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Since the Dilly, Dally, Delay & Stall Law Firms are adding their billable hours, the Toyota U.S.A. and Route 44 Toyota posts have been separated here:

Route 44 Toyota Sold Me A Lemon



Monday, February 24, 2014

When Republicans Hated the Troops, Worst Spill in 6 Months Is Reported at Fukushima et al




A TEPCO employee in protective clothing works around tanks filled with radioactive water at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. (photo: AAP)

Worst Spill in 6 Months Is Reported at Fukushima

By Martin Fackler, The New York Times
24 February 14

About 100 tons of highly radioactive water leaked from one of the hundreds of storage tanks at the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant, its operator said Thursday, calling the leak the worst spill at the plant in six months.

The operator, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, said the leak, discovered on Wednesday and stopped on Thursday, happened far enough from the plant’s waterfront that none of the radioactive water was likely to reach the Pacific Ocean, as has happened during some previous spills. Still, the leak was an uncomfortable reminder of the many mishaps that have plagued the containment and cleanup efforts at the plant, as well as the hundreds of tons of contaminated groundwater that still flow unchecked into the Pacific every day.

The company, known as Tepco, said it had traced the latest leak to a pair of valves that were left open by mistake.

Hillary Clinton's Unlearned Lessons
Parry: 'Hillary Clinton, is now considered the odds-on favorite to get the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.' (photo: unknown)
Robert Parry, Consortium News
Parry writes: "A top Democratic war hawk, Hillary Clinton, is now considered the odds-on favorite to get the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. Her defenders even cite bipartisan Republican praise for her foreign policy attitudes."
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Gary Younge | What the Hell Is Barack Obama's Presidency For?
Gary Younge, Guardian UK
Younge writes: "Barack Obama has now been in power for longer than Johnson was, and the question remains: 'What the hell's his presidency for?' His second term has been characterised by a profound sense of drift in principle and policy."
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When Republicans Hated the Troops
Steven Casey, Salon
Casey reports: "Before the invasion Bush and his team had scarcely considered postwar planning, blithely convinced that Iraqis would greet U.S. forces as 'liberators' before creating a stable democracy that would become a key American ally. The reality was quite different."
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Hooking Consumers on Free Service: Everything Comes at a Price
Andrew Leonard, Salon
Leonard reports: "Yerdle is just the latest, and perhaps silliest, demonstration of what should be a maxim for any consumer of a Silicon Valley service. When you hear the word 'free,' check your wallet. Because something, somewhere, is getting sold."
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Obama Meets With Dalai Lama Despite China Warnings
Roberta Rampton, Sui-Lee Wee, Reuters
Rampton and Wee report: "President Barack Obama held low-key talks with the Dalai Lama at the White House on Friday after warnings from Beijing that the meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader would 'seriously damage' ties with Washington."
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Worst Spill in 6 Months Is Reported at Fukushima
Martin Fackler, The New York Times
Fackler reports: "About 100 tons of highly radioactive water leaked from one of the hundreds of storage tanks at the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant, its operator said Thursday, calling the leak the worst spill at the plant in six months."
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FOCUS: Glenn Greenwald | Inside the Mind of James Clapper
National Intelligence Director James Clapper. (photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
Greenwald writes: "This process of pre-publication notice to the government of NSA stories has been wildly misreported in some places. I've long expressed contempt for this process."
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