Thursday, December 19, 2019

Rising Authoritarianism - Everywhere....


I've been so busy and also discouraged that I've found it difficult to blog. There is a cultural contagion of resentment and authoritarianism that is circulating ever more forcefully around the globe.

Today (12/19) I read in the Wall Street Journal that amendments to the charters of three Chinese universities prioritize "absolute adherence" to party rule over academic independence. (Wen, P. China Draws Fire over Academic Controls, p. A18).

China is hardly alone in tightening controls over free thought and speech. 

In 2014, Japan passed the Act on the Protection of Specially Designated Secrets, which tightened government controls and sanctions on information, allegedly at the behest of the US government:
Shusuke Mura. NSA whistleblower Snowden says U.S. government carrying out mass surveillance in Japan. Jun 4, 2016 http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/06/04/national/nsa-whistleblower-snowden-says-u-s-government-carrying-out-mass-surveillance-in-japan/#.V1RhAeSYJmw

Officially known as the Act on the Protection of Specially Designated Secrets, which went into effect in 2014, the law gives ministries and agencies discretion to classify information in areas such as defense, counterterrorism and diplomacy as state secrets. Leakers, including civil servants, could face up to 10 years in prison and those who instigate such leaks, including journalists, could be subjected to five-year prison terms.

The law was steamrolled through the Diet in 2013 by the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe despite a mass public outcry over the obscure nature by which information will be designated as a state secret.

In an interview with the weekly magazine Sunday Mainichi in its Tuesday edition, Snowden said the enactment of the controversial law was requested and designed by the U.S. government to facilitate the NSA’s espionage activities in Japan.
In the US, the private sphere is clamping down on the messy populism of the Internet by filtering and channeling search results. See here: http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2018/03/war-against-digital-commons-circulates.html


But its not just macro level policy where we see rising authoritarianism.


I see arbitrary demonstrations and exercise of power displayed across my everyday life in such varied contexts as the workplace, the freeway, and neighborly spaces.


Everyday sadism and arbitrary authoritarianism are unfortunate, but ultimately escapable elements, of human experience. However, we are living in a time when these dark aspects of the human condition are rising in a contagion of ressentiment, egomania, and nihilism.


How do we combat this rising dark storm?




 

32 comments:

  1. http://www.historic7thstreet.org/remembering/
    Kathy Jordan's Archive

    There is an archive on this site go to the Hyper link marked:

    "1972 nuclear tests on Glade Park shook up earth, residents"

    It is a pdf
    I found this on the webpage of a deceased reporter, who worked for the Grand Junction Paper, in the seventies in and eighties. This was archived in her site.  They were testing tactical nuclear weapons. More nuclear atrocities on americans by the government and corporations that few knew about, or if they did they did not understand the significance.

    1972 nuclear tests on Glade Park shook up earth, residents
    The explosion of 500 tons of TNT on Nov. 13, 1972, on Glade Park, as witnessed from the
    observation area. Robert Grant photo collection
    By Kathy Jordan
    Operation Mixed Company sounds like a title for a movie .
    It was not a movie but the name the Nuclear Defense Agency had given a series of eight nuclear
    blasts scheduled to begin Thursday, June 1, 1972, at 11 a.m.
    Grand Junction had been buzzing with talk about the nuclear test scheduled to take place  on
    Glade Park about 18 miles southwest of town.
    According to a news report in The Daily Sentinel, the blast went off at exactly on schedule, and
    within four seconds “a mushroom­shaped, charcoal­colored cloud ascended against the blue sky
    as the sound and a slight air blast were felt.

    This blast was the first of eight scheduled by NDA to learn its effects on the sandstone
    geological formations and a variety of structures that had been constructed at the site on Glade
    Park.

    People were curious, and most likely somewhat concerned about what effects a 20­ton blast of
    TNT would have on homes and businesses. While those in town waited to learn about after­effects, about 50 people had gathered at an
    observation area more than one mile from the blast site.
    Some folks in the valley said they felt their houses shake a little, but, for the most part, no one
    reported hearing or feeling anything.
    The last of eight tests was done on Monday, Nov. 13. It was a 500­ton blast. It left a crater 14
    feet deep and 160 feet wide , which the military assured the landowner would be refilled with
    dirt and planted with grass.
    According to The Sentinel news story, various military equipment was included in this test to
    gauge the air blast and ground­shock affects.
    Targets included parked helicopters, a remotely controlled flying helicopter, parked tanks and
    personnel carriers, bunkers, an aircraft shelter and foxholes. The NDA was also quick to assure
    the public that nearby water wells and springs would be checked for adverse affects.
    There were reports of broken windows in the five­to­six­mile range from ground zero, but these
    repairs were quickly dealt with, according to military spokesmen. Some Glade Park residents
    reported feeling the ground shake from the blast.
    A friend of ours, who asked that I not use his name, watched the preparation for the tests from its
    beginning.
    He said that the last blast was the most interesting because it was the one in which they set off
    500 tons of explosives. Watching the blast from the observation area, he said that as the shock
    wave came across to the observation area, the sagebrush appeared to be rolling. As the shock
    wave got to the observation area it felt like it was rolling through his body.
    He said there had been three large concrete re­enforced hangars built at the site and that the
    plutonium trigger had been placed on a large tower in the middle of the hangars.
    Before the blast, the hangars were filled with airplanes and helicopters to test the impact on
    equipment. When the blast went off, the equipment was destroyed and the steel doors blew off
    one hangar but the other two remained intact.

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    1. A new Army tank was placed at the blast site, and it was blown two and one­half miles from
      ground zero.


      Our friend helped with the cleanup and said that at the end of each day a Geiger counter was
      passed over the participants to test for radioactive exposure. After one such test he was told not
      to have an X­ray for five years.
      Several of us working at the Sentinel on both mornings couldn’t contain our curiosity and
      stepped outside hoping that we would see something of the blast. And we did. We could see the
      dark mushroom­shaped cloud as it appeared on the horizon in back of the monument. The cloud
      from the last blast was somewhat larger than the cloud from the first one.
      At the time it was an eerie feeling to me, as I stood there looking at the mushroom cloud. I had
      visions of hiding under our desks in grade school as we went through the drill on what we were
      supposed to do in case of a nuclear attack. I also remember thinking that I hoped we wouldn’t die
      from exposure to radiation from that cloud.
      I didn’t feel the earth move under my feet, but I did hear a noise like that of a sonic boom, and I
      got to witness some Western Slope history.

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    2. This was not a prell mixed dynamite explosion.  This was a tactical nuclear explosion, tested on a city with a population of 20 thouasnd people in america like the bombs in nevada were tested on americans and the Green run radioctive iodine release at hanford was.

      There are so many lies and hidden genocides of the american uclear security state. Far more than anyone will ever know. The united states has the  most and worst radiation-radionuclide cancer clusters in the world . Most you will really never here about and the manys all prettied up and sold to the world and atupid americans as the acceptable collateral damage, death , and suffering of millions.

      The United States is filled with hundreds if not thousands of nuclear atrocities the government and corporations committed against their own people and have gotten away with. The recent INL fire is another large example

      More Nuclear Tests in Murica You never heard of. A small tactical nuclear weapons  test recorded by grand junction paper reporter . The nuclear bomb was detonated 18 miles from her town

      Once a person has been exposed to enough radionuclide, to cause genomic mutations and birth defects, its genetic line is ruined. The mutations will become attenuated in further generations, if they can reproduce, until they cannot reproduce anymore. That is the way it is in many parts of bellarus. In ukraine. In growing parts of the usa and most of Japan.
      I guess the japanese people and government simply does not give a darn anymore because they continue to insinerate fukushima waste and spread it around the country everywhere. The United States and Japan are the most radionuclide contaminated countries in the world. Most major Universities in the USA are dominated by DOE and DOD funding. They tow the party line. They continue to do research on nuclear weapons, though the rotten cold war is passed. The cold war was an excuse for turning much of america into a nuclear sacrifice zone for corporate greed and profit

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    3. https://publicwatchdogs.org/that-metallic-taste-its-possible-youve-been-irradiated/

      CESIUM 137 AND STRONTIUM 90 IN THE AIR AT SAN ONOFRE
      People who surf near the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) are rumored to occasionally report a metallic taste in their mouth while surfing.
      Southern California Edison (SCE), the owners of the shuttered nuke plant, use a system called “Dilute and Discharge,” to dump radioactive water from its spent nuclear fuel pools into the Pacific Ocean. The spent fuel pools contain radioactive spent fuel assemblies that are deadly for tens of thousands of years.
      A metallic taste in the mouth is a symptom of radiation poisoning at a high dose. It is common in those who have gone through chemotherapy. Radiation has been known to alter the “taste sensation” from radiation to the taste buds. The metallic taste effect is caused by radiation induced brain damage.
      One survivor of the accident at Three Mile Island said, “the air smelled like metal.

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    4. https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/29/ohios-pro-nuke-assault-threatens-american-democracy-with-violence-more/
      Ohio’s Pro-Nuke Assault Threatens American Democracy with Violence & More
      by HARVEY WASSERMAN FacebookTwitterRedditEmail
      The nuclear industry’s violent assault on democracy in Ohio has taken a surreal leap. It could seriously impact whether Donald Trump will carry this swing state—-and the nation—-in 2020.

      Ohio’s GOP secretary of state has now asked the Ohio Supreme Court NOT to provide a federal judge with answers about key procedural questions surrounding the state’s referendum process.

      The short-term issue is about a billion-dollar bailout for two nuke reactors and two coal burners.

      Long-term it asks whether targeted violence perpetrated by paid thugs will now define our election process. And whether the public referendum will remain a workable part of our democracy

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    5. https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/state-report-lanl-lost-track-of-barrels-of-nuke-waste/article_e9de8348-17cc-11ea-bae3-c71a1aadd222.html

      The contractor that's been in charge of Los Alamos National Laboratory's operations for the past year lost track of 250 barrels of waste, while the company heading the legacy cleanup mislabeled and improperly stored waste containers and took months to remedy some infractions, according to the state's yearly report on hazardous waste permit violations.

      Triad National Security LLC, a consortium of nonprofits that runs the lab's daily operations, had 19 violations of its permit from the New Mexico Environment Department. Newport News Nuclear BWXT Los Alamos, also known as N3B, which is managing a 10-year cleanup of waste generated at the lab, was cited 29 times.

      Triad's most notable violation was shipping 250 barrels of mostly mixed waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad without tracking them. Mixed waste contains low-level radioactive waste and other hazardous materials. Inspectors found records still listed the waste at the national lab.

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    6. Trillion Dollar Insanity Weapons in space aimed at us to fill the nepotistic coffers of Kushner

      The Very Bad Space Force Deal, by KARL GROSSMAN Unless grassroots action somehow stops it, it looks likely that the Trump scheme for a Space Force, a sixth branch of United States armed forces, will happen. The U.S. House of Representatives last week passed the $738 billion military policy bill that gives Trump his sought-for Space Force as he moves for what he terms “American dominance in space.”The vote for what is titled the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2020 was 377 to 48. Some 189 Republicans and 188 Democrats voted for it. Six Republican House members voted no, along with 41 Democrats and one independent.

      The large Democratic yes vote came as a result of a trade-off for 12 weeks of paid parental leave for civilian federal employees. The New York Times’ article said Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and advisor, was pivotal. “It was Mr. Kushner who helped broker a deal to create the Space Force, a chief priority of the president’s, in exchange for the paid parental leave, a measure championed by his wife, Ivanka Trump, also a senior advisor to the president,” said The Times.

      The U.S. Senate now will consider the measure and pass it considering the Trump-controlled majority in the Senate, and Trump will sign it.

      Indeed, last week Trump tweeted: “Wow! All our priorities have made it into the final NDAA: Pay Raises for our Troops, Rebuilding our Military, Paid Parental Leave, Border Security, and Space Force!”

      Establishment of a U.S. Space Force would come despite the landmark Outer Space Treaty of 1967, put together by the U.S., then Soviet Union and the U.K., designating space as a global commons to be used for peaceful purposes.

      Meeanwhile 96 rotten old reactors , many of them fukushima style , most 30 and 40 years old and older, with embrittled cooling pipes and embrittled reactor vessels. 96 rotten old embrittled vessel and pipe rattletraps, that stand by themselves, in the trust of the same nuclear corporate types that caused fukushima . No government regulation to keep things fixed. To have adequate backups. To close down in emergency. The people of america completely at the mercy of these massive weapons of mass destruction and apocalypse aimed at all of us. Enough to destroy all life thousands of times over.

      They will keep them running with earthquakes going on with hurricanes bearing down with floods, when most of the cooling systems fail like at three mile island at brunswick at stp because the are evil greedy killers.

      Trillions for tactical nuclear weapons intermediate nuke missiles and nukes in space aimed at us . No money to reinforce beatup hurricane and quake ridden old beat wmd nuclear plants aimed at the lifeforce of earth. No money to close them. No money to take care of the murderous waste they produce or bury it. The murder machines are producing thousands of tons of the worst hilevel radionuclide waste possible annually. 20, twenty ton casks enough to kill a billion people. The answer of this demon fascist and its nepotistic henchman , is weapons in space aimed at us for no good reason . Only to murder everything and everyone. The corporate democrat fat-cat ghouls right on board with the evil.

      https://nuclear-news.net/2019/12/21/usa-house-democrats-let-jared-kushner-suck-them-in-to-a-very-bad-space-weapons-deal/


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    7. https://publicwatchdogs.org/that-metallic-taste-its-possible-youve-been-irradiated/

      MOST OF THE WESTERN UNITED STATES IS A NUCLEAR SACRIFICE ZONE

      The United states has the largest Nuclear Sacrifice Zones in the world. Their authoritaian nuclear security state has dominated their imbecilic sheep comurderers of the nuclear empire USA for Years. No qualms about nuclear bombing other countries like japan or the marshal islands in the pacific or the murderous depleted uranium , radioactive destruction of iraq and iraqs peoples genome

      http://www.salem-news.com/articles/november042011/nuke-weapons-bn.php


      New Mexico Takes the Cake. It is the most corrupt stupid state and police state i have ever been in.
      5 mountains full of nuclear waste and plutonium at los alamos and santa fe. A biological warfare test range at los alamos.
      Alamoagordo nuke bomb test range. WIPP largest and shoddiest nuclear waste repository that caught fire in 2013. The Church rock uranium nuclear accident and spill, that contaminated a quarter of the river drainages in the south west there. One of the worst in history.
      Operations dune buggy where several nuclear bombs were detonated to create the most radioactive natural gas in the world, that can never be used. Several nuclear bombs were detonated in northern and western New Mexico.

      New mexico is a big part of the Nuclear National Security state. They have multiple levels of federal security cops, nuclear security cops, military cops military national security cops that have authority over civilians. They have state nuclear security cops and their moronic local cops are some of the most brutal and barbaric in the world puting philippino cops and other third world dictator cops to shame probably even the new fascists in brazil .
      One fifth of New Mexicos residends are on probation, parole in private prisons of in jail. Many for pot. Bobos do not talk about it.

      New Mexico is now looking to turn an entire county and white sands national park into america'a and much of the worlds largest, so-called "Temporary, above ground hilevel nuclear waste Parking lot" Filled exclusively with Holtec corporation's, thin skinned 20 ton Hi level Radionuclide Storage casks. Thousands of acres
      Their infamously shoddy casks contain the worst radionuclides in the universe co60, st90, cs137-134, i129, iridium, u234-236, plutonium238-239 and more

      50 pounds of this hi level nuclear waste unshieldeded, would kill a grown person 20 feet away from it in 30 minutes.
      Tens of thousands of tons of the worst hilevel wate, stored above gound with no shelter, in huge parking lots. No shelter from the elements.The radionuclides in the cask bounce radiation off the metal they are in to generate heat, helium and hyrogen gas.

      The scheme was initiated by Former DOE secretary Rick Perry with Holtec. No doubt the trump family and kushner family are getting major kickbacks along with perry.

      Holtec, the doe , Crooked Democrats and republicans in New Mexico are pushing hard for this .



      Hundreds of acres and tens of thousands of tons, of less than inch thick metal containment casks that are already leaking in San Diego and the Ukraine after a few years

      https://publicwatchdogs.org/that-metallic-taste-its-possible-youve-been-irradiated/

      If even one or two of the casks catches fire or explodes, it will create a smoke cloud of radionuclide smoke debri and particles that will make arizona and new mexico uninhabitable.
      The university of newmxico is the most heavily funded nucear arms programs in the country. Sandia labs lawrence livermore, Universiy of California san diego nuclear weapons research Berkely Lawrence Livermore labs have strong presence in new mexico. Now blabber on about authoritariansm majia nasesan. Dont let these facts detour you. Continue the warmonger and nuclear war monger narartives and ignore the worst nuclear fascismm in history and in the world in your own back yard
      what a phoney

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    8. More of the worst authoritarian crimes possible under Trmps watch and encouraged by this Murderous maniac criminal who gets kickbacks for it.

      Nevada Accuses US Government of 'Secret Plutonium Smuggling'

      Associated Press • Dec. 18, 2019, at 12:31 a.m.
      By SCOTT SONNER, Associated Press

      RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada wants a federal judge to declare illegal what it calls the U.S. government's “secret plutonium smuggling operation” and order the removal of weapons-grade material already shipped to a security site north of Las Vegas over the state's objections.

      The latest filing in a yearlong legal battle asks U.S. District Judge Miranda Du in Reno to reject the government's motion to dismiss the state's lawsuit. Nevada is challenging the Energy Department's covert shipment of the highly radioactive material from South Carolina last year

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    9. Frank Zappa was raised, not too far from the worst Nuclear Meltdown in American History at the SMR sodium cooled test reactor by Ventura California. There were also two partial meltdowns there from 1960 to 1970. Frank Zappas dad was a research chemist at a MIC weapons test faciclity that was relatively close to Santa Susana. Young frank Zappa had ongoing sinus problems and ongoing intractable ear infection trouble living there.
      Frank Zapa's mother sought the help of military doctors and specialist to help with the debilitating infections and sinus polyps that were probably induced by all the particulates in the air from the surrounding nuclear testing. Frank Zappa was 12 yo then. Frank Zappa's doctor's, inserted radium pellets into Frank Zappas nose, as a child to shrink his sinus polyps. Frank Zappa died at age 53 from fulminant, metastatic, prostate cancer that had started in his late 40s. Most prostate cancers grow slowly unless one is exposed to internal radionuclide poisons and radiation.

      This is what Frank Zappa said about the American Republican party

      Steve Silberman
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      "Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance, smothered in balloons and ribbons." - Frank Zappa, born on this day in 1940.

      The truth also holds for many Corporate democrats and Corrupt politicians inside the beltway and outside it, that are part of the Authoritarian American Nuclear state that is kiling this planet.

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    10. TRUMP IS CUTTING THE BUDGET TO MONITOR AND TRY TO CLEAN THE HANFORD MESS IN HALF
      Massive Nuclear Explosion similar to Kyrshtym by Mayak Can Happen at Hanford if the site is not Monitored and tanks not taken care of.

      A Ten Thousand Gallon Tank at Mayak Exploded from Heat Decay. The Heat Deacy was from Strontium 90, Cesium 137, Cobalt 60 and Plutonium Stored in the Underground Tank. The explosion was equivalent to 100 tons of TNT. There are 55 million gallons of the same Radionuclide Mix stored at Hanford, in UnderGround Tanks. They used nitic acid to extract radionuclides at hanford as they did at Kyahym, by Mayak. The nitrates mixed with heat decaying rand hydrogen gas generating radionuclides are very much like the explosive brew that went off in Kyshtym in 1957 and there are 55 million gallons of the explosive brew at Hanford. The heat decay, heat emitting Radionuclides and Hydrogen gas generating explosive mix and the nitrates in the brew are very much at risk for a massive catastrophic chemical-radionuclide explosion . The Kyshtym disaster was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on 29 September 1957 at Mayak, a plutonium production site in Russia for nuclear weapons and nuclear fuel reprocessing plant of the Soviet Union.



      If the exlplosive stew becomes too concentrated and hot, the same thing will Happen there, contaminating a Great Portion of the Pacific NW USA and southe western Canada.

      Medvedev, Zhores A. (4 November 1976). “Two Decades of Dissidence”. New Scientist.
      Medvedev, Zhores A. (1980). Nuclear disaster in the Urals translated by George Saunders. 1st Vintage Books ed. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0-394-74445-2. (c1979)
      In 1957 the cooling system in one of the tanks containing about 70–80 tons of liquid radioactive waste failed and was not repaired. The temperature in it started to rise, resulting in evaporation and a chemical explosion of the dried waste, consisting mainly of ammonium nitrate and acetates (see ammonium nitrate/fuel oil bomb). The explosion, on 29 September 1957, estimated to have a force of about 70–100 tons of TNT,[10] threw the 160-ton concrete lid into the air.[8] There were no immediate casualties as a result of the explosion, but it released an estimated 20 MCi (800 PBq) of radioactivity. Most of this contamination settled out near the site of the accident and contributed to the pollution of the Techa River, but a plume containing 2 MCi (80 PBq) of radionuclides spread out over hundreds of kilometers. Previously contaminated areas within the affected area include the Techa river, which had previously received 2.75 MCi (100 PBq) of deliberately dumped waste, and Lake Karachay, which had received 120 MCi (4,000 PBq).
      In the next 10 to 11 hours, the radioactive cloud moved towards the north-east, reaching 300–350 km (190–220 mi) from the accident. The fallout of the cloud resulted in a long-term contamination of an area of more than 800 to 20,000 km2 (310 to 7,720 sq mi), depending on what contamination level is considered significant, primarily with caesium-137 and strontium-90. This area is usually referred to as the East-Ural Radioactive Trace EURT

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    11. They are mostly pronuclear they simply lie about it. It is ironic because the world will probably be wiped out by more nuclear accidents and or nuclear war, than any protracted climate change. That means much sooner. Most of the worlds old delapidated reactors, are completely vulnerable to the catastrophes climate change is wreaking. They have no where to put the waste. Most of the northern hemisphere is flooded with radionuclides. These gits have no real solutions. They are distraction and counterintelligence, put forth by fascism with a smile.

      https://mariannewildart.wordpress.com/2019/12/13/dirty-diesel-to-back-up-far-dirtier-nuclear-waste-new-consultation-on-deisel-generator-power-for-sellafield-back-up/

      Climate Change is real. Astrophysicists have valid proof of it from planet’s with atmospheres. Venus, Mars, Earth, Gas Giants.
      The composition of the atmosphere of the earth is changing from human activity and radionuclide flooding. It effects the climate. Humans burn quadrillions of gallons of fossil fuels a year.
        Atmospheric gas changes like sulfuric acid and greenhouse acceleration on venus, actually caused
      geophysical changes  on venus and more vulcanism. Carbon dioxide traps heat in green houses.
      The gas giants have constant dynamic, climate-change because they are volatile. Any slight change in atmospheric composition causes major changes in temperature in large areas. Venus could never support life from its precipitous, climate change cascade.
      Gas giant moons, with atmospheres, have climate change. These facts, go  right past climate-deniers. The ones who say the earths climate, is only affected by the suns radiant energy or the earth’s
      magnetic field, other distractions.
      Radionuclides catalyze chemical reactions in the earths atmosphere, affecting the ozone layer and affecting climate in other ways.
      Many radionuclides like cs137, co60, st90, iridium, uranium, radium  plutonium generate their own heat and when concentrated or seqiuestered.
      The nucleoape countries have dumped, a half million or more tons of high and medium level radionuclides into the arctic ocean, including old nuke subs and reactors by the americans, russians french and british..
      Plutonium , rcesium and iridium  are pyrophoric in trace amounts like many radionuclides they promugate fires.
      They spontaneoulsy set off fires in already climate changed areas .
      Radionuclide pollution helped catalyze the wildfires at massive and large nuclear sites,   like the Idaho National Nuclear Lab Nuclear Reservation where 900, 000 acres burned. There was also Santa Susana
      Accumulated hyrdrocarbon residues on the ground from burning hcs all these years, probably helps  wildfires burn. Radioactive gasses like  and krypton from  nuclear reactors and radium in clouds,  from burning hydrocarbons, cause free radical reactions in the upper atmosphere and lower atmosphere where the radium is, that deplete ozone.
      Dr Busby has measured large amounts of radium from rain- cloud outbursts in South america. That radium comes from the radium that exists in fossil fuels, that are burned in internal combustion engines.
      The combination of climate change and nuclear-flooding, of the earth with radionuclides, is bringing down systems faster than most can comprehend.

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    12. https://youtu.be/NLF9VufcvAM

      The Stupidity of Los Alamos Labs
      Nuclear Hotseat

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    13. I have no love for the Chinese or any nucleo-ape country that markets Nuclear Energy

      The Chinese are trying to Push 5G like the Russians,  Eu and american Corporate bullies are.
      It is rotten what they are doing in Tibet.
      I feel that if there were not so much Suppression of Real Fukushima Information by the Japanese and Western Nucleoape Medias  and counterintelligence operatives American's might have risen up and gotten more of the delapidated Reactors is the USA closed. that are on the verge of meltdowns. The corporate authoritarians have taken power and that is a forgone conclusion, at this point. Too Bad for america.


      https://youtu.be/_BfmPdut2x4

      The Bright and Beautiful
      All Worship The Bomb

      I Do Not trust Nuclear War Monger Propaganda
      I do not trust any Rupert Murdoch Publiaction including The Wal Street Journal about many things in and around China. I do not think the Chinese should Chinese Students free speech but at the same time there was plenty of authritarian corporate and rightwing propaganda forced down my throat as a University Engineering Student in the USA.
      I am unclear about the Falun Gung in China for example.


      www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-says-pro-trump-media-outlet-used-artificial-intelligence-create-n1105951

      Amazing that NBC printed this


      I know that the Chinese successfully rose up in two Provinces, where the Chinese government Proposed Nuclear Reactor Projects and a pliutonium processing plant and successfully defeated the projects.


      There has recently been a great deal nuclear war monger propaganda in the us to help justify the insane Nukes in space program the Expansion of tactical Nukes Intermediate Nuclear missiles, Tactical Nuclear weapons development in the USA and much of it was directed at the chinese who have a nigligible ICBM nuclear missile stockpile compared to the USA and the Russians.

      https://allthingsnuclear.org/gkulacki/fake-news-about-chinese-nuclear-weapons

      https://nuclear-news.net/2019/07/15/general-mark-milley-wants-low-yield-nuclear-missile-warheads-doctrine-of-a-winnable-nuclear-war/


      This fake story was all twitter and the internet

      www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2019/12/17/fake-news-and-nuclear-weapons-dont-play-well-together-in-the-south-china-sea/amp/


      This is what Kushner and Trump have successfully pushed through . Close to a trillion dollar budget that includes the insane nuclear weapons in space directed at earth, nuclear space force inititiative and tactical nuclear weapons and intermediate nuclear weapons, that can be used in first strike
      https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/18/the-very-bad-space-force-deal/

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    14. Delivered to you! Humorous newspaper Japanese Twitter

      Dec 21
      [New 2 minute impact] If this woman's full-scale appeal from Fukushima spreads not only domestically but also abroad, it would not only shed light on children who could be killed by the Abe administration's abandonment policy, but also deceive Will be enough to stop the Tokyo Olympics full of dreams. pic.twitter.com/xwVsTNz71u

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    15. https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2019/12/23/Test-of-fathers-sperm-might-reveal-autism-risk-in-children/8731577114528/

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    16. https://www.madcowprod.com/2019/11/18/cartel-behind-20-ton-drug-move-in-philadelphia-to-skate-on-charges/

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    17. How did the tories win in britain last week? They did exactly what George w Bush did in America, in 2000 and 2004. They had the media rail that exit polls showed bush won in 2000 and 2004 . The exit polls were of course all fake.
      The toreys did the same thing, late in the day of UK voting this time. They used exactly the same playbook. They declared that fake exit polls, showed the Totrey's had won

      The difference is, that the republicans had slimey electronic voting everywhere after 911 and the patriot act in 2004.

      In 2000, in America they suppressed voting, blocked poll stations and sent army’s of lawyers across the country and mainly to Florida to rig the votes and contest hanging chads to the last minute, so that the election was taken to the supreme court.

      In 2004, with rigged electronic voting machines, they flipped votes, purged voting roles, had the media lie in unison about exit polls sayin Bush had won , kept people from voting in key states and essentially rigged the whole election. Thus we have Iraq and the the ongoing Afghanistan quagmires.

      In America the corporate criminal democrats, are more than happy to share power, with fascistic, fake-antigolabist war mongers, like trump and its army of neoconservative war mongers. Trump is a fake antiglobalist by the way. He always manages to go to Davos, and most of the other globalist-bankster racketeering meetings.
      Obama was a bankster stooge put their to make way for the New-New World Order, that has a decidedly fascist flavor

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    18. Thus we have mutitrillion dollar nuclear weapons in space aimed, at us and a new insane nuclear arms race againat Russia and China, while the whole bloody country falls apart.

      We have Pelosi and Schumer pushing through an extension of the Patriot act, with the Republicans, so that our govt can continue mass surveillance on us through their multibillion dollar NSA facilities in Utah and Virginia.

      Bojo suppressed the vote. Bojo made voting inaccessible in important precincts, used a coordinated corporate media to slander Corbyn for 4 years and probably deliberately had votes changed in the more rotten burroughs. A chip off the old block. He is a supreme con-artist and liar like Trump.

      There is no democracy in the west. Why pretend anymore? I do not like what the the Chinese have done in Tibet, or their mass surveillance but they do not lie about it and pretend. There was a general mass strike of truckers in china a few years ago and the govt had to give in to their demands. In the Uk and USA there is pretend democracy. The banksters and neocons institute coups everywhere. Ifbthere were any meaningful strikes or demonstrations in the USA or or UK they would call out troops and start shooting people and locking people up. We live in a world of extremendelusion and lies in the west. Bojo will not even pursue Brexit.
      This is the first thing he is doing since his fake landslide

      As for  Brexit, Tories’ first priority is to ban ‘anti-Semitic’ boycotts, envoy says
      and attack free speech
      https://www.rt.com/uk/476053-brexit-tories-bds-ban/
      Poor UK democracy going down in flames.

      Now as they take apart your NHS and turn the UK  into a dickensonian hell, much like America you can tell the morons that voted for the fascist that they deserve what they got, as he hands them their arse.

      Trump is completely deregulating everything here. Especially the old aging nuclear industry, with 96 old beat up reactor on the verge of melting down. He soes nothing about radioactive food from Japan. Bojo will do much the same. Lucky you are not in the UK


      There was no access to pro-labor blogs, upto and after the election. Probably the same for many others too. The tories simply burned as many Labour ballots as they could.  The election results wwre 14 million for Torey's, 12 million for Labours and 16 million people did not vote. The election rigger's simply discarded Labour votes in key regions.

      There is ample evidence that MI5 was involved in this election promoting propaganda and lies , as they were in the 1934 UK general election.
      The election results are a farce, considering the turnout and results n Scotland. It was a completely rigged election. Like America and Australia.

      The republicans have already purged hundreds of thousands of American Voters in key states, like Georgia, Kansas, Texas, Florida and Ohio.

      https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/17/stop-illegal-purge-outrage-georgia-gop-removes-more-300000-voters-rolls

      The Scots voted overwhelmingly labour because, the ptb could not rig the election there. Mark my word,  they will attemp a coup in Scotland, if Scotland votes for independence.
      That is what the bankers and oligarchs have done, all over the world now. They have decided that fascism suits them best. They can afford army’s of intelligence agents and internet agents , to consolidate their authoritaria agendas.

      From a Scottish Commenter
      "The Scottish people are not very different from their English neighbours. I know there’s the independence issue, but how could Scotland reject the Tories so comprehensively while England embrace them? Very odd."

      Trumps Crony Neoconservative agenda Next Stop in the Americas The democratically elected leader or mexico



      https://christopher-black.com/trump-bring-me-the-head-of-luis-obrador/

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    19. Ursula Peró
      @JoinUrsula
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      Que nadie aprendió de #Fukushima? Donde van a ocultar la basura radioactiva que genera la planta? twitter.com/EcoInternetDrG…

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    20. https://khn.org/news/medical-bill-of-the-month-head-cold-throat-swab-dna-tests-insurer-coughed-up-25k/
      28,000 dollar medical bill from a aore throat and simple throat swab

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    21. I went too a Christmas evangelical service, before  Chrsitmas.
      It was a hispanic preacher. He was at one time an illegal Mexican worker in Mississippi.
      The man was trying to break in as an evangelical preacher. He spoke about how Jesus spoke to common people. The followers of Jesus were common, poor shepards, he said "They were not rich patricians. Jesus died for our sins.
      There is One god  Men should not be with men  or try to be women." He talked about Jesus's love of the people and how Jesus taught love.

      Towards the end his sermon, it turned political when he glorified Trump and condemned the Trumps opponents. I said to myself, "It's true there are even small evangelical churches, where preachers are pushing these politics."
      There are evangelical prosperity ministries with huge congergations around the country that preach these things, around america. Their charlatan money hustlers on tv 24 hpurs a day.

      The guy was from Mexico. He gave a twisted testimony, at the end, about how he got put in a coma by white racists, in Mississippi, when he was in his early twenties..
      He said he, later was taken in  by a a rich white guy in Mississippi. He said he prayed with the guy and was healed. He said he was converted to this  evangelical way of thinking. The rich white guy was kind of a racist but it did not bother this mexican preacher, because they share Jesus  and prayer.  The preacher was condemning blacks as a problem in America.  I walked out.


      The woman I went with, wondered why i left. I told her I could not listen to a sermon, that was a veiled political hate  speech.
      I tried to explain the turn of the century massacre of black people, in america. Went right by her. She had no basic information about the struggles and assasination of MLK. They insulate themselves through, their blind faith and addiction to emotional avoidance through prayer. Too brainwahed to realize they are condoning hate and division and not love.
      For me there is not so much hope left, that people can get together and close nuclear reactors before they fail or stop building these crazy nuclear nuclear weapons. Weapons that cannot and should never be used. Weapons made with radioacctive poisons,  pollute us to death with radioactive substances in their manufacture.



      Very sad what things are coming too.

      https://youtu.be/_BfmPdut2x4

      The Bright and the Beautiful.
      All worship the Bomb



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    22. We now live in a world of smoke and mirrors, and dangerous, careles propaganda that has transcended anything we have seen before. Baldfaced lies, that have no purpose, other than to make more expensive, polluting nuclear weapons and pursue a crazy space force, to put nuclear bombs in space aimed at us.
      Tim Shorrock
      @TimothyS
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      Dec 26
      Yes. In this case, Japanese state media.
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      Devin T. Stewart
      @devintstewart
      · Dec 26
      Was the missile alert just fake news? https://twitter.com/gearoidreidy/status/1210226561615482881…
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      @TimothyS
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      Dec 26
      False alarm. Be prepared for more.
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      Vipin Narang
      @NarangVipin
      · Dec 26
      Deleting all tweets on this North Korean missile test false alarm

      https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/27/space-warriors-democrats-give-trump-his-space-force-for-xmas/

      President Trump last week signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2020 that establishes a U.S. Space Force as the sixth branch of the U.S. armed forces—despite the Outer Space Treaty designating space as a global commons to be used for peaceful purposes.

      Reported Space News: “Trump signed the NDAA flanked by top defense and military officials at a ceremony at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland.” It quoted Trump saying: “Today marks a landmark achievement as we officially inaugurate the newest branch or our military, the U.S. Space Force. This is very big and important moment.”


      “It is clear to me that what the Pentagon has long called ‘the largest, and most expensive, industrial project in human history—‘Star Wars,’ will drive our nation’s economy over the cliff,” said Gagnon

      200 more words

      It will not simply be wars in space. There will be a direct threat to us. The United atatea mulitary has an active first strike nuclear policy. Life has no value to these people

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    23. Donald Trump is easily the most psychotic President, in American History. More psychotic than mad King George of England. Easily as psychotic and dangerous as any Ed Gein or Mark Chapman type and, yet it continues as POTUS
      Think about the amount of money and resources, to keep this abyssmal lie and massive flim-flam afloat. The number of handlers and personal nursemaids, to keep this 300 pound psychotic, tub-of-lard perpetuated.
      The amount of lying and delusion going on.
      Think about the amount of media attention to keep it going. The termendous amounts of fake PR, lying and delusion going on , to keep that psychotic baboon”s fake image and persona accepted as anything more than psychotic ranting. Policies that are destroying the country and the world, in this warped country. The blunt-forced propaganda, brainwashing and delusion going on in the USA, to keep this up. It would take several psych techs  to maintain this thing in a psychiatric facility and, it is the president of the United States.
      More than a trillion dollar budget for intermediate nuclear missiles, nuclear weapons in space aimed at us, and new tactical nuclear bombs
      That is with the 8 year plan of upgrading the massive nuclear arsenal. The lunatic is completely ignoring 90 old beat-up, embrittled nuclear reactors on coasts in times of extreme flooding, hurricanes, and earthquakes. Deregulate them and keep them running forever, the madman says. His ralleys are hatefests. He detained thousands toddlers and children in cages. Torn away from their parents, that they will never see again.

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  2. You can thank the Democrats for the rise in authoritarianism. They seem to have it in for the Bill of Rights. Clever and insidious they are and persistently eating away at freedom. Of course they will project this onto anything that comes their way in the form of criticism. Watch below and see what I mean.

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  3. It seems to me that anyone who spends much time at an American university is lucky if discouragement is the worst consequence. Despair might be an even more appropriate response. Hasn't political correctness (another of Lenin's numerous gifts to humanity) more or less shut down free expression in Academia? Though once rather pleasant and stimulating environments the contemporary university has become a kind of intellectual gulag. How one of the worst thinkers in Western Civilization, Karl Marx, has managed to distort reality for generations is a real puzzle. One can be very intelligent and still fall for this insidious monstrosity called Marxism though being stupid can help a great deal. Do millions more need to die before human kind finally kicks Marxism out of existence? I suppose persons who live primarily in their heads are especially vulnerable to utopic visionaries . . . or was Marx simply the expression of an hostility generated over centuries between Jews and Christians which finally manifested as a poisoned theory that would somehow make up for all the pogroms . . . was Marx the poisoned cookie?

    I see today's academic as working very hard to ascend a tall tree until they come upon a branch that suits them. Then they crawl along this branch as far as they can. Then they pull a pocket saw out and began to saw off the part of the branch they are clinging to until . . . well, they are in free fall!

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  4. Inside the Underbelly of Academia & Future of Higher Education
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIKtfmP84zA

    I can hardly imagine a more discouraging environment than a modern American university. Gone are the halcyon days when professors had a great deal of freedom and were highly regarded. When it was a small minority that pursued higher education; and that minority could read and write well.

    But that is no consolation for those who have worked hard to attain a tenured position only to find it somewhat of a deadly thing like working at a nuclear power plant. I wonder what the suicide rate is for college professors?

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    1. I am a nobody. I am a nothing.
      Dr. Nadesan is one of the finest teachers, I have ever had the opportunity to interact with. She has the mental-organizational skills, patience and proctoring skills that makes her one of the most excellent teacher's and professors.
      Dr. Nadesan has an innate sense of fairness and balance that pushes people to inquire and inspires people to push the boundaries of their knowledge. I know, I have watched her for 7 years, here and elsewhere. She is not limited to ideas and information derived from books. She is quite rigorous, in her structural frameworks for communication but, she leaves things opened for people to think outside-of the-box and derive interprations that she will discuss. Dr. Nadesan's level of expertise as a teacher, and astute academician, sets her past the forefront of her peers in the subject matter she discusses and writes about. It relates to these most-important and relevent issues that confront us in the 21st century.
      She is light-years ahead in her field. in topics of biopolitics studies of Crisis Communication, related to the most pressing environmental and nuclearity issues tied governmentality, confronting the human race, today.
      Dr. Nadesan is probably one of the most influential and relevant modern thinker's, that exists, who deals with this subject matter that encompasses varied the disciplines of science , politics, economics and communication. She is precise and yet passionate . She is pushing limit's, in defining and setting frameworks that will make or break our existence, as sentient beings on this planet.
      I would be priviliged, to actually take and sit in on, any of her courses.
      I have only read one of her books. Now that I have time, I will read more. I have had the honor to be taught by some of the best Medical Toxicologists in the world. Majia is one of the best teachers, I have ever had. The subject matter she undertakes, is the most complex and emotionally draining, most of us will ever be confronted with. I am extremely empathetic to the challenges she faces in pursueing it. If Dr. Nadesan, has to take a break or give-up the blog, I believe most of us would be understanding of her position in doing so, though I hope she can continue being influential in all the other settings she works in. I am thankful to her for the things I have read by her and learned from her. I have not been a very good student.
      I am sorry.
      I will always look for your guidance and work Dr. Nadesan. Thankyou so much.

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    2. The unknown can only post dumb videos. It is a passive-aggresive hippocrit, that cannot write well or read well. It simply posts dumb or fake propaganda videos. Should not feed the troll but this one is pretty silly

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    3. Brenda Norrell
      @brendanorrell
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      Dec 21
      RCMP called for snipers and said “use as much violence toward the gate as you want” at roadblock of Wet’suwet’en against gas pipeline. RCMP officer states that arrests would be necessary for sterilizing the site.

      Exclusive: Canada police prepared to shoot Indigenous activists, documents show
      theguardian.com
      THIS IS THE WAY IT IS IN USA,CANADA. Police ready to shoot to death indiginpus pieline activists in Canada. In merika they charge people with felonies. Fascist fuko wpuld shoot activists like nixon did at Kent state Thats
      how ugly things are. They used thugs to keep reactors in Ohio open that are ready to blow

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    4. Donald Trump is easily the most psychotic President, in American History. More psychotic than mad King George of England. Easily as psychotic and dangerous as any Ed Gein or Mark Chapman type and yet it continues as POS.
      Think about the amount of money and resources to keep this abymal lie and massive flim-flam afloat. The number of handlers and personal nursemaids, to keep this 300 pound psychotic tub-oflard afloat.
      The amount of lying and delusion goung on.
      Think about the amount of money and resources to keep it going. The termendous amounts of fake PR, lying iand delusion going on in this evil to keep that psychotic baboon''s fake image and persona floating in this warped country. The blunt-forced propaganda, brainwashing and delusion going on in country, to keep this up. It would take an army of psych techs and security techs to maintain this thing in a psychiatric facility and, it is the president of the United States.

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    5. I went to a University with a large right-wing student body and faculty. The economics professor there was fired, for the way he taught economics in the good ol USA. He was a good teacher.

      I got into an arguement with process engineering professor, about a barge, that sunk in the MIssissippi river that was simply left there.

      The barge was full of chlorocarbons and dioxin-like chemicals used for transformers.
      The professor never lived that down. The professor harrassed me in my classes and was not fair. I put somethng like this up before and nadesan censored it. Deleted it because the troll got nasty with it and objected to it. She is a hippocrit. I cannot do anything about that. Too bad that she has no integrity. Why post. The poisons will get everyone. The trolls usual pejoratives about scientists or engineers and academia. Shes right. This society is sick and she is a contributor to the sickness the lives in a bubble with no honor or integrity. To bad For Japan, the world and us

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