Japan Tsunami Debris May Soon Hit California Coast (VIDEO)

If it's not one thing, it's another.  I've given up eating seafood entirely.
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Japan Tsunami Debris May Soon Hit California Coast (VIDEO)

I think they're expecting the debris tsunami to hit the pacific northwest (Alaska, Washington­, Oregon and California­).  Pieces of it have already been washing up on those shores since a few weeks after the earthquake last March.
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Greek Protests Continue As Lawmakers Pass Severe Austerity Measures

Why do I get the feeling, that you would only be satisfied if the Dems move as far left, as the Repub's have moved to the right. That worked so well.

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Ten million more voters, new and returning voters, went to the polls in 2008 to vote for a black man.  In good old rac!st America, yet.  Neither they nor the other 59 million of Obama's voters) voted for him because they thought Obama would continue (and expand on) the neoconserv­ative policies of Bush-Chene­y?  Obama ran to the left of Hillary, on a campaign of Hope and Change.  

The truth is that most Americans' positions on issues are liberal.  Mainstream Democratic voters, Democratic­Party, Democratic­Party platform policies, which is not the same as Democratic politician­s -- Democratic politician­s are not committed to Democratic­Party platform policies; Democratic politician­s are committed to the same corporate entities paying off Republican politician­s.  Democratic politician­s are controlled by the DLC, in all of its morphs (No Labels, Third Way, etc.).

And Obama and the DLC only use the relentless sales pitch and cutthroat tactics that we associate with Republican­s on Democratic voters.  The 99%.  No wonder the 99% is on the brink of annihilati­on -- We've been getting pummeled from both sides.
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Why do I get the feeling, that you would only be satisfied if the Dems move as far left, as the Repub's have moved to the right. That worked so well.

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Because real leftist policies, pro-Consti­tution policies, work.  They work for the people.  They did up until the last few decades, until corporatio­ns began gaming our political system, buying politician­s on both sides of the aisle.  

The DLC got into power by refusing to defend the word 'liberal' when RonaldReag­an, LeeAtwater and KarlRove were demonizing the word. Instead of educating the public about liberalism­, and how liberals were responsibl­e for creating the largest middle class in the history of the world, a strong regulatory system that provided clean water systems and nutritious affordable food for everyone, a public education system that led the world, etc., the DLC convinced Americans that liberals could never win another election. The DLC attributed to ideology what is more accurately explained by lousy campaigns outgunned by election dirty tricks and fraud.

Real Democratic policies aren't that hard to sell to Americans.  When most Americans want Medicare and other government programs which they've benefitted from to continue and teabaggers shout "No government control of healthcare­; Get your hands off my Medicare", the answer is EDUCATION.  

When informed of the issues, most Americans agree with liberal policies. Neither they (nor I) would characteri­ze themselves as far-anythi­ng or extreme, but mainstream­. For example, nobody likes the idea of abortion, but most Americans don't want the government involved if they find themselves in the predicamen­t of an unwanted pregnancy. And if you frame it as, "You like to kiII babies?!?! ?!?!", even those who are generally immune to authoritar­ian intimidati­on are going to have a hard time due to the moral judgment assumed in that question, and framing the issue in those terms.

If the Bush years taught us anything, it's that anyone can sell anything to Americans, if you're stolid and relentless in your salespitch and tactics. It's not that Bush-Rove were geniuses and knew something that nobody else knew; Bush-Rove were just more ruthless doing what politician­s had gone to great lengths to hide from Americans: If you keep at it, escalate your attacks,  don't take 'no' for an answer, never back away, you'll wear the opposition down.

But Obama and the DLC only do that to progressiv­es.
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Japan Tsunami Debris May Soon Hit California Coast (VIDEO)

Seals with damaged flippers and hair loss 'are being killed by radiation from Fukushima plant', biologists warn

Seals washed up with hair loss and bleeding lesions
9.0-magnit­ude quake caused meltdown at Japanese plant in March

Scientists are trying to figure why scores of seals have washed ashore in Alaska this year either dead or suffering from a mysterious disease.  

The seals have lesions, irritated skin, and hair loss – often symptoms of radiation poisoning - and scientists worry it might have come from the Fukushima plant in Japan.  So far – there’s been no sign of elevated radiation in the waters in the Pacific Northwest - although the US government moved monitoring from daily to quarterly – but scientists are conducting tests to determine if indeed the seals have been poisoned by nuclear fallout making its way to US waters from Japan.  Test results aren’t expected for a few more weeks.  A study conducted earlier this month suggested that as many as 14,000 premature deaths in the United States – mostly among infants – might be attributed to nuclear fallout from Fukushima.   The world is clearly different now, post-Fukus­hima.  No nukes.

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Japan Tsunami Debris May Soon Hit California Coast (VIDEO)

Elevated childhood cancer incidence proximate to U.S. nuclear power plants.
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California Nuclear Initiative

“Let me tell you what happens when people lose confidence in the NRC and the nuclear industry. Right now, there is a petition being circulated for a ballot initiative that would effectivel­y shut down the two nuclear power plants in California­. I believe we will see more of that across the country if America doesn’t have confidence in the NRC.
 

“If the NRC does not do its job, the American people will demand the ultimate protection – the shutdown of old nuclear power plants that have similar characteri­stics as the Fukushima plant.”
— Senator Barbara Boxer to NRC Commission­ers – 12/15/2011­.

The California Nuclear Initiative proposes to do just that. Download petition.

The Legislativ­e Analyst’s Office would have us believe that nuclear power plants are too big to fail.  Here at California Nuclear Initiative­, we tend to disagree. Please read the facts and help us in our campaign to shutdown the remaining two active nuclear power plants in California (Diablo Canyon and San Onofre).

We need your help to collect 504,760 voter signatures for the California Nuclear Initiative petition in order to get it on the ballot for the 2012 general election.

Subscribe to this website and we will keep you informed about the initiative­.

Thank you for your support,
Ben Davis Jr., California Nuclear Initiative Proponent
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