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.  

Fukushima - TEPCO not liable

The private corporation TEPCO will not be prosecuted for the continuing Fukushima nuclear disaster. And, not surprisingly, the Japanese taxpayers will pay for the radioactive mess of a private company

Fukushima and TEPCO

tax payers to pay for the radioactive mess

Nuclear Horror (Continued) in Fukushima

More than two years after the Fukushima meltdown, the nuclear horror shows no signs of abating. Radioactive water is leaking out at a rate of 400 tons a day. Naturally, TEPCO officials argue that the level of radioactivity in the water is within the "legal" limits (whatever that means for real live humans and non-humans) even as they admit to being baffled as to what is going on. Meanwhile, the Japanese government seems committed to spending public funds for containing a disaster brought to us by TEPCO, a private company. It's the same story - public funds used to support and bailout private appropriation and clean-ups. Meanwhile in Tamil Nadu in India, despite the massive protests, national and global, the nuclear reactor has reached "critical stage" and is all set to begin generating the chimerical "pollution free" energy.

An editorial in Japan's leading national daily, the Asahi Shimbun:

"For decades, nuclear weapons and nuclear power generation have generally been treated as separate issues. But is this the right approach?

Japan is the only nation to have experienced nuclear devastation with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 68 years ago. It has also suffered a nuclear disaster that caused tremendous damage in Fukushima Prefecture.

We can no longer afford to put off confronting the unimaginably frightful risk posed by nuclear power."

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