Now we know which company/companies owns our congress here's another nifty little chart that shows us who owns mainstream media.
Surprise.
See the list: Ownership Chart: The Big Six | Free Press
We always knew they were owned but now thanks to this nifty little seating chart we know who owns them.
See it here: Who Owns Congress? A Campaign Cash Seating Chart | Mother Jones
"There are many things we thought we knew and it's now painfully clear we just don't,"says Okal. Barbara Romanowicz, director of the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory at the University of California, agrees: "A lot of ideas will be shattered because of this quake."
"When we imaged the main shock, the propagation of energy was all over the place," says Kiser. "We believe this is the most complex rupture behaviour ever observed." The team reckons the pattern may partially explain why the quake was so ferocious".
Good Read: Starburst megaquake: Japan quake overturns geology - environment - 19 April 2011 - New Scientist
Can we be witnessing the beginning of change?
"Four people chained themselves to Hydro Quebec Montreal Headquarters, they were arrested in the morning after authorities cut them free with wire cutters".
"Quebec's power utility is willing to spend $2-billion to ensure the facility will remain viable for another 30 years".
Read more here: CBC: 8 arrested at Quebec anti-nuclear protests
In elementary school I learned this song during choir practice and was performed by little children for parent night and I've never forgotten the haunting melody.
This rendition has slightly western influences.
This wild boar looks healthy but actually it is highly contaminated and banned from the marketplace. It's quite sad to see what we have done to the innocent.
Wired
"While iodine-131 decayed long ago and the strontium and cesium are slowly becoming less potentially lethal, the hot particles of plutonium-241 scattered across the landscape are actually decaying into an even more toxic isotope, americium-241. A more powerful emitter of alpha radiation than plutonium, americium is also more soluble and can easily find its way into the food chain. Americium-241, in turn, decays into neptunium-237, another energetic alpha emitter that has a half-life of more than 2 million years. As of yet, the long-term effect of americium-241 on animals remains largely unknown".
Good read. Is Chernobyl a Wild Kingdom or a Radioactive Den of Decay? | Magazine
Persistent ringing in the ears can be a terrible distraction and a problem for many, here's a new device said to relieve the symptoms.
"The treatment utilizes a customized neural stimulus combined with specific music, delivered according to a coordinated program. The treatment is designed to interact, interrupt, and desensitize tinnitus disturbance for long term benefit".
Read More Here: Neuromonics Tinnitus Treatment - Patient Information
Just another piece of the puzzle that makes us scream!
"Lockheed Martin doesn’t actually run the U.S. government, but sometimes it seems as if it might as well. After all, it received $36 billion in government contracts in 2008 alone, more than any company in history. It now does work for more than two dozen government agencies from the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy to the Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency. It’s involved in surveillance and information processing for the CIA, the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Pentagon, the Census Bureau, and the Postal Service".
Read more here: William Hartung: Is Lockheed Martin Shadowing You? How a Giant Weapons Maker Became the New Big Brother
Food for thought in these times.
According to Michio and Aveline Kushi, in his book Macrobiotic Diet, Michio Kushi states: ‘At the time of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945, Tatsuichiro Akizuki, M.D., was director of the Department of Internal Medicine at St. Francis Hospital in Nagasaki. Most patients in the hospital, located one mile from the center of the blast, survived the initial effects of the bomb, but soon after came down with symptoms of radiation sickness from the radioactivity that had been released. Dr. Akizuki fed his staff and patients a strict macrobiotic diet of brown rice, miso* and tamari soy sauce soup, wakame and other sea vegetables, Hokkaido pumpkin, and sea salt and prohibited the consumption of sugar and sweets. As a result, he saved everyone in his hospital, while many other survivors in the city perished from radiation sickness.’”
Read More here: Sea salt and baking soda, best all natural remedy for curing radiation exposure and cancer. | PRESS Core – Evidentiary News, World News, Special Reports, Technology, Health, Videos, Polls
Black Swan Disasters:
Low Probability, High Consequence Events
An event or occurrence that deviates beyond what is normally expected of a situation and that would be extremely difficult to predict. This term was popularized by Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable." Mr Taleb is a finance professor and former Wall Street trader.
He took his title from the shock that Europeans experienced when they discovered black swans in Australia. Until then, their data told them that all swans were white, so the discovery was unexpected.
See Japan's ‘black swan': Scientists ponder the unparalleled dangers of unlikely disasters The article properly notes that there are events still waiting to happen that have occurred in the past--but people and governments live as though they don't even exist. I believe it goes back to how people measure time. Basically I think it is their lifetime. If they or their parents have not experienced an event, it is like it won't ever happen. Intellectually they may acknowledge that something could happen, but that knowledge won't prompt them to action.One quote from the article above is, "I think many of our systems do not operate as if things could go wrong. They operate as if everything will go right." aka, Gulf Oil Spill. Safety was a given, but not really paid attention to--based on their personal experience and other pressures to perform.
Other Black Swans? September 11, the 2008 economic meltdown etc. In disaster terms we are talking about the low probability, high consequence type of event ... asteroids ... you can think of more.
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The Man Who Predicted the Tsunami
The giant tsunami that assaulted northern Japan's coast surprised just about everyone. But Masanobu Shishikura was expecting it. The thought that came to mind, he says, was "yappari," a Japanese word meaning roughly, "Sure enough, it happened."
"It was the phenomenon just as I had envisioned it," says the 41-year-old geologist, who has now become the Japanese Cassandra.
At Dr. Shishikura's eighth-floor office, bookshelves and televisions crashed to the floor during the quake on March 11. He has found temporary office quarters one story below, where he discussed his unheeded warning. "It's unfortunate that it wasn't in time," he said. But he also felt vindicated after past slights, remembering the local official who didn't want to help him dig holes in the earth for research and who called the endeavor a "nuisance."
The Peasants Need Pitchforks
A “working class hero,” John Lennon told us in his song of that title, “is something to be/ Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV/ And you think you’re so clever and classless and free/ But you’re still fucking peasants as far as I can see.”
The delusion of a classless America in which opportunity is equally distributed is the most effective deception perpetrated by the moneyed elite that controls all the key levers of power in what passes for our democracy. It is a myth blown away by Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz in the current issue of Vanity Fair in an article titled “Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%” Stiglitz states that the top thin layer of the superwealthy controls 40 percent of all wealth in what is now the most sharply class-divided of all developed nations: “Americans have been watching protests against repressive regimes that concentrate massive wealth in the hands of an elite few. Yet, in our own democracy, 1 percent of the people take nearly a quarter of the nation’s income—an inequality even the wealthy will come to regret.”
That is the harsh reality obscured by the media’s focus on celebrity gossip, sports rivalries and lotteries, situations in which the average person can pretend that he or she is plugged into the winning side. The illusion of personal power substitutes consumer sovereignty—which smartphone to purchase—for real power over the decisions that affect our lives. Even though most Americans accept that the political game is rigged, we have long assumed that the choices we make in the economic sphere as to career and home are matters that respond to our wisdom and will. But the banking tsunami that wiped out so many jobs and so much homeownership has demonstrated that most Americans have no real control over any of that, and while they suffer, the corporate rich reward themselves in direct proportion to the amount of suffering they have caused.
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I know there were many people caught and swept out to sea but watching this terrified dog caught between a rock and a hard place is heartbreaking.
YouTube - thegermanfire's Channel
And why are they keeping this technology from us...because big money and powerful interest groups would have an awful lot to lo$e.
"Focardi and Rossi recently had a public demonstration of a desktop-sized reactor that produces 11 kW of net power for extended periods of time. Both the fuel and residues are clean and free of radioactivity. The fuel is nickel powder and a tiny amount of hydrogen. A gram of nickel generates 2000 kilowatt-hours in this prototype".
Read the rest here: Low Energy Nuclear Reactions: 2.5 Million Watt-hours from a Nickel?
Why We Must Raise Taxes on the Rich
It’s tax time. It’s also a time when right-wing Republicans are setting the agenda for massive spending cuts that will hurt most Americans.
Here’s the truth: The only way America can reduce the long-term budget deficit, maintain vital services, protect Social Security and Medicare, invest more in education and infrastructure, and not raise taxes on the working middle class is by raising taxes on the super rich.
Even if we got rid of corporate welfare subsidies for big oil, big agriculture, and big Pharma – even if we cut back on our bloated defense budget – it wouldn’t be nearly enough.
Robert Reich is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. He has written thirteen books, including The Work of Nations, Locked in the Cabinet, Supercapitalism, and his most recent book, Aftershock.
