best of 2011

Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity

It is a three-way tie. There was the priest broom brawl in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity; the Italian seismologists who were charged with manslaughter after the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake; and the two last speakers of Ayapaneco, who don't like each other.

Stephen Anderson, former detective, testifies that NYPD routinely planted drugs on people to meet arrest quotas (eight officers arrested).

So far (2012): Charles Monnett, under investigation about melting arctic ice ('polarbeargate'), was finally reprimanded for forwarding an e-mail and otherwise cleared of scientific misconduct.

That charge should be brought to Ann Coulter, who confuses radon—or who really knows what—with {uranium, cesium, plutonium, polonium, strontium, radioactive iodine, sulphur, tellurium, helium or other fukushima cocktails}.

federal budget 1812

It's an Industrial Revolution ! As long as miners, investors and stock market 'thought leaders' ccce's like it, yep, the main event, git 'er done. Wealth will trickle flake down like gold in Jason Kenney's ass trump's plane.

http://industrialchristmascarol.blogspot.ca/

Like effluent in tailings ponds, asbestos fibers in workers' lungs and happy uraniums for ... everybody! Nature Canada, press release: ... is particularly concerned about plans to amend the Metal Mining Effluent Regulations that expands a loophole in the Fisheries Act. Now, diamond and coal mining companies will join metal mining companies in being allowed to dump toxic waste into Canada’s living lakes.

(... few questions about MP pension plans, corporate lobbying, AECL/ SNC-Lavalin, CPP executive bonuses, F-35s.) Enough about metals, minerals, oil, gas, $13.5m for pipelines and $35.7m for tankers. It'll be fun setting up a full-fledged laboratory, somewhere, maybe the kitchen or beside the sofa, to test food product labels myself in my spare time - and when I let a company know about the results from my lab, it will can give itself a fine for possible misleading advertising or ... dangerous ingredients. hey... And why not test for GMOs too: I'll buy a book !

nestlé, plastic, water, uranium

And fuggetabout estrogenic agents like Bisphenol A (BPA) or chickmen, chickfrogs, and chickfish. It's true: “Everyone is aware of the role Nestlé plays in privatization of water and baby formula, and it will reflect back on the university,” he told the Journal.

So that's why an honorary degree for Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, chairman and former CEO of the Nestlé corporation, from the University of Alberta kinda... stinks, especially after the dean of medicine's plagiarism scandal last year.

Grand Canyon National Park

On an up note, uranium mining was banned around Grand Canyon National Park, for 20 years, and the park is banning the sale of plastic water bottles, after a year reviewing objections by Coca Cola/Dasani.

The new restrictions take effect within 30 days, and follow the example of Utah's Zion National Park,... Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, which offers water stations...  (Feb 8, 2012: USA Today)

Whitebark pines

Oh, federal budget, entire endangered species program gets less money than the cost of a single F-14. (Feb 19, 2012: Summit County Citizens Voice, Colorado)

Update: April 30, 2013. "Grand Canyon uranium mining set to go ahead despite ban from Obama" Canadian Energy Fuels Resources has been given federal approval to reopen its old Canyon Mine, located six miles south of the canyon's popular South Rim entrance, that attracts nearly 5 million visitors a year.

H2S, SO2, abortions, DU & bible bullets

“Right before Achmed was killed by an American sniper, he looked at me and said ‘I am suddenly compelled by logic, reason and spiritual insight to conclude that our leaders are completely wrong in their argument that the Americans are fighting a religious war against Islam and that their invasion is little different from the European invasions during the Crusades,’” said Aziz, a Taliban commander.

The markings include "2COR4:6" and "JN8:12", relating to verses in the books of II Corinthians and John. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8468981.stm 

Trijicon's Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight (Acog)

DU, more than three-fold increase in spontaneous abortions
Five killed by methane gas on Virginia farm
Sour gas, hydrogen sulfide, H2S chronic exposure
GMO's causing animals to have miscarriages and infertility
Sulphur dioxide, SO2 increased risk of miscarriage

press release: atomic radiation is more harmful to women

NEW BRIEFING PAPER FROM NIRS: ATOMIC RADIATION IS MORE HARMFUL TO WOMEN
Nuclear Information & Resource Service
October 18, 2011
For Immediate Release

Excerpt: Women as a group suffer significantly more from the impact of ionizing radiation than do men. Today Nuclear Information and Resource Service published a Briefing Paper that focuses on a dramatic fifty-percent greater incidence of cancer and fifty-percent greater rate of death from cancer among women, compared to the same radiation dose level to men. To be clear: males suffer cancer and cancer death from exposure to ionizing radiation; but gender difference in the level of harm has been to date underreported.

salmon inquiry, 'events in Japan' & trout

The Cohen Commission (Commission of Inquiry into the Decline of Sockeye Salmon in the Fraser River) today heard from Kristi Miller, who's been under pressure it seems to say nothing public, like other scientists, about her study and federal government science... stuff. There appears to be a little funding problem.

A research program led by geneticist Kristi Miller which recently discovered a new virus that could be a factor in declining Fraser River sockeye has no funding to continue its work, the Cohen Commission heard Thursday. more (Vancouver Sun)

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency issued notification to media outlets that it was testing sockeye salmon for radiation levels in August and September 2011.

The federal government often refers to the reported meltdown of three nuclear reactors in Fukushima as "the events in Japan", rather than using more descriptive language. However, the words "nuclear crisis" appeared once in today's statement. more (Georgia Strait)

There was no spokesperson to take questions about the testing of 'this important commodity.'

In Yellowstone, between the lake and cutthroat trouts is a Judas team, 'a strike force in the biggest lake-trout-killing program in the nation.'

Plutonium, Cesium, Iodine, Uranium - Chernobyl Today

“After the explosion at Reactor 4 the people of Pripyat flocked on the railway bridge just outside the city to get a good view of the reactor and see what had happened."

The bridge of death

Chernobyl Today: A Creepy Story told in Pictures

Schools

“Deserted secondary school near Chernobyl, Illinsty, Ukraine. Dec 1995 0.96.07.01.19”

Coulter on Radiation: Your goldfish is sleeping

Deformity caused by radiation exposure from Chernobyl explosion

http://hoanw.blogspot.com/2011/02/risky-nuclear-experiments-on-global.html

O'Reilly, in response to this nonsense, jokingly said "we should all be heading for the nuclear reactor leaking and kind of sunbathing," to which Coulter actually agreed!