UN Warns Of Food Riots In Developing World As Food Inflation Continuous To Skyrocket

European dry spell and commodities speculation combine to push up average cereal costs by 71% to record levels The dry riverbed of the Loire near the Anjou-Bretagne bridge in Ancenis, western France. Photograph: Stephane Mahe/REUTERS Food prices are expected to hit new highs in the coming weeks, tightening the squeeze on UK households and potentially [...] continue reading world news

Fukushima Now Equal To 50 Plus Chernobyls & 3,000 Billion Lethal Doses Of Radiation

(San Francisco) – The world’s second big nuclear disaster occurred at Chernobyl Reactor No. 4 in the Ukraine on Apr 26, 1986. Simply tagged as “Chernobyl,” it is what the next big and well known nuke disaster, after the American Three Mile Island, on March 28, 1979 came to be called. “Chernobyl” ejected 30% of [...] continue reading world news

China, Yangtze River: Worst Drought In 50 Years Forces Unprecedented 5 Billion Cubic Metres Of Water Release From Three Gorges Dam

Severe drought has forced China to release 5bn cubic metres from Three Gorges reservoir for irrigation and drinking water The dried up Yangtze river in southwest China’s Chongqing municipality. The severe drought has forced a massive release of water from China’s Three Gorges reservoir for irrigation and drinking water. Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty The Yangtze – Asia’s [...] continue reading world news

Unbelievable: Ibaraki Prefecture City Made 3rd Graders Pick Tea Leaves In The Rain, Have Them Eat Tempura Made from Raw Tea Leaves

Criminals (or idiots?) of the worst kind! And what were those parents thinking??????? - Bando City in Ibaraki Prefecture Made 3rd-Graders Pick Tea Leaves in the Rain, Have Them Eat Tempura Made from Raw Tea Leaves (Ex-SKF, May 24, 2011): It’s hard to believe that it actually happened in the post-Fukushima Japan, but it most certainly [...] continue reading world news

Japan’s PM Kan Forced Chinese and Korean Counterparts to Eat Fukushima Vegetables and Fruits

I have ‘some’ great difficulty to buy that they have really eaten vegetables and fruits from Fukushima and here is why: – I ate Hu Jintao’s dinner; China’s president, and the rest of the politburo eat only organic food: A stone’s throw from the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square is Zhongnanhai, the walled compound where [...] continue reading world news

Prof. Hiroaki Koide of Kyoto University: ‘No One Knows How Fukushima Could Be Wound Down’ – Corium May Be Melting Through the Foundation

Related info: - Was Fukushima a China Syndrome? (TIME): The China Syndrome refers to a scenario in which a molten nuclear reactor core could could fission its way through its containment vessel, melt through the basement of the power plant and down into the earth. While a molten reactor core wouldn’t burn “all the way [...] continue reading world news

Fukushima: Radioactive Cesium In Seawater Samples Near Reactor 3 Triples In A Day, Now At 1,800 Times Limit (Video)

Watch the video here. - Radiation level at No.3 reactor water intake rises (NHK, May 19, 2011): The operator of the damaged nuclear power plant in Fukushima has reported a sharp rise in the concentration of a radioactive material in samples of seawater near the Number 3 reactor. Tokyo Electric Power Company says it detected [...] continue reading world news

TEPCO Admits ‘Meltdown’ At Reactors No. 2 and 3 (WSJ)

See also: -TEPCO Admits 3 Nuclear Reactors May Have Melted Down (Bloomberg) MAY 16 (Wall Street Journal) TOKYO—Substantial damage to the fuel cores at two additional reactors of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex has taken place, operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Sunday, further complicating the already daunting task of bringing them to a safe [...] continue reading world news

Global Earthquake and Volcano Overview: Worldwide UPTICK In Activity (05/14/2011)

Areas to watch for the next 2 weeks and links: USA Pacific Northwest south through Mono Lake California further south to Baja California– watch for a 5.0 or greater next 2 weeks. East through Yellowstone south through Colorado Utah into North mexico / Texas… 4.0 or greater next 2 weeks. New Madrid… oklahoma city, east [...] continue reading world news

It’s Official: Fukushima Was Hit With A Nuclear Meltdown – Pool Of Radioactive Lava Could Be Melting Its Way Out

The flow of bad news (and radiation) out of Fukushima’s reactors has diminished to a trickle over the past several weeks, as rescue work has proceeded. Not today. TEPCO’s admitted for the first time that Fukushima experienced a grave meltdown. What exactly is a meltdown, you might ask? There’s a lot of confusion as to [...] continue reading world news

Fukushima No. 4 Reactor ‘Leaning’, In Danger Of Collapse!

Must-see! Added: 10.05.2011 A small group of evacuees have briefly been allowed inside the exclusion zone around Japan’s damaged Fukushima nuclear plant. For the first time, the government gave permission for short visits so people could gather belongings and check on their properties. Meanwhile, a recent map of contamination released by Japan shows high levels [...] continue reading world news

Possible New Fukushima Reactor Fires At Reactor No. 3 And No. 4 (Video – 05/07/2011)

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Nuclear Expert Horrified That Feds Abandon Extra Radiation Monitoring of Milk And Water

“I really am horrified,” said Daniel Hirsch, a nuclear policy lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz. “It’s quite staggering and it seems to be part of the pattern of the EPA trying to make sure that there are no measurements that could cause people to be concerned.” Routine measurements will resume; nuclear expert [...] continue reading world news

US: New Clean Water Act Guidelines Threaten To Seize Control Of All Water Supplies

May 04 (NaturalNews) On Wednesday, April 27, the Obama administration’s US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and US Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) jointly released a new draft guidance for the federal Clean Water Act that aims to dramatically expand both the scope of what constitutes a “water source,” as well as the legal power federal [...] continue reading world news

Fukushima Parents Furious Over Dramatically Raised Radiation Limits, Fight Back

- Fukushima parents dish the dirt in protest over radiation levels (Guardian): Furious parents in Fukushima have delivered a bag of radioactive playground earth to education officials in protest at moves to weaken nuclear safety standards in schools. Children can now be exposed to 20 times more radiation than was previously permissible. The new regulations [...] continue reading world news

PLASMA STORM & LIGHTNING OVERLOAD at Sakurajima Volcano in Japan (04/30/2011)

Added: 30.04.2011 I haver never personally seen a “lightning” storm off a volcano that was THIS intense. Its a first for me.. and I’ve seen a LOT of volcano eruptions. This makes the earlier video look like nothing! Something strange is going on with this particular eruption at Sakurajima.. its been active for a while, [...] continue reading world news