PLEASE GO TO THE NINES FROM NOW ON

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Kindly adjust yer settings. Kindly bookmark it, and you can always come back here if you miss the sidebar or the labels or whatever, but I'm going to stop blogging here, and start blogging there right away. They say it takes up to three days for the intertubes to realize you're there so you might not have much luck googling it for a while.

Here's the feed link for feedheads, but I promise the new place will be easier to load and maybe even more monitor-friendly for most.

Sorry for any inconvenience, but it was time.

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crank it all the way up to eleven

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And note well that this isn't just for one country or one race. That's crucial, or it's just a waste.

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mainstream and mainstream-influenced media

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I was going to spend a lot of time editing this mindfuck, but if I am ultimately going to do that, it'll just be later.

Radioactive water at 5 million times limit found at Japan plant
By Mayumi Negishi and Yoko Nishikawa – 7 mins ago

TOKYO (Reuters) – The operator of Japan's crippled nuclear power plant said on Tuesday it had found water with 5 million times the legal limit of radioactivity as it struggles for a fourth week to contain the world's biggest nuclear disaster in quarter of a century.

Underlining the concern over spreading radiation, the government said it was considering imposing radioactivity restrictions on seafood for the first time in the crisis after contaminated fish were found in seas well south of the damaged nuclear reactors.

The plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) offered token "condolence" money to those affected in the Fukushima region where the plant is based, the local mayors who came to Tokyo to meet Prime Minister Naoto Kan made clear they expected far more help.

"We have borne the risks, co-existed and flourished with TEPCO for more than 40 years, and all these years, we have fully trusted the myth that nuclear plants are absolutely safe," said Katsuya Endo, the mayor of Tomioka town.

He was one of eight Fukushima prefecture mayors who went to Kan to demand compensation and support for employment, housing and education for the tens of thousands of people evacuated as a result of the radiation crisis.

In desperation, engineers at the Fukushima Daiichi plant have turned to what are little more than home remedies to stem the flow of contaminated water. On Tuesday, they used "liquid glass" in the hope of plugging cracks in a leaking concrete pit.

"We tried pouring sawdust, newspaper and concrete mixtures into the side of the pit (leading to tunnels outside reactor No.2), but the mixture does not seem to be entering the cracks," said Hidehiko Nishiyama, deputy director-general of Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA).

"We also still do not know how the highly contaminated water is seeping out of reactor No.2," said Nishiyama.

TEPCO said it suspected that a stone layer beneath the trench feeding into the pit at reactor No. 2 might be the source of the contaminated water, but added they were still investigating the exact causes and were prepared for the possibility that there were other sources of radioactive water.

Engineers also plan to build two giant polyester "silt curtains" in the sea to block the spread of more contamination from the plant.

Workers are still struggling to restart cooling pumps -- which recycle the water -- in four reactors damaged by last month's 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami.

Until those are fixed, they must pump in water from outside to prevent overheating and meltdowns. In the process, that creates more contaminated water that has to be pumped out and stored somewhere else or released into the sea.

There is a total of 60,000 tons of highly contaminated water in the plant after workers frantically poured in seawater when fuel rods experienced partial meltdown after the tsunami hit northeast Japan on March 11.

TEPCO on Monday had to start releasing 11,500 tons of low-level radioactive seawater after it ran out of storage capacity for more highly contaminated water. The release will continue until Friday.

FIVE MILLION TIMES LEGAL LIMIT

Radioactive iodine of up to 4,800 times the legal limit has been recorded in the sea near the plant. Cesium was found at levels above safety limits in tiny "kounago" fish in waters Ibaraki Prefecture, south of Fukushima, local media reported.

Iodine-131 in the water near the sluice gate of reactor No. 2 hit a high on April 2 of 7.5 million times the legal limit. The water, which was not released into the ocean, fell to 5 million times the legal limit on Monday.

TEPCO said it had started paying token "condolence money" to local governments to aid people evacuated from around its stricken plant or affected by the radiation crisis.

It faces a huge bill for the damage caused by its crippled reactors, but said it must first assess the extent of damage before paying actual compensation.

"We are still in discussion as to what extent we will pay on our own and to what extent we will have assistance from the government," TEPCO executive vice-president Takashi Fujimotohe told a news conference.

TEPCO offered just 20 million yen ($238,000) in condolence money each to towns near the reactors whose residents were forced to evacuate. A second TEPCO official said they offered that sum to 10 towns but one refused to take the money.

FISH PRICES TUMBLE

Fishermen from neighboring Ibaraki prefecture saw prices for flounder and sea bream tumble as buyers shunned their catch.

"Unless problems at the plant end soon, fishermen won't be able to go on living without compensation. We want compensation from TEPCO, the government and the prefecture," said Hikaru Sugiyama a fishing cooperative official in Ibaraki.

The company's shares plunged to a record low of 363 yen on Tuesday on uncertainty over the nuclear crisis, and are now over 80 percent of their value before the quake struck.

The quake and tsunami have left nearly 28,000 people dead or missing, thousands homeless and Japan's northeast coast a wreck.

The world's costliest natural disaster has caused power blackouts and cuts to supply chains, threatening Japan's economic growth and the operations of global firms from semiconductor makers to shipbuilders.

Fujimoto said TEPCO wants to avoid having to impose rolling power blackouts in summer, when demand surges due to heavy use of air-conditioning. Analysts say blackouts could cause the biggest economic damage to Japan.

($1 = 84.040 Japanese Yen)

I mean, if I begin doing that for you, it will take up my whole life, and it will take up my whole life doing NOTHING to spark the interest in awakening in you.

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before i speak, i have something important to say

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JUST SHOOT ME.

They're dumping BUBBLE BATH on a nuclear meltdown, okay?

JUST SHOOT ME.

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4am the next morning....

Please forgive me checking out on you for the most of the afternoon and all of the night, but between a number of creepy things happening in the background of this sector of Outer Blogistan, my general dissatisfaction with the content of communicating on the tubes, my Plutonian sleep "cycles", the need to get my ass in for more antibiotics to hold me over until my root canal appointment, and the general draggitude and pain of this tooth thing demanding I get some serious sleep under my belt, I just had to drop off the radar.

Thank you, all, for leaving me a bunch of links. That is one great aspect of blogging, when your friends come by with stuff to contribute. I wish more of you had the time or the interest to talk outside this crap we are forced to call the zeitgeist, but that actually is the story of my life.

Speaking of which, I just made a couple new playlists of Michael Tsarion stuff from which anyone might benefit—mind control and tarot—particularly the discussions about how your consciousness is manipulated by people who look at you as though you were no more significant than livestock, but I keep wanting to hear him on tarot and numerology because I think these are wuwu, the affectations of bliss ninnies, and it has been made apparent to me that he does not mean by these things anything like I've been indoctrinated to view them. So I am working on dropping my mental conditioning to eventually come to know what he means by that. He's obviously serious as a heart attack and has proven to me his level of insight, so it's worth it to me to make a real attempt to understand it. Again, one must approach this sort of thing very carefully. One must DROP what one already thinks for the duration of one's listening and give it a special sort of attention I have been calling "thought experimenting". If you can't do that, it's useless to waste your time on him... or, for that matter, me.

And, then, while I was about it, I put it together for you to listen about HAARP, should you be so inclined.

Anyway, the creepy stuff is making me seriously consider moving this show to an entirely new blog, again. This time it might really happen. I'll think about it some more.

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yes, we figured

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Relentless. Unspeakably relentless.

I'm just reminded of all the times I've bellowed to fellow activists that the difference between us and them is that THEY have the will. We have so many excuses and so many distractions we prefer just copping an attitude and call it "willpower".

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i'm going out there

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After this, I may go on a blitz of old movies, and am apt to just tack them to this post because a bunch of them have been recommended by one of the masters of Out There. Or... I might try to write about the dreaming I was doing while sleeping... or... I may just go off in my corner and try to figure out a few things... to include the feasibility of this one coming from this planet.... I just don't know....

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Anyone who wanted to hear the end of that, here is the link to the whole thing.

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Or maybe just check out my playlists and see if there's anything that interests you... too much war movie action has made it so I keep expecting everyone on screen to get shot any second. So I gotta just drop that.

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Free mp3 David Icke and Meria Heller....

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what a mess

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I don't know why any of us bother to look anymore.

Sliming penguins....

Doomed dairy....

Goldstone gives in....

BP drilling in the Gulf....

The war drones on as though it's stopping tomorrow....

Polymer didn't work....

Information that will not land on your synapses....

Maybe I'll have the strength to add to this later.

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Worse than Dubya....

Corbett Report....

The banks....

UNSPEAKABLE....

Fidel....

For Phil....

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i think i should start up one of these preschools

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Hand out kelp tablets first thing every morning and... rock out....

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nearly trump hair

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RT tells it.

[I honestly tried to make him look a little less hideous. It was too much for me.]

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Chris Floyd tells it.

This policy is what the Nobel Peace Laureate — the first African-American president in history — is now perpetuating in the only nation to liberate itself from slavery. But of course, the most important thing is not the dispossessed in Haiti, nor the innocent people in Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan being killed, day after day, by the Laureate's bombs, bullets and assassins. No, the main thing is — he's not John McCain! And we must put aside these trifles, these heaps of corpses, and rally around the prez to "defend our gains and regroup for a progressive counter-offensive in 2012!" The best is yet to come!

If you go down and read the Lendman piece in last night's nukequake post, along with this one, you might be shocked out of your groupthink "progressivism" for maybe even up to an hour....

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i have not learned my lesson

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I seem to need to return to find a true original, or a person of real taste, or evidence of greater consciousness, or something. It's not enjoyable! It's worse than... no, no, no, it's not worse than the fake Zennies and "poets" of blogistan... I so needn't exagerate! It's as bad as all that.

So I've resurrected evidence of my irk from last month here, and may be adding to it while in the midst of rechecking for whatever the heck it is I keep looking for. I really think I'm wanting to stumble over some profound insight somewhere in the worldwide cobwebs.

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The trick to good muffins is stirring the batter just barely enough to get everything blended.

Strawberry Muffins

1/4 cup canola oil
1/2 cup milk
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup chopped strawberries

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Prepare an 8 cup muffin tin, or use paper liners.

In a small bowl, combine oil, milk, egg and vanilla. Beat lightly. In a large bowl, mix flour, salt, baking powder, cinnamon and sugar. Toss in chopped strawberries and stir to coat with flour. Pour in milk mixture and stir together only to moisten.

Don't over-mix.

Fill muffin cups. Bake at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) for 25 minutes, or until the tops bounce back from the touch. Cool 10 minutes and remove from pans.

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Another woman's husband asked her what she was doing with so many butterflies. She didn't know, but aren't they cute? She took about 700 pictures of them, from every conceivable angle, and posted them all on her blog.

She cut up a DICTIONARY toward this end.

There is a definite protocol to this. You may post bright colors if you have small children. If you're a grandmother, everything in your life is a variation on white. Lavender sprigs allowed. If you live in the country you can have piles of gewgaws in any color scheme or none, but you cannot leave out bits of straw and lots of shots of you and your posse at the flea market. You call Size 14 women "skinny".

A terrifying number of them have the identical template, and an only slightly less frightening number of them have music blaring at you shortly after you've clicked in, but every last one of them has at least one instance of this and it hurts me to see so many women with nary an original thought in their heads laboring away to rejoice in this stuff. Maybe you begin to catch why I was never in the kitchen talking babies and shopping at dinner parties, but out in the living room talking about everything in the cosmos with their husbands.

But, once in a while, you run across someone with something truly amazing to impart... well.... That's not fair. Each has something, but mostly it's interchangeable. I'm nearly expert by now.... Anyway, I knit like this guy does, so I don't.

Just hopeless.

A great many of these women try hard to make their houses look like barns. I want to make a barn my house.

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Mister North popped in recently to taunt me about my barn loft with bathtub up in the cold climes of Canada, knowing full-well my desperation, and wishing, I suppose, as boyz do, to pull my pigtails in class. Maybe it's a search for a feasible alternative driving me. Who can tell?

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Seleta says "faith and family are most important" while enjoying her "coastal beach home"... and, except for the unique location away from the welter of inland beach homes, that's pretty much the story across the board. I'm gonna go out on a limb here to say I'm pretty much convinced she means the Redneck Riviera and am hoping her blog isn't the only clean and healthy thing left in her life... but I really have to just hope it because I sure don't see any mention of it.

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I have been wrong all along. The white fanaticism has spread to parents of very short people. I also found a tumblr page by a young man who is heavily into sex, anything made by Apple, surfing, the word "fuck" and WHITE interiors. He, uhm, had many images of more hundred-dollar bills than anyone has lying around like that, and almost never veered from Malibu.

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<— I found this image at a number of design blogs... in white. I changed that part. Do you suppose they were giving themselves pep talks? Being ironic? Genuinely feeling it? Pleased by the name? Wearing it like a designer shirt? Or carrying it like an iPhone? Or is it just that we don't have the little snippets on paper anymore to tape to a mirror?

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i'm appalled to report the appearance of stock symbols

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Apparently becoming de rigueur on all news reports. The news is bad enough, but there seems always to be a direct link to the market specs on any company mentioned in any news item for the convenience of the ASSHOLES who care about that crap. This is fascism.

And, odd, ain't it, that they are taking this long to report, or even speculate, on what caused a hole to be ripped in the fuselage of a 737? I mean, isn't that their favorite thing to hype to the hilt? Or are they going for understatement now that hype seems to be failing? We do become paranoid when they're quiet about things nowadays.

Nah. They just want to be sure it's not a design flaw before they let speculators go batshit crazy dumping their stocks.

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please let me into an alternative universe

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I promise to be good.

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<— Note here a visual on why I keep insisting there are no cooling ponds to fill where they say they have been filling. For comparison's sake, HERE is an image of the Daiichi complex from over two weeks ago, when the place was still in relatively good shape. You may have noticed lately the green elongated large hunks of junk in the wreckage, especially if you've been following my links. Those correspond to that orange gizzy above the cooling pond in the diagram. If you know people still confused about this, you should ask them to compare the image with the reactor building diagrams, maybe include a little coaching on the effect of a quake of such magnitude on concrete structures, and maybe a little arm waving toward illustration of blast mechanics and see if they don't have an aha moment.


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LENDMAN NAILS IT....

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farrell on the edge

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All Nazis, all the time....

You can go HERE if you want it with the visuals, more Nazi-mania, and HERE for the mp3 of an earlier interview about Giza... assuming you can bear the clowning of this bubba....

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and old movies

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Old movies that help me contemplate the rarefied abstractions of the truthier Out There.

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Sorry. Somehow the last four videos were sliced off the playlist. It's fixed now. Sorry.

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atlantis

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Working on my doctorate today.

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not to slide into nihilism

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I would never go there, but I recognize this as the stuff that sends the unwary down that chute, never to return to the light of day. Turn off your TV. If you are jonesing too hard for something to watch or hear, do old movies with no commercials, or listen to lectures by fascinating people, or podcasts by people into interesting things, or surf around in crafts blogs, or do your housecleaning! Just stay the hell away from marketers of propaganda and products, the pervy purveyors of brain death. I know old movies are jammed full of it, too, and how, but they're old and you don't identify with them. Nobody living will have sucked yer brain out yer eyeballs.

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Or maybe some George Stevens if Cukor didn't do it for you... anything. Darn the holes in your socks. Take up knitting. Start lifting weights, anything. Just turn off that consarn TV.

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real world use for our thought experimenting exercises

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I give you this link because I think the guy is good at giving visuals that help people get an idea of what might actually be taking place while confronted with information we know is bogus. He seems to be downplaying it all, but not in the same way as most of the liars and instapundits. He seems to be addressing the seriousness of it. He discusses some of the mechanisms of the plutonium popping up in soil samples, and why monitors can't monitor it. He does NOT, so far as I have seen here yet, mention the Sacred MOX. He's used by the Maddow fascist on MSNBC, and that would be because he won't step over the line. So you MUST bear in mind the guy isn't telling the whole truth, is steering clear of it, or you will be fooled by him. The one good reason to risk tainting your understanding is the chance to enhance it, and if you've been practicing that special kind of attention I keep mentioning around here, maybe you can do this.

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I mean, how long can you read shit like this:

Fukushima nuclear complex has been found to have radioactive water leaking into the sea from a cracked concrete pit.

In a discovery regulators said might explain the radioactive water that has hobbled efforts to quell Japan's nuclear crisis, Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said the radiation in the pit at its No.2 reactor in Fukushima measured 1,000 millisieverts per hour.

"With radiation levels rising in the seawater near the plant, we have been trying to confirm the reason why, and in that context, this could be one source," said Hidehiko Nishiyama, deputy head of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency.

He cautioned, however, "We can't really say for certain until we've studied the results."

TEPCO is preparing to pour concrete into the pit to stop the leak, added Nishiyama.

before you start tearing your hair out in clumps in advance of the radiation doing it for you? Monster quake? Cracked cement? Who knew?

Maybe that soft-pedaling engineer isn't mentioning there is no pool to cool at Unit 3 because that's obvious, or mentioning that the MOX in it has anything to do with the plutonium readings in the soil because that too is obvious, and maybe he's not mentioning the decimated reactor and cement under it because that, too, is obvious. That might be stuff he covered before I bothered to listen to some of his explaining on his website. It seems to me they've all been threatened with death if they speak of Unit 3. Say what you will about any other reactor, but mention Number 3 and you're a dead person.

The AP, however, the one that gets everyone by one means or another, says they've discovered a crack in the cement under Unit 4... three weeks into the meltdown. Oh, oh! No wonder all these half-assed measures have only let the problem worsen. The concrete is cracked! So, darn, all that work that would have been righteous has been foiled by this entirely unforeseeable nuance... that now must be studied.

I think, possibly, the power companies have fired all their scientists and engineers in favor of minimum wage workers, and the management of all of them couldn't add up to one brain between them. All that operates at any of them are the receivables departments and the stockholders' automatic deposits. Anyone who would know what to do has been paid not to even think it, and deaf, dumb and blind capitalism will out.

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And Fascists Love Ineffective Protest....

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i'm heavily in favor of it

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Especially if they make it permanent.

President Barack Obama warned lawmakers on Friday that it would be the "height of irresponsibility" to shut down the government over a spending battle, pressuring Republicans not to pursue deeper cuts.

The actual "height of irresponsibility" is what we've already got, and COMPLETELY stopping that is the crucial part of taking responsibility.

So here's to the permanent demise of this regime.

No. Really. Even if what comes in its place ends up being worse, it NEVER would have gotten better any other way.

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my first doctorate was in old movies

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There's the most wonderful old motel down in Crescent City. It's called The Curly Redwood Lodge and it is made completely from one ancient redwood. This would offend my sensibilities no end, except it was built before there was anything like a shortage of redwoods and I'd say these many decades of good service to travelers was far better than the idiots who cut down trees so huge they completely forgot they had NO way to get them to the mill, deciding to make use of the stumps as dance floors.... So, anyway, many was the time when I'd gone walkabout where I ended up there, and find myself not wanting to leave. Not liking Crescent City one bit, but wanting to be in the arms of that tree, with it's pristine clean tile bathrooms, and Turner Classic Movies on the tv... low key... peaceful... not a trace of this steaming dung heap we call our "culture"... just blessed rest... in the arms of an ancient... with the sounds of the sea. When I think of it, I always picture myself watching Notorious, swooning, imagining, just as I did when I was a very young girl.

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refreshing?

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I don't think anything about any branch of our government is refreshing in the least. I can barely bring myself to speak of it anymore, so NOT refreshing do I find it.

The White House would forge ahead with military action in Libya even if Congress passed a resolution constraining the mission, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said during a classified briefing to House members Wednesday afternoon.

Clinton was responding to a question from Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) about the administration's response to any effort by Congress to exercise its war powers, according to a senior Republican lawmaker who attended the briefing.

The answer surprised many in the room because Clinton plainly admitted the administration would ignore any and all attempts by Congress to shackle President Obama's power as commander in chief to make military and wartime decisions. In doing so, he would follow a long line of Presidents who have ignored the act since its passage, deeming it an unconstitutional encroachment on executive power.

But, hey, that's just me.

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blatant green bias

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I thought for purposes of steadying our nerves over the determined effort to downplay the nukequake effects that I would focus in a jot on Christopher Busby, since he seems to be the only one out there with a willingness to sound lucid and keep it up.

And in any case, this external irradiation is not the problem. The problem is internal irradiation. The Iodine-131 is not in the whole body, it is in the thyroid gland and attached to the blood cells: hence the thyroid cancer and the leukaemia. And there is a whole list of internal radioactive elements that bind chemically to DNA, from Strontium-90 to Uranium. These give massive local doses to the DNA and to the tissues where they end up. The human body is not a piece of wire that you can apply physics to. The concept of dose which Wade uses cannot be used for internal exposures. This has been conceded by the ICRP itself in its publications. And in an interview with me in Stockholm in 2009, Dr Jack Valentin, the ex-Scientific Secretary of the ICRP conceded this, and also made the statement that the ICRP risk model, the one used by all governments to assess the outcome of accidents like Fukushima, was unsafe and could not be used.

The guy is obviously a shill for Gaia, and something of a maniac for plain speech....

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i don't mean to alarm you, but

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Uhm... Bill Ryan brought this up over a year ago... called it "The Anglo-Saxon Mission"... and do you suppose this is the Chinese catching that cold?

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Just emailed him the link, in case he has a way to find out....

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Freaked me right out in a big-ass hurry, that's for sure. Just as I have successfully reminded myself that what we're going through, at this point, is no worse than the people downwind of Chernobyl had to live with, now I can flip over a scary and very serious and mysterious outbreak of an AIDS-like illness in China.

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Looking around, it seems the Epoch Times reports this once a year or so, but also found THIS snippet that does not seem to be getting it from the same source.

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good news for feedheads and people with shrimpy monitors

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Blogger has decided to give you a passel of new ways to view my blog, including one that cuts the width of this puppy down by at least a third... maybe even shrinks things into submitting to your iPad cathexis problem... though, surely not for your phone.... Oh, my. Anyway, I checked it out and I think you get radically TMI when you use any of the image-driven views, but the one called "sidebar" could make life around here happier for you if you don't have a monitor big enough to take in the whole blogscape. I'm not going to be a bitch about all the work I've put in on my own sidebar over the years, solely for your entertainment and edification and consolation while trapped inside your home due to radiation alerts.... Nope. I'm Zen. No sweat.

You should know that the image-driven view modes do rock, but they keep loading and loading and loading and loading and loading and loading thousands upon thousands upon thousands of images from this blog and your computer might start giving off cesium-137 particles and smoking alarmingly before blowing up in your face, depending, I'm guessing, on your RAM and/or connection speed.

To check this out for yourself: GO HERE.

I'm pretty sure the default lands you on "sidebar", which is the optimal one for my blog, so then you can decide to risk a meltdown with the other ones or enjoy how this blog for once fits on your screen, and reduces loading time like maaaad.

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If there are comments already on a post, you can see them from that view, but if you want to comment on something that doesn't already have comments, you have to click in with the title, instead of any comment prompt. That's probably no different than usual for feedheads, but anyone switching to that view from the main page view needs to know it. What is different for feedheads is that you can view the comments from this setup at all... but I don't know if you can get it fed to you. You might just have to bookmark the link. I'm sure this will be evolving... and it won't work on any Blogger sites where the owner has switched off the feature.

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Although the views are pleasingly clean, the background is white and does not match my template, nor is there a feature for switching the background to something that gives off less glare. I'm just grateful it doesn't look as shitty as the ordinary feed views.

I see little comments here and there that the feeds thing is going out of style, so maybe that isn't all bad. I don't know. You'd think I'd go for feeds, being as how I'm so absentminded, but they're too damn pushy and esthetically depressing to me. I revile the idea of filling my inbox with notifications of posts from far and near as well. I like choices, but I don't like being buried. I've been told that the reason people become addicted to Facebook is that all their friends' likes get blasted over to them and soon they daren't so much as run for a pee or they've missed something. Sounds like hell to me. Bad enough one becomes paranoid about missing something off the news wires in the throes of maintaining a reputation as a "with it" blogger. I don't like being "out of it" or "with it". I tell you, it's hell being me!

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do you think they are trying to tell us something?

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This piece didn't budge from the top of the headlines all day when it first came out, and they have put this four-day-old piece of bad news back up again today. The message seems to be clear. If you didn't like death panels, you are going to adore starving your grandparents to death. Fates forfend any useless eaters continue to eat a moment longer than is absolutely necessary... and then don't forget, all you useless wealthy eaters: The one thing she didn't do was understand that, much like Elvis and Michael Jackson, she might be worth more in death. [Quoth a friend of Elizabeth Taylor]

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in praise of ayahuasca

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Graham Hancock lets us off the hook for all our bad habits, except cigarettes, admirably.

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for your consideration

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Old Uncle Dave brought this up in comments, and I think it merits attention and consideration. I mean, I don't know if it would have to be nukes, but the critical material hitting groundwater is not a pretty concept.

Fukushima is going to dwarf Chenobyl. The Japanese government has had a level 7 nuclear disaster going for almost a week but won’t admit it.

The disaster is occurring the opposite way than Chernobyl, which exploded and stopped the reaction. At Fukushima, the reactions are getting worse. I suspect three nuclear piles are in meltdown and we will probably get some of it.

If reactor 3 is in meltdown,  the concrete under the containment looks like lava. But Fukushima is not far off the water table. When that molten mass of self-sustaining nuclear material gets to the water table it won’t simply cool down. It will explode – not a nuclear explosion, but probably enough to involve the rest of the reactors and fuel rods at the facility.

Pouring concrete on a critical reactor makes no sense – it will simply explode and release more radioactive particulate matter. The concrete will melt and the problem will get worse. Chernobyl was different – a critical reactor exploded and stopped the reaction. At Fukushima, the reactor cores are still melting down. The ONLY way to stop that is to detonate a ~10 kiloton fission device inside each reactor containment vessel and hope to vaporize the cores. That’s probably a bad solution.

A nuclear meltdown is a self-sustaining reaction. Nothing can stop it except stopping the reaction. And that would require a nuclear weapon. In fact, it would require one in each containment vessel to merely stop what is going on now. But it will be messy.

Fukushima was waiting to happen because of the placement of the emergency generators. If they had not all failed at once by being inundated by a tsunami, Fukushima would not have happened as it did – although it WOULD still have been a nuclear disaster. Every containment in the world is built to withstand a Magnitude 6.9 earthquake; the Japanese chose to ignore the fact that a similar earthquake had hit that same general area in 1896.

Anyway, here is the information that the US doesn’t seem to want released. And here is a chart that might help with perspective.

Making matters worse is the MOX in reactor 3. MOX is the street name for ‘mixed oxide fuel’ which uses ~9% plutonium along with a uranium compound to fuel reactors. This is why it can be used.

The problem is that you don’t want to play with this stuff. A nuclear reactor means bring fissile material to a point at which it is hot enough to boil water (in a light-water reactor) and not enough to melt and go supercritical (China syndrome or a Chernobyl incident). You simply cannot let it get away from you because if it does, you can’t stop it.

The Japanese are still talking about days or weeks to clean this up. That’s not true. They cannot clean it up. And no one will live in that area again for dozens or maybe hundreds of years.

This was from the 27th, when they hadn't yet admitted they couldn't clean it up, but the problem has not been mitigated or averted and can only get worse if there is nothing done to halt it... if anything can halt it....

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