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Putting Fukushima In Perspective

By Washingtons Blog: There was no background radioactive cesium before above-ground nuclear testing and nuclear accidents started.
Wikipedia provides some details on the distribution of cesium-137 due to human activities:

Small amounts of caesium-134 and caesium-137 were released into the environment during nearly all nuclear weapon tests and some nuclear accidents, most notably the Chernobyl disaster.
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Caesium-137 is unique in that it is totally anthropogenic. Unlike most other radioisotopes, caesium-137 is not produced from its non-radioactive isotope, but from uranium. It did not occur in nature before nuclear weapons testing began. By observing the characteristic gamma rays emitted by this isotope, it is possible to determine whether the contents of a given sealed container were made before or after the advent of atomic bomb explosions. This procedure has been used by researchers to check the authenticity of certain rare wines, most notably the purported “Jefferson bottles”.

The Story of Gaza

By DavidSwanson: Young authors of fiction from Gaza, some of whom say they are finding Palestine on the internet while unable to see it exist in reality, have just published a collection of stories, written in English, marking the five-year anniversary of the 23 days from December 27, 2008, until Obama’s inauguration, during which Israel bombed the people of Gaza far more heavily than usual.  They’re publishing a new excerpt of the book each of these 23 days on their FaceBook page. You can talk with them in an upcoming Google Hangout.
For five years, the world — just like Obama — has overwhelmingly been “looking forward” when it comes to crimes committed by nations aligned with the U.S. government.  But the crimes in Gaza then and now, and in other countries, have been exposed to unprecedented “looking present” through immediate real-time blogging available to those actively looking, even in the places responsible for the far-away terrorism-too-big-to-call-by-that-name. If everyone turned off their television and searched on a computer for news about their own country as reported in other countries, injustice, rather than our natural environment, would be endangered.

Budget Fraud: MEP Spills Beans On €6bn Of YOUR Money EU Can't Account For

goingundergroundRT: Former Chief Accountant of the European Commission, Marta Andreasen, talks to the host of Going Underground, Afshin Rattansi, about the EU's failure to pass a tax audit for the 19th year in a row and discusses where the missing money could have gone. Plus, how the system is designed to facilitate financial fraud.

West's Debt Hits 200-Year High - IMF Paper Warns Of 'Savings Tax' and Mass Write-Offs

Debt burdens in developed nations have become extreme by any historical measure and will require a wave of haircuts, warns IMF paper 

The paper pointed to policy elites in the West who are still clinging to the illusion that rich countries can chip away at their debts with a blend of austerity cuts and growth.

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Much of the Western world will require defaults, a savings tax and higher inflation to clear the way for recovery as debt levels reach a 200-year high, according to a new report by the International Monetary Fund.

The IMF working paper said debt burdens in developed nations have become extreme by any historical measure and will require a wave of haircuts, either negotiated 1930s-style write-offs or the standard mix of measures used by the IMF in its “toolkit” for emerging market blow-ups.

“The size of the problem suggests that restructurings will be needed, for example, in the periphery of Europe, far beyond anything discussed in public to this point,” said the paper, by Harvard professors Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff.

A Voice for Men - Honey Badger Radio

AVfM: Calls broadcast unless requested by the caller and pre-recorded music, rants and adds.

The "Why Can't You Just Let This Go" Defense

Stefan Molyneux: A message to start the New Year, Bitcoin skepticism, defending Gandhi, photogenic bullshit artists, using virtue to cover for vice, Steven Pinker on parenting, Dr. Phil on family separation, the "why can't you just let this go" defense and the dangers of having a "Plan B".

Why, son?! Why did you masturbate so much?!

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NSA building a ‘quantum computer’ capable of breaking all forms of encryption

RT: The National Security Agency is reportedly building a ‘quantum computer’ capable of breaking encryption used to protect the most vital records around the world.
The US spy agency is seeking an advanced-speed, “cryptologically useful quantum computer” that can bypass encryption that currently shields global banking, business, medical and government records.
The quantum computer is part of a $79.7 million research project called “Penetrating Hard Targets,” according to documents supplied by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and reported by The Washington Post. Much of the program is hosted in a College Park, Maryland laboratory under classified contracts.
Past Snowden-fueled revelations have shown the NSA has worked to deliberately weaken common encryption standards.
Yet the NSA’s own technology capable of shattering all forms of public key encryption - including that which protects state secrets - is no closer to success than any other attempts in the scientific community, according to the leaked documents.
“The application of quantum technologies to encryption algorithms threatens to dramatically impact the US government’s ability to both protect its communications and eavesdrop on the communications of foreign governments,” according to one Snowden-leaked document.

California To Allow Boys To Play On Girls Teams

ramzpaul: Students in grades K-12 who identify as transgender will be able to use the school bathrooms of their choosing as long as it is "consistent with their gender identity," even if it is different than their gender at birth. Students will also be able to select whether they want to be on the boys team or the girls team based on their "gender identity."