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Wildfire Threatens Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory |
| Check out the following link for related recent US nuclear issues: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Operations Center Event Reports For 06/24/2011 - 06/27/2011 http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/2011/2011062...Wildfire threatens Los Alamos nuclear laboratory Wildfire ravaging the western US state of New Mexico now threatens the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the country's leading nuclear weapons research center. Firefighters are struggling to put out the blaze, which started on Sunday and has so far burned about 20,000 hectares of land. About 12,000 residents in the nearby town of Los Alamos have been warned to evacuate and 2,500 have already left. A spot fire scorched part of the nuclear laboratory's ground but was soon extinguished. The lab has been shut since Monday. A spokesman for the lab said that the main buildings are safely away from the fire. He said radioactive materials are stored underground and that no leaks have been reported. Researchers at the laboratory developed the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. It is still the core research and development facility for the US nuclear arsenal. Tuesday, June 28, 2011 12:57 +0900 (JST) Copyright NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) |
| Date: 28 June 2011 - Added by: KMC |
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U.S. Nuclear plant 'safe' despite floods? |
| Published on 28 Jun 2011 by itnnews Officials say there is no danger from a recently closed nuclear power plant surrounded by flood waters. |
| Date: 28 June 2011 - Added by: KMC |
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Senator Bernie Sanders: Enough is enough, no, we will not balance the budget on the backs of the most vulnerable people in this country! |
| SEE PART 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FsVYqqyiP0&feature=feedu //Published on Monday, June 27, 2011 by C-SPAN Senator Bernie Sanders: Calling for Shared Sacrifice US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will deliver a major speech on the Senate floor at 4 p.m. ET today calling on President Obama to "listen to the overwhelming majority of the American people who believe that deficit reduction must be about shared sacrifice," with the wealthy and large, profitable corporations paying their fair share toward addressing the deficit. You can sign his letter by going here: http://sanders.senate.gov/petition/?uid=c1fd7f9b-abd8-4e7a-a370-1867881259d8&CFID=86875359&CFTOKEN=27149872 |
| Date: 28 June 2011 - Added by: KMC |
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Inside Story - Diabetes on the rise |
| Uploaded by AlJazeeraEnglish on 27 Jun 2011 New study reveals diabetes as a disease that is far more widespread then initially thought. |
| Date: 28 June 2011 - Added by: KMC |
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Greece seeks bailout as 48-hour strike begins: Thousands gather in protest |
| Uploaded by AlJazeeraEnglish on 27 Jun 2011 The Greek finance minister says he wants to finish negotiations about a second bailout by the end of the northern summer. From Athens, Mike Hanna reports. |
| Date: 28 June 2011 - Added by: KMC |
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Disturbing Report Exposes Private Prison Lobby |
| Uploaded by TheYoungTurks on 24 Jun 2011 MSNBC host Cenk Uygur on a report from the Justice Policy Institute regarding the disturbing lobbying efforts by the private prison industry. The Largest Online News Show in the World. |
| Date: 27 June 2011 - Added by: KMC |
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Newt Gingrich Protecting Sanctity of Marriage? |
| Uploaded by TheYoungTurks on 28 Jun 2011 Cenk Uygur discusses Newt Gingrich's recent quotes on the sanctity of marriage. Cenk breaks down Newt's history |
| Date: 27 June 2011 - Added by: KMC |
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Whose Marriage Is It? |
| Uploaded by markfiore on 21 Jan 2010 http://www.MarkFiore.com See the latest in marriage and court battles! Play the marriage game show and guess what is "gay" and what is "straight." Prizes, thrills and chills! A Mark Fiore political animation. |
| Date: 27 June 2011 - Added by: KMC |
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The Most Incredible Video of the Libyan Revolution |
| From Daily Kos: If a picture speaks a thousand words, then this video about the early days of the Libyan Revolution speaks millions. Not only does it clearly show that the Revolution was initially peaceful, but also that it was an uprising that took place in basically every major town and city in Libya. I've been watching videos from the Tunisian, Egyptian, Libyan, and Syrian Revolutions since the beginning of this year. I've seen terrible things, beautiful things, inspiring things, horrifying things. Throughout it all, my respect for the peoples of the Arab Spring, my admiration of their bravery and courage in the face of the severest repression, has gone through the roof. While the Tunisians and Egyptians achieved their goals of getting rid of their Western-backed dictators quite fast and with relative ease, the Libyans and Syrians had their initially peaceful revolutions changed into deadly events because the regimes there are not as susceptible to international pressure and are thus able to brutally crack down on their own people. Libya has, as we all know, now become a full-blown international affair, with the U.N., NATO, the Arab League, and the U.S. coming down in support of the Libyan people and their struggle to be free of an incredibly repressive regime. So the Libyan Revolution grinds on, with the Libyan people paying a high price as they slowly, yet surely, push the Gaddafi Regime from power. The tragedy in all of this is that things did not have to be this way. Gaddafi could have given up, like Ben-Ali and Mubarak did, yet he chose the path of attempting to squash the revolution by slaughtering his own people. Those who are against intervention on behalf of the Libyan people often argue that "it's a tribal split in the country", that "the revolutionaries are not representative of Libya", that "they are islamic extremists from Eastern Libya", that "it's all about oil, banks", that "the Libyan Revolution was not peaceful", etc. They often also compare Libya to Iraq and Afghanistan, completely ignoring the fact that Afghanistan and Iraq aren't even on the same continent as Libya and that Libya does not have the ethnic and religious divides that are present in Afghanistan and Iraq. Anti-interventionists also frequently ignore that the Libyan Revolution is firmly embedded within the people's movements of the Arab Spring, in which huge majorities of the population are chasing out their dictatorial dinosaurs. What bothers me the most is that some Democrats and progressives who are against the U.N. - backed intervention resort to conspiracy theory and distorting facts about Libya, thus also degrading the incredible bravery of the Libyan people. We liberals are supposed to be about people power, about compassion with our fellow human beings, about democratic and equal rights, and about progress. I urge those who question why military intervention in Libya was necessary and who may have missed the peaceful, country-wide nature of the Libyan Revolution to watch the incredible video that I posted above, to witness the joy of the Libyan people at finally being able to express themselves. This is, without question, a people's revolution, and the Libyan people clearly deserve our full support in achieving their freedom. (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/28/989405/-The-Most-Incredible-Video-of-the-Libyan-Revolution?via=siderecent) |
| Date: 27 June 2011 - Added by: KMC |
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Thousands of Protesters Rally Against French Nuclear Plant |
| Protestors rally against French nuclear plant Thousands of mainly German and Swiss protestors rallied at a French nuclear power plant, calling for its immediate closure. On Sunday, about 7,000 people formed a human chain around the nuclear power plant at Fessenheim, in Alsace, in eastern France, near the border with Germany and Switzerland. They shouted out for the immediate closure of the nuclear power plant in French, German, and even Japanese. Afterwards at the meeting, an activist criticized the French government for not abolishing nuclear power plants, saying a nuclear accident in France would damage neighboring countries. France has 58 nuclear reactors and remains a supporter of nuclear power generation even after the disaster at the nuclear plant in Fukushima, Japan. About 80 percent of its electricity is generated from nuclear reactors. The governments of Germany and Switzerland have decided to phase out nuclear power. Monday, June 27, 2011 07:53 +0900 (JST) |
| Date: 27 June 2011 - Added by: KMC |
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