Archive for August 11th, 2011

ENENews.com August 11th, 2011 Radiation from Fukushima may lead to decreased population in Japan, The Christian Science Monitor, August 11, 2011: In the post-disaster environment, there is now another disincentive to have children: concerns about radiation. omen across the northeast of Japan, and as far away as Tokyo, are concerned about having children... »

ENENews.com August 11th, 2011 Citizen group wants radiation tests done in Canada, Georgia Straight (Vancouver), August 11, 2011: A Vancouver woman wants Canadian governments held more accountable for protecting public health in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis. In an August 8 interview at the Georgia Straight office, Isabel Budke pointed out that... »

Enenews.com August 10th, 2011 Daily Outrage: Japan imperiled nuclear evacuees by hiding radiation data, San Francisco Examiner, August 9, 2011: Two months after the residents of Namie, Japan, evacuated they learned a government computer system had shown they were moving directly into the most-radioactive location. The Namie scandal is only the... »

Brietbart.com Aug 11 A hair-thin electronic patch that adheres to the skin like a temporary tattoo could transform medical sensing, computer gaming and even spy operations, according to a US study published Thursday. The micro-electronics technology, called an epidermal electronic system (EES), was developed by an international team of researchers from the United States,... »

Byron Richards, CCN WellnessResources.com On July 29, 2011 the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health sounded the population alarm bell in the international science journal, Science, advocating for international contraception efforts to be funded by wealthy countries. On August 1, 2011 the Obama administration announced its plan... »

JOHN HUDSON TheAtlantic.com AUG 10, 2011 With British Prime Minister David Cameron authorizing the use of rubber bullets and water canons in wake of the turbulent London riots spreading through Britain, questions have been raised about how authorities in the U.S. would respond to a similar domestic disturbance threatening the nation’s stability. According to... »

Is London a Harbinger for America? When is a Riot a Revolt? By CARL FINAMORE CounterPunch.org Several days of unprecedented revolt by the most impoverished minority-populated neighborhoods of London has shaken the normally staid and reserved British Estblishment. Prime Minister David Cameron cut short his Italian vacation in Tuscany to return to the red-orange... »

Privacy Groups Protest Massive DHS Database of Secret Watchlists NetworkWorld.com Homeland Security plans to operate a massive new database of names, photos, birthdays and biometrics called Watchlist Service, duplicated from the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Database which has proven not to be accurate many times in the past. DHS wants to exempt the Watchlist Service... »

DHS says Terror Watchlist is exempt from Privacy Act By Ali Winston TheInformant August 10, 2011 Last Friday, the federal government’s new anti-terror database, the Terror Screening Watchlist Service, went live. The database is loaded with an unknown amount of personal information, including names, photographs and biometric data. In a new turn that has... »

The Crossroads of History are Upon us By Daniel Taylor Old-Thinker News August 10, 2011 An era of “Absolute totalitarian global control,” an “Age of Transitions”; The mysterious “Singularity.” It has been written that “We can no more imagine the political order of this new world than a group of chimpanzees in the forest... »