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davidpetraitis wrote a new diary post: The USA Morality play
A good friend of mine recently became Swiss. He is looking to let go of his American passport to escape the madness of the American Empire as much as possible on this planet. He asked me in a recent email:
The USA has become a very weird place in many ways – or maybe I have over the [...]
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davidpetraitis wrote a new diary post: Worlds first 3D printed gun
This is indeed terrifying… 3D printed guns. as the article says: this was predicted months ago in a TED talk on Radical Openness by Mark Goodman.Our own creativity has frightening potential for bad, and awesome potential for good. Make your choices wisely today.The world’s first 3D-printed gun is a terrifying thing | KurzweilAIWorld’s first (partially) 3D-printed [...] -
davidpetraitis wrote a new diary post: Debt and Civilization
It’s amazing how long debt has been a feature of both civilization and wars. Michael Hudson has done a lot of digging (almost literally) into ancient Sumerian and Babylonian records and recently was interviewed. His recent interview is at Renegade Economists radio show, transcript at his site . In this interview he notes that debt was…
… first documented [...]
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davidpetraitis wrote a new diary post: Depression and Inflation possible?
There is something about the impending crisis which I have been having a hard time thinking through… and I may not be alone. So I just want to put it down here. Let us just for the sake of backdrop take the following actions by respective economic powers as possible and look at what they [...]
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davidpetraitis wrote a new diary post: How Banksters use Universities for rent extraction: HuffPost
I wrote previously that Universites were becoming part of Finance Capital’s move into all the areas of what used to be public goods owned by the people. They have become merely conduits for recruitment of suckers for a financial rent taking. Now the Huffington Post has a new article showing exactly how this was done. Goldman Sacks was [...]
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davidpetraitis wrote a new diary post: Universities, Democracy and Bankers
Someone posted to a Facebook friend a lament on the decline of Universities in the US. To which I responded. I edit the response here. Actually you have to look through your simple conception of the University, it’s place in education, and the needs of the elites as they have grown to power in the US. Universities [...] -
davidpetraitis wrote a new diary post: Japanese reports of Plutonium in soil: “people should not be concerned”
The Japan Times online had a nice way of putting it in their Report of long-range plutonium find tardy . The speed of updating the Japanese public on the potential health hazards has struck me previously in my blog. I found this amazing in this latest post:
“Plutonium won’t do harm unless it gets into people’s bodies. And [...]
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davidpetraitis wrote a new diary post: Chinese Capitalism: The new world standard
The Chinese model of capitalism is becoming the new (lower) world standard. Anti-worker and anti-regulation activism on the part of even “new” capitalists, will lead to abuse with impunity on the part of American employers. The stories of exploitation of workers’ fragile job prospects, and the spectre of unemployment are many. In New York from [...]
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davidpetraitis commented on the diary post Japan’s Nuclear Safety Commission admits to being liars – or at least parsimonious with the truth by davidpetraitis.
Just read this on VOA:
Makoto Akashi is Executive Director at the National Institute of Radiological Sciences in Japan. He says the amount of radioactive cesium released into the atmosphere is much smaller than that released in the nuclear accident in Chernobyl. But, no one knew this at the time, so he says screening of [...]
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davidpetraitis wrote a new diary post: Japan’s Nuclear Safety Commission admits to being liars – or at least parsimonious with the truth
In the British Parliament it is not allowed to call someone a “liar.” It is for this reason that Members of that august body have come up with such grand circumlocutions as “My esteemed Colleague is being parsimonious with the truth !” Now just so we get our language right when dealing with nitty-gritty problems of truth [...]
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davidpetraitis commented on the diary post Fukushima: fuel rods exposed, fuel melted and reactor containment has holes… by davidpetraitis.
Cement (with boron added to the mix to stop the reactions) will, IMO, be the only way this is going to finish for Reactors 1 and 3. There are problems with currently moving ahead on this option. Firstly, there is no way to get into the area of the plant to set up for the [...]
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davidpetraitis wrote a new diary post: Fukushima: It’s worse
Several people picked up on the Fukushima updates recently. A hat-tip to Krista Mahr of Time Online who in her article Fukushima: Er, Sorry…Worse Than We Thought repeats what I said yesterday about it being worse than we thought and pointed me to a Yomiuri Online report. The Yomiuri Shimbun Online review of the situation has a very good [...] -
davidpetraitis wrote a new diary post: Fukushima: fuel rods exposed, fuel melted and reactor containment has holes…
It is worse than we thought. This is probably the worst news about Fukushima yet, but it seems to be getting little media play. The short version, Reactor 1 has totally exposed fuel rods, melted fuel pooling at the bottom and holes in the reactor containment vessel. It is exactly similar to Chernobyl, with reactor [...]
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davidpetraitis commented on the blog post Ryan Budget Will Block Grant Medicaid, Voucherize Medicare
If the Republicans can use ‘death panels’ to fight Obama’s health care, maybe Democrats can call RyanCare “Kick the Cripple”
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davidpetraitis wrote a new diary post: Fukushima: Thinking back from the end scenario
The end scenario for Fukushima is murky at this point in time. I tend to work intuitively: that is seeing the end state and working back to the present and then working out the steps to get from here to there. So let me try to do that in this somewhat long post. It has [...]
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davidpetraitis commented on the diary post Plutonium detected outside Fukushima by davidpetraitis.
Sorry Bill, Just really exercised over the incredible recklessness of TEPCO at this point.
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davidpetraitis commented on the diary post TEPCO sent workers into ‘hot’ reactor without warning them by davidpetraitis.
@1970cs Thanks, I blogged on that as well a few minutes ago…
http://my.firedoglake.com/davidpetraitis/2011/03/28/plutonium-detect-outside-fukushima/Agree that their protestations of ‘no health risk’ also ring hollow.
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davidpetraitis wrote a new diary post: On the toxicity of plutonium
On the toxicity of Plutonium there is likely to be some over reaction and hysteria. I would refer you to the Plutonium information page of the World Nuclear Association.Since they are a pro-nuclear industry group, one should take their information in that light, however, I don’t think they are mis-stating the science.
Despite being toxic both chemically [...]
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davidpetraitis wrote a new diary post: Plutonium detected outside Fukushima
Just yesterday I posted on Firedoglake that this was bound to happen. Now Fox News has confirmed it. This is horrible news. My heart goes out to those workers. They need better equipment and international support asap.
Power company officials say plutonium has been detected in the soil outside of the stricken Japanese nuclear complex. Tokyo Electric Power [...]
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davidpetraitis wrote a new diary post: Radioactive water OUTSIDE the Fukushima plant
A disturbing news story this morning : radioactive water is found outside the plants. There is no way to stop this water from entering the environment. Water retrieval is hampered by the fact that all holding tanks for radioactive water waste are full.
The water seeping into a trench outside the Number two reactor at Fukushima Daiichi [...] - Load More
