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  • Clark

    (Don’t anyone hold their breath waiting for Macky to point out illogic in any of John Goss’s comments)

  • John Goss

    “John, Goss, where have you found a source that’s consistently reliable?”

    It would not be possible Clark. It is why we have to make choices, analyse what they are trying to tell us, read between the lines and work out using other sources what the truth is. But to pay to be indoctrinated is a farce. Thou art twice punished.

  • Clark

    John, I don’t have a TV licence. If I really want any broadcast TV programmes I just wait for them to finish and watch them on-line.

    The government severely punished the BBC for reporting the material leaked by Dr Kelly. It has never recovered. There are a lot of people who are insufficiently critical of BBC news. A huge number of people remain suspicious about Dr Kelly’s death, but they forget what happened to the BBC. It’s worth reminding them about that.

  • Phil

    The new moderation rules sound like great fun. Off topic deletions without explanation will cause heads to explode.

  • Clark

    Phil, mine blew up already. The anti-terrorism police came round, determined I wasn’t Muslim and fucked off again. I’m still waiting for the ambulance. But it doesn’t matter; I never used the thing anyway.

  • lysias

    Prescott Bush’s crimes go back earlier than cooperating with the Nazis during World War II: Wall Street’s Failed 1934 Coup:

    Money was funneled thru the Sen. Prescott Bush-led Union Banking Corporation (yes, those Bushes) and the Prescott Bush-led Brown Brothers Harriman (yes, that Harriman) to the League (and to Hitler, but that’s another story).

  • Macky

    Re Post @7.44pm

    Mods; “ranting about mod actions sends further comment to /dev/null”

  • Phil

    SE1 Exploded head available. Little used. Unexpected availability due to rightist censorship.

  • RobG

    Clark, all I can access at the moment is a ‘polite’ piece by the Guardian published last year:

    “The groundwater, which flows in from hills behind the plant, mixes with contaminated water used to cool melted fuel before ending up in the sea. Officials concede that decommissioning the reactors will be impossible until the water issue has been resolved.

    The bypass system intercepts clean groundwater as it flows downhill toward the sea and reroutes it around the plant. It is expected to reduce the amount of water flowing into the reactor basements by up to 100 tonnes a day – a quarter – and relieve pressure on the storage tanks, which will soon reach their capacity.”

    http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/21/fukushima-groundwater-pacific-nuclear-power-plant

    By the way, although the above piece is accurate with regard to the underground aquafer below Fukushima, this bit is totally inaccurate: “The groundwater, which flows in from hills behind the plant, mixes with contaminated water used to cool melted fuel before ending up in the sea.”

    You really don’t need to be a rocket scientist to understand what happens when something very, very hot (the melted cores of three full-size commercial reactors) meets something much, much cooler, such as groundwater.

    It’s called a thermal explosion.

    Fukushima-watchers, including those who were involved in the Chernobyl clean-up, continue to look on in total puzzlement.

    But there again, Japan has been in total lockdown for more than a year now.

    Who knows what’s going on? The only information the rest of the world gets comes from an incompetent and corrupt corporation, and an equally incompetent and corrupt government.

    I presume you know that they’ve been using the homeless and mentally ill for the Fukushima clean-up? (both the NYT and Guardian, amongst others, have run pieces on this)

  • Phil

    RobG
    “they’ve been using the homeless and mentally ill for the Fukushima clean-up? (both the NYT and Guardian, amongst others, have run pieces on this)”

    Links for that please.

  • John Goss

    Thanks Lysias for the Biden link. We need to keep this in the news. It is what the 6000 deaths have been about in Ukraine, so a US dopehead, can steal the country’s natural resources. It is always an aspect of these regime changes.

  • technicolour

    Who here wants a new cold war? who here wants villains and good guys? who here wants a new hot war? who here recognises that the loci of power will always manipulate?

  • Squonk

    Fukushima – Der Spiegel

    http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/navy-sailors-possibly-exposed-to-fukushima-radiation-fight-for-justice-a-1016482.html

    The Fukushima catastrophe changed the world. Nuclear reactors melted down on live television and twice as much radioactive material was released as during the Chernobyl accident in 1986.

    …In the Defense Department report submitted later to Congress, it says that the ship had never been closer than 100 nautical miles to the coast. But that’s nonsense, Morales says. She trusts her recollections and says that they had actually operated quite close to the coastline.

    Strange how the amount released compared to Chernobyl keeps going up…

  • Resident Dissident

    “As a recall the East Ukranian’s at the Trades Union building in Odessa were, at the beginning of the incident, outside the building, collecting signatures to petition for a referendum on some form of autonomy within a federal Ukraine, a very British way of fooling themselves their voices could count.”

    This account is a complete misinterpretation of what happened as verified by independent parties some of those involved attacked pro unity demonstrators earlier in the day, and some were armed. That doesn’t justify the attacks and arson in response – but the manner in which you seek to twist the truth and have also lied in the past regarding my views on the matter speaks volumes about yourself.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_May_2014_Odessa_clashes

  • technicolour

    see Luke Harding, the only UK journalist to be expelled from Russia since the Cold War knows, like the US, that Putin had Nemtsov murdered. LOL.

    And that says it, in a nutshell. WTF is funny about it?

  • Squonk

    http://enenews.com/magazine-fukushima-catastrophe-changed-world-worst-nuclear-accident-history-like-having-chernobyls-poisoned-entire-landscapes-centuries-study-fukushima-overwhelms-peak-radioactivity-atmospheric-bom

    Spiegel Online International (Der Spiegel, German news magazine), Feb. 5, 2015 (emphasis added):

    [It’s] the worst accident in the history of civilian atomic power… The Fukushima catastrophe changed the world. Nuclear reactors melted down on live television and twice as much radioactive material was released as during the Chernobyl accident in 1986. The disaster… poisoned entire landscapes for centuries and killed hundreds of thousands of farm animals… Fukushima is more than just a place-name, it is an historical event…

    Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Venice, and Nanjing University, Feb 6, 2015: The β radioactivity of snow-pit samples collected in the spring of 2011 on four Tibetan Plateau glaciers demonstrate a remarkable peak in each snow pit profile, with peaks about ten to tens of times higher than background levels. The timing of these peaks suggests that the high radioactivity resulted from the Fukushima nuclear… The released radioactive nuclear substances not only polluted Japan… but also spread to other areas of the Northern Hemisphere via atmospheric circulation and ocean currents, affecting the hemispheric and even global environment. As an overdose of nuclear radiation may seriously threaten human health and wildlife survival, this nuclear accident has caught the attention of the world. The radioactive fallout [was] detected in the atmosphere, soil, surface water, and pastures in the low-altitude regions of North America… Much of the radioactive material was transported by the westerlies, resulting in the fallout over North America… [T]o reach the Tibetan Plateau, material transported by the westerlies has to first circle much of the globe… In May 2011, snow-pit samples were collected on the Gurenhekou Glacier… Dongkemadi Glacier… Muztag Glacier and Yuzhufeng Glacier… In 2005 and 2007, we drilled ice cores… Tanggula ice core [and] Yuzhufeng ice core… Clearly, the peak β radioactivities in the snow pits… are much higher than that in the corresponding local ice cores, and even overwhelm the peak β radioactivities caused by past atmospheric thermonuclear tests in the early 1960s… The peak β radioactivities… are 11.0 and 92.4 times larger than their local average background levels… attributed to the Fukushima radioactive fallout… The Fukushima nuclear accident… created a radioactive horizon that can be used as independent age markers in snow and ice cores in the Northern Hemisphere… providing a direct record of the impacts of human activities on the Earth’s environment…

  • Resident Dissident

    While Mr Goss is having a sick laugh at the expense of an innocent man having been murdered – perhaps he could at least not misquote what the brave Luke Harding actually said

    “We will probably never know who killed Boris Nemtsov. The Kremlin says it’s not to blame. Despite this denial, it’s entirely possible the state ordered Nemtsov’s appalling murder; equally possible that shadowy nationalist forces decided to kill someone routinely derided as an American spy. As many of Nemtsov’s friends have pointed out, Putin deliberately fostered the atmosphere of hysteria and hatred. It is this which allowed Nemtsov to be killed. So the moral responsibility rests with him, they say.”

    Unless you are exceedingly stupid could this being interpreted as saying that Luke Harding knew who killed Nemtsov. What we do know is that investigation headed by Putin very quickly ruled out any involvement by Putin or the Russian state or an attack by someone motivated by the hatred whipped up by the State (anyone for “13 friends of the Junta” on the state controlled NTV” Mr Goss is of course only prepared to examine the more bizarre theories that fit with his narrow political ideology.

    I did note the comment today by Ben Judah, a writer of a recent book on Russia who has spent much time with the Russian opposition, that given that Nemtsov was subject to constant surveillance by the KGB, that the KGB must have either carried out the attack themselves ot not intervened while someone else carried out the attack. Anyone who wants further evidence of the KGB’s current surveillance techniques should read Luke Harding’s or Masha Gessen’s excellent recent books on Modern Russia.

  • Resident Dissident

    A dark Ukrainian joke “If our security services are so good we can kill someone in front of the Kremlin, what makes you think we’d aim small”

  • RobG

    @ Squonk
    2 Mar, 2015 – 10:20 pm

    I could have listed the USS Reagan and its support ships as some of the stuff that the BBC never reports.

    More than 5,000 US military personnel hit with huge whacks of radiation, and as well as the USS Reagan (one of the largest and most expensive warships ever built) there were at least ten other warships in its fleet that were also seriously irradiated. None of these warships will ever be able to be used again; but of course that won’t stop the psychos in Washington from manning them again.

    In the months after 3/11 the USS Reagan sailed around the western Pacific, and was refused entry into a number of ports, because the USS Reagan was too radioactive.

    Eventually the USS Reagan returned to its home port of San Diego, California; and here’s the really sick bit: the US Navy arranged for local school kids to play a game of football on the flight deck, as a publicity stunt.

    These psychos are not only criminals of the worst order, they are also completely mad vermin.

    These people run your governments.

  • John Goss

    “WTF is funny about it?”

    Nemtsov being murdered is not funny. What is funny is the man the Guardian chose to put the western view, somebody who, if he did not have an agenda when he was reporting from inside Russia, would clearly have one after being expelled. Note he was expelled, not killed.

  • Resident Dissident

    There will be no Polish delegation at Nemtsov’s funeral as the Speaker of the Polish Parliament has been denied entry.

    The Gulag museum at Perm-36 is closing. The regime doesn’t want Russians to know their history http://www.newsru.com/russia/02mar2015/perm36.html

    Nemtsov’s Ukrainian girlfriend has just just flown to Kiev, after being stuck in Moscow against her will after her companion was murdered.

  • John Goss

    “The only explanation not being given in Moscow for Nemtsov’s killing late on Friday evening is the blindingly obvious one: that he was murdered for his opposition activities. Specifically, for his very public criticism of Putin’s secret war in Ukraine in which at least 6,000 people have been killed over the past year, and which – according to his friends – he had been about to expose.”

    I think Harding’s innuendo is plain to see. I really do hope they catch the murderers. As Harding mentions they caught the ‘fascists’ (his word not mine) who conducted a previous murder of an opposition journalist. So fingers crossed because otherwise Putin (who had absolutely no reaon to have an unpopular politician martyred) is going to be blamed. He was blamed for shooting down MH17 together with lots of other ridiculous accusations. People should focus on where the real blame lies in this unnecessary war, in which so many flowers of youth on both sides have perished.

  • Squonk

    As an overdose of nuclear radiation may seriously threaten human health and wildlife survival, this nuclear accident has caught the attention of the world.

    Although not necessarily on this blog.

  • lysias

    As a retired officer of the U.S. Navy, I am a subscriber to the Naval Times, which regularly has a feature listing where most of the ships of the U.S. Navy are deployed. In the latest issue I looked at (yesterday morning), the U.S. Ronald Reagan is listed as docked in California, as it has been in most issues over the past year or more. Clearly, it is having to undergo a lot of overhauling.

  • Macky

    RD; “after being stuck in Moscow against her will after her companion was murdered”

    Oh those dastardly Russians ! Imagine any other country in which the police force would not allow someone to immediately leave the country in the aftermath of a high profile murder, in which they are possibly the only surviving witness ?!!

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