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16 Feb 11 - 16:52
And crazy crazy Hugo
Hugo Hugo Chavez
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16 Feb 11 - 18:23
Yeah, him too.
But I kinda like him. =D
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16 Feb 11 - 19:08
nathanielandbartimaeus wrote:And Palin. Who will always remain in news.
And there is Gaddafi.
Oh yes, Gaddafi is fantastic.
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16 Feb 11 - 20:28
DC wrote:And crazy crazy Hugo
Hugo Hugo Chavez
:D :D :D :D
You just reminded me of this.
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22 Feb 11 - 00:41
Crazy stuff going down in Libya....


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld ... 4331.story

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylon ... sters.html <--- Some components of the army, after some shooting at protesters, have now began to defect....

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/afric ... 08558.html <--- Rising death tolls

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/world ... libya.html <--- Warplanes +troops beginning to attack capital...
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22 Feb 11 - 02:58
Libya's going to hell in a handbasket. I don't think Gaddafi can possibly remain in power after this, but I fear the number of lives that will be lost before it's over. And there's protests going on all over the region, with varying degrees of severity of response.
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23 Feb 11 - 15:45
Gaddafi doesn't give a damn. He WANTS to hold on to his seat of power and will do anything to keep it. His diplomats, officials and even army are defecting but he doesn't care as long as he's the last one standing.
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11 Mar 11 - 10:13
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12709598
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiap ... index.html
It is awful. :(
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11 Mar 11 - 14:49
I was just going to say that.
It is indeed :( :( :(
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12 Mar 11 - 01:12
There's containment problems at the Fukushima Nuclear Plant
1000x radiation in the area, 20,000 people evacuated, hours until meltdown. It could apparently be worse than Chernobyl D:
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12 Mar 11 - 07:39
Nuclear emergency has been declared at one more plant too. But thankfully, nothing has happened so far.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia- ... 22667.html
And:
wrote:However, Naoto Sekimura, a professor at the University of Tokyo, said a major radioactive disaster was unlikely.

"No Chernobyl is possible at a light water reactor. Loss of coolant means a temperature rise, but it also will stop the
reaction," he said.

"Even in the worst-case scenario, that would mean some radioactive leakage and equipment damage, but not an explosion. If venting is done carefully, there will be little leakage. Certainly not beyond the 3 km radius."
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12 Mar 11 - 09:10
The quoted expert is, fortunately, quite correct. This isn't the next Chernobyl by any means. At worst, an expensively broken reactor and power shortages with low-level level radiation leaks. Messy and unfortunate but not a major disaster.
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12 Mar 11 - 10:20
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12721498
And there was radiation leakage too: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/ ... SS20110312
But yeah, it seems a small thing.
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12 Mar 11 - 12:37
I'm relieved to know then, that, at least, there will be no big nuclear problems.
Wow, the situation is terrible. :(
Also, this.

EDIT: No way. I just watched the news. Seems like a nuclear power plant exploded.
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12 Mar 11 - 18:49
aiReY-chan wrote:I'm relieved to know then, that, at least, there will be no big nuclear problems.
Wow, the situation is terrible. :(
Also, this.

EDIT: No way. I just watched the news. Seems like a nuclear power plant exploded.
Yes it did. I had put the link up in my previous post.
I am annoyed with several people now. With those Greenpeace activists who seem to be popping up everywhere and taking this opportunity to lecture people about the dangers of nuclear plants now (can't they wait?), with those scaremongers and with those who believe that this earthquake and tsunami was all because of the supermoon.

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12 Mar 11 - 19:56
I just heard about the Tsunami on my longwave radio.
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12 Mar 11 - 20:58
Yeah, it's not clear what caused the explosion, but it doesn't appear to have breached nuclear containment, so it's no increased radiation risk, just more to clean up.


The supermoon bullcabbage is the most ridiculous crap of this whole affair. It's a few miles closer than it usually gets. Whoop-de-flooping 'ecking-do.
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13 Mar 11 - 00:20
Sentynel wrote:The supermoon bullcabbage is the most ridiculous crap of this whole affair. It's a few miles closer than it usually gets. Whoop-de-flooping 'ecking-do.
I second that notion. What are people gonna predict next, that flaming chihuahuas shall rain from the skies? Really, the whole notion of foretelling future calamities and attributing ongoing ones to such trivial things as a big hunk of rock is a waste of time in my mind.
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13 Mar 11 - 00:25
Jane Bishop wrote:attributing [natural disasters] to such trivial things as a big hunk of rock is a waste of time in my mind.
The dinosaurs disagree.
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13 Mar 11 - 00:30
David Cat wrote:
Jane Bishop wrote:attributing [natural disasters] to such trivial things as a big hunk of rock is a waste of time in my mind.
The dinosaurs disagree.
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