Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with disaster www.salem-news.com 2010 Riot police in the Maldives have used tear gas and batons against protesters rallying in support of former president Mohamed Nasheed. Nasheed told Al Jazeera on Wednesday that he had been forced to resign in what he described as a "coup" to avoid "bloodshed" in the country. http://salem-news.com/articles/february092012/maldive-attacks.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february092012/maldive-attacks.php Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:23:00 PST I received a link from a member of the Planck Foundation on Dec. 30, 2011 regarding “Magnetic Portals Connect Earth to the Sun”. It states: “During the time it takes you to read this article, something will happen high overhead that until recently many scientists didn’t believe in. A magnetic portal will open, linking Earth to the Sun 93 million miles away..." http://salem-news.com/articles/february052012/magnetic-portal-ec.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february052012/magnetic-portal-ec.php Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:02:00 PST The amount of radioactive materials released from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has risen this month compared with December, Tepco said. The amount so far has come to 70 million becquerels per hour, compared with 60 million becquerels in December, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Monday. http://salem-news.com/articles/january252012/fukushima-radioactive.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january252012/fukushima-radioactive.php Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:01:00 PST The University of California at Berkeley detected cesium levels in San Francisco area milk above over EPA limits … and even higher than they were 6 months ago. Finnish public television says that cesium from Fukushima has been detected in lichens, fungi and elk and reindeer meat in Finland. http://salem-news.com/articles/january242012/fukushima-disaster.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january242012/fukushima-disaster.php Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:05:00 PST On Dec. 22, 2011 I received this link from the Planck Foundation, to an article titled: The Sun: A Magnetic Plasma Diffuser That Controls Earth’s Climate. It states: How are we to understand the universe when, as Nobel Laureate William A. Fowler noted in 1988, ‘we do not even understand how our own star really works...’ http://salem-news.com/articles/january162012/magnetic-sun-ec.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january162012/magnetic-sun-ec.php Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:49:00 PST Two years ago, the infrastructure and human structure of Haiti was ripped apart and crushed by a 7.0 monster earthquake. The event ripped people apart from their loved ones, many of whom were lost and never found, and created scenarios where the piling up dead threatened disease and were burned en mass with little hesitation and no ceremony. http://salem-news.com/articles/january062012/haiti-earthquake-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january062012/haiti-earthquake-tk.php Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:03:00 PST In a report from London dated Dec. 19, 2011 titled, “Comet Lovejoy Just Misses the Sun”, the scientists reported: “Newly discovered comet, Lovejoy, defied all odds when it survived a hellish journey through the Sun’s corona, where temperatures soar to staggering 1.1 million C. http://salem-news.com/articles/december302011/more-comets-ec.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december302011/more-comets-ec.php Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:18:00 PST Flashfloods that were triggered by tropical storm Sendong hit Cagayan de Oro City Saturday morning in the Philippines, leaving in its wake total devastation in many areas of Mindanao. The number of casualty continues to rise with death toll placed at 652, and nearly 800 are still missing. Experts warn that the vast number of missing people could drive the death toll to more than 1400. http://salem-news.com/articles/december182011/flood-philippines-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december182011/flood-philippines-tk.php Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:08:00 PST A toxicology report relating to a sick oil spill cleanup worker claims the operation in which BP and the Coast Guard set the massive slick on fire was characterized by secrecy, including a threat to shoot down a news helicopter. The report also says most of the oiled birds found during the spill were euthanized rather than rehabilitated. http://salem-news.com/articles/november142011/oil-spill.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november142011/oil-spill.php Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:07:00 PST Just imagine the Road from Dover, Delaware to Philadelphia, or on to New York - being in a "dead" zone. That is the story in Fukushima prefecture in Japan. http://salem-news.com/articles/november132011/japan-abandoned-jm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november132011/japan-abandoned-jm.php Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:30:00 PST Southern Peru was shaken by an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale; buildings rocked and swayed in the country's capitol Lima, home of 8.5 million people, but fortunately no injuries or major damage has been reported. The US Geological Survey confirms that the temblor, which was initially reported as a magnitude 7.0 quake, was centered 51 km (31 miles) SSW of Ica, Peru, the scene of a terrible earthquake in 2007. http://salem-news.com/articles/october282011/peru-quake-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october282011/peru-quake-tk.php Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:24:00 PDT The foundation will assume the care of children who were orphaned by the quake as well as other orphans, making them have a monthly income which they will use for their clothing, accommodation, education, healthcare and other expenses. Just making a monthly donation of 35€ or 50$, charity givers can assume the care of an orphan. In addition, families who already support an orphan in other regions or countries through the Sponsor Family Project can also assume the care of another orphan in Van. http://salem-news.com/articles/october282011/ihh-quake.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october282011/ihh-quake.php Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:46:00 PDT In April 20, 2011 NASA stated: “The footprint and magnetic field lines are not visible to the naked eye, but were detected by the ultraviolet imaging spectrograph and the fields and particles instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft. A new NASA advisory states: “The European Space Agency announced that its Herschel Space Observatory had found a huge donut-shaped cloud of water vapor encircling Saturn more than 373,000 miles across and about 37,000 miles thick..." http://salem-news.com/articles/october272011/rings-saturn-ec.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october272011/rings-saturn-ec.php Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:34:00 PDT Emergency teams of IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation continue relief efforts in Van’s Erciş district which was hit by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake on Sunday. The aid teams which rushed to the area immediately after the quake took part in search and rescue efforts throughout the night. IHH Emergency Aid Coordinator Recep Güzel who is in the disaster region said there are still dozens of people under demolished buildings while noting that there is a problem of water shortage in the area. http://salem-news.com/articles/october262011/turkey-quake.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october262011/turkey-quake.php Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:27:00 PDT We hear a lot these days about the need for “shovel ready jobs” and the lack of them. For those who want answers, not excuses, let’s visit some of the places where job preventers work. First stop: The home of the President of the United States and his Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency. This group steals more jobs and wealth in one week than a corporate jet full of greedy bankers in a lifetime. http://salem-news.com/articles/october172011/shovel-ready-js.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october172011/shovel-ready-js.php Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:55:00 PDT A report issued by NASA at the end of last month, indicates the scientists are on the verge of solving many mysteries of the rings of Saturn. The report states: “Progress this year; now includes contributions from outside the project; new thinking on ring composition: organic UV absorbers? http://salem-news.com/articles/october152011/saturn-nasa-ec.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october152011/saturn-nasa-ec.php Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:04:00 PDT Down a country lane in southern New Mexico‘s Mesilla Valley, a new walk-path and park took shape as the summer heat beat relentlessly down upon the land. While a similar project might not even draw so much as a wink in a bigger community, residents of the rural community of Vado-Del Cerro are “very excited” about getting a new recreational space, says Vado Village Council Chair Mitch Boyer. http://salem-news.com/articles/august262011/mexican-town.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august262011/mexican-town.php Fri, 26 Aug 2011 02:11:00 PDT I was horrified when one of my best Fukushima contacts, Karin Rougeau, sent a link to our newsroom today from a southern newspaper The Sentinel-Record, (An establishment that dates back to 1877), with an article falsely describing the grueling circumstances in Fukushima as: 'Northeast Japan improving since disaster'. It is not true, not at all... http://salem-news.com/articles/august252011/fukushima-media-lies-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august252011/fukushima-media-lies-tk.php Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:07:00 PDT The whole international press have blackout the worst catastrophe in modern history. So this is a humble reminder of what really is going on in Fukushima and beyond today. There is a crime against humanity happening right under our nose and all we can hear is a deafening silence. Please spread this video as much as you can ... in the name of humanity... thanks. http://salem-news.com/articles/august252011/japan-fukushima.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august252011/japan-fukushima.php Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:34:00 PDT How would you like to be in an east coast high rise office when everything begins trembling, shaking... that is exactly what happened Tuesday when the east coast was struck by an earthquake that was centered near Mineral. Millions felt the quake though there were only a handful of reports involving serious injuries. http://salem-news.com/articles/august242011/earth-quake-tk-jn.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august242011/earth-quake-tk-jn.php Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:23:00 PDT The U.S. and Canada are continuing in a concerted, lock-step program of complicit cover-up of dangerous radiation levels resulting from the Fukushima nuclear false flag event of March 11, 2011. Also made public is a court Declaration on the impacts and levels of Fukushima radiation http://salem-news.com/articles/august162011/moret-radioactivity-.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august162011/moret-radioactivity-.php Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:21:00 PDT In this week's Reactor Reax, U.S. Rep. Edward Markey says a request to start building two Toshiba Corp. reactors in Georgia before the design is approved should be rejected. We learn that the U.S. is undercharging for Nuclear Loan Guarantees – from a Congressional Report, and one story in this week's roundup of nuclear-related developments, explores the idea of growing populations around nuclear facilities. http://salem-news.com/articles/august052011/nuclear-reax.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august052011/nuclear-reax.php Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:13:00 PDT When officials want to investigate what you do in your private life, they order a urine test. But when urine tests might reveal high levels of nuclear radiation contamination, government suddenly loses interest in inspecting your bodily fluids, why is that? More importantly, is what is happening in Fukushima a Japanese problem, or everyone alive on this earth's problem? http://salem-news.com/articles/july252011/fukushima-radiation-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july252011/fukushima-radiation-tk.php Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:38:00 PDT For almost three months the bad nuclear news has been shouting at us, warning us, but even the professionals in the area of toxicity are not abandoning their lives or homes. Is it an everyone-goes-down-with-the-ship paradigm that has a hold on these people? http://salem-news.com/articles/july192011/nuclear-disaster-.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july192011/nuclear-disaster-.php Tue, 19 Jul 2011 05:05:00 PDT There now is a petition in Japan to evacuate the people from Fukushima Prefecture. We reported over the weekend the tragic plight of residents being turned out of shelters and instructed to return to their homes in the affected area. The petition can be found here: http://311fukushima.net/?page_id=93. And by the way, I have been staying true to these stories about petition drives and signing them before publishing, to ensure the integrity of the process. The form is written partly in English and partly in Japanese, but easy to follow. http://salem-news.com/articles/july182011/fukushima-sos-2-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july182011/fukushima-sos-2-tk.php Mon, 18 Jul 2011 23:20:00 PDT The people of Fukushima prefecture in Japan, are in trouble. Abandoned by their own government; forced to return to their homes in this city of nuclear contamination, they are fearful for their children's futures and asking the world community for support. http://salem-news.com/articles/july162011/fukushima-sos-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july162011/fukushima-sos-tk.php Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:07:00 PDT AccuWeather.com reports the weather will remain troublesome for crews battling the wildfire threatening Los Alamos National Laboratory in northern New Mexico over the next few days. Although an increase in humidity early Tuesday morning has been a short-term benefit, a storm system passing by to the north will kick up daily rounds of gusty winds through Thursday. http://salem-news.com/articles/june282011/los-alamos-fire-me.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june282011/los-alamos-fire-me.php Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:23:00 PDT We first told our readers about the periolous floodwaters surrounding the Calhoun nuclear plane in Nebraska reported through Russian sources on 17 June. The tip came from our reporter John McCarthy who has been on the ground in Europe covering various agency developments, that a nuclear power plant in Nebraska that was intentionally built in a flood plane of the Missouri River, was surrounded by water and reaching dangerous levels. http://salem-news.com/articles/june262011/calhoun-disaster.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june262011/calhoun-disaster.php Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:55:00 PDT In the southwestern US, smoke from massive wildfires contaminates the air and forces evacuations. Located 200 miles from the mammoth Wallow Fire, the skies of Albuquerque, New Mexico, have recently resembled Los Angeles and Mexico City in their worst years of pollution. http://salem-news.com/articles/june242011/environment-disaster.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june242011/environment-disaster.php Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:08:00 PDT I first became aware of the problem of toxic drywall manufactured in China during my 2010 visit to New Orleans. Many homeowners rebuilt their homes after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, and Hurricane Rita in September 2005 using Chinese drywall. This drywall made occupants sick, corroded metal fixtures, and rendered homes unfit to live in. Homeowners had to tear out the drywall, corroded wiring, fixtures, etc. http://salem-news.com/articles/june222011/toxic-drywall-rs.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june222011/toxic-drywall-rs.php Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:13:00 PDT