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Radiation levels of up to 530 Sieverts per hour were detected inside an inactive Reactor 2 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex damaged during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami catastrophe, Japanese media reported on Thursday citing the plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO).
A dose of about 8 Sieverts is considered incurable and fatal.
A hole of no less than one square meter in size has also been discovered beneath the reactor's pressure vessel, TEPCO said. According to researchers, the apparent opening in the metal grating of one of three reactors that had melted down in 2011, is believed to be have been caused by melted nuclear fuel that fell through the vessel.
The disturbances were a fiery reminder of the university's history as a cradle of the 1960s anti-war movement -- and a sign of the sharp tensions pitting America's mostly left-wing student body against a far-right minority.
Comment: How far they've fallen! Where were they when Obama was fighting wars on seven countries?
Hundreds of students and other protesters chanting "shut him down" smashed windows at the University of California campus, set wooden pallets ablaze and threw fireworks and rocks as police in full riot gear responded with tear gas.
The university was placed on lockdown as the sold-out appearance by Yiannopoulos, a conservative provocateur and self-proclaimed internet troll who styles himself on Facebook as "Dangerous Faggot," was canceled Wednesday evening.
"If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view - NO FEDERAL FUNDS?" Trump wrote on Twitter Thursday.
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"Are you a Leo?" I ask the host of HBO's "Real Time," while eyeing a lion pendant around his neck.
"No, they make me wear this stupid thing because I'm a member," he replies, stroking the back of his date, a pretty younger woman in a short black leather dress.
Around us, a mostly female crowd of models, young professionals, actresses and assistants strut about in couture lingerie, much to the delight of older male guests in tuxedos. One 20-something blonde crawls on the carpeted floor wearing red lace and a face mask with a leather pig snout and ears. Other pretty young things wear metallic pasties and black badges that read "Eat me" or "Touch me" on their décolletage, while holding silver platters of bite-size brownies and parfaits. A man who calls himself the "Bunnyman" and wears a black leather mask and rabbit ears demonstrates various Japanese bondage techniques on an aroused woman sitting upright in a plush, gold-painted chair.
Comment: Speaking of swamps...
A total of 75 percent favoured pragmatic relations with Russia as opposed to only five percent saying that "Hungary should not even talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin at all," the survey revealed. Eighteen percent of respondents supported building friendly relations with Russia.
The survey also gauged Hungarians' opinion about the world's top three political leaders, namely Russian President Vladimir Putin, newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Most popular among them was Putin, favoured by 35 percent of respondents, compared with 44 percent rejecting him.
Trump came in second, with 27 percent seeing him in a positive light and 38 percent viewing him unfavourably. Fully 34 percent of respondents were unable to give an opinion.
Least popular was Merkel, with only 26 percent viewing her favourably. The phone survey was carried out on Jan. 21-28 with a sample of 1,000 people.
Rep. William Carson, a member of the Delaware House Corrections Committee, said he had been told it was an "apparent hostage situation."
"The inmates have taken over a building," he told the Delaware News Journal.
Department of Corrections spokeswoman Jayme Gravell told the News Journal that state police and DOC response teams were called in to deal with the hostage situation.
Comment: A male corrections officer died and his female colleague was injured in a daylong standoff at a maximum security prison in Delaware. In phone calls to the media inmates said they rebelled because of President Donald Trump and "everything he did."
No official demands were communicated to the police, but the inmates placed two phone calls to the Wilmington News Journal. In the second call, they brought up President Donald Trump and "all the things that he's doing now."
"We're trying to explain the reasons is for doing what we're doing. Donald Trump. Everything that he did. All the things that he's doing now. We know that the institution is going to change for the worse," the inmates relayed to the Delaware News Journal on Wednesday evening, through a woman whose son was being held hostage.
They also demanded "education first and foremost," more rehabilitation programs, and "money to be allocated so we can know exactly what is going on in the prison, the budget."
The hashtag #VaughnRebellion began trending on Twitter.
On Thursday morning, the authorities stormed the building, freeing the hostages and reestablishing control. One of the hostages, a male corrections officer, was found dead. A female guard was hospitalized.
The attack took place at Centre Culturel Islamique de Quebec (Quebec City Islamic Cultural Center) on Sainte-Foy Street.
Comment: See also:
- 2 injured in Istanbul mosque shooting
- Texas mosque destroyed in blaze, cause of fire unknown
- At least 27 killed, 35 injured as explosion rocks Shiite mosque in Kabul
Police said they arrested one man outside the mosque -- and another suspect turned himself in, calling 911 less than 20 minutes later and giving officers his location in d'Orleans so they could arrest him. It was unclear whether Bissonnette was the man who made the phone call.Update (Feb. 2): See The Intercept's piece: Suspect in Quebec mosque attack quickly depicted as a Moroccan Muslim, he's a White Nationalist
Canada managed to get Fox News to delete its false tweet about the shooter being Moroccan. They have also refused to charge the shooter with terrorism. The mosque where the attack took place allowed media to access to crime scene. Footage below:
So, lone wolf? Open and closed, right? Like practically every other mass shooting, not quite. As usual, we have early eyewitness reports saying "2 or 3 shooters", which magically transforms into one lone nut. Do witnesses to shootings routinely hallucinate multiple shooters? Or is there something else going on here?
Harold Lee Massey, 62, of Littleton, faces 50 counts of indecent liberties with a minor child and 31 counts of statutory sex offense, Halifax County Sheriff Wes Tripp said in a statement.
Massey, a native of Northampton County, owns and operates funeral homes in Aulander, Jackson and Roanoke Rapids. He is also a local promoter of gospel music events, as well as being a gospel music recording artist.
Halifax Sheriff's Detectives B.C. Griffin and Robert Hale investigated the case and the charges stem from offenses allegedly committed from 2006 to 2012.
The alleged victim is a male juvenile who was 7 at the time the offenses reportedly began and 13 when they ended.
On Tuesday evening, Sheriff Tripp declined to immediately comment on the relationship between the victim and alleged suspect.
The Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB) invites public input on potential Commission actions to help expedite the deployment next generation wireless infrastructure by providing guidance on how federal law applies to local government review of wireless facility siting applications and local requirements for gaining access to rights of way. [....]Folks, if you aren't aware, the U.S. Air Force classifies the 5G range frequencies "as a weapon"!
Although the facilities used in these networks are smaller and less obtrusive than traditional cell towers and antennas, they must be deployed more densely - i.e., in many more locations - to function effectively. As a result, local land-use authorities in many areas are facing substantial increases in the volume of siting applications for deployment of these facilities. This trend in infrastructure deployment is expected to continue, and even accelerate, as wireless providers begin rolling out 5G services. [1] [CJF emphasis added]
Deputy John Braman, with the Volusia County Sheriff's Office, has a history of complaints filed by people he's arrested — who all claim he robbed them. However, not until this theft was caught on video did his department do anything about it.
On Monday, Braman turned in his resignation after body camera footage — from his own body camera — showed him going through a man's wallet, take out money, and throw it into the trunk.
Reports from the scene suggested law enforcement blocked the road into the camp at both the northern and southern ends — effectively kettling the entire area, which would leave anyone remaining subject to arrest.
"Law enforcement have evicted about 40 Dakota Access pipeline opponents from a camp the demonstrators set up on higher ground near their flood-prone main camp in southern North Dakota," CBC reports. Social media reported the number of arrested had surpassed 50.
Among the detained water protectors, livestreamer Shiyé Bidzííl stated on video, was vocal pipeline opponent and #NoDAPL leader, Chase Ironeyes.















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