name means useful (sativa) hemp (cannabis). Hemp is not "marijuana"; it is not an intoxicating plant like its cousin. Hemp is used to make over 25,000 consumer products from hemp apparel and accessories...

Fukushima exploded; State says never mind

Pfc. Sandoval, Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; Dr. Len Horowitz, SherriKane.com; ClimateViewer.com; C2C; Chase Madar (pasadenaweekly.com)

"Radiation Raining Death" in the US (Hagmann & Hagmann Report)

 

California's last big disaster

Dr. Len Horowitz and Jim Lee discuss the public relations side of the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear meltdown in long form radio interview (or see longer video). Judging by the plume at the time of the earthquake, tsunami, and meltdown disaster, there was an nuclear explosion. What are the implications of the massive contamination of Japan with radioactive caesium? What about ten years of Fukushima radiation crossing the Pacific Ocean? What are the 10 Most Radioactive Places on Earth? The best way to find out about nuclear reactor leaks around the world is by live radiation monitoring.

Fukushima update: January 2014

Nuclear energy experts Scott Portzline, Arnie Gundersen, and Kevin Kamps (C2C, 1-6-14)

Hiroshima and Nagasaki are Japanese cities. US war crimes extended to dropping nuclear bombs over noncombatant civilian populations for the first time in history (kootation.com).

  

Three experts discussed the status of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, the cover-ups of scientific data, and general issues about nuclear waste and power. 

 

How much fallout is too much? (CR)

Last week there was a spate of reports about Fukushima's Unit 3 having new radiation plumes. The reports of steam emissions and people living on the West Coast of the US needing prepare for evacuation were false, according to Scott Portzline. It was a hoax, but the climate of uncertainty is very real. It has been created by the lack of truth from TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company), the US government, and the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), he explained. "In my opinion, Fukushima is a Level 8 on the international nuclear event scale; the levels normally only go up to 7," Portzline emphasized. He continued: There are multiple sources of radiation, and the situation requires international assistance and monitoring.

• AUDIO: Fukushima 2014 (Coast to Coast)

"Yes we scan!" Obama to help NSA (dw.de)

Arnie Gundersen concurs. Fukushima is a dire situation -- in contrast to Chernobyl (USSR) and Three Mile Island (USA). The "spigot" isn't turned off yet, and radiation continues to leak into the Pacific Ocean. Fish are picking up extraordinarily high levels of radioactive materials. Gundersen claims he will not eat any fish that comes from the West Coast. In Japan, "the epidemiological data that will develop over the next 30 years [will show that] somewhere between 100,000 and 1 million new cancers will develop as a result of this." But the nuclear industry can hide behind the fact that a high percentage of people get cancer anyway, he points out. Stressing the importance of stopping the groundwater contamination with radioactive waste, Gunderson suggests building a trench of zeolite to absorb the radiation surrounding the plant.

Kami in Shinto (mondojapan.net)

Kevin Kamps points out that 72,000 gallons of contaminated water a day is flowing into the ocean. That radioactivity adds up over nearly three years since the accident. Making matters worse, Kamps explains, Unit 4 may be on the brink of collapse. Some countries, such as Germany, are wisely phasing out dangerous  and expensive nuclear power entirely after the lessons of Fukushima and Chernobyl, Kamps explains. As an alternative, wind power is being tapped as having a great deal potential. And the first offshore floating wind turbines were just installed in the Gulf of Maine, which could provide as much electricity as five atomic reactors, Kamps asserts.

Zen Buddhism will live on. But this may be the end of Japan as a country. Inhabitants will die off or emigrate off the island nation and leave it to the kami (the pre-Buddhist shapeshifting mountain monsters of Shinto Japanese lore).

 

• Is U.S. Gov't stockpiling iodine after Fukushima? (Dr. Coldwell)
  
• Jeff Rense, Michael Collins: Fukushima radiation in the USA
• President Obama: NSA? "Yes we [s]can!"
• The Battle of Fukushima: On Fukushima Beach
• (RT) Fukushima nuclear waste still leaking into Pacific Ocean
• Japan's triple meltdown: Tour of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Oct. 2013

 
Living in a Police State
Part 4: Chase Madar (pasadenaweekly.com), edited Wisdom Quarterly

David Brooks smoked illegal cannabis (Tom Tomorrow/thismodernworld.com)

Snowden: fake controlled-disclosure for NSA?

There is digital over-policing. For a time the Internet was new territory, free of overly aggressive law enforcement. Not anymore. The late Aaron Swartz, a young Internet genius and activist affiliated with Harvard University, was caught downloading publicly subsidized scholarly articles from an open network on the nearby campus of MIT. Swartz was federally prosecuted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for violating a “terms and services agreement.” It was a transgression that anyone who has ever disabled a cookie on a laptop has also committed, technically. Swartz committed suicide earlier in 2013 while facing a possible 50-year sentence and up to $1 million in fines.

 

The NSA has a message for the world.

(Why? That is how the corporations wanted it; it sends a message). Recently, thanks to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, we have learned a great deal about the way our country's NSA “stops and frisks” us. It apparently does the same to other citizens -- stealing copies of all digital communications (encrypted or not), 200 million texts a day, emails, telephone calls, meta-data, every and anything electronic in nature. The security benefits of such indiscriminate policing are zero, despite the government’s pretense that that is why our spies are allowed to violate laws and international agreements. What comes into sharper focus with every volley of new revelations is the emerging digital infrastructure of what can only be called a police state.  More

• AUDIO: NSA uses radio waves to spy on typewriters
• Russian guard reverts to typewriters after NSA leaks 
• Soviet Cold War tapping of US Embassy in Moscow
• VIDEO: Showing how 9/11 was done using science
• CODEPINK to stage protest outside of Pres. Obama’s NSA reform speech [as he pretends and promises to scale back outrageous illegal US spying]

CODE PINK FOR PEACE