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Japan is preparing for a potential radioactive catastrophe. Two new nuclear blasts FUKUSHIN-1. Animal

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The automotive industry, shipbuilders and technology companies struggling supplies after the disaster forced to close factories in Japan and disrupted global supply chain. Almost 850,000 households were without power in northern Iraq, according to Tohuku Electric Power Company and the Government said at least 1.5 million had no drinking water. Tens of thousands of people remained missing . The economic impact estimates are beginning to emerge. Hiromichi Shirakawa, an economist Japan chief at Credit Suisse, said in a note to clients that the losses would range between 171,000 and 183,000 million dollars only in the region affected by the earthquake and tsunami

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The image, obtained by satellite, Fukushima Plant, which shows that the reactor number 3 is on fire.
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Japan is preparing for a potential radioactive catastrophe.

Two new nuclear blasts FUKUSHIN-1.

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Madridpress.com Wednesday March 16, 2011.

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Japan on Tuesday faced a potential catastrophe after explosions in two reactors at a nuclear plant Fukushima-1 affected by the earthquake on Friday to send low levels of radioactive particles to Tokyo, leading to escapes from the capital and queuing to gain basic supplies.

Fear of a replica of Level 7 in 72 hours.

Prime Minister Naoto Kan , asked people who were in a radius of 30 km around the facility, located north of Tokyo with a population of 140,000 people , not to leave outside in the middle of the nuclear crisis worst since the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine in 1986.

While growing concern for the impact on Japan's economy burdened twice nuclear disaster and earthquake, Japanese stocks fell to 14 per cent before closing with a drop of 9.5 percent, extending the decline of 7.6 percent seen the previous day. The two-day retreat erased about 620,000 million dollars from the market.

Radiation in Maebashi City, 100 kilometers north of Tokyo reached 10 times normal levels, reported Kyodo news agency. In the capital only low levels were detected, so far "are not a problem," city officials said.

"The possibility of increased radiation leakage is increasing," Kan said in a somber address to the nation. "We are making every effort to avoid spreading the leak. I know that many people are worried, but I would tell them to act calm," said Khan.

On Tuesday there were two explosions on two of the reactors at the nuclear facility after days of desperate efforts to cool. Kyodo news agency said the nuclear fuel pool in the reactor number 4 could be boiling, suggesting that the crisis is far from overcome.

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levels of 400 milli sieverts per hour were recorded near the reactor 4, the government said. Exposure to more than 100 military sieverts year is a level that can cause cancer, according to the World Nuclear Association.

The central operator 750 workers withdrew, leaving only 50, while it has imposed an air exclusion zone of 30 km around the plant.

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FEAR IN TOKYO.

"Radioactive Material Tokyo reached but not harmful to humans because by the time you get there will be dissolved, "said Koji Yamazaki, professor of environmental sciences at the University of Hokkaido." If the wind intensifies, the material will fly faster but also more dispersed in the air. "

winds on the nuclear plant is moving slowly to the southwest in a direction that Tokyo would include, but are diverted to the west later on Tuesday, reported a forecast.

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Despite appeals for calm, Tokyo residents rushed to stores to stock up on supplies. Don Quixote, a department store open 24 hours in the Roppongi district, selling radios, flashlights, candles and sleeping bags.

In a sign of growing regional concerns about the radiation risk, China said it would evacuate its citizens from the affected areas but had not detected abnormal radiation in its territory. Air China said it had canceled its flights to Tokyo.

Several embassies advised their citizens to leave employees in the affected areas. Holiday suspensions were multinational companies or ask their workers who either march said they were considering plans to move to another location outside of Tokyo.

"I have fear. Very afraid and would rather be in the eye of a tornado," said 10-year old Lucy Niver Egan, Minnesota (USA), who was vacationing in Japan. "I want to go."

Japanese media have taken a more critical by Kang response to the disaster and criticized the government and the nuclear plant operator, TEPCO, for not providing enough information about the incident .

citizens want information about health risks. "A very intense radiation, such as occurred at Chernobyl and Japanese workers at the nuclear plant is unlikely in the population," said Lam Ching-wan, a chemical pathologist at the University of Hong Kong.

However, the explosion could expose people to radiation for a long time, which may increase the risk of thyroid and bone cancers and leukemia, he said. Children and fetuses are particularly vulnerable.

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"scene from hell"

still is knowing the extent of destruction caused by Friday's powerful earthquake and subsequent tsunami, while rescue teams were moving through the region north of Tokyo, where it is feared that at least 10,000 have died people.

"It's a scene from hell, quite a nightmare," said Patrick Fuller, International Federation of Red Cross, from the coastal city of Otsuchi.

Kan Prime Minister said that Japan was facing its worst crisis since World War II, with financial costs estimated at up to 180,000 disaster billion, analysts say the Japanese economy, the third largest in the world, could fall back into recession.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said on Monday that the magnitude of the earthquake rose to 9 from the previous 8.9 degrees, making him the fourth most powerful since 1900.

The automotive industry, shipbuilders and technology companies were struggling for supplies after the disaster forced to close factories in Japan, and ceased global production chain.

Almost 850,000 households were without power in northern Iraq, according to Tohuku Electric Power Company and the Government said that at least 1.5 million had no drinking water. Tens of thousands of people remain missing.

economic impact estimates are beginning to emerge. Hiromichi Shirakawa, chief Japan economist at Credit Suisse, said in a note to clients that the losses would range between 171,000 and 183,000 million dollars only in the region affected by the earthquake and tsunami.

The earthquake has forced many companies to suspend production and shares of major Japanese companies tumbled Monday, with Toyota dropping nearly 8 percent.

international firms faced disruptions in their activities due to the earthquake and tsunami destroyed vital infrastructure damaged and toppled ports from factories supplying high-tech components to steel.

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says the plant "is out of control."

Brussels calls the accident Fukushima of "apocalypse."

Energy Commissioner, Günther Oettinger , has described "apocalypse" the accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant caused by the earthquake that hit Japan last Friday and said that "almost everything is out of control" in that plant.

"There has been talk of apocalypse and I believe this is particularly well-chosen word," Oettinger said in an appearance before the commission Power of Parliament. The sheriff said "very concerned" about what is happening in the last hours in central Fukushima considering that "almost everything is out of control."

"I hope not the worst happens, but we can not exclude the worst happens in the coming hours and days," warned the Commissioner for Energy.

Oettinger has insisted that, although Japan has "great engineers" and "art" can no longer guarantee the safety and operational control of the plant.

The Commission is in permanent contact with the International Energy, his delegation in Tokyo and with "all possible information sources" to monitor the situation, has said Energy Commissioner.

has also announced that Japan's nuclear accident and its consequences be addressed at the Summit of Heads of State and Government of the EU to be held on 24 and 25 March.

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Leather Dominatrix In Boots

Wisconsin. He missed the first battle but not the "war" of sorts in defense of unionism.


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unionized workers, public and private Wisconsin, have lost the first battle in defense of union rights and social rights, facing a fierce onslaught politics and media from Republican senators and the Governor of the State. The rights of workers has been heroic stand were able to resist the "war" policy that the American right pointed against the rights of workers. Even the most conservative and neo-liberal right, create be convinced that the crisis and the deficit of the state and municipalities, can be solved by the side of the workers, cutting and / or eliminating their social rights. Today, the fascist right has won, but the fight remains safe and has been extended to other States and is the beginning of major battles in defense of union rights of workers and the example that they can only fight enforce their rights in general

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Rebellion in Wisconsin.

first battle was lost, but not the "war" of

Labor defense classes.

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ARGENPRESS.info Monday March 14, 2011.

Eduardo Ibarra Aguirre

With 250 thousand inhabitants, Madison, the capital of Wisconsin, United States, staged on 12 march and rally of more than 100,000 teachers, health workers, employees of state agencies, farmers, students, immigrants and artists to repudiate the adoption, on March 11, a law that cancels the trade union rights public workers and to reaffirm his "fight is just beginning" with all and suffered a legislative defeat after a month of protests.

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Despite being considered one of the U.S. cities with the highest quality of living and unemployment rates among the lowest, the Capitol remains surrounded by workers and students Madison, even taking it for more than three weeks and thousands of teachers were declared "sick" and his students joined them in a tenacious and meticulous construction of his own Tahir Plaza (Cairo, Egypt).

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the silence of Televisa and TV Azteca, in contrast to the attention of major U.S. television networks that are not in the hands of a duopoly, but because of the implications for both the unions - with only a 12 per cent of the unionized workforce and only 7 percent of the private sector - and to the so-called political class, they detected the scope of a major labor-management conflict that already has versions individuals in Indiana, Ohio, Iowa and other states of the United States.

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all began when Gov. Scott Walker novel and the Republican legislative majority put together bills that severely affect the rights of 175 000 state workers, for example, reduces collective agreements only to wage issues, imposes a ceiling on the rate of inflation which already does not include pensions and other benefits - pay rises for health insurance, union vote requires a year to verify cancel membership and dues collection by the government.

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Especially in the home half a century ago brought the country's collective bargaining agreements in the public sector. Therefore, the leading Democratic lawmakers summarized: "In 30 minutes, 18 state senators managed to undo 50 years of civil rights in Wisconsin."

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And that is just reading that make leaders and actors in the national movement and its allies must not be few, especially on the eve of a contest for the White House, the Capitol and several governors, because the rebellion of Wisconsin located the epicenter of a battle for democratic rights against what they read as "a conservative attack on workers "U.S..

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Walker's arguments are familiar to Mexicans. High wages and benefits workers well above the private sector cause budget deficits, it suffering from numerous state governments. And Republican governors allies pounced on labor rights in an unprecedented attack in decades, but also social and political resistance in the same court.

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But the interpretation of that star and creative incessant protests, now to recall legislators and, perhaps, also the same governor, is diametrically opposed and Michael Moore's voice was heard as follows: "Today, only 400 Americans control more wealth than half of all Americans."

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The country continued the extraordinary filmmaker, is awash with wealth "just not in our hands. has been taken in the largest theft in history, workers and consumers to banks and portfolios of the super rich. "

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Going Away Party Invitation Wording

Japan's nuclear crisis affects Chile and ... Germany. "Care President Piñera can not" play "with nuclear plants."

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Angela Merkel's government decided in September 2010 that nuclear power plants built since 1980 stay in office 14 years than expected, while older plants continue to operate eight years longer than planned. life of existing nuclear power plants took off up to 60 years, amid protests from environmentalists and other sectors political opposition Christian Democrat government of the extreme right. According to a pact of 2000 between the Social Democrat coalition government -green led then by Gerhard Schröder and industry energy, the last of the 17 German nuclear plants should be turned off in 2021. Postponing called "nuclear blackout" revitalized the antinuclear movement clustered around Greens, that in recent months has starred in dramatic actions to block convoys of nuclear waste across Germany .

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Ernesto Carmona. Chilean writer and journalist renowned nationally and internationally.
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Japan's nuclear crisis affects Chile and ... Germany.

"Care President Piñera can not" play "with

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Monday March 14, 2011.

Ernesto Carmona (special ARGENPRESS.info)

The nuclear disaster caused by the earthquake in Japan dealt a blow to the aspirations of entering Sebastian Pinera in Chile U.S. nuclear plants, France and / or Russia to mitigate the power shortage, where consumption is rationed. Obama brings in its agenda a "nuclear cooperation agreement," while already launched an agreement with France and received offers from Russia. But the tragedy in two Fukishima plants, 12 km distant from one another, plus emergency declared in Onagawa, closest to the epicenter of the earthquake, and the escape of radioactivity in Tokai up critical voices against Piñera, who began these negotiations silent, without any prior internal debate, according to management style that prevails now in government.

While Germany-open and democratic debate "as soon as possible to end its nuclear reactors, intended to embark authoritatively Piñera Chile an atomic program in decades rebalsaría the 3 years remaining to his administration of 4, as their improvised energy project would begin to operate when highly developed nations, as its model run by Angela Merkel, you probably already have abandoned their nuclear plants replacing them with clean energy, clean and without risk to the life of the inhabitants. An "advantage" that the U.S. would not object as it does with Iran, by contrast, would be safer technology provider, though its nuclear plants are safe not generate frequent accidents and nuclear waste carelessly leave, as in Shearon Harris, North Carolina corporate headquarters Progress Energy.

One of the first alert was launched by leftist senator Alejandro Navarro, of the Comprehensive Social Movement (MAS), who invited the biministro Mining and Energy Laurence Golborne, whom he called "principal promoter of this expensive energy, subsidized and dangerous." He said the minister "must decide on its current position on nuclear power in Chile after the disaster happened in Japan. If failed in Japan, which is a first world country and highly developed, what remains to Chile? ".

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Golborne, a former executive from the "retail" Cencosud (Jumbo and Santa Isabel supermarkets, shops Paris, etc.) Headed by Horst Paulmann -10.5 billion dollars and No. 75 world ranking, Forbes, executed in February with its pair of Eric Besson, French Minister of Economy, by Industry, Energy and Networks-a program of cooperation in nuclear energy. The negotiations also included the transnational GDF Suez, represented by its President and CEO Gerard Mestrallet, and Guillermo Luksic, powerful group of Chilean namesake, the third family fortune in Latin America, with 19.2 billion dollars and No. 27 in the Forbes global ranking, and whose main line is now copper.

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The large copper mining is the main energy consumer in the country, while GDF Suez is one of the largest energy transnationals operating in Chile for the mining sector, along with AES Gener, which in 2009 was benefited by President Michelle Bachelet to Decree Supremo N ° 68, which changed the environmental standard in establishing the industrial use of land previously designated for green areas and thus allowed the construction of the thermoelectric Campinche in Region V (Valparaiso). Bowing to pressure from the U.S. Embassy, \u200b\u200bin an episode virtually unknown to the public and details are now known in March by Wikileak, Presidential Decree did away with a Supreme Court ruling, which in June 2009 stated: "The illegal disposal of land use for green areas in a town affected by high emissions of pollutants cause visible impairment to the environment they live in the recurrent breach their constitutional right to live in an environment free of pollution. "Interestingly, in August 2010 Piñera declined to citizen pressure and, after a phone call" friendly "to Mestrallet, reversed the environmental regulatory approval granted to the thermoelectric project Barrancones GDF Suez in Region IV (La Serena-Coquimbo). This plant will be installed in another place yet undefined

Debate: Critics and others.

Senator Navarro said that "nuclear plants in earthquake country in the world that is ours to be rejected after the disaster we have witnessed" . The legislator who is part of the Environment Committee of the Senate, said that opening up the government on nuclear energy due to external pressures: "It is the product of a state policy is the product of nuclear business lobby, both French and Russians, who have been in Chile trying to sell nuclear power plants that are disarming in their respective countries, "he said. "The minister is wrong to raise Golborne in a timely manner the development of nuclear energy, we must have a national energy policy," he said. "Chile has no such policy, and therefore, are flying blind. Nuclear power, raised in isolation, is a good deal for someone. I do not know where to block and what triggers the need for nuclear policy. " Invite the Minister announced that the committee to explain the reasons for his trip to France and why not traveled to countries like Japan and Israel, which have geothermal and solar plants, respectively, they represent the global trend.

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Congressman Enrique Accorsi, the Party for Democracy (PPD), criticized the lack of participation of citizens in this debate, and claimed that the energy matrix is \u200b\u200bbeing defined by private corporations and not by government. The Green Party also asked the government and Golborne to discard the possibility of building a nuclear reactor in the country. His spokesman Israel Campusano, expressed concern about the serious consequences that could leave the core collapse of Japan (Radio Bío Bío, 12/03/2011)

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Physicist Walter Orellana, Andrés Bello University, recalled that Chile holds the record of the earthquake of 9.6 degrees of Valdivia on 22 May 1960, the largest earthquake ever recorded in history of seismology. "I think we have great technology gap with Japan as well as considering the nature of our geology, and we must assess whether it is the most convenient option for our country" (Terra, 03/13/2011). Preceded by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake occurred the day Previous -21 May 1960 - Concepción, distant 448 km north of Valdivia, the largest earthquake caused two million people were affected, Valdivia 4m sank under the sea level caused by the eruption of Puyehue. The quake, felt in much of the southern cone, caused a tsunami that swept across the Pacific, caused 800 deaths in Japan two days later (5/24/1960) and severe flooding in Hawaii. This catastrophe shows that the replicas on the same plate can overshadow the first event of earthquake.

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For the executive director of the Terram Foundation, Flavia Liberona, the Japanese experience shows the risks of nuclear energy: "If you move it to the scene of Chile obviously a disaster of such features would be worse in our country because we all know that the conditions to be built in Japan, preparation for citizenship or security measures are vastly superior "(Terra, 13/03/2011). Liberona added that" beyond the discussion of whether good or bad, Chile is not prepared to have nuclear energy and risks that it entails. "He said that the future lies in renewable energy and do not represent an alternative to radioactive emissions risks can remain for years in the environment.

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Paul Venturino, a citizen who wrote to The Third (07/03/2011) said: "The truth, and having nothing against these companies, Golborne should begin by reviewing what representative institutions are doing today in Chile in this regard, as the College of Engineering, the Chilean Association of Renewable Energy, Utilities AG, Fundación Chile and other entities "high level" with technical and economic studies on energy scenarios, energy policy long-term support systems for renewable energy and proposals to integrate sustainable energies such as nuclear. Chile must integrate a diverse portfolio of energy sources and not fall into the error-checked several times that there is a power-saving, whether coal, natural gas, water or nuclear power. "

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Foreign Minister Alfredo Moreno, who before joining the government he worked as a lawyer and Falabella Luksic group, announced that "we will make an agreement [with Obama], I do not know if we will sign now or later "(La Tercera, 03/09/2011). "... We must recover the time and be able to when you can make this decision, we have the people, institutions and to take it, the U.S. also may be assistance "(La Segunda, 08/03/2011).

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The deputy of the far-right Independent Democratic Union (UDI) John Wolf said that "Chile is making important strides in this area, and secure the cooperation of the United States would think of a more rapid development of our capabilities in this area." stressed Lobos "The issue is urgent for the country and that the power supply can not rely solely on dams and fossil fuel because it jeopardizes our development. "USA, said," has not only experience but also knowledge and technology of advanced nuclear energy, so that we can train our professionals in this country would be a great leap forward "( The Third 03/14/2011).

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Gastón Agüero Scholar, University Federico Santa Maria, believes the nuclear option would be a great help to diversify energy sources: "My position is favorable for an economic issue, production and energy costs. I think the profitability of a nuclear plant Obviously, I think that air pollution is a serious issue, hydroelectricity can also be severe from the environmental point of view, then where is the balance? "(Terra, 03/13/2011)." From the point of nuclear light installation in Chile should be as similar to Japanese, or better, and you have to maybe a new design that is resistant to earthquakes grade 9 or 9.5. Now that may be the end of the project in the sense that the cost of making a power to resist an earthquake measuring 10 is infinite, and technically impossible to do, "he added.

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The Golborne biministro "tweeted": "Calm down. Do not exaggerate or talk without valid information. I suggest learning from the experiences and then draw conclusions." As Minister of Mining, civil engineer Golborne became global character when he was in charge of the rescue of 33 trapped miners, whose ordeal caused by the irresponsibility of the mining company that hired them was harvested as propaganda by Pinera and his government help of the media. But still dying in other mining tasks and still not paid settlement to the 330 workers who were not trapped in the mine San Jose. Golborne gained great credibility, he became Minister Piñera star and was used by the government to quell social protest in Punta Arenas to a plan to boost domestic gas, which was modified.

The risk of nuclear energy

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The paradox is that capitalism in Japan has chosen the nuclear power after the country suffered the only atomic attack, as was the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The third part of its energy comes from Japan Fukushima nuclear plant, whose No. 1 reactor became operational on March 26, 1971 and its 40 years has become an ancient time bomb, as dangerous as Chernobyl. The earthquake of 9.1 degrees is at risk of Onagawa plant, Fukushima 1, 2 and Tokai Fukushima 2, as the government hides reliable information about the accident, probably to reduce the nuclear panic. According to a report from German television DW, Fukushima earthquake infrastructure 1 was designed to withstand earthquakes up to 7.2 on the Richter scale at most, because the power companies argue that infrastructure is not profitable for a greater destructive force. However, almost all earthquakes in deaths and injuries in Japan since 1968 been registered more than 7.2 degrees Richter scale. For example:

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May 16, 1968: Earthquake of 7.8 Richter scale (analogous to the 1923 Kanto, 7.9 degrees), 50 dead and 500 wounded.

June 12, 1978: Earthquake of 7.5 degrees, 21 dead.

May 25, 1983: Northern Japan, magnitude 7.7 earthquake, 104 deaths.

July 12, 1993: Hokkaido, 7.8-magnitude earthquake, 230 deaths.

October 4, 1994: 7.9 magnitude earthquake, Russian Kuril Islands, hit northern Japan.

January 17, 1995: Kobe, western Japan, 7.2 magnitude earthquake, 6,400 dead.

September 26, 2003: Hokkaido, two earthquakes, magnitude 8 and 7 degrees, 2 dead and 300 wounded

October 23, 2004: A series of earthquakes in northwestern Japan, one of 6.8 degrees, 23 dead and 500 wounded. For the first time a bullet train derailed.

March 20, 2005: Kyushu, earthquake of 7 degrees, one dead and 735 wounded.

July 16, 2007: Niigata (northwest), earthquake of 6.8 degrees, 11 dead and thousands injured, with aftershocks up to 5.6 degrees. It closed the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant following a leak of radioactive water.

June 14, 2008: Sendai (NE), an earthquake of 7.2 degrees, 13 dead, 10 missing and 150 injured.

2011, March 11, 2011: Sendai (port city), 9.1 degrees.

March 12, according to a bulletin of the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of Chilean Navy (SHOA), the National Earthquake Information Center U.S. Geological Survey revised the magnitude of the earthquake in Japan of 8.9 on the Richter scale to 9, 1 degrees. That same day, the Japan Meteorological Agency also revised its assessment of magnitude and amounted to 9.

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Richter As each level represents a logarithmic exponential growth of 33 times the energy released by an earthquake, in the case of an earthquake in Japan every tenth of a difference equivalent to 3.3-strength earthquake of 9.1 on the Richter scale. And if today's mega power industry rule out building nuclear power plants capable of withstanding many consider the Richter scale by wasteful and impossible, then it makes the strongest alternative energy sources (wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, tidal, etc.) Always discarded as too expensive.

Before and after

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To Juan Lopez de Uralde, former director of Greenpeace in Spain and Equo Project Manager, the escape of radioactivity in Japanese reactors will mark "a before and after" for the future of this energy. He noted that "it is time" to reflect on the need to change the energy model to other sources. "We're seeing that nuclear power is very dangerous and the world hold their breath again, pending what happens in a nuclear plant." For nearly 25 years of Chernobyl (26/06/1986) Ukraine says it still needs 400 million euros to ensure the safety of nuclear plant remains collapsed.

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Angela Merkel's government decided in September 2010 that nuclear power plants built since 1980 remain in office 14 years longer than expected, while older plants continue to work more than eight years planned. The life of existing nuclear power plants took off up to 60 years, amid protests from environmentalists and other political groups opposed to the government right-wing Christian Democrat. According to a 2000 pact between the ruling coalition Social Democrat-Green then led by Gerhard Schröder and the energy industry, the last of the 17 German nuclear plants should be turned off in 2021. The postponement of the "nuclear blackout" revitalized the antinuclear movement clustered around The Greens, who in recent months has starred in dramatic actions to block convoys of nuclear waste across Germany.

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And the news about Japan's nuclear crisis strengthened a demonstration scheduled for 11 March in which 60 000 antinuclear protesters formed a human chain of 45 kilometers from Stuttgart (south Germany) and atomic power Neckarwestheim to require abandonment of this source of energy. Among the protesters were the two co-chairs of the Green Party, Claudia Roth and Cem Özdemir, who urged a return to the calendar for the abandonment of nuclear power approved in 2000 by the Schröder government. To be announced Monday demonstrations against the closure of nuclear plants in 130 German cities.

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And Merkel, at least, announced inspections in the 17 nuclear power plants in Germany. He said "what happened in Japan is a warning to the world" for being a country highly developed, with high safety standards, as terrifying nuclear crisis requires "draw conclusions" and "Germany can not simply ignore the issue." Under pressure, the government is considering temporarily suspending the law adopted to prolong the life of nuclear power plants up to 14 years pending further studies in view of what happened in Japan. "We need a new risk analysis," said federal vicanciller and Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle liberal. And in view of the results of the new study did not rule out a move to the early closure of some plants in Germany, the third country in the world's oldest plants whose intended to prolong life utilities. Environment Minister, Norbert Roettger, requested a reassessment of risks in nuclear plants and said that his party is also Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) - should reopen the debate on nuclear power, which was installed across the country two weeks before regional elections.

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The right-wing government of Nicolas Sarkozy adopted, however, a very different position from that of Merkel. French Industry Minister Eric Besson safety defended nuclear plants and said that all the plants "have been designed considering the seismic hazard and flood risk." He met with representatives of nuclear corporations galas and was accompanied by ... Ecology Minister Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet. France has 58 nuclear reactors account for 80% of energy demand.

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Ernesto Carmona, Chilean writer and journalist.

Hatchet Vs Genitals -reaction

This time we got the whole planet with us. Our natural capital, our forests, fossil fuel, air and water.

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Globalization is the modern articulation of ideology old used by elites to transform citizens in deer and the natural world a wasteland, towards making money. Nothing is sacred to these elites. Human beings and the natural world are exploited until they are exhausted and collapse. elites are not intended to defend the common good. In sum, the defeat of rational thought and the death of humanism. The march toward self-destruction is over with 90% of large fish in the oceans and half of mature natural forests, the lungs of the planet. At this rate for 2030 exist only 10% of tropical forests on Earth. Contaminated water kills 25,000 people every day on the planet, and each year 20 million children are damaged by malnutrition.

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In the new global process of capital accumulation, accumulation by dispossession, transnational corporations take him absolutely everything on planet earth. Do not leave anything.

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This time we got the whole planet with us.

our natural capital, our forests,

fossil fuel, air and water.

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complex societies, precarious, vulnerable

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What to learn from past civilizations and empires? The earth is a closed system. The time is cyclical and short. There are human barriers that transform globalization into a trap. ***

Chris Hedges.

Kaosenlared. Saturday March 12, 2011.

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I walked through the barren remains of Babylon in Iraq, and the ancient Roman city of Antioch, the capital of Roman Syria, now buried in silt. I visited the marble ruins of Leptis Magna, once one of the most important agricultural centers of the Roman Empire, now isolated in the desolate sand dunes southeast of Tripoli. I climbed to the fantastic temples of Tikal elderly, while bands of colorful toucans fly in the foliage of the jungle down there. I have stood among the remains of the ancient Egyptian city Luxor along the Nile, watching the statue of the great Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II broken on the floor, with the poem Ozymandias by Percy Shelley in my mind:

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"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look
my work, your powerful, and Desperate!"
Nothing beside remains. Some deterioration of colossal ruins, huge, naked
The lone and level sands stretch into the distance.

civilizations rise, decay and die. The time for individuals and states, as the ancient Greeks argued, is cyclical. To what societies become more complex inevitably become more precarious. Become increasingly vulnerable. And when you start to break down the population terrified and confused folds of reality, with an inability to recognize their obvious fragility and its imminent collapse. The elites at the end of phrases and speak in a language that does not correspond with reality.

take refuge in a separate space, whether in the court of Versailles or the Forbidden City and state in modern palaces. The elites are dedicated to hedonism without control, to an even more vast accumulation of wealth and extravagant consumption. Become deaf to the suffering of the masses are suppressed even more fiercely. Resources are exhausted without mercy until they are completed. And then, the empty building collapses. Roman and Sumerian empires fell well. Maya elites, then they finished with forests and rivers polluted with silt and acid turned to primitivism.

As food and water are scarce, and it expands across the globe, as increasing poverty and misery caused by street protests in the Middle East, Africa and Europe, the elites do what all elites have done. Launch more wars, build great monuments to themselves, their nations plunge into an even greater debt, and what it all comes apart get even with the workers and the poor.

The collapse of the global economy, which has erased the incredible sum of $ 40 billion (40.000.000.000.000) was caused by our elites, who after destroying our manufacturing base, has sold massive amounts of mortgage-backed documents fraudulent pension funds and small investors, banks, universities, the state itself and foreign governments and their shareholders. Elites, they covered their losses when they stole the treasury to return to speculate again. They also, in the name of austerity, began to dismantle the bases of services social, breaking what was left of the labor unions, cut jobs, freeze salaries, throwing millions of people from their homes, not troubled while creating a permanent class of unemployed and underemployed.

The Maya elite became eventually, as the anthropologist Ronald Wright wrote in his notes "A short history of progress," ... "extremist and ultra conservative, sticking out until the last drops of profit nature and humanity. "This is like all civilizations, including ours, ossify and die. The signs of impending death are impossible to deny. Common sense demands a radical response. But the race for the self-immolation only accelerated by the moral and intellectual paralysis. As Sigmund Freud thought in Beyond the Pleasure Principle "and" Civilization and its Discontents ", human societies are intoxicated and blinded by their own race to the death and destruction, much as they are by the search erotic satisfaction.

uprisings in the Middle East, self-destruction of national economies such as Ireland and Greece, the growing anger of the working class at home and abroad, the growing desperation of human migration and the refusal to stop our relentless destruction of the ecosystem in dependent life itself are all signs of our collapse, due to the idiocy of our elite and madness of globalization. The protests that are not built around a complete reconfiguration of American society, including the rapid dismantling of the empire and the corporate state, can only delay the inevitable. We will be saved only by the birth of a new militant radicalism that seeks to overthrow our corrupt elite of power, and not to negotiate better terms with it.

The global economy is built on the mistaken belief that the market-read, must better human greed to dictate human behavior and ever expanding economies. Globalism works under the belief that the ecosystem can continue to be beaten by massive carbon emissions without serious consequences. And the machinery of global economic expansion is based on there will always be cheap and plentiful oil. The inability to confront some simple truths about human nature and the natural world makes elites paradigms unable to articulate social, economic and political new. Just looking for ways to perpetuate a dying system.

Globalization is the modern articulation of the old ideology used by elites to transform citizens in deer and the natural world into a wasteland, in pursuit of making money. Nothing is sacred to these elites. Human beings and the natural world are exploited until they are exhausted and collapse. The elites do not seek to defend the common good. In short, is the defeat of rational thought and the death of humanism. The march toward self-destruction has already completed 90% of large fish in the oceans and half of mature natural forests, the lungs of the planet. At this rate by 2030 there will be only 10% of tropical forests on Earth. Contaminated water kills 25,000 people every day on the planet, and each year 20 million children are damaged by malnutrition.

carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is now over 350 parts per million and the majority of climate scientists warn us that is the maximum level to sustain life as we know. [Editor's note: the preceding sentence has been revised since this article was first published here.] Intergovernamental Panel on Climate Change estimates that the measure could reach from 541 to 970 ppm by 2100. At that point, huge areas of the planet, suffering from overpopulation, drought, soil erosion, unexpected storms, grain mass failure and rising sea levels, would be unfit for human existence.

Jared Diamond in his essay "The Last American" Note that by the time Hernán Cortés reached Yucatan Maya million had disappeared.

"Why," writes Diamond, "kings and nobles failed to recognize and solve these problems? The biggest reason was that their attention was evidently focused on short-term problems for enrichment, wars, put up monuments, competing with them, and extracting enough food from the peasants to support these activities. "

" Pumping the oil, cut down the trees and fish these fish may benefit the elite giving more money and prestige and yet be bad for society (including children of the elite) long term, "Diamond said. "The Maya kings were consumed by the immediate concerns for their prestige (requiring larger and larger churches) and their success in the next war (requiring more fans), rather than the happiness of the commoners or the next generation. Those people with greater decision-making in our society today make money regularly in activities that can be bad for society as such and for their own children, between the decision makers are the executives of Enron, many who develop the land (construction ), and who demand tax cuts for the rich. "

was no different on Easter Island. When the inhabitants arrived on the island of 64 square miles in the 5th century, they found plenty of fresh water and forests filled with Chilean Wine Palm, a tree can be as large as the oak. The seafood, including fish, seals, porpoises and turtles and nesting seabirds were abundant. The society of Easter Island, which was divided into a caste system developed by nobles, priests and commoners, had increased by five or six centuries to 10,000 people. Natural resources were swallowed and began to disappear.

"The forests were cut down to grow grain that would lead to an increase in population but also to soil erosion and declining fertility soil, "Paul Bahn and John Flenley write in" Easter Island, Earth Earth, or Easter Island, Earth Island. "" Gradually more land will be deforested. Trees and shrubs will be cut to make canoes, firewood, house construction and wood and ropes necessary to raise statues. The fruits of Palma will be eaten, reducing the regeneration of the palm. Rats, introduced with food, can feed on palm fruits, multiplying rapidly and completely preventing regeneration of the palm. The over-exploitation of prolific seabirds would have eliminated the islands except far the coast. Rats may have helped in this process by eating their eggs. Provided abundant food for fish, seabirds and rats would have increased the initial growth of the population.

Increasing human population pressure would then limitless availability of land, leading to disputes and eventually war. The lack of wood and strings made it impossible to carve more statues. Disillusioned with the effectiveness of the religion of the statues as to provide for the needs of people may have been that people leave the cult. The lack of restrictions on fishing boats and led to a further decline in the provision of protein. The result may have been a general famine, war and the collapse of the entire economy, leading to a sharp population decline. "

clans in the aftermath of the civilization of Easter Island, competed for the honor of their ancestors built stone images ever larger, they demanded the use of what remained of wood, rope and labor on the island. By 1400 there were no forests. The soil was eroded and was washed into the sea. The Islanders began to fight among themselves for the remaining wood and had to eat their dogs and soon nesting seabirds.

desperation, the islanders developed a system of beliefs that the gods raised stone moai, come to life and save them from disaster. The last refuge in magic characterizes all societies that fall into terminal decline. It is a desperate response to the loss of control, hopelessness and powerlessness. The desperate turn to magic was dancing ghosts of the Cherokee, the Taki Onqoy lost and rebelled against the English invaders in Peru and the Aztec prophecy of 1530. Civilizations in their last moments are completely separated from reality, a reality that becomes very depressing to be absorbed.

The modern belief in the Christian Bible in ecstasy, does not exist in biblical literature, It is no less fantastic when one accepts deny the reality of global warming or evolution, or accept the absurd theory that the righteous are to be saved and will be floating naked in paradise at the end of time, is falling in same. Faith that science and technology are morally neutral and serve human ambition, become whole once again the world is no less illusory. Magical Thinking We both secular and religious.

think we have somehow escaped the mistakes of the past. We are confident that we are wiser and larger than were others before us. Naively believe in the inevitability of our own salvation. And who provide false hope, especially as things deteriorate, receive our adulation and praise. We in the United States, we are only 5% of the world's population, but we are outraged if someone tells us we have no divine right to wasteful consumption levels 25% of the world's energy. President Jimmy Carter, when he suggested that consumption was not beneficial, was transformed into a figure of national ridicule. As things get worse we demand even more deluded and happy speech. Those who are willing to provide that fantasy and illusion are, because we are politically passive, very generously supported and promoted by corporate and oligarchic forces. And at the very end have to bring happiness to the cliff the same simpletons and lunatics, many of whom seem to be lining up now for the nomination of Republican presidential candidate (in USA).

"Can, events that occurred 300 years ago in a small island, have significance for the world?" Bahn and Flenley asked. "We believe so. We believe that Easter Island is a microcosm that provides a model for the entire planet. Like Earth, Easter Island was a closed system. People thought they were the only survivors on Earth, all other lands deep in the sea. They carried out for us this experiment unrestricted population growth, resource use without measure, environmental destruction and believe with confidence that their religion is responsible for the future. The result was an ecological disaster that led to a population collapse.

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... Do we have to repeat the experiment on a larger scale? Do we have to be as cynical as Henry Ford and say, 'The story is silly "? Is it not more sensible to learn from the lesson that tells the story of Easter Island and apply it to the Earth Island in which we live? "

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Humans seem to suffer the curse of having to repeat these cycles of exploitation and collapse. And with a larger size of the deterioration is less able to understand what is happening around them. The Earth is littered with remains of human folly and arrogance. We seem doomed to go us and take our species to extinction, but now seem to live the outcome of what has been established and civilized life of the planet that began about 5000 years ago. Nothing left on the planet to make. We are spending the last of our natural capital, including our forests, fossil fuel, the air and water.

This time the fall, our fall has to be global. There are no new lands to plunder, no new people to exploit. The technology, which over time and space constraints, our global village has become a global death trap. The fate of Easter Island is to be written large over the extension of the planet Earth.

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(Translate Nora Fernández)