A Japanese Parliament report says that the government’s claims about Fukushima are a complete lie. A Japanese government inquiry has come to the conclusion that the nuclear accident at Fukushima was a preventable disaster rooted in government-industry collusion and the worst conformist conventions of Japanese culture. But if Fukushima radiation is heading for the West Coast of the US, that won’t be much comfort to us.
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Linda Howe reports that on May 17, 2012, an FBI and Homeland Security "Roll Call Release" for Police, Fire, EMS and Security Personnel was distributed on the internet. The release states that "terrorists may seek to emulate overseas attacks on theaters here in the United States because they have the potential to inflict mass casualties and cause local economic damage." Was the Aurora shooter James Holmes, like army psychiatrist Major Nidal Hassan, who killed 12 soldiers and one civilian at Fort Hood in 2009, a jihadist who was "turned" by the internet?
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Google Moon offers the opportunity to examine lunar photographs in detail, and researchers are finding some very unusual images. Of course, they will all be dismissed as things like dropped pixels or distortion, but frankly, there are too many of them at this point. Filmmaker Jose Escamilla is also working on a documentary about the moon that offers a narrative very different from NASA’s. To see the trailer, click here.
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