Fukushima radiation estimates double original estimates

New estimates of radiation release from the Fukushiman nuclear accident are much higher.

The WSJ article  (seems like one has to read it carefully to understand it)
online.wsj.com - Fukushima

Greek article on the same subject is much more direct
news.in.gr - Fukushima

genderized manifestation of state control

A deeper look at what is going on in the USA with all the hoopla on abortion and women's rights. To me, the US is not on a good path..

 Article by Naomi Wolf

Some excerpts:

It is all part of the larger crackdown we see on privacy, private space, freedom and personal choice.

...has made the gatekeepers seek every kind of method of control available to them.

Bills have been proposed in Albany, New York to criminalize anonymous postings online – to "protect business people and government officials" from criticism.  And the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act has language legalizing the directing of propaganda at United States citizens. And so on

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/may/24/what-lies-behind-war-on-women-naomi-wolf

G. Delastik interview on greek tv

interesting thoughts. Interview on Greek TV on 01-04-2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pX4LpU7FKY

Occupy the Economy

Challenging Capitalism

http://www.rdwolff.com/content/occupy-economy-challenging-capitalism

also from www.amazon.com

Interviews with David Barsamian.
Today's economic crisis is capitalism's worst since the Great Depression. Millions have lost their jobs, homes and healthcare while those who work watch their pensions, benefits and job security decline.

A cure for capitalism

A new book just recently published (May 2012)
 
http://www.rdwolff.com/content/democracy-work-cure-capitalism
also available from www.amazon.com

A new historical vista is opening before us in this time of change, Wolff writes in this compelling new manifesto for a democratic alternative based on workers directing their own workplaces.

Tsipras in Berlin

Following a visit to Paris on Monday, Tsipras met likeminded, anti-capitalist far-left politicians in Berlin, on the Berlin leg of a charm offensive.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/may/22/greek-leftist-leader-alexis-tsipras-germany-visit

skin tissue from heart attack patients into fresh, beatin heart cells

It's possible to take skin cells from an elderly patient with advanced heart failure and end up with his own beating cells in a laboratory dish that are healthy and young – the equivalent to the stage his heart cells were in when he was just born


 http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/may/23/skin-heart-attack-beating-heart-cells