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Monday, October 3, 2016

USA Today 22 hours ago

(NEWSER) — Charlo Greene made headlines in 2014 when the then 26-year-old memorably quit her TV reporting gig on air while announcing her intention to push for the legalization of marijuana in Alaska: She said, "F--- it, I quit," before walking out of view. But as the Guardian reports, her ensuing off-screen plight has been largely ignored, even though she faces more than a half-century in prison. That's because Greene, whose legal name is Charlene Egbe, isn't just a cannabis advocate but the owner of the Alaska Cannabis Club, which she created on April 20, 2014, a full six months before Alaska voted to legalize the adult use of cannabis. In other words, she was receiving "donations" for marijuana ...

peakoil.com Sun, Oct 2 1:00 AM PDT

What was the most dangerous nuclear disaster in world history? Most people would say the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine, but they’d be wrong. In 2011, an earthquake, believed to be an aftershock of the 2010 earthquake in Chile, created a tsunami that caused a meltdown at the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. Three nuclear reactors melted down and what happened next was the largest release of radiation into the water in the history of the world. Over the next three months, radioactive chemicals, some in even greater quantities than Chernobyl, leaked into the Pacific Ocean. However, the numbers may actually be much higher as Japanese official estimates have been proven by several ...

Saturday, October 1, 2016

Digital Trends 13 hours ago

It’s not all that often that we hear about major breakthroughs in nuclear research, and now, such announcements, at least in the U.S., may become more infrequent still. That’s because our nation’s “flagship experimental fusion reactor” is no longer working, a problem made all the more frustrating by the fact that scientists just completed a four-year, $94 million upgrade on the machine. Researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) in New Jersey are now trying to determine what exactly was behind the reactor’s failure, which could be a lengthy engagement. The real travesty of the situation is that it means the U.S. has only one major facility in which to conduct nuclear fusion ...

Washington Post 14 hours ago

Hurricane Matthew became the first Category 5 storm in the Atlantic in more than nine years. It was the capstone to a day of incredible intensification — the hurricane rapidly strengthened from a tropical storm on Thursday to a destructive force of nature on Friday. Although a track east of the U.S. coastline looks most probable, Florida and the East Coast are most definitely not out of the woods yet and should be paying very close attention to Hurricane Matthew in the coming days On Saturday morning, Matthew was a Category 4 with peak winds of 155 mph — just shy of the Category 5 mark. It is common for the intensity of a hurricane to fluctuate, and this storm is extremely powerful and dangerous. ...

The Atlantic Wire (RSS) Fri, Sep 30 9:23 AM PDT

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said Friday he aspired to accomplish in his country the level of mass murder Adolf Hitler achieved, saying, “Hitler massacred 3 million Jews. Now there’s 3 million, there’s 3 million drug addicts. There are. I’d be happy to slaughter them.” Hitler, in fact, killed 6 million Jews. That doesn’t make Duterte’s comments any less distressing, coming as they do after several controversial remarks since before he was elected president earlier this year. Duterte took office at the end of June, and he’s made his feelings about drug addicts well known. He ran on a campaign promise to wage war on crime and drugs, and in his first few months in office, more than 3,500 ...

Universe Today 4 hours ago

We don’t want to scare you, but our own Milky Way is on a collision course with Andromeda, the closest spiral galaxy to our own. At some point during the next few billion years, our galaxy and Andromeda – which also happen to be the two largest galaxies in the Local Group – are going to come together, and with catastrophic consequences. Stars will be thrown out of the galaxy, others will be destroyed as they crash into the merging supermassive black holes. And the delicate spiral structure of both galaxies will be destroyed as they become a single, giant, elliptical galaxy. But as cataclysmic as this sounds, this sort of process is actually a natural part of galactic evolution. Astronomers have ...

The National Interest 20 hours ago

The United States has an unfortunate history of acquiring ugly authoritarian allies even when America’s security interests do not justify making such moral compromises. Malou Innocent and I described many of those unfortunate relationships in our book Perilous Partners, noting that a majority of the security relationships did not involve situations in which America’s vital interests were imperiled. Washington faces another increasingly problematic relationship: its alliance with the Philippines. As I’ve noted previously on this site, Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte is the personification of a “loose-cannon” ally. Among other things, he referred to President Obama as “a son of a bitch,” and ...

Monday, October 3, 2016

Former Alaska reporter faces 54 years in jail for pot club

Fukushima Radiation Has Contaminated The Entire Pacific Ocean (And It’s Going To Get Worse) | Peak Oil News and Message Boards

Saturday, October 1, 2016

One of the only nuclear fusion reactors in the U.S. just broke

Hurricane Matthew became the Atlantic’s first Category 5 storm in over nine years

The Philippines President's Aspiration to Out-Massacre Hitler

What Happens When Galaxies Collide?

It’s Time to Suspend America's Alliance with the Philippines