The unfolding nuclear disaster in Japan has prompted Sen. Bernie Sanders to ramp up his opposition to the federal government issuing a new permit for a 40-year-old reactor in his home state of Vermont. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approved a 20-year license extension for the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant in Vernon, Vt., just a day before the massive earthquake and tsunami that crippled an identical reactor in Japan. The disaster in Japan severely damaged that country’s Fukushima Daiichi...
Monthly Archives: March 2011
Looting in Japan?
It’s been rumored that has been no looting in Japan after their 8.9 earthquake and tsunami. Not so… Yes, indeed there is looting in Japan… Andrew Sullivan has more and Karoli also has more on C&L. Sphere: Related Content
Here We Go Again…
Unbelievable… “U.N. Approves Airstrikes to Halt Attacks by Qaddafi Forces.” After days of often acrimonious debate, played out against a desperate clock, as Colonel Qaddafi’s troops advanced to within 100 miles of the rebel capital of Benghazi, Libya, the Security Council authorized member nations to take “all necessary measures” to protect civilians, diplomatic code words calling for military action. Diplomats said the resolution — which passed with 10 votes, including the United States, and abstentions from Russia, China, Germany,...
President Obama: MIA
As expected, Michael Moore, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, and AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka were in Madison, Wisc., to support and rally the workers in their fight against the union-busting governor and Republican-dominated state legislature. But, so were union members Bradley Whitfield, Susan Sarandon, Tony Shaloub, and dozens of musicians and singers, including Peter Yarrow who, as part of Peter, Paul, and Mary, was at almost every major social protest for more than 40 years. “This is not merely a...
House Budget Vote ‘Weakens’ Boehner, Potential Boon For Senate Dems
The House on Tuesday approved a stopgap bill that would avert a federal shutdown for another three weeks. Yet it was Democrats who rescued Speaker John Boehner’s measure after more than 50 of his own Republicans abandoned him. That so many conservative lawmakers felt free to abandon the speaker demonstrates the precarious position Boehner finds himself in, where Democrats may well have an upper hand. This could well include Senate Democrats, who have stood in the way of H.R....
Downwind From Hiroshima
And now where are we? Chasing the world for loose nukes. Trying to keep plutonium -- arguably the most toxic substance known -- as the most controlled substance in history.
Bi-Partisan Kerry, Hutchison, Warner BUILD Act Creates Jobs, Strengthens Competitiveness
Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), Ranking Member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, and Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Member of the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee rolled out a new legislation at a press conference today to create an infrastructure bank that would help close America’s widening infrastructure funding gap, create millions of American jobs in the next decade, and make the United States more competitive in the...
Politics At The Pump: Lots Of Rhetoric, But No Help — Yet
As Democrats and Republicans continue to level charges and counter-charges at each other over the rising price Americans are paying to fill up at the gas pump, President Obama addressed the issue head on Monday. But while Obama says “we are prepared to tap” the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to increase fuel supplies and bring down prices, the president declined to pull the trigger, or be terribly specific on when he might do so. Meanwhile, a House Democrat...
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