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Want to Reduce the Debt? Cut the Billions a Year In Nuclear Subsidies

We Could Offset the Need for the “Sequestration” Budget Cuts By Stopping Nuclear Subsidies We’ve previously documented that even top nuclear executives admit that nuclear energy is expensive, and only survives due to massive government subsidies. Time noted in 2008: … Continue reading

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2 Year Anniversary of Fukushima: The Accident Is NOT Contained

Worse Than Ever? Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen said today that the containment vessel at Fukushima reactor 2 has a large crack in it. Reactors 1, 2 and 3 all exploded. BBC reports today: They know very little about what’s going … Continue reading

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Nuclear Expert: “The Melted Core Cracked The Containment Vessel … There Really Is No Containment” At Fukushima Reactors

Nuclear Cores and Spent Fuel Pools Have Both Lost Containment Steven Starr – Director of the Clinical Laboratory Science Program at the University of Missouri/Senior Scientist at Physicians for Social Responsibility – said: The Japanese basically lied about what happened … Continue reading

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Scorecard: How Many Rights Have Americans REALLY Lost?

Painting by Anthony Freda: www.AnthonyFreda.com How Many Constitutional Freedoms Do We Still Have? Preface: While a lot of people talk about the loss of our Constitutional liberties, people usually speak in a vague, generalized manner … or focus on only … Continue reading

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Food Manufacturers are Fraudulently Diluting High-Quality Food with Inferior Quality Junk

Some of the Fake Ingredients Added to Food May be DANGEROUS In a predictable trend, food manufacturers are fraudulently diluting high-quality food with inferior quality items. As ABC News reports: A new scientific examination by the non-profit food fraud detectives … Continue reading

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Mainstream Leaders Say Blogs Are Valuable News Sources

The President of the United States, Head of the Federal Reserve and Others Say Blogs Are Good Sources of News President Obama said: Blogs are best at debunking myths that can slip through a lot of the traditional media outlets. … Continue reading

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Government to Dispose of Radioactive Waste By Putting It In Our SILVERWARE

www.andrelassen.com* Department of Energy Wants to Let Radioactive Scrap Metal Back into Consumer Products The overwhelming scientific consensus is that any amount of radiation – no matter how small – can cause cancer and other serious health effects. (Current safety … Continue reading

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Huge New Slick at Site of BP’s 2010 Gulf Oil Spill

Wings of Care provided new photos of an oil slick in the area of the Gulf oil spill, noting: Here is the large surface slick that has been sitting over the Macondo area since last autumn, with as yet no … Continue reading

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NASA: We May Be On the Verge of a “Mini-Maunder” Event

Is a Planetary Cooling Spell Straight Ahead? All climate scientists agree that the sun affects Earth’s climate to some extent.   They only disagree about whether or not the effect form the sun is minor compared to man-made causes. We noted … Continue reading

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Fukushima “Decontamination” Measures Are Making Things WORSE

Corruption and Cover-Up Lead to SPREAD – Rather than Containment – of Radiation from Fukushima Disaster We’ve previously noted: Japan has severely underplayed the amount of radiation from Fukushima, putting Japanese residents and U.S. navy sailors in jeopardy Experts call … Continue reading

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