GETING 2011 OFF TO A STRONG YEAR TWO OF THE "END TIMES DECADE"!
April 2011
PALOMARES, SPAIN 1966 - 2001
Site is now MORE radioactive tha after cleanup.
On January 17, 1966, a B52 bomber collided with KC-135 tanker aircraft off the southeast coast of Spain at 29,000 ft.
They exploded in a fireball over Palomares, Spain. Of the four hydrogen bombs onboard the B-52, two others scattered plutonium dust around the impact site when the conventional explosives on board went up.
UPDATE 2011: After 45 years, the U.S. Government is considering maybe possibly thinking about cleaning up the contaminated areas. In February, Foreign Minister Trinidad Jiménez, announced to Spanish Senate that clearing Palomares was "a priority." Expect progress this century, fer sure.
March 2011
While you were watching the big disasters in Japan, Libya and Hollywood...
March 16
20,000 Rare Penquins are Goners as Oil Spill Surrounds
World Heritage Site in the South Atlantic
There was yet another explosion of clean, safe natural (it's organic!) gas in
Minneapolis.
Meanwhile, as Tokyo continues to rock, so does Little Rock, AR. Actually, the epicenter of the 4.7 quake in central Arkansas was 37 miles from the capital. It's part of an alarming earthquake swarm that has been plaquing the area since roughly the initiation of heavy-duty frackinization in 1009. Nothing to worry about (see photo). The nearby
Nuclear One power plant has been built to withstand anything. Or close to it.
February 2011
Tea Party Opens the Floodgates for Massive Water Pollution In Virginia
With Governor Bob McConnell committed to protecting the coal barons from mean-spirited anti-pollution regulations, the Virginia legislation has moved quickly to circumvent the
Clean Water Act.
November 2010
RADIOACTIVE RODENTS ESCAPE HANFORD NUKE ZONE: Welcome to the future: A radioactive mouse has escaped from the grounds of Hanford, the decommisioned nuclear complex in southeastern Washington state. The radioactive mouse droppings have been found in the same area where the radioactive rabbit droppings were found earlier this month. The radioactive rabbit was killed and disposed of as radioactive waste. Officials believe the animals ate or drank cesium at a Hanford site.
In 2009 there were 33 cases of contaminated animal material found on the 586 square-mile nuclear reservation site. Reports are from the Associated Press and other mainstream sources.
Meanwhile (November 2010), Hanford cleanup workers discovered an area of soil so radioactive it exceeds lethal limits tenfold.
October 2010
Penna Turns Extemist Anti-Fracking Activist Names Over to Drilling Companies The Pennsylvania Office of Homeland Security has been tracking anti-gas drilling groups and their meetings -- including public screenings of the film "Gasland," a documentary about the environmental hazards of methane gas drilling. The industry now calls this volatile and explosive gas "natural", which it undoubtedly is. Organic too.
Red Sea of Toxic Sludge
Jahweh won't be parting the 200 milion gallon red sea of toxic metallurgic sludge that poured into three Hungarian villages, killing eight people. As the first mess of toxic sludge reaches the Danube River, the owner of the plant says the sludge - which delivers chemical burns through clothing - is not classified as toxic waste. Not to worry: Magyar Aluminium ZRt carries $50,000 worth of insurance for just this sort of emergency.
Sept 2010
TROUBLE ON THE OIL PIMPLINES:
Two ruptured pipelies in the American midwest and a lethal explosion in San Francisco almost makes it look as the petro pimps can't really control their toxic Genie. There were 2,500 major oil spills in the U.S. over the past decade.
August 2010
Nice Day If It Don't Rain: The Weather is Just a Little Apocalyptic
Deadly Russian heat wave and wild fires
A hailstone the size of Ethiopia lands in South Dakota fires
Record Pakistan Flooding has killed 1,100 so far and stranded 27,000
Record river levels in Iowa burst dam
July 2010
Irika Shipping S.A. to Pay $4 million for purposely dumping waste Oil in U.S. Harbors
While y'all were watching the Gulf Spill, another slimy shipping company pleaded guilty before Maryland U.S. District Court Judge Frederick J. Motz, to felony obstruction of justice charges and violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships. Among the incidents cited was dumping approximately 6,000 gallons of sludge during a voyage to Balitmore nd concealing the act with false records.
Read more Here
May 2010
Radioactive water contaminating major water supply aquifer in southern New Jersey
Radioactive water is leaking from the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station, in southern New Jersey, the oldest nuclear power plant. It has now reached a major underground aquifer that supplies drinking water to much of area.
April 2010
How did the combined clean, safe, cheap oil and clean, safe cheap coal industries do in April 2010:
- APRIL 2: 7 workers dead in Tesoro refinery explosion in Anacortes, WA
- APRIL 7: 29 Miners dead in Upper Big Branch mine explosion
- APRIL 29: 2 Miners dead in Kentucky mine collapse. Mitch McConnel prayed over both mining accidents. Thank you for praying Mitch.
- APRIL 21: 11 Oil workers die as the Deepwater Horizon event kicks off the biggest environmental catastrophe since Exxon Valdez
TOTAL: 49
April 2010
Coal Ship Cutting Corners Causes Another Environmental Disaster on the Great Barrier Reef Reef
The anti-barnacle paint from a lost Chinese coal tanker continues to wipe out great barrier corals along a two mile swatch. These days, coral doesn't grow back. It was transporting more of that clean coal we keep hearing about.
NOV 2009
IUCN ISSUES ALARMING NEW RED LIST
New Red List reveals over 17,000 species on their way ">out
OCT 2009
DOCTOR QUESTIONS FDA COMPLICITY IN MONSANTO'S rBST SCAM
While Monsanto sued milk coops and got journalists fired, the FDA appears to have been busy ignoring scientific evidence on the dangers of rBST, otherwise known as bovine growth hormone. The safety of the Monsanto's rBST in your milk is now even more
suspect. Got Milk?
The history of Posilac
JUNE 2009
EPA DECIDES TO REVEAL LOCATIONS OF 44 HAZARDOUS COAL SLUDGE SITES
The EPA has decided to reveal the locations of 44 hazardous coal sludge storage sites, toxic repository ponds such as the one that burst its 55 foot high dike in December of 2008 and spilled a billion gallons of toxic coal ash into the landscape and rivers around Harriman, TN. The agency had originally refused to disclose the locations because it might scare people into moving away from the danger…or complaining or something. The original mumbled explanation involved "security", which might be construed as meaning they were afraid Islamicists wer going to fly into Knoxville and ask the locals directions to the nearest toxic fly ash dump. No one would think anything of it in a regions where not even one person is named Mohammed. LilBambi reports Here.
The seven deadly lies of clean coal
APRIL 2009
CRIMINAL MANAGERS AT WORLD CLASS POLLUTER McWANE BUSTED, TRIED AND SENTENCED
Atlantic States Cast Iron Pipe Co, a division of the notorious McWane Inc, has been brought to justice, and four managers have been given federal prison terms for flagrant environmental crimes.
Bayer Destroyed Evidence after CropScience (Pesticide) Plant Explosion Bhopal Redux
It's one thing to kill 20,000 Indians, like Union Carbide did in Bhopal, India on 3 December 1984. But killing Americans, while lying to first responders is a little too close to home. That's why the presence of methyl isocyanate gas at the Bayer pesticide plant in Institute, West Virginia pesticide plant explosion is way disconcerting indeed. The Kanawha Valley may have narrowly escaped a chemical plant catastrophe that could have surpassed the 1984 Bhopal disaster, according to a report released today by congressional investigators.
MARCH 29, 2009
1000 Arrested for Witchcraft in Gambia
It's hard to say which African leader is the craziest Mofo on the continent, but President Yahya Jammeh (who seized power in a 1994 coup and has claimed he can cure AIDS) is the latest presidential nutball to act up on the Dark Continent.
MARCH 12, 2009
QUEENSLAND OIL SPILL WORSE THAN REPORTED
Beaches along Australia's northeast coast have been taken out by a toxic mix of oil and fertilizer from the Pacific Adventurer cargo ship. Thirty one containers of ammonium nitrate toppled from the ship in heavy seas, puncturing the ship's and releasing 30 tonnes of oil into Moreton Bay, near Brisbane.
FEBRUARY 26, 2009
AUSSIES CAVE IN TO JAPAN'S DEMANDS
Australian government officials in Tasmania boarded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ship Steve Irwin and confiscated film and records belonging to the Discovery Channel. Japan is a huge trading partner for Australia and does not like to be embarrassed by footage of their barbaric whaling habit.
FEBRUARY, 2009
W.R. GRACE EXECS STAR IN LIBBY, MT CRIMINAL TRIAL
W.R. Grace and six executives are up on criminal charges for causing and covering up asbestos contamination from the Zonolite Mountain mine.
DECEMBER 2008
More Last Minute Bush Administration
Environmental Crimes
The sneaky environmental criminals at the Bush Administration used more loopholes to further weaken restrictions on dumping poison residue from mountaintop removal mining into Appalachian valleys and streams.
Sneaky 11th hour removal of more restrictions on mountaintop removal plundering.
More evidence of willful evisceration of environmental
OCTOBER 2008
Congolese Guerillas
Seize Gorilla Park
Congolese rebels seized a major military camp in Eastern Congo and Virunga National Park as the human warlords provide poor role models for the apes. The park is home to 200 of the 700 endangered mountain gorillas in existence. The civil war in Congo ended in 2003, but 45,000 die there each month.
More on this Story
OCTOBER 2008
Orcas Dying, Not Killing
Seven Puget Sound killer whales are missing and feared dead in what could be the biggest decline among the sound's orcas in nearly a decade, say scientists who carefully track the endangered animals. The number of this unique subspecies hs declied to 83. Pollution and a decline in prey are believed to be the whales' biggest threats, although stress from whale-watching tour boats and underwater sonar tests by the Navy also have been concerns. In the late 1960s and early '70s, the population fell as dozens were captured for marine parks. The species was declared endangered in 2005.
Visit Orca Network
OCTOBER 2008
EPA Chief Johnson Keeps Lying
The EPA is trumpeting the great news that it has set a new health standard for lead that will reduce the amount of the toxic metal in the nation's air by 90 percent. Stephen Johnson, the Bush Boy whom adminstrates the EPA the way his masters instruct him, was quoted as saying: "Our nation's air is cleaner today than just a generation ago, and last night I built upon this progress by signing the strongest air quality standards for lead in our nation's history." He even added a personal note: "Thanks to this stronger standard, EPA will protect my children from remaining sources of airborne lead."
The new standard announced on Thursday would require the 16,000 remaining sources of lead, including smelters, metal mines, and waste incinerators, to reduce their emissions.
What the professional liar failed to mention was that the EPA was under a federal court order to set a new standard by midnight Wednesday. This is only the latest example of outside groups having sue the agency to force them to perform the mission we as taxpayers pay them to do.
Is it meanspirited to speculate what types of jobs await Mr. Johnson when the last Bushie has left and the offices fumigated»
CONTINUING TOPICS
INSTANT HALL OF FAME: Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disaster March 2011
As the only nation to be A-bombed*, Japan has a unique perspective on nuclear power. Although most Americans associate
"Godzilla" with campy science fiction, there was a clear message embedded in the original 1954 film. Although the U.S. version was sanitized, the "radiation monster" was an intentional and apocalyptic allegory for Hiroshima and the U.S.- Soviet arms race. At the time, the two were engaged in a frenzy of blowing off bombs on the ground, in the air and beneath the sea. It was these explosions that awakened and mutated Godzilla, sending him off to crush Tokyo with his atomic breath. The possibility of a meltdown at a nuke built near a fault line by all means "points up" man's folly, no matter how ingenious their engineers.
October 2010
Christian Boy Tom Coburn Blocks Aid To Haiti As cholera takes hold of Haiti, Senator Tom Coburn of Okydoky continues to block up over $1 billion dollars in U.S. Aid pledged for post-quake rebuilding. And so goes a decades long pattern in Haiti, a pattern defined by horrendous natural disasters, but exacerbated by human corruption and hypocricy. The net result is that Haiti is more unprepared with each natural disaster as the infrastruction continues to decline and the nation falls further into dispair.
APRIL 2010
Massey Energy Finally in the Crosshairs
The Aftermath of Don Sinkingship's West Virginia Mining Disaster:
CatMap Blog coverage
Lawsuit from a trust fund claims Massey violated terms of 2008 settlement.
Lying Limbaugh sticks his big fat foot in his big fat mouth.
[Unions couldn't protect the miners because there was no union.]
Dandy Don is up to is ass in alligators.
JANUARY 9, 2009
COAL ASH UPDATE: NEW TVA
SPILL IN ALABAMA
But TVA officials say there is no hazard in the tiny 10,000 gallon Widows Creek Fossil Plant spill. So just lighten UP, OK?
DECEMBER 23, 2008
1 billion gallons of toxic coal sludge spill in Tennessee
Aerial Footage (courtesy of PHARYNGULA)
40 acres retention pond breaches, flooding hundreds of acres and local homes
Part of the "clean coal" PR intiative we've been hearing about?
Good News / Bad News I Know!
The Good News: Environmental Crimimal List Announced?
The Bad News: Julie A. MacDonald Isn't On It?
RADIOACTIVE, POLLUTED UTAH:
Nuclear and environmental cesspool.
Brought to you by the BLM and the Mormon Church.
VISIT SCENIC TASMANIA:
Before Gunn's Inc. Clear Cuts Down Every Tree.
Visit our friends at Water SOS
BAD NEWS / GOOD NEWS:
The destruction and (partial) return of the Iraq marshes - An Amazing Story.
Depressing and inspiring story here
[Saddam may not have had WMD's but he certainly was an asshole]
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