Fukushima worse than one can imagine

Just when one thought the news couldn't get any worse, apparently the radioactivity strength of the latest Fukushima leaks is 18 times than previously reported. That's what we are told now, but who knows what the real situation is. Meanwhile, India's work on the new nuclear reactor in Tamil Nadu, continues without any lessons learned.

Fukushima leak crises gets worse

Nuclear fallout from Fukushima gets worse

The situation involving the new Fukushima radiation leak is worse than earlier estimates last week:

Fukushima nuclear leak

Fracking Documentary "The Sky is Pink" by Josh Fox

The euphoria over fracking as a solution for the insatiable thirst for energy has been orchestrated and marketed by an army of propagandists. "Science" of course has been deployed as an alibi by the supporters and beneficiaries of fracking. Not unexpectedly, historian Niall Ferguson has jumped on the fracking bandwagon. His earlier prediction was the emergence of a democratic and peaceful Iraq. Prior to that, he was writing articles and books praising the wonders of colonialism and empire.

A brief documentary on fracking "The Sky is Pink"

The Sky is Pink

An Epidemic of Rapes in India

An epidemic of rapes in India. Bearing the violent brunt of it all are girls, some as young as five. The sheer scale of sadistic violence is unbelievable. From the media coverage it would appear that this is something new, but what is probably new is the increased reporting of it, particularly because of social protests that have erupted in many parts of India. In some cases, the police has reacted violently against the protesters - in Delhi a high ranking officer actually slapped a woman protester so hard that she bled from her ears. In Delhi too, another police officer offered about 40 dollars to the parents of a five year old who was violently raped, to hush up the case. As is usually the case elsewhere, most victims of rapes are not strangers to their tormentors. The increased media coverage gives the impression that it is usually the members of the down and out classes that are involved in such horrendous sex crimes. However, there is no shortage of evidence that many of the sexual predators are members of the dominant classes and some of them are the fathers of the rape victims. Most of them also get away scot free because in most cases the banner of "family honour" is invoked without any sense of irony of course. Institutions and agents charged with dispensing social justice actively collude with the covering up of such crimes.