Berto Jongman: Interesting Global Security Links

Al Qaeda Struggles with Training, Diminishing World Influence, says TRAC Black-Scholes: The maths formula linked to the financial crash Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War: The Unspoken Crisis of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation Has the internet run out of ideas already? Internet censorship listed: how does each country compare? Internet Hall of Fame (Pioneers, Innovators, …

Chuck Spinney: US Senate Notices Next Atomic Disaster in Japan

Warning Signs for the US Why Fukushima is a Greater Disaster Than Chernobyl by ROBERT ALVAREZ, Counterpunch, APRIL 24, 2012 In the aftermath of the world’s worst nuclear power disaster, the news media is just beginning to grasp that the dangers to Japan and the rest of the world posed by the Fukushima-Dai-Ichi site are …

Berto Jongman: Japan Planning Forced Evacuation of 40 Million

Russia Stunned After Japanese Plan To Evacuate 40 Million Revealed China said to offer up the “ghost cities” immediately capable of ingesting this number. By: Sorcha Faal WhatDoesItMean.com, 15 April 2012 A new report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Foreign Ministry on the planned re-opening of talks with Japan over the disputed …

David Brin: Solar cells thinner than a thread of spider silk

Solar cells thinner than a thread of spider silk created by scientists Solar cells thinner than a thread of spider silk and so flexible they can be wrapped around a single human hair have been created by scientists. By Danielle Demetriou, Tokyo The Telegraph, 09 Apr 2012 The ultra-thin film consists of electrodes on a …

Berto Jongman: Missing Nukes Fuel Terror Concern

Bloomberg News Missing Nukes Fuel Terror Concern as Obama Drawn to Seoul The second global conference ever on nuclear material that has escaped state control is drawing President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Nuclear violators Iran and North Korea won’t be there. The legacy of the Soviet Union’s breakup, inadequate atomic stockpile controls …

Various Contributors: Continuing Insanity – Potpourri

The Enigma of Israel (CounterPunch) Fukushima Roulette (CounterPunch) Will Corporations Prevent the Singularity? (IEET) The Death of Investigative Journalism (CounterPunch) Corps, Army to restart ‘forcible entry’ drills (Army Times) The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (WIRED) Guantanamo Prison’s True Secret: Jason Leopold in Conversation With Andy Worthington (OpEd News) US and Iranian …