Monday, March 28, 2011

3/11 onwards or else

In case you're still more interested in Facebook than in the Fukushima world catastrophe,read this:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/28/earlyshow/living/parenting/main20047775.shtml?tag=stack
Otherwise, read that here:
"This sort of mistake is not something that can be forgiven," Edano said sternly Monday.
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/03/28
And remember this:
"Plutonium can be shielded by a sheet of paper" : here I quote NHK news anchor.
Ok! But don't forget that once in the body, it is baaaaaaaaaaaad. Real bad.
Remember, Plutonium's half-life is 24,000 years.BAAAAAD
Read here for more
http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2011/03/12/japans-radiation-exposure-how-serious-is-it/

Read more here in French:http://www.electron-economy.org/article-l-arriere-plan-nauseabond-de-ce-drame-la-puissance-de-ce-que-par-pudeur-on-nomme-le-lobby-nucleaire-le-monde-70278377.html

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Hokusai REVISITED. We love you NIHON


The Great Wave off Kanagawa (神奈川沖浪裏, Kanagawa Oki Nami Ura, lit. "Under a Wave off Kanagawa")is a woodblock print by the Japanese artist Hokusai. An example of ukiyo-e art that inspired the impressionists.An example can be seen in Giverny, Monet's home. FRANCE LOVES JAPAN

Profit vs Life

Read the Guardian here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/12/japan-ministers-ignored-warnings-nuclear
and here from a Korean website/english:
http://www.peacemaking.co.kr/english/news/view.php?papercode=ENGLISH&newsno=1037&pubno=315&returl=%2Fenglish%2Fnews%2Flistall.php%3Fpapercode%3DENGLISH%26pageno%3D1%26q%3D%26ordertype%3D

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

INTO ETERNITY

Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storage, which is vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and to societal changes. In Finland the world’s first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock – a huge system of underground tunnels - that must last 100,000 years as this is how long the waste remains hazardous.http://www.intoeternitythemovie.com/
and watch the movie here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RurTvL7NWGc&NR=1

High Levels indeed

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/23_28.html
"Extremely high radiation found in soil

Japanese authorities have detected a concentration of a radioactive substance 1,600 times higher than normal in soil at a village, 40 kilometers away from the troubled nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture.

The disaster task force in Fukushima composed of the central and local governments surveyed radioactive substances in soil about 5 centimeters below the surface at 6 locations around the plant from last Friday through Tuesday.

The results announced on Wednesday show that 163,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium-137 per kilogram of soil has been detected in Iitate Village, about 40 kilometers northwest of the plant.

Gakushuin University Professor Yasuyuki Muramatsu, an expert on radiation in the environment, says that normal levels of radioactive cesium-137 in soil are around 100 becquerels at most. The professor says he was surprised at the extremely high reading, which is 1,630 times higher than normal levels."

Monday, March 21, 2011

LINKS to check regularly

http://www.irsn.fr/FR/Actualites_presse/Actualites/Pages/20110319_simulation_dispersion_panache_radioactif.aspx
The site above contains a planetary simulation of the radiation.

http://www.asn.fr/

If you want to have a look at the earthquake map in Japan since 3/11:
http://www.japanquakemap.com/

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

We're all Japanese 2

Go to the link below nd watch and listen to this couple and to this young woman.
They're about to take a plane and leave Japan.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2011/mar/15/japan-earthquake-evacuation-akita-airport

NO MORE WAR

WISCONSIN!FIGHT BACK!06:00 NO MORE WAR 09:50 !
Dennis Kucinich has always been my favourite.
http://kucinich.house.gov/
I quote : "Since being elected to Congress in 1996, Kucinich has been a tireless advocate for worker rights, civil rights and human rights"



I like this comment from EmileZ(+50p)
"Dennis Kucinich is the most terse, pithy, passionate, inspiring, truthful, righteous, federal representative we've got (that I am aware of).
He is picking it up where Dr. King left off."

Monday, March 14, 2011

Sunday, March 13, 2011

We're all Japanese

The phrases we use when a man-made or natural catastrophe turns all our planet's inhabitants' eyes in the same direction.
I remember September 11 in 2001. 'We're all Americans.' That's what we said at the time about the man-made catastrophy.
Now I'll remember 3 /11 in 2011."We're all japanese." That's what we can say today about this natural and man-made (we build nuclear power stations)catastrophe.
Words, dates.But one present.One Human People. We think of you Japan.
http://www.newsonjapan.com/

Thursday, March 03, 2011

Emergency Alert System

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2011/02/what_is_a_presidential_alert_1.html
quote: "It may seem like a scene out of George Orwell's "1984" or some other apocalyptic Hollywood blockbuster, but government officials have wanted for years to establish a way for the White House to quickly, directly alert Americans of impending danger."

H.Clinton on media

I posted this video which was suppressed, and then reappeared. I hope my pupils can watch it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zW4AKrOIak&feature=player_embedded

Tuesday, March 01, 2011

an Oscar for INSIDE JOB

an oscar for best documentary:

... Banksy didn't get the Oscar but as a nominee, many people discovered his talent and his message.