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Radiation contamination acknowledged for personnel returning from Japan by Vice Admiral Adam Robinson, surgeon general of the Navy, saying:

“There no reason to seek care…there is no medical condition, but there is nuclear contamination…wash selves, shower…visit a medical treatment facility to document who was in an affected area …fill out RADIOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION FORMS…”

In Japan-http://www.japantoday.com/category/lifestyle/view/radiation-free-certificates-in-fukushima-get-unexpected-role

Radiation screenings have been conducted at the entrance of shelters in Fukushima Prefecture since March 13, two days after the devastating quake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. They are intended to check if a resident has been exposed to radiation. “Certificates” are then issued by the doctors to those who have been declared free of any abnormality.

But these certificates have come to be an unexpected function in the community that has become nervous about anything radioactive. Some shelters have started demanding that certificates be presented before any residents evacuating from the nuclear disaster are admitted.  Some officials in the central government, however, are raising their eyebrows about such documentation while demand for them appears to be growing.

In a likely cover-up attempt to dispel panic-

One main player is the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Officials said they had activated its National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center, which draws on meteorologists, nuclear scientists and computer scientists to forecast plume dispersal.  http://saweatherobserver.blogspot.com/2011/03/military-crew-said-to-be-exposed-to.html 

On March 18, President Obama said he knows that Americans are worried about potential risks from airborne radiation that could drift across the Pacific. “So I want to be very clear,” he said. “We do not expect harmful levels of radiation to reach the United States, whether it’s the West Coast, Hawaii, Alaska or U.S. territories.” http://www.observer-reporter.com/OR/StoryAP/03-18-2011-US-JAPAN-10 

Fukushima whatever level of nuclear crisis level you call it, is a global catastrophe that is poisoning the world.  We can not eat contaminated food.  We can not drink contaminated water. We can not survive high levels of radiation.  While radiation exposure is not contagious person to person this website is a wakeup call to heed fallout warnings at  http://www.parowanprophet.com/Nuclear_War_Comes/radiation_sickness.htm

In America we are being by the experts that the threat of radiation from Japan is minimal.  Of course, the experts say the remaining 440 or so nuclear plants are safe too.  Really, what are the chances of another earthquake, let alone a tsunami taking out a nuclear plant or adding to the disaster in Japan? 

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"Report by M.A.U.D. Committee on the use of Uranium as a source of power."

JAPAN NUCLEAR MELTDOWN.  SNAFU as Radiation spreads globally.  Lies detected everywhere.

It is become ever more clear that Japan, one of the most earthquake prone countries, has relied on its 54 nuclear reactors to put energy use above safety.    What about America, Germany, France, Canada and all the other countries employing the use of nuclear energy? With the release of radiation from Japan blowing into the wind, we keep hearing that acceptable levels of radiation are acceptable.

Oh, bull_ _ _ _.  Researchers in the United States have performed thousands of radiation experiments in humans to determine the effects of ionizing radiation and radioactive contamination on the human body. http://www.governmentconspiracy.net/2010/04/us-government-human-radiation-experiments-conspiracy/ The world is pretty clear in defining the fact that radiation while a natural occuring event,  is not something you want to overly expose yourself to if you can help it.

Rollback about 60 years or so to the Manhatten Project, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Manhattan_Project and know damned well that the power of a nuclear bomb can be as deadly as radiation exposure.  It just might not kill you in a New York minute.  Some expert on CNN yesterday actually had the audacity to say,  perhaps the latest finding of Plutonium at the site may have been from the Atom bomb.  Oh, pleeeaze.

Managing Director, Akio Komori of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the company that manages the “Fuk-ed,” Fukushima nuclear plant, cried after a press conference. He admitted that the ongoing radiation leaks were serious enough to cause injury or death in the highest area of danger, closest to the damaged plant.  He only mentioned the Fukushima plant.  He hasn’t been seen publically since.  Perhaps he succombed to some nefarious end at the bottom of the ocean? A Seppuku, the ritual Japanese suicide? He is not alone.

TEPCO Pres, “Shimizu’s vanishing act “is not so much extremely strange as inexcusable,” said Takeo Nishioka, the chairman of the upper house of Japan’s Diet, or parliament. Speaking to reporters, Nishioka described as “mysterious” Shimizu’s refusal to join the head of the nuclear safety agency at a briefing on the crisis for parliament. “I cannot understand this,” Nishioka fumed. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/vanishing-act-by-japanese-executive-during-nuclear-crisis-raises-questions/2011/03/28/AFDnHNpB_story.html

Thanks to Wikileaks, we know that TEPCO has had a history of nefarious activities—

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the Japanese owner of the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, falsified safety data and “dishonestly” tried to cover up problems there, according to reports based on Wikileaks-leaked cables (The Australian).

Grief for him, yes- anger from the rest of the world is unsurmountable.  We all get that Japan did not prepare for a double whammy quake and tsunami, but a cry for help days ago could have had an impact to lesson this insanity.  As for transparency from Japan, read one report that makes things looks all fine and dandy- http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11032109-e.html

Press Release (Mar 21,2011)
Plant Status of Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Station (as of 9:00 pm March 21st)

[No New Developments since 6:00 pm, 21st March]

Unit   Status
1    · Reactor cold shutdown, stable water level, offsite power is
       available.
     · No cooling water is leaked to the reactor containment vessel.
     · Maintain average water temperature at 100°C in the pressure
       restraint.
2    · Reactor cold shutdown, stable water level, offsite power is
       available.
     · No cooling water is leaked to the reactor containment vessel.
     · Maintain average water temperature at 100°C in the pressure
       restraint.
3    · Reactor cold shutdown, stable water level, offsite power is
       available.
     · No cooling water is leaked to the reactor containment vessel.
     · Maintain average water temperature at 100°C in the pressure
       restraint.
4    · Reactor cold shutdown, stable water level, offsite power is
       available.
     · No cooling water is leaked to the reactor containment vessel.
     · Maintain average water temperature at 100°C in the pressure
       restraint.   

other  N.A.

[The next information in regard to the plant is planned to be released
 at 9:00 am, 22nd March.]

 March 29 report reads the same.

Among the first reports of radiation in the U.S.A.— “A “miniscule” amount of radiation that probably came from damaged nuclear reactors in Japan was picked up at a California monitoring station yesterday, the U.S. government said.” 

A similar level of the radioactive isotope, xenon-133, was detected in Washington state on March 16 and 17, according to the agencies. It was “consistent with a release from the Fukushima reactors in Northern Japan,” according to the statement. The EPA and Energy Department have monitoring systems and neither found “radiation levels of concern.” http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-18/-miniscule-amounts-of-radiation-from-japan-detected-by-sacramento-station.html

One would think the headlines would read, “Radiation from Japan hits U.S.” Instead, headlines from Fox and CNN are about the bombings in Lybia and a no fly zone.  Lybia has become a $500 million a week distraction. We can pretty much figure out what the press isn’t telling us after they tell us.

“The real threat is not WikiLeaks or Julian Assange, but you. The real threat is you finding out the truth about those who pretend to be democratic, and to act in your interests, and to promote a peaceful world. The real threat is you being able to call your government to account.”

Should anyone be surprised that Radioactive iodine-131 has been detected in Tokyo’s tap water, milk, and spinach? Should anyone be surprised that just in time for some St. Patrick’s Day glow of green, “A Canadian nuclear power plant has developed a leak and has spilled 73,000 litres of contaminated water into Lake Ontario.” http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/americas/news/article_1626848.php/Canadian-nuclear-power-plant-leak-confirmed

Humpty dumpty sat on a wall with 6 nuclear reactors in a row, do they all fall down? 

Fukushima graphs with new data that was missing before and added new Monitoring Points http://bit.ly/hgKrhW.  Can you spell fu k ed?

MEXT real-time monitoring has shown heightened radiation rates in Ibaraki and elsewhere. The Japan Atomic Energy Agency lists a cluster of installations at Tokai, including three research institutes and commercial reactors. Technologist Marian Steinback has plotted the MEXT data an Google Maps.

With some Fukushima monitors offline since the tsunami, it’s natural to assume abnormal radiation levels are related to what we’re seeing on our TV screens. But variation between these clustered stations tell a different story, as do monitors at the Japan Atomic Power Company’s 1,060MW boiling water reactor, Tokai Dai-Ni….was six times the ICRP recommended civilian exposure and eighteen times the normal background radiation level currently observed at Tepco’s west-coast Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant days ago. Something is wrong in Tokai village, and it’s receiving no scrutiny. via one rick on twitter.

Tokai village?  Japan’s quiet dignity pretty much sucks.  And, for the first time we can ever recall, we are in agreement with of all people, Greepeace.

Steve Campbell from Greenpeace says the lack of information coming from the Japanese authorities on the radiation threat is worrying. “We have concerns there is not enough information, and it may not be the most up-to-date or clear [information],” he said.  “There is clearly contamination, clearly releases of radioactivity coming from the reactor, and the situation is clearly not in control.”  via ABC http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/13/3162802.htm?site=sydney

[link to en.wikipedia.org]
Fukushima Dai-ichi

[link to en.wikipedia.org]
Fukushima Dai-ni

More nuclear plants. All fuk ed?

The four nuclear power plants that have been experiencing serious prblems since the earthquake and tsunami are: Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Station (FUK-I), the plant getting the most press coverage, Fukushima Dai-Ni Nuclear Power Station (FUK II), Onagawa Nuclear Power Station which like the previous two is also located in the northeastern region of the island of Honshu in Japan, and Tokai No. 2 Power Station, Japan’s first nuclear power station that was built in 1962 and is also located in the northeastern region of the island of Honshu but in Ibaraki Prefecture. via http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1404214/pg1

Thus, three nuclear reactors at FUK-I Nuclear Power Station are likely to be in the process of core meltdown (partial or full) at this time and FUK-I reactor 2 suffered a second explosion yesterday that likely ruptured a containment vessel.

[link to www.businessinsider.com]

Fukushima II, the Fukushima Dai-Ni Nuclear Power Station, is operated by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and has four nuclear reactors (1,2,3,& 4). FUK-II is located (7.1 miles north of FUK-I) in the town of Naraha and Tomioka in the Futaba District of Fukushima Prefecture in Japan.

Following the tsunami, according to Japanese government officials all four of FUK-II’s reactors were successfully automatically shut down. However, cooling water pumps at reactors 1, 2, & 4 sustained damage caused by the tsunami on March 11th.

Here’s a link to a TEPCO Press Release dated March 12th that discusses the status of the reactors at the FUK-II plant: [link to www.tepco.co.jp]

Accordingly, on March 13th an evacuation order (radius of 20 km) was issued because of possible radioactive contamination occurring involving reactors at the FUK-II Nuclear Power Station.  [link to www.rttnews.com]

The Onagawa Nuclear Power Station is operated by the Tohoku Electric Power Company (TEPC), it has three nuclear reactors (1, 2, & 3), and it is located in northeastern Japan.

On March 11th, a fire broke out at the Onagawa Nuclear Power Station’s reactor number 4 and raged for two hours.

[link to www.iaea.org]

On March 13th, TEPC stated that the cooling systems at all three reactors at the Onagawa complex were automatically shut down after the earthquake and tsunami and they were functioning properly.

[link to www.cnbc.com]

However, on March 13th a state of emergency was declared at the Onagawa Nuclear Power Station by TEPC because radiation readings in areas surrounding the plant exceeded allowed limits.

[link to www.news.com.au]

The Tokai No. 2 Power Station (Japan’s first, built in 1962) is operated by the Japan Atomic Power Company and it is also located in northeastern Japan in the Ibaraki Prefecture. Officials stated that its reactors were able to be automatically shut down after the earthquake and tsunami.

[link to www.iaea.org]

However, on March 13th, the Japanese Fire and Disaster Management Agency reported that a cooling system pump stopped functioning properly at the Tokai No. 2 Power Station.

[link to nuclearstreet.com]

Here’s a link to a summary prepared by the IAEA  of what has transpired at each of the nuclear power stations in northeastern Honshu, Japan since March 11th.

[link to www.iaea.org]

Here is a list of all of Japan’s 55 nuclear reactors:  [link to www.japannuclear.com] Unfortunately, it appears that this list may come in handy in the near future.  There is also a very detailed preliminary timeline of what has occurred at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Station that has been compiled here:[link to en.wikipedia.org]

What has occured is SNAFU.   Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s acknowledgement that this is the worst crisis since World War Two, is like asking if the chicken or the egg came first; it really doesn’t matter.

Note, sorry for any typographical errors, a bug in the spell check from WP.

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Japan Earthquake
Watching the earthquakes in Japan and following tsunami happen in near real time was to say the least, heart wrenching.  Further threats from aftershocks, nuclear power plant  meltdowns, radiation poisoning, poor weather conditions, power outages, and a lack of basic supplies only compound the magnitude of the crisis.  Throw in a volcanic eruption for measure in Japan at-http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/article965229.ece/Japanese-volcano-erupts
More than 200 magnitude 5 (and above) aftershocks have been recorded in Japan since the first quake on Friday.
Frequent readers at Ahrcanum (hint, hint, subscribe in the sidebar for updates or follow us on twitter) know that we’ve written about numerous catastrophic events with a conspiracy twist.  Last year in 2010, both Chile and Japan were hit with large quakes that raised our antennae to the possibility that these events may have been caused by man. https://ahrcanum.wordpress.com/2010/02/27/chile-japan-earthquake-conspiracy/ The last 9M quake that we recall, was the 9.1M quake off the coast of Sumatra in 2004 that killed and estimated 228,000 people.

It has taken us days to absorb the magnitude of another 9.0M earthquake.  What more could we say that others have expressed so eloquently?  As reports began with a 100 dead, we immediately knew these numbers were destined to rise with new reports nearing 10,000 people dead and bodies lining shorelines and buried in the mud. 

Were there warnings by nature across the globe that went unheeded? http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/offbeat/9000351/tsunami-linked-to-fishy-phenomenon/ reported of huge schools of fish being so close to shore that fisherman were out with buckets in Acapulco about the same time as the earthquake hit in Japan. 

A couple troll their little boat through a mass of dead fish in the King Harbor Marina.

Just days before, millions of anchovie were found dead with reports of  fish kills in California, dead seals New Jersey and dead dolphins along the Gulf Coast. Previously reviewed in this article at https://ahrcanum.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/birds-falling-from-sky-%e2%80%93-blame-haarp-flu-poison-or-climate-change/

The cause of the die-off is nearly always decaying algae. Although the oceans are awash in algae, these microscopic organisms bloom when fed by nutrients such as fertilizers and human and animal waste washing off the land. Stoked by such nutrients and exposed to sunlight, algae flourish and then die and sink to the bottom. Bacteria then take over, breaking down the plant matter and sucking the oxygen out of seawater. That leaves little or none for fish and other marine life.  http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/03/redondo-beach-dead-fish-oxygen-levels-zero.html

One commentator, Kevin on the article wrote:

Earth is undergoing a magnetic reversal. Fish use magnetic polaraty to navigate like a GPS system. No red tide caused them in here. A magnetic anomaly did. They swam against the wall agressivly and with out end till they died off from cardiac arrest.

A magnetic anomaly?  Decaying algae?  Hummm.  There were rumors of another wormhole sort of blue spiral over Russia just days before on, March 10, 2011. The video is located at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV46DnxlBGs&feature=player_embedded#at=71 A test practice for the capabilities of HAARP?

Could HAARP truly unleash the power to create an underground tectonic plate shift that resulted in Japan moving 2.4 meters, according to http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/9002233/quake-moves-japan-2-4m/

www.notanotherconspiracy.com has done our homework for us by posting the magnometer readings from Alaska, (which is in part a joint consortium with Japan) during the time of the earthquake. Obviously the charts reflect some increase as expected.  The question lurks if an array can cause enough heating of the magnetosphere to not only record an event but, perhaps cause an event?

The Atlantean Conspiracy http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2011/03/japan-tsunami-caused-by-haarp.html  points out that HAARP was basically flatlined in the days before the quake.  Coincidence?

And, what was CERN up to? http://greybook.cern.ch/programmes/EXP_NAM.html A whole lot of particles on any given day that just happened to restart, “at the weekend,” according to http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/14/us-science-cern-idUSTRE72D5DR20110314.  Another hummm?

“We can not rule out the possibility of an explosion”, said Chief cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano on Sunday regarding Unit 3 of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex.  Unit 1 exploded Saturday resulting in tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people evacuating the area. Today, Monday March 14, 2011 there are reports if addional explosions at Unit 3 and reports of radiation contamination.

Efforts that amount to a Hail Mary Pass might as well turn to only saying  Hail Mary prayers for the people of Japan and what effects a nuclear release of radiation will have; wherever the clouds may blow.  If you do not think those clouds from Japan can and will blow over the U.S.A., you are sadly mistaken. 

As for Coronal Mass Ejections- we have seen our fair share as of late, but really nothing that should trip this kind of trigger.  But, Piers Morgan with Info Wars affiliation says the massive earthquake and tsunami were triggered by massive events on the sun and that there are more to come in the next two years.

So we may glance at the moon and its predictions this week of super powers from a supermoon.  This week, March 19 will bring a full moon that will bring perigee when the moon is closest to the Earth. http://www.huliq.com/10557/scientists-say-supermoon-had-no-role-japan-tsunami Will we see more earthquakes, additional volcanic eruptions?

An earthquake can move the earth’s axis and change the length of the time of day and shift the alignment of the poles according to NASA at, http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2005/jan/HQ_05011_earthquake.html.  The inertia of a predicted pole shift anticipated for 2012 is significantly twisting our antennae as well.

Is The Great Japanese Earthquake the beginning of the end for the 3rd largest economy in the world?  A sign of things to come? A sign of things ending? Recent reports are of 965 micro sieverts have been measured in the area surrounding the latest nuclear plant explosion with the mayor saying Tokyo has now started monitoring radiation.  This is the same, “Tokyo mayor Ishihara alleges tsunami is “heavenly retribution for Japan’s greed.”

What words could we write to say how insensitive Ishihara’s statement is, and that you Sir are an ass? 

Just how long until the California coastline is affected?  Stay tuned. 

Follow:

Earthquakes in Japanese http://typhoon.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/earthquake/ 

USGS a quake list for 10 -degree map centered at 35N, 140E, the Honshu Region- http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/140_35.php 

Live UStream TV Japan http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhk-gtv

Aljazeera TV in English at   http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

Top of Page, Japan earthquake image credits to http://www.allvoices.com/cartoons/c/75086966-Japan-Earthquake#parent_comment_div

 

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Russian Sub Put Together Like Humpty Dumpty

Over 20 people have been killed after a firefighting system went off during sea trials on board the Nerpa, a nuclear submarine in Russia’s Pacific Fleet. The sub was on a test run in the Sea of Japan with 208 people aboard 81 of whom were servicemen. Submariners and ship builders were killed, the AP reports.

It appears that Russia was leasing Akula II class boats to India recently and I believe it might be this one http://en.rian.ru/russia/20081027/117976941.html provided by the Russian News Agency, RAI Novosti. 

“The construction of the Akula II class Nerpa nuclear attack submarine started in 1991 but has been suspended for over a decade due to lack of funding. Akula II class vessels are considered the quietest and deadliest of Russian nuclear-powered attack submarines. The submarine, built under a contract with the Russian Defense Ministry, has been moved from the shipyard in Komsomolsk-on-Amur to a maintenance facility in the Primorye Territory and fitted with all necessary equipment. At present it is undergoing sea trials,” a spokesman for the shipyard told RIA Novosti. Indian media have reported on various occasions that the construction of the submarine was partially financed by the Indian government. India has reportedly paid $650 million for a 10-year lease of the 12,000-ton submarine.  Nerpa is expected to join the Indian navy under the designation INS Chakra in the second half of 2009.”

Construction on this hunk of steel was halted for 16 years for lack of funding and then put back together again like Humpty Dumpty.  http://en.rian.ru/russia/20081027/117976941.html  I am reminded of, why did the Kursk sink? http://www.wps.ru/en/pp/kursk/2002/03/19/1.html The three torpedoes aboard the Kursk had a storage time of which, at the depot had elapsed and detonated early.  Sound Familiar? 

In 2003, eleven people died on a Russian sub being taken out of service sank in the Barents Sea. Even with this new failure, Russia has seen success. From SEVEROMORSK, October 11 (RIA Novosti) – A Russian submarine has for the first time test launched the Sineva ballistic missile to its maximum range from the Barents Sea to an equatorial part of the Pacific Ocean.  The exercise drills involved more than 5,000 military personnel, eight surface ships and five submarines.  “The RSM-54 Sineva (NATO designation SS-N-23 Skiff) is a third-generation liquid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile that entered service with the Russian Navy in July 2007. It has a maximum range of 8,300 km (5,200 miles) and can carry four or 10 nuclear warheads. http://en.rian.ru/russia/20081011/117682147.html

This serious naval accident and other SNAFUs like this, only remind us how unstable nuclear warhead missiles are in the hands of the Russians.  Had the explosion resulted in the launch of a nuclear torpedo, millions of people could be dead, accidentally.   This “mishap” comes as Russia is trying to restore it’s reputation and demonstrate it’s over all military prowess while Americans have elected a President Obama who projects a decrease in military spending.  https://ahrcanum.wordpress.com/2008/10/22/obama-demilitarizes-while-russia-modernizes-missiles/

Russia has been holding joint naval exercises with close U.S. neighbor Venezuela, snubbing America’s Monroe Doctrine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine  that was used symbolically when the Soviet Union began building missile launch sites in Cuba.

“Russia displayed its military strength in the Mediterranean yesterday after warships heading to Venezuela passed through the Strait of Gibraltar in the second deployment of Russian naval vessels in the waterway since the Cold War. The nuclear-powered missile cruiser Peter the Great, accompanied by the Admiral Chabanenko, an anti-submarine destroyer, as well as a reconnaissance vessel and a support ship, are destined for a maritime exercise with the Venezuelan navy.” Russia has also moved to intensify contacts with Venezuela, Cuba and other Latin American countries and has signed weapons contracts worth more than $4 billion with Venezuela since 2005 to supply fighter jets, helicopters and 100,000 Kalashnikov AK47 assault rifles. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4887728.ece

http://www.mnweekly.ru/news/20080926/55348681.html Moscow News outlines Russia’s display of its naval might at America’s doorstep, but notes that the ” Russian Navy’s state will not improve as a result of Moscow’s modified policies. Hopefully, the government will soon start restoring and rearming the Navy because any show of strength will otherwise prove ineffective.” 

No one will accuse President Obama of overbearing American supremacy while he reduces America’s might and increases his proposed “civilian national security force.”  Obama pledged: “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”  Obama’s selection of Emanuel, in his book, The Plan: Big Ideas for America, sketches out the same idea on how to “fight against the spread of evil and totalitarianism.” … by expanding the U.S. army by 100,000 more troops,” Emanuel suggests “we must protect our homeland and civil liberties by creating a new domestic counter terrorism force like Britain’s MI5.”

Charles Rangel’s National Service Act,   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_National_Service_Act which is languishing before Congress, provides for a universal draft with two years of service for virtually all persons aged 18-42, with no deferment for college. The purpose of Rangel’s bill is seems to reflect Obama’s desires:

“To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform national service, either as a member of the uniformed services or in civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security . . . .”

Civilian service described in the bill (sec 102(b)):

a civilian capacity that, as determined by the President, promotes the national defense, including national or community service and service related to homeland security.

 

In more anti-military, environmental whacko, tree hugging jurisprudence, comes this article from http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=284688883235757 ,  A federal court has restricted the Navy’s use of sonar to defend America. Never mind that missiles fired from enemy submarines will harm the environment more than the sonar used to detect them. The Chinese are adding 2.5 new subs each year to their fleet, and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says the Chinese may have more subs than we do within a decade.

In the National 3:00 am call that we heard about from Hillary Clinton and others during the pre-election banter, comes this portrayal from the Department of Defense:

“This is the National Military Command Center.  We have detected the launches of two ballistic missiles out of Iran with projected impact in New York in less than 25 minutes.  Iranian President says he did not order this, it was done by a small radical group which explains our very limited indications and warning.  Iranian strategic and regional missile forces have now been ordered to full alert in anticipation of U.S. retaliation.  We have notified state and local authorities and are notifying allied governments. 

Mr. President, what are your instructions?”

http://www.mda.mil/mdalink/pdf/thirdsite.pdf

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