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Fukushima to be reborn as $2.7bn wind and solar power hub

Shiko Ueda and Suguru Kurimoto
Asian Review
Sun, 10 Nov 2019 17:16 UTC

Japan's northeastern prefecture of Fukushima, devastated during the 2011 earthquake and nuclear disaster, is looking to transform itself into a renewable energy hub, Nikkei has learned.

A plan is under way to develop 11 solar power plants and 10 wind power plants in the prefecture, on farmlands that cannot be cultivated anymore and mountainous areas from where population outflows continue.

The total cost is expected to be in the ballpark of 300 billion yen, or $2.75 billion, until the fiscal year ending in March 2024.

The government-owned Development Bank of Japan and private lender Mizuho Bank are among a group of financiers that have prepared a line of credit to support part of the construction cost.

The power generation available is estimated to be about 600 megawatts, or equivalent to two-thirds of a nuclear power plant. The produced electricity will be sent to the Tokyo metropolitan area.

The plan also envisions the construction of an 80-km wide grid within Fukushima to connect the generated power with the power transmission network of Tokyo Electric Power Co. That part of the project is expected to cost 29 billion yen.

Comment: Higher costs, less energy, more waste. Now that's progress.

For more on the myth of renewables:

Plane slides off icy runway at Chicago O'Hare Airport

RT
Mon, 11 Nov 2019 16:12 UTC

Terrified passengers could only hold on for dear life as their American Eagle flight touched down on the icy runway at Chicago's O'Hare Airport Monday morning before sliding off the tarmac amid blizzard-like conditions.

Miraculously, no one among the 38 passengers and three crew members was injured in the incident, and everyone on board was evacuated safely.

Former Marine wanted in fatal shooting of Virginia man

Morgan Winsor
ABC News
Mon, 11 Nov 2019 04:40 UTC

A former Marine is wanted in the murder of his mother's boyfriend.

Rodney Brown, 54, was shot and killed on Saturday just before noon at his home in Hardy, Virginia, about 9 miles southeast of Roanoke. The following day, the Franklin County Sheriff's Office named Michael Alexander Brown, the son of Rodney Brown's live-in girlfriend, the suspect in his killing.

Michael Alexander Brown, 22, was serving as a combat engineer for the United States Marine Corps until around Oct. 18, when he deserted his post at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. He has been seen in and around Virginia's Franklin County in the past two weeks, according to the sheriff's office.

Extinction Rebellion releases music video showing Parliament burning, Downing Street flooded and MPs wearing gas masks

Jemma Carr
Daily Mail
Mon, 11 Nov 2019 14:10 UTC

Various mock clips are shown, including the houses of commons set on fire. A banner titled 'commons climate debate' appears with the words: 'Government benches mostly empty for debate inspired by schoolchildren's climate strike'

Extinction Rebellion is aiming to scoop the coveted Christmas number one slot with its debut song about climate change.

Comment: How much of all this dramatic posturing by certain members of the XR is for the "love of earth and humanity", and how much is it for a few bucks?

Climate activists including Extinction Rebellion to receive £500,000 from US philanthropists

The protest group has teamed up with four-man rock band The Jade Assembly to produce "Time for Change" which urges listeners to 'act now' on climate change 'before we're all dead'.

The track's video features footage from XR protests across the globe over the past six months, with a prominent focus on London.

The three-minute video starts with words flashing up reading 'this is not a drill' and 'act now'.

A mock news report then appears on a television which says: 'Breaking news, government declares: "Everything is fine".'

It then shows a doctored video of former Prime Minister Theresa May addressing the commons with a 'breaking news' banner underneath with the words: 'Government agrees to do absolutely nothing to avert environmental catastrophe.'

Mrs May can then be seen wearing a white pollution mask as two members of the cabinet behind her wear gas masks.

Various mock clips are then shown, including a flooded Downing Street and the houses of commons set on fire.

Comment: Through the choice of images for their song's video, Extinction Rebellion is making clear that their overall intention is destruction!

Medical Kidnapping is a Terrible Problem in the United Kingdom

Christina England
medicalkidnap.com
Fri, 31 Jul 2015 12:01 UTC

Protesting forced adoption in the UK. Image from Facebook page 'Never Give Up'

In the UK, there has been a steady increase in the number of children taken into care for many years. Sadly, however, many of these children may have been needlessly taken away from loving families, families who are innocent of any wrongdoing.

One case to have hit the headlines recently is the case of Kerry McDougall. In April 2015, Mrs. McDougall, a 22 year-old woman with moderate learning difficulties, gave birth to a third child in Ireland, after having her first two children forcibly removed from her care because social workers believed that she was "too dumb" to be a mother.

The Mirror, reporting on the story, wrote:

"In 2010 Fife social workers shocked Britain by ruling Kerry, who used to have a cleft palate and has moderate learning difficulties, was unfit to wed or be a mum.

But Kerry and Mark defied them, marrying and fleeing to Ireland when she became pregnant with her first son.

They had another boy there and she and Mark were deemed fit parents by Irish social services, who removed their sons from their register.

But when the couple returned to Fife thinking they had proved themselves, their boys were handed to a foster family.

Close to tears, Kerry said: "I can't describe what it feels like to have your children taken away, screaming for you."

Comment: Apart from a smattering of media reports and TV mentions of this abominable practice in recent years, there is very little public-available information about it. Which is apparently by design: it's illegal for the victims to talk about what has happened to them.

See also: British State Has Stolen Thousands of Children From Families it Deems 'Potential Risk' - Hundreds of Pregnant Women Fleeing UK Shores

Australia: 'Free Assange' protester scales Parliament demanding Wikileaks founder's release

Tom Stayner
SBS News
Mon, 11 Nov 2019 05:36 UTC

A man demanding the release of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested after scaling the face of Parliament House.

A man has scaled Parliament House shouting "free Julian Assange" as he grasped the coat of arms before being arrested by police.

Former Wikileaks founder and Australian citizen Julian Assange remains behind bars in a London prison, fighting extradition to the United States.

The protester yelled "whistleblowers are not criminals" and "bring Julian home" in his attempt to draw public attention to the publisher's case.

Comment: The fact that Julian Assange is being murdered in slow motion by his captors is a massive scar on the facade of 'freedom' anywhere on the planet. Unfortunately, demonstrations like this generally do little to institute change.

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Think your DNA profile is private? A Florida judge just said otherwise

Kashmir Hill and Heather Murphy
The New York Times
Tue, 05 Nov 2019 00:01 UTC

Privacy experts say a warrant granted in Florida could set a precedent, opening up all consumer DNA sites to law enforcement agencies across the country.

For police officers around the country, the genetic profiles that 20 million people have uploaded to consumer DNA sites represent a tantalizing resource that could be used to solve cases both new and cold. But for years, the vast majority of the data have been off limits to investigators. The two largest sites, Ancestry.com and 23andMe, have long pledged to keep their users' genetic information private, and a smaller one, GEDmatch, severely restricted police access to its records this year.

Last week, however, a Florida detective announced at a police convention that he had obtained a warrant to penetrate GEDmatch and search its full database of nearly one million users. Legal experts said that this appeared to be the first time a judge had approved such a warrant, and that the development could have profound implications for genetic privacy.

Comment: In a sense, we've all seen this coming for a long time. One can only assume that a time will come in the future, when the technology has advanced to great degree, where user-uploaded DNA information is no longer needed, and something as mundane as your home appliances capture your DNA which is easily accessed by law enforcement or other authorities. But in the meantime, this precedent is disturbing for everyone - not just those who have willingly uploaded their information.

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If Joker met Jordan Peterson

Dan Sanchez
Foundation for Economic Education
Wed, 16 Oct 2019 00:01 UTC

What does it take to turn an ordinary person into a monster? To create a mass shooter, a terrorist, a Joker?

According to Joker himself, "One bad day."

That's how he tells his own story in Batman: The Killing Joke, a 1988 graphic novel by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland. This classic origin story heavily influenced the controversial new Joker film.

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America is a dictatorship by the rich - so why does no other writer refer to it as "the US regime"?

Eric Zuesse
Sott.net
Sun, 10 Nov 2019 06:03 UTC

I was shocked to find that a Google search of the phrase "the U.S. regime" indicates that I am the only writer who refers to "the U.S. regime." Is the United States really more democratic than this description of the political reality in the UK (which doesn't appear to be at all democratic)? Apparently, the universal presupposition (other than by this writer) is that the mere formalisms of democracy assure that a government is democratic, and that therefore the U.S. is automatically a democracy — its Government is democratic (because its Constitution is), not a dictatorship. However, ever since the pathbreaking Gilens and Page study in 2014 (the first-ever scientific analysis of whether or not the U.S. is a democracy), that presupposition is clearly false regarding the U.S. Government. That study (superbly summarized here) showed the U.S. Government doesn't represent its nation's public, "the people." The opening three words of the document that is the very embodiment of this nation's formalisms, the U.S. Constitution, are "We the People ..." making unequivocally clear whom this nation's Government must represent and serve. However, the Gilens and Page study proves that the U.S. Constitution is fundamentally violated, in practice, by today's U.S. Government, which instead represents and serves only the few wealthiest: America's aristocracy. Furthermore, a study by Jason Barabas, published two years later, found that the situation has been getting worse — not better — ever since World War II ended in 1945. Moreover, even as early as 2005, Martin Gilens of Princeton was able to publish a paper documenting (just to use his own words, here):

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Germany marks fall of Berlin Wall but forgets lessons if DDR says US 'socialist defector'

Victor Grossman
RT
Sat, 09 Nov 2019 11:02 UTC

© Global Look Press / Jürgen Schwarz
FILE PHOTO: Fireworks are seen at New Year's Eve celebration at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, on January 1,1990, less than a month after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Germany celebrating 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall is seen as a moment of unity. Yet, lessons East Germany once had to offer were cast aside, a US-born publicist and author, who defected to East Germany in 1952, said.

Following the fall of the wall, which was seen as the most vivid manifestation of Europe's division during the Cold War era, the Germans - and arguably the rest of the world with them - happily and unquestionably embraced the ideas of western capitalism in hopes it would offer a bright future for them.

Yet, the reality they found themselves in turned out to be much less secure, even if it made them a little bit wealthier, Victor Grossman, a US-born veteran journalist, who fled from McCarthyist persecution to East Germany in 1952, believes.

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Society's Child

Fukushima to be reborn as $2.7bn wind and solar power hub

Plane slides off icy runway at Chicago O'Hare Airport

Former Marine wanted in fatal shooting of Virginia man

Extinction Rebellion releases music video showing Parliament burning, Downing Street flooded and MPs wearing gas masks

Medical Kidnapping is a Terrible Problem in the United Kingdom

Australia: 'Free Assange' protester scales Parliament demanding Wikileaks founder's release

Think your DNA profile is private? A Florida judge just said otherwise

If Joker met Jordan Peterson

America is a dictatorship by the rich - so why does no other writer refer to it as "the US regime"?

Germany marks fall of Berlin Wall but forgets lessons if DDR says US 'socialist defector'

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