Iodine-131 has a half-life of ~8 days. But Iodine-131 has been detected for weeks "Across Europe" indicating that the release was not a single event. So either a nuclear reactor is leaking (?), organized crime has gone into the medical radioactive waste disposal business, or some (inept) bad actors are at work.
Governments typically mandate that nuclear power plants collect and analyze environmental samples from the area surrounding the plant on a periodic basis. I therefore find it hard to believe that a European nuclear plant is leaking. Russia/Ukraine?
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The end of civilization is at hand when people refuse to understand the difference between contamination (iodine-131) and radiation (alpha, beta,etc.). Crack a book, people.
After two days of sending out distress calls from a satellite phone in the Mediterranean Sea, 44 people, mostly sub-Saharans, were rescued by an Italian military vessel on November 10. UNHCR was alerted that relatives of some of the passengers onboard the boat called from a satellite phone on Tuesday evening. Italian navy took this initiative despite the fact that the boat was in Maltese search and rescue waters.
Complaint by the UNHCR that it took the Italians 48 hours excised.
A woman with a small baby was evacuated by helicopter to Sicily from Lampedusa.
This is the first boat originating from Libya that has arrived in Europe since August 17th.
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[Iran Press TV] Italian politicians have adopted the controversial package of austerity measures ahead of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi ...current Italian prime minister, known for his plain (for a European politician) speaking and his liking for hookers a third his age or less... 's resignation.
Update: Now former Italian prime minister. Mr. Berlosconi has officially resigned.
On Saturday, the Italian lower house of parliament gave its final approval to a package of austerity measures which was Berlusconi's precondition for resignation, AFP reported.
Good for them. Hopefully it will be enough to start improving the situation.
Berlusconi is expected to announce he is stepping down at a cabinet meeting later on Saturday, and to formally submit his resignation to the Italian head of state.
Good for him. Not that it will be fun for the new guy, whoever it is.
A candidate who will then attempt to form a new government is to be nominated.
The reforms are intended to drastically cut public spending in a bid to reduce the third eurozone economy's EUR1.9 trillion debt.
Berlusconi, 75, has been under immense pressure to step down over a series of scandals and for mishandling the country's economy.
Berlusconi's popularity rating recently slipped to a record low of 22 percent as his team was unable to address the financial crisis and he faced legal battles over bribery, tax fraud and abuse of power.
Italia's debt is 120 percent of its Gross Domestic Product. In August the country passed a 60-billion-euro austerity package to balance the budget by 2013.
There is growing fear among EU leaders that Italia might be drawn into the crisis that has already claimed Greece, Ireland and Portugal.
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Resigned? He was pushed.
What MP would oppose the "reforms" when they saw how easily the P.M. was ousted by the antidemocratic E.U.?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
