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2014/06/182014/06/16

SchwartzReport: Fukushima’s Children Dying — and Solar Power Break-Through Obviates Nuclear and Fossil Fuels

Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence

Here is the latest on Fukushima, and it is tragically sad. Remember that radiation contamination sourced at the site continues to pollute Japan, Japanese waters, and the world ocean. Note the last paragraphs. In American nuclear accidents the government has been similarly duplicitous. That's because nuclear accidents are so horrible governments everywhere don't want the information to get out. That alone is an argument against nuclear power. !

Fukushima’s Children are Dying
HARVEY WASSERMAN – Eco Watch

Some 39 months after the multiple explosions at Fukushima, thyroid cancer rates among nearby children have skyrocketed to more than forty times (40x) normal.

More than 48 percent of some 375,000 young people-nearly 200,000 kids-tested by the Fukushima Medical University near the smoldering reactors now suffer from pre-cancerous thyroid abnormalities, primarily nodules and cysts. The rate is accelerating.

More than 120 childhood cancers have been indicated where just three would be expected, says Joseph Mangano, executive director of the Radiation and Public Health Project.

Here is some very good news. It is wonderful to watch the speed with which solar technology is advancing, now that it is getting decent funding. This is exciting news about the trend of transitioning out of the carbon energy age. I find stories like these also very poignant because if we had started seriously focusing on non-carbon energy in the 70s, when President Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the White House, imagine where we would be today. How much pain we would have saved ourselves. But profit was and remains for a critical mass more important than wellness. Click through to see the very useful diagrams and the video or the facility in operation.

World First: Australian Solar Plant has Generated ‘Supercritical” Steam That Rivals Fossil Fuels’
Science Alert

A solar thermal test plant in Newcastle, Australia, has generated ‘supercritical” steam at a pressure of 23.5 mpa (3400 psi) and 570°C (1,058°F).

CSIRO is claiming it as a world record, and it’s a HUGE step for solar thermal energy.

“It's like breaking the sound barrier; this step change proves solar has the potential to compete with the peak performance capabilities of fossil fuel sources,” Dr Alex Wonhas, CSIRO’s Energy Director, told Colin Jeffrey for Gizmag.

2014/06/172014/06/19

Andrew Garfield: Ghani Wins in Afghanistan

Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Peace Intelligence

Attached for your information is a press release from Glevum and our Afghan partners, which presents the findings of two exit polls that we conducted during and after the June 14th election. Our teams conducted 2,206 face-to-face interviews at 51 polling stations in ten provinces on the 14th. At the same time we also conducted 2,749 telephone interviews from June 14th to June 16th, with respondents who confirmed they had voted at the election. The results are as follows:

Face to Face Exit Poll
Ashraf Ghani – 53%
Abdullah Abdullah – 47%

Telephone Exit Poll
Ashraf Ghani – 54%
Abdullah Abdullah – 46%

These results are in line with our polling last week and suggest a conclusive victory for Ashraf Ghani.. Below is our documented report.

PDF (6 Pages): Afghan Second Round Exit Poll Results – Press Release – June 16th 2014

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2014/06/172014/06/17

Tikkun Rabbi Michael Lerner: Discussion of Presbeterian Divestment of Zionist Occupation Allies (Motorola, Caterpillar, Hewlett-Packard Et Al)

07 Other Atrocities, Cultural Intelligence

Editor's Note: We invited the Relgious Action Center of the Reform Movement and J Street, both of which have opposed the Presbyterian divestment resolution, to respond to those who support the Presbyterian resolution. Neither agreed to do so. Tikkun has sought to be a safe space in which both sides could present their thinking. But it's hard to get the two sides in the Jewish world to sit together and discuss the issues, since anyone who supports even the very limited form of divestment proposed by the Presbyterians is, as J Street's Jeremy Ben Ami said recently in explaining his opposition to any form of Boycotts, Divestments or Sanctions,, crossing “a red line” and hence, in the view of the Jewish establishment, automatically suspect of being anti-Semitic. We believe a public debate is a more healthy way to conduct this discussion, and so we are disappointed that neither J Street nor the Reform Movement accepted our invitation.

–Rabbi Michael Lerner RabbiLerner.tikkun@gmail.com

Full articles below the line:

Presbyterian Divestment – A Jewish Perspective

To Support Israelis Fighting The Occupation, Presbyterians Should Vote “YES” On Divestment

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2014/06/172014/06/17

Berto Jongman: Sandy Hook Confirmed as Exercise — No One Died — A Total Media False Flag with Paid Actors

Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government

Sandy Hook Redux: Obama officials confirm that it was a drill and no children died

By Jim Fetzer (with Sofia Smallstorm and Paul Preston)

“I have a lot of sources in regards to as to what’s going on with the president and the administration and so on, and every one of my sources said it was a false flag”--Paul Preston

Read full article.

See Also:

Sandy Hook @ Phi Beta Iota

2014/06/152014/06/16

Robert Steele: NYT Finally Gets It Right – Ghani Transformed Plus Fareed Zakaria on Iran and Maliki Not Signing BSA in Iraq — as Abdulllah will not sign if fraudulently “elected” in Afghanistan

Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Media

Better late than never. Ghani won the election — now we need to see if the US Government will stand by our principles and help assure a legitimate count. See also the second headline, for an understanding of how Iran controlled the non-signing of the BSA in Iraq to create this situation. If Abdullah is fradulently election, I anticipate that he will NOT sign the BSA, this having been a condition for Iran's funding of his campaign and Karzai-Daudzai fraud.

Technocrat to Afghan Populist, Ashraf Ghani Is Transformed

By MATTHEW ROSENBERG

NYT Asia Pacific, JUNE 11, 2014

KABUL, Afghanistan — When dealing with Western officials, Ashraf Ghani presents himself as the rare technocrat who possesses both the cultural savvy and practical expertise needed to put Afghanistan back on track if he is elected president in the runoff vote on Saturday.

After all, as Mr. Ghani readily reminds people, he has written a book titled “Fixing Failed States.”

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2014/06/142014/06/16

Robert Young Pelton: ON AFGHANISTAN – Why Abdullah and Fraud Will Destroy the Country and Destabilize the Region

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

Phi Beta Iota: RYP wrote this in part to react to Abdullah's cavalier rejection of the Iraq scenario playing out today, for Afghanistan. His over-all point is that both candidates — Abdullah and Ghani — have pluses and minuses that voters and donors must consider BUT that there is only one clean candidate capable of reintegrating the Taliban in a sustainable manner. Abdullah equals civil war and the diviison of Afghanistan into a wealthy north and west controlled by Iran and an impoverished south and east overseen by a complacent Pakistan. If we are to honor the blood, treasure, and spirit that America and others have devoted these past twelve years, then all forms of fraud must be rejected, Iranian covert operations in support of Abdullah must be countered, and the public allowed to elect — as it has — the clean candidate. Now we move to the count. If the USA is to act in accordance with its democratic principles, it cannot allow Karzai and Daudzai to get away with the Iranian-funded fraud that is known to be positioned to deliver 55-45 for Abdullah instead of the actual vote closer to 60-40 for Ghani. Here is his last thought on the subject, part of an afterthought at the end of this post:

Abdullah is at best a proxy for the Panjshiri businessmen and aligned kleptocrats and at worst a weak person who will be killed by the ISI. Ghani may not have the overwhelming support of the Karzai crowd but with power and patience comes reconciliation amongst the Deobandis and the new generation . So lets all hope the election is for him.

ON AFGHANISTAN

Robert Young Pelton

Freely Available for Re-Publication with Attribution to the Author

The election in Afghanistan is important. Very important. Although candidate Dr. Abudullah insists that the events in Iraq won’t happen in his country he is very wrong. Let me tell you why.

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2014/06/132014/06/12

Steve Aftergood: US Army Reflections on the Value of Military History

Cultural Intelligence, Military

US Army Reflections on the Value of Military History

Far from being a subject of merely antiquarian interest, military history is an essential tool for training of soldiers and for institutional accountability, according to newly updated Army doctrine.

But only if it is done right.

In Military History Operations (ATP 1-20, June 2014), the Army discusses what military history is for, its development over time, and the proper way to produce it.

Some excerpts:

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