TweetShareThe Tokyo Metropolitan government announced Tuesday that the drinking water in Tokyo is above the safe radioactivity limit for infants. The water at one of the city purification plants measured 210 becquerels on Tuesday and 190 becquerels today. The safe limit for adults is 300 becquerels per liter, while the limit for infants is much [...]
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TweetShareThe reactor crews returned to the earthquake stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northern Japan Wednesday after a plume of radioactive steam forced them away Tuesday. The number of workers was increased from 50 to 100, and the radiation dose they can legally experience was doubled from 100 millisieverts to 250 millisieverts. Authorities [...]
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TweetShareMy family does not have any childhood pictures of my grandfather because looters got them after the famous San Francisco earthquake of 1906. The city residents took their household valuables, including family pictures, and buried them in the back yards, hoping they would be safe from the fires. But the looters went from yard [...]
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TweetShareAir Raid Ras Lanuf Gaddafi’s jets are bombing rebel positions at the outskirts of the important oil port of Ras Lanuf on the central Libyan coast. The rebel forces are shooting back with anti-air-artillery. Some diesel fuel storage tanks at the As-Sidra refinery and at least one pipeline have been hit. The rebels are [...]
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TweetShareLibyan Revolution The uprising in Libya is fast becoming a civil war. There does not seem to be a quick solution. The rebel forces control cities on both sides of the capital Tripoli. The greatest weight of anti-government forces are located in the eastern city of Benghazi. Roughly half-way between Benghazi and Tripoli lies [...]
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TweetShareGaddafi speech In a three hour rambling speech Wednesday, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi vowed to,”fight until the last man and woman.” Gaddafi has lost none of his spunk, speaking, it seems, in denial that most of his country was now controlled by rebel forces determined to root him out. He bragged he would still be in [...]
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TweetShareLIBYA Libya is a collection of over 100 tribes, and was not considered an independent nation until 1951 when the British and French victors in WW2 ceded the former Italian colony to the Libyan people. Col. Gaddafi understands the atmosphere of revolution. He has been in power for 41 years; ever since his [...]
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TweetShareEveryone has heard of the “Fog of War,” where rumor and fact and suspicion all swirl together in a blinding confusion. It seems there is a “Fog of Revolution,” too. A case in point is the mystery of which members of the Gaddafi family have fled Libya. Mr. Gaddafi himself had to appear [...]
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TweetShareSuez Canal Two Iranian naval vessels made the 12 hour Suez Canal passage into the Mediterranean Sea Tuesday. This is the first time Tehran has sent warships through the canal since the Islamic Revolution of 1979. The 1,500 ton patrol frigate Alvand carries anti-shipping missiles and torpedoes, and the 33,000 ton supply ship Khark [...]
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TweetShareIt looks like the tipping point has come in the Libyan Revolution. Military units, insiders, representatives to the U.N., some police and elements of the security guard have switched sides and joined the revolution. After six days of violence, the worst in the anti-government revolutions sweeping the region, Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi, leader since the [...]
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