Bloodbath in Bahrain, with ok of US

Watch these videos of protesters being murdered in Bahrain, then remember, Hillary Clinton green-lighted the use of Saudi forces there. Our hypocrisy is equalled only by the stupidity of our foreign policy agenda.

Police killing Bahrain civilian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtrZaHTIJK8&feature=player_embedded

Bahrain protester shot in head. Very graphic

Via ClusterStock and others.

Meanwhile, in Libya, we stand [...]

It’s getting apocalyptically bad in Japan

Fuel rods in reactors 4, 5, And 6 exposed; Four reactors have core damage

The worst is yet to come, I’m afraid…

Dodged a bullet

My prostate biopsy results came back no cancer, with no evidence of anything pre-cancerous. FYI for those interested, my urologist says saw palmetto does help some men some of the time. However, it also masks PSA counts, and can lower them to 50% of the actual count. Plus, the dosages are not standard, which [...]

Nuclear power is safe and reliable 99.999999% of the time

It’s that 0.000001% that is deeply worrisome.

Wisconsin. We’re not winning, not even close

I haven’t blogged much about Wisconsin for two reasons. First, based on my experience organizing anti- Iraq war protests, getting hundreds of thousands in the streets is no guarantee that demands will be met. You may just be ignored. Second, there’s been no call to arms from the major unions, no talk of massive [...]

Flat Top from the C Trail, Cedar City UT

The C Trail was built in 1996 to commemorate 100 years of Utah statehood. That snow covered mountain is Flat Top, elevation 10,600 feet. Cedar is 5,800 feet. I took this photo about ten minutes up the trail, and the trailhead is five minutes walk from our back door. This Spring I plan to [...]

Japan disaster likely to impact California economy

(Crossposted from CAIVN)

As Japan suffers from a horrendous death toll and substantial damage to several of its nuclear reactors, trade with California will unquestionably be impacted due to the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami.

Much of the trade both ways is in technology and electronics. If, say, major chip fabrication plants in Japan are down [...]

Chernobyl clean-up expert slams Japan, IAEA

Slamming the Japanese response at Fukushima, Russian nuclear accident specialist Iouli Andreev accused corporations and the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of willfully ignoring lessons from the world’s worst nuclear accident 25 years ago to protect the industry’s expansion.

It’s the usual suspects, greedy, irresponsible corporations and deliberately defanged regulatory agencies [...]

Finding the energy to do it right

The Diablo Canyon Power Plant is highly vulnerable to a tsunami

The severity of the earthquake tsunami catastrophe that struck Japan last Friday is just now being absorbed, in bits and pieces of anecdotal commentary. The idea that they were able to rescue a man from the rooftop of his home some 15 km [...]

Planetary disaster

The multiple disasters in Japan will affect the entire planet. Business will be seriously disrupted and God’s mercy on us all if the radiation gets bad and spreads.

Their government has been behind the curve the entire time, trying to put on a happy face when it was clear that things were continuing to [...]