Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category
Short Film: ‘There’s No Tomorrow’
February 29th, 2012Graham let me know that Dermot finished his film, There’s No Tomorrow. Via: Incubate Pictures:
For Frack’s Sake: U.S. Wants Natural Gas as Major Auto Fuel Option
February 29th, 2012Via: Network World: Natural gas has never been much of an option for US car drivers and its going to take a lot of effort by the government and auto manufactures to make it a viable alternative to gas. But that’s just what a $10 million program from the Department of Energy’s advanced project development […]
U.S. Licenses First Nuclear Reactors Since 1978
February 10th, 2012Via: MSNBC: It’s been 34 years — and several nuclear accidents later — but a divided federal panel on Thursday licensed a utility to build nuclear reactors in the U.S. for the first time since 1978. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s chairman, Gregory Jaczko, opposed licensing the two reactors at this time even though he had […]
More Concerns Over San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant Safety
February 8th, 2012Via: San Diego Reader: Concerns about safety and the durability of components at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station are continuing to surface as the plant approaches a full week of complete shutdown. The plant’s Unit 3 reactor was taken out of commission after a radioactive water leak was discovered on January 31, while Unit 2 […]
2010 Attack on VeriSign Just Recently Disclosed
February 2nd, 2012Via: Reuters: VeriSign Inc, the company in charge of delivering people safely to more than half the world’s websites, has been hacked repeatedly by outsiders who stole undisclosed information from the leading Internet infrastructure company. The previously unreported breaches occurred in 2010 at the Reston, Virginia-based company, which is ultimately responsible for the integrity of […]
Arnold Gundersen: Fukushima Update
January 9th, 2012This is Dr. Helen Caldicott interviewing Arnold Gundersen. The audio is from Fairwinds Associates on December 26, 2011. Hint: This is very grim. Related: Dr. Helen Caldicott
DYI Radiation Scanning in Japanese Grocery Store
January 1st, 2012Via: The Japan Times: But on a street just six minutes from JR Kashiwa Station, the Bec-Miru facility that Motohiro Takamatsu opened in October is turning heads by offering residents a chance to scan their own groceries, garden soil and other items for radiation. “To have Kashiwa become contaminated with radiation, that was a big […]
‘EM fields initiate the stress response by interacting with electrons moving within DNA’
December 30th, 2011Via: Martin Blank, PhD – Columbia University: Electromagnetic (EM) fields have been used therapeutically for accelerated healing and pain control, but they have also been associated with adverse health effects. To understand these biological effects, we have been studying the interaction of low frequency EM fields with cells at both the cellular and molecular levels. […]
Exploit Allows Attackers to Take Remote Control of Any GSM Phone
December 27th, 2011Via: Domain B: A widely used wireless technology could allow hackers to gain remote control of any GSM mobile phone because of outdated mobile network security, says German mobile phone security researcher Karsten Nohl. According to a study to be presented today by Nohl, mobile users on GSM networks that are used by billions of […]
14,000 U.S. Deaths Tied to Fukushima Reactor Disaster Fallout [???]
December 21st, 2011Update: Editor at Scientific American Claims This Research Is Flawed —End Update— Via: Press Release / International Journal of Health Services: An estimated 14,000 excess deaths in the United States are linked to the radioactive fallout from the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan, according to a major new article in the December […]
