Yesterday I posted a video from Kevin Blanch making the claim that there has been a partial meltdown at the newly-reopened Sendai nuclear power plant that was presumably hit by the recent typhoon Goni. It is clear to me that there has been a news blackout on this. There were warnings prior to the typhoon hitting Japan, but there have been no confirmation that the nuclear power plant was alright. Apart from being situated close to an a active volcano it was already experiencing cracks and leaks. There have also been reports of electricity blackouts in the region. What do we have? We have Kevin's private sources and now we have some (perhaps not terribly authoritative radiation measurements). I know that Kevin is (putting it mildly) unorthodox and I wish he would calm down long enough to just put the evidence before us without having to sit through a lengthy rant. But, given the lies of the industry and an obvious news blackout I end towards giving Kevin Blanch the benefit of the doubt. SOMETHING is going on in Southern Japan, I am sure.
Radiation
Stations near Sendai Rising after 159 mph Typhoon 8/29/2015
This shows you how
radiation levels go up in a region when a nuclear power plant goes
back online. Every single rad monitoring station around the Sendai
nuclear power plant is rising! Water around Sendai has a metallic
look. The closest monitor read 57 nsv/h.. However it was still far
away need closer readings
Here is the latest from Kevin Blanch
PROOF
JAPAN restarted NUCLEAR p.p. AT SENDAI 1 has had a MELTDOWN
Here is some previous material, from opposition to reopening a nuclear power plant close to an active volcano, fears of an eruption, cracks and leaks as Typhoon Goni headed for southern Japan
Sendai nuclear power plant restart amid volcano threat
Sendai Japans 1st nuke plant to open since Fukushima leaking. 5 pipes were found to have been pouring radioactive water into the pacific ocean. Sendai is also experiencing volcanic eruptions around the nuclear reactor. Sendi is surrounded by 5 calderas. A 159 mile per hour typhoon is heading toward the nuclear plant. Sendai will continue operations however
Record
Breaking Typhoon Heading For Japan's Sendai Nuclear Power Plant
Cracks
& Leaks at Sendai as Typhoon Slams Nuclear Plant
“It
is very similar to late Weimar Germany. The parallels are
striking. There was also tremendous disillusionment with the
parliamentary system. The most striking fact about Weimar was not
that the Nazis managed to destroy the Social Democrats and the
Communists but that the traditional parties, the Conservative and
Liberal parties, were hated and disappeared. It left a vacuum which
the Nazis very cleverly and intelligently managed to take over.”
“The
United States is extremely lucky that no honest, charismatic figure
has arisen,”
Noam
Chomsky is America’s greatest intellectual. His massive body of
work, which includes nearly 100 books, has for decades deflated and
exposed the lies of the power elite and the myths they perpetrate.
Chomsky has done this despite being blacklisted by the commercial
media, turned into a pariah by the academy and, by his own admission,
being a pedantic and at times slightly boring speaker. He combines
moral autonomy with rigorous scholarship, a remarkable grasp of
detail and a searing intellect. He curtly dismisses our two-party
system as a mirage orchestrated by the corporate state, excoriates
the liberal intelligentsia for being fops and courtiers and describes
the drivel of the commercial media as a form of “brainwashing.”
And as our nation’s most prescient critic of unregulated
capitalism, globalization and the poison of empire, he enters his
81st year warning us that we have little time left to save our anemic
democracy.
“It
is very similar to late Weimar Germany,” Chomsky told me when I
called him at his office in Cambridge, Mass. “The parallels are
striking. There was also tremendous disillusionment with the
parliamentary system. The most striking fact about Weimar was not
that the Nazis managed to destroy the Social Democrats and the
Communists but that the traditional parties, the Conservative and
Liberal parties, were hated and disappeared. It left a vacuum which
the Nazis very cleverly and intelligently managed to take over.”
“The
United States is extremely lucky that no honest, charismatic figure
has arisen,” Chomsky went on. “Every charismatic figure is such
an obvious crook that he destroys himself, like McCarthy or Nixon or
the evangelist preachers. If somebody comes along who is charismatic
and honest this country is in real trouble because of the
frustration, disillusionment, the justified anger and the absence of
any coherent response. What are people supposed to think if someone
says ‘I have got an answer, we have an enemy’? There it was the
Jews. Here it will be the illegal immigrants and the blacks. We will
be told that white males are a persecuted minority. We will be told
we have to defend ourselves and the honor of the nation. Military
force will be exalted. People will be beaten up. This could become an
overwhelming force. And if it happens it will be more dangerous than
Germany. The United States is the world power. Germany was powerful
but had more powerful antagonists. I don’t think all this is very
far away. If the polls are accurate it is not the Republicans but the
right-wing Republicans, the crazed Republicans, who will sweep the
next election.”
“I
have never seen anything like this in my lifetime,” Chomsky added.
“I am old enough to remember the 1930s. My whole family was
unemployed. There were far more desperate conditions than today. But
it was hopeful. People had hope. The CIO was organizing. No one wants
to say it anymore but the Communist Party was the spearhead for labor
and civil rights organizing. Even things like giving my unemployed
seamstress aunt a week in the country. It was a life. There is
nothing like that now. The mood of the country is frightening. The
level of anger, frustration and hatred of institutions is not
organized in a constructive way. It is going off into
self-destructive fantasies.”
“I
listen to talk radio,” Chomsky said. “I don’t want to hear Rush
Limbaugh. I want to hear the people calling in. They are like
[suicide pilot] Joe
Stack.
What is happening to me? I have done all the right things. I am a
God-fearing Christian. I work hard for my family. I have a gun. I
believe in the values of the country and my life is collapsing.”
Chomsky
has, more than any other American intellectual, charted the downward
spiral of the American political and economic system, in works such
as “On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures,” “Rethinking
Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture,” “A New
Generation Draws the Line: Kosovo, East Timor and the Standards of
the West,” “Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky,”
“Manufacturing Consent” and “Letters From Lexington:
Reflections on Propaganda.” He reminds us that genuine intellectual
inquiry is always subversive. It challenges cultural and political
assumptions. It critiques structures. It is relentlessly
self-critical. It implodes the self-indulgent myths and stereotypes
we use to elevate ourselves and ignore our complicity in acts of
violence and oppression. And it makes the powerful, as well as their
liberal apologists, deeply uncomfortable.
Chomsky
reserves his fiercest venom for the liberal elite in the press, the
universities and the political system who serve as a smoke screen for
the cruelty of unchecked capitalism and imperial war. He exposes
their moral and intellectual posturing as a fraud. And this is why
Chomsky is hated, and perhaps feared, more among liberal elites than
among the right wing he also excoriates. When Christopher Hitchens
decided to become a windup doll for the Bush administration after the
attacks of 9/11, one of the first things he did was write a vicious
article attacking Chomsky. Hitchens, unlike most of those he served,
knew which intellectual in America mattered. [Editor’s
note: To see some of the articles in the 2001 exchanges between
Hitchens and Chomsky, click here, here, here and here.]
“I
don’t bother writing about Fox News,” Chomsky said. “It is too
easy. What I talk about are the liberal intellectuals, the ones who
portray themselves and perceive themselves as challenging power, as
courageous, as standing up for truth and justice. They are basically
the guardians of the faith. They set the limits. They tell us how far
we can go. They say, ‘Look how courageous I am.’ But do not go
one millimeter beyond that. At least for the educated sectors, they
are the most dangerous in supporting power.”
Chomsky,
because he steps outside of every group and eschews all ideologies,
has been crucial to American discourse for decades, from his work on
the Vietnam War to his criticisms of the Obama administration. He
stubbornly maintains his position as an iconoclast, one who distrusts
power in any form.
“Most
intellectuals have a self-understanding of themselves as the
conscience of humanity,” said the Middle East scholar Norman
Finkelstein.
“They revel in and admire someone like Vaclav Havel. Chomsky is
contemptuous of Havel. Chomsky embraces the Julien
Benda view
of the world. There are two sets of principles. They are the
principles of power and privilege and the principles of truth and
justice. If you pursue truth and justice it will always mean a
diminution of power and privilege. If you pursue power and privilege
it will always be at the expense of truth and justice. Benda says
that the credo of any true intellectual has to be, as Christ said,
‘my kingdom is not of this world.’ Chomsky exposes the pretenses
of those who claim to be the bearers of truth and justice. He shows
that in fact these intellectuals are the bearers of power and
privilege and all the evil that attends it.”
“Some
of Chomsky’s books will consist of things like analyzing the
misrepresentations of the Arias plan in Central America, and he will
devote 200 pages to it,” Finkelstein said. “And two years later,
who will have heard of Oscar Arias? It causes you to wonder would
Chomsky have been wiser to write things on a grander scale, things
with a more enduring quality so that you read them forty or sixty
years later. This is what Russell did in books like ‘Marriage
and Morals.’ Can
you even read any longer what Chomsky wrote on Vietnam and Central
America? The answer has to often be no. This tells you something
about him. He is not writing for ego. If he were writing for ego he
would have written in a grand style that would have buttressed his
legacy. He is writing because he wants to effect political change. He
cares about the lives of people and there the details count. He is
trying to refute the daily lies spewed out by the establishment
media. He could have devoted his time to writing philosophical
treatises that would have endured like Kant or Russell. But he
invested in the tiny details which make a difference to win a
political battle.”
“I
try to encourage people to think for themselves, to question standard
assumptions,” Chomsky said when asked about his goals. “Don’t
take assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a skeptical attitude
toward anything that is conventional wisdom. Make it justify itself.
It usually can’t. Be willing to ask questions about what is taken
for granted. Try to think things through for yourself. There is
plenty of information. You have got to learn how to judge, evaluate
and compare it with other things. You have to take some things on
trust or you can’t survive. But if there is something significant
and important don’t take it on trust. As soon as you read anything
that is anonymous you should immediately distrust it. If you read in
the newspapers that Iran is defying the international community, ask
who is the international community? India is opposed to sanctions.
China is opposed to sanctions. Brazil is opposed to sanctions. The
Non-Aligned Movement is vigorously opposed to sanctions and has been
for years. Who is the international community? It is Washington and
anyone who happens to agree with it. You can figure that out, but you
have to do work. It is the same on issue after issue.”
Chomsky’s
courage to speak on behalf of those, such as the Palestinians, whose
suffering is often minimized or ignored in mass culture, holds up the
possibility of the moral life. And, perhaps even more than his
scholarship, his example of intellectual and moral independence
sustains all who defy the cant of the crowd to speak the truth.
“I
cannot tell you how many people, myself included, and this is not
hyperbole, whose lives were changed by him,” said Finkelstein, who
has been driven out of several university posts for his intellectual
courage and independence. “Were it not for Chomsky I would have
long ago succumbed. I was beaten and battered in my professional
life. It was only the knowledge that one of the greatest minds in
human history has faith in me that compensates for this constant,
relentless and vicious battering. There are many people who are
considered nonentities, the so-called little people of this world,
who suddenly get an e-mail from Noam Chomsky. It breathes new life
into you. Chomsky has stirred many, many people to realize a level of
their potential that would forever be lost.”
The
terms of the Minsk ceasefire deal on eastern Ukraine cannot be called
into question, German Chancellor Merkel said in Berlin after meeting
with Ukrainian leader Poroshenko – just days after he said the
“times of pacifism” were “over.”
“The
first and foremost condition is that everything is done to make the
ceasefire agreement a reality. The task at hand means that what we
agreed in Minsk has to be respected,” Chancellor
Angela Merkel told reporters on Monday, referring to the February
peace plan based on an OSCE-brokered agreement between Kiev and
self-proclaimed rebel republics in eastern Ukraine.
Merkel
insisted that the Berlin meeting with Ukrainian President Petro
Poroshenko and French President Francois Hollande had been called to
help “implement
the Minsk deal, not to call it into question.”
The
German leader said that Poroshenko has assured her of Kiev’s
commitment to withdrawing weaponry from the front line of the
conflict – and a readiness to pull back weapons under 100mm in
caliber. While the withdrawal of lighter weaponry was not outlined in
the Minsk deal, eastern Ukrainian rebel forces unilaterally pulled
back arms of less than 100mm caliber at the end of July, saying it
was an act of good will in the hope that Kiev would follow suit.
According
to Merkel, a broader arms withdrawal was recently discussed in a
telephone conversation between the leaders of the ‘Normandy Four’
– France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine.
Both
Kiev and the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics
have been blaming each other for frequent ceasefire violations,
including the use of heavy weaponry that they had agreed to pull back
under the Minsk Protocol. The OSCE monitoring mission
has confirmed that
both sides have violated the agreement. Shelling continues to hit
parts of the densely populated city of Donetsk: in July, one person
was killed and several others injured as Ukrainian
forces shelledresidential
blocks and a city hospital. Overall, the conflict has claimed more
than 6,700 lives since Kiev sent in the army in April of 2014 for
what it called an “anti-terrorist
operation.”
Poroshenko
‘sought backing for all-out war’?
However,
it is the recent statements by Poroshenko that have been interpreted
as signs of the imminent resumption of all-out war in the
rebel-controlled areas. On Saturday, the Ukrainian leader bluntly
stated that “the
Minsk agreement despite all criticism has given us time to build up
Ukraine’s defense,” adding
that “the
times of airheaded pacifism and shortsighted rejection of security
issues are forever in the past now.”
With
Poroshenko’s remarks coming on the eve of his meeting with Merkel
and Hollande, Moscow reacted by saying it hoped that the European
leaders would put pressure on Kiev to stick to the Minsk agreements.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Merkel and Hollande, who
signed the Minsk deal as guarantors, will have to save their own
reputations and make sure that Ukraine does everything it has pledged
to do to achieve peace.
According
to political analyst Aleksandar Pavic, Poroshenko’s visit most
likely served as a public relations stunt amid serious domestic
economic problems. It could also mean he is seeking to gain backing
for a new military operation in eastern Ukraine.
“I
think Petro Poroshenko is just trying to get additional public
support for what he’s being prepared to do, inside and outside
Ukraine: a new push to resume war in Ukraine. So, I think he probably
has the backing of his Western sponsors, and this is just something
that needs to be more public… Obviously, the rhetoric that’s
coming out of Kiev is that Minsk, the Minsk agreements, are pretty
much dead,” Pavic
told RT.
The
analyst believes that one of the major problems forcing Poroshenko to
seek more public support is the rampant corruption in
post-coup “oligarchic-run”
Ukraine
– corruption that he has publically vowed to fight. Media reports,
such as one published by the German agency dpa, suggested that
fighting corruption in Ukraine was to be the focus of the agenda in
Berlin.
“Nobody’s
serious about dealing with corruption in Ukraine. It’s obvious
after more than a year, a year and a half of the war, ever since the
Maidan, that, if anything, Ukraine is even more corrupt than it was.
It’s now a place being run by the oligarchs, and it’s a much less
democratic place than it was,” Pavic
said, adding that the new Ukrainian authorities have only been
consistent in their push for war in Donbass.
Calling
Poroshenko’s Saturday statement on the Minsk deal “scandalous,” the
analyst pointed to the lack of response coming from the West.
“In
effect, he’s saying that, “No, we weren’t interested in peace
when we were negotiating the Minsk agreement. We were just interested
in buying time because we were losing the war, and now that we are
rearmed, we’re ready to resume the war.” Western capitals haven’t
responded, and really needed to respond very negatively to
Poroshenko’s statements if they were serious about real peace in
Ukraine and the Minsk agreement… They’re actually encouraging
Poroshenko to resume war,” Pavic
said.Wha
Breaking: Hollande and Merkel back Putin's Ceasefire Plan, Minsk II salvaged
Unbeknownst
to most consumers of US corporate media, radiation in the ocean from
the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster has finally reached the United
States’ West Coast, impacting fisheries along the Pacific Ocean.
Three
years later, these and other effects of Fukushima are only beginning
to appear.
Helen
Caldicott, former President of the Physicians for Social
Responsibility, examines the radiation-related health risks, and
other lasting consequences of the calamity in her new book Crisis
Without End.
In
this talk she sheds light on these trends, giving an overview of how
they impact not only the people of Japan, but the United States and
the rest of the world comparing it with the ongoing Chernobyl
disaster which scientists estimate has so far killed over a million
people.
Caldicott
also shares her judgement on how these lasting impacts should impact
U.S. nuclear policy. A trained physician, Caldicott is also the
author of several other books, including If You Love This Planet and
The New Nuclear Danger.
Record
warmth for Svalbard: – We see the glaciers retreat
Svalbard
has never had such a mild summer this year, reports the Norwegian
Meteorological institute. People in Town are very worried about the
pleasant summer temperatures
Varmerekord
for Svalbard: – Vi ser jo breene trekke seg tilbake
–
Svalbard
airport, with the measurements back to the mid-1970s, has never
before had such a mild summer, " says Jostein Mamen by the
Norwegian Meteorological institute.
The
tour guide on Svalbard, Runa Solvang confirms that it has been hot.
–
It
has been lovely to sit out in the sun and eat breakfast, but at the
same time, there has been a nasty feeling. It is not the way it
should be, " she says.
Since
augustmåned not completely end, the average temperature will
probably go down to 6,6-6,8, think Mamen.
Currently,
the record is 6,4 average from the summer of 2007.
Also
other stations on Spitsbergen, for example Isfjord radio, Barentsburg
and Ny-Ålesund has been very mild in the summer. The latter two are
predicted to record, says the meteorologist.
Mamen
explains the high temperatures that it in general has been relatively
warm long over the Arctic in summer.
The tour guide on Svalbard, Runa Solvang, says the heat affects dogs negative. PHOTO: LINDA PEDERSEN / NRK
Difficult for dogs
Dog
owner Solvang tells that at times it was difficult for polar dogs.
–
It
has at times been too hot for them, I have heard about dogs who have
died of heat stroke, " says Scott while she fools around with
Greenland's dogs, 9 year old Loki. Today, he's enjoying his in light
fog and cooler temperatures.
Solvang
does not use the dog to tourists, she is a guide for a new
turistprosjekt in Longyearbyen, namely, to show off the mining
history in the abandoned mine 3. And there she is happy.
Veteran
67-year-old
Karl Vatvik who came to Svalbard in 1973 and thus has followed the
developments long, nodding that it has been a warm summer, but he is
still far more worried about the high temperatures during the
winters.
–
The
average temperature increases, havtemperaturen rises and the result
is that we see that both the glaciers and the sea ice decreases. We
can often not run the usual vinterveiene over the ice, " says
Vatvik that driver Svalbard Villmarkssenter, which among other things
offers dog sledding.
–
We
see it in the sea too – that higher temperatures lead to more fish
here. Now we have everything, mackerel, pollack, saithe and salmon
and trout. Whales, we also see a lot more than before, " he
says.
– I
notice good changes, especially the last 20 years, " says the
veteran, who until 1985 worked in the mines on Svalbard.
The heat of the summer is not completely unproblematic. PHOTO: JAN-MORTEN BJØRNBAKK / SCANPIX
Three generations
There
are not so many on Svalbard, which has to be a resident for so long.
Now includes the family Vatvik three generations.
The
son Tarjei (27) with the exception of three years in Mainland Norway,
has lived his whole life on Svalbard, also marks well the
differences.
–
We
see the glaciers retreat, " he says.
Meteorologist
Mamen says that last year's winter, i.e. 2013/14, the mildest of
which is registered on the Svalbard airport. Then follow 2011/12,
2005/06 and 2004/05, while this year's winter ports on the 13. space.
According
to information he has received informally there has been an
electricity blackout in southern Japan since the typhoon.
Whatever the truth, it is evident that there has been a news blackout on this. Anyone heard any news of Sendai since the typhoon hit southern Japan.
PS. "Kyushu said it will raise the plant’s power level after having plugged 69 of some 13,000 tubes in one of the plant’s three condensers. The company is not certain when the reactor will begin operating at full capacity." 8/21/2015
JAPAN NEW NUCLEAR MELTDOWN HAPPENING AT SENDAI
The
restarted nuclear WEAPONS POWER PLANT IN SENDAI JAPAN was directly
hit by the Typhoon and has been without POWER FOR 5 DAYS, reports are
coming in to ME that they have experienced a partial meltdown the
Readings around the plant support my sources, kevin D. blanch RADIO
FREE JAPAN RADIO FREE UNITED STATES REPORTING, kevin D. blanch
8/29/2015
“Sendai
1 Could Reach 95 Percent Power by Aug. 27
Aug.
27, 2015—Japan's Kyushu Electric Power Co. expects to ramp up its
890-megawatt Sendai 1 from its current 75 percent power level to 95
percent capacity Aug. 27 after repairing condenser tubes that may
have become contaminated with seawater.
Kyushu
said it will raise the plant’s power level after having plugged 69
of some 13,000 tubes in one of the plant’s three condensers. The
company is not certain when the reactor will begin operating at full
capacity.
Sendai
1, Japan’s first nuclear reactor to come on line since the nation’s
entire nuclear fleet was idled to respond to new post-Fukushima
safety standards, was connected to the electricity grid Aug. 14.”
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