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8/19/2015 5:31:05 PM

Iran Deploys New Fighter Jets Meant

to Combat Israel

Iranian Defense Minister runs down military buildup, says UN resolution won't stop ballistic tests, four S-300s ordered from Russia.


By Ari Yashar
First Publish: 8/18/2015, 10:58 PM

IAF F-15I fighter jet (illustration)
IAF F-15I fighter jet (illustration)
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Iran's Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehqan on Tuesday gave a run-down of the army's upcoming military buildup, and revealed that a new fighter jet announced in February has been delivered to the Iranian Air Force.

Dehqan said the domestic double-cockpit supersonic Saeqeh 2 jets - whose name means "Thunderbolt" - have been deployed, reports the semi-official Fars News Agency.

The jet, unveiled in February, is meant to be capable of tracing American and Israeli fighter jets according to the paper, which cited a senior Air Force commander Col. Houshang Monfaredzadeh saying as much back in February.

"Saeqeh 2 fighters have been delivered to the Air Force and a training jet has also been tested and is ready for manufacturing," Dehqan announced on Tuesday in time for National Defense Industry Day.

He also spoke about Iran's ballistic missile program, which it is preparing to test while flouting UN resolutions concerning the missile tests in context of the Iran nuclear deal.

Speaking directly about the upcoming ballistic missile drills, he said they will not be stopped by the UN Security Council resolution.

"We are working on increasing our missiles' precision and want to make them impenetrable to electronic warfare and interception," he said.

He added that long-range ballistic missiles with multiple reentry vehicle payloads have been domestically produced, saying, "we are after turning our ground-based missiles into air-launched missiles."

Turning his attention to the advanced S-300 anti-missile system fromRussia, which Dehqan said would be transferred by next week, he said Tehran has requested 3 batteries of the system and a fourth system has recently been added to the order.

It is estimated that the advanced system would be able to thwart a strike against Iran's nuclear program.

Dehqan spoke about the Iranian Navy as well, saying "a new 500-ton subsurface vessel will join the Navy this year and we will take other steps to develop heavy subsurface vessels in future."

"We are also working on the phased-array radars and are on the path to make them passive systems," he said of attempts to make Iran's analog wireless systems digital.

Finally he spoke about Iran's various drones for combat, reconnaissance andsurveillance, which he said has brought customers from various countries without elaborating which states.

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8/19/2015 5:46:34 PM
Epidemic of sea mammal deaths explodes as Fukushima radiation contaminates one-third of the earth

Wednesday, August 19, 2015 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer




(NaturalNews) Dead and dying sea mammals continue to wash ashore at unusual and alarming rates along the California coast. Scientists are stumped, suggesting that the cause may be food shortages caused by abnormally warm waters - but unsure of what has caused the ocean off the California coast to warm so rapidly.

Meanwhile, the radioactive plume released into the Pacific Ocean following the Fukushima nuclear disaster draws ever closer to North America's western coast. At the same time, radioactive material is still pouring into the sea from the Fukushima site. Could the ongoing radioactive poisoning of the Pacific and the dying of its marine mammals be related?

Whales, dolphins now affected

On July 6, San Francisco news outlets reported the discovery of a large dead dolphin that had washed ashore at nearby Ocean Beach. While one death might not be particularly unusual, a dead sea lion pup and a dead adult elephant seal were also found washed up at the same beach, on the same day.

In the few months prior, numerous dead whales had washed up along the nearby coast.

At the same time, literally thousands of dead and dying sea lions have been beaching themselves from San Francisco to San Diego. In the first three months of the year, more than 1,800 sea lions - many of them starving and sickly juveniles - were found on beaches or in coastal back yards. More than a thousand of these sea lions beached themselves in March alone.

"You could equate it to a war zone," said Keith Matassa of the Pacific Marine Mammal Center.

Three of five years since 2011 - the year of the Fukushima disaster - have seen abnormally high numbers of sea lion strandings.

Mainstream scientists are not pointing the finger at radiation, however. Instead, they suspect that marine mammals are dying due to a food shortage caused by abnormally warm ocean temperatures. And they may have a point: Temperatures between San Francisco and Monterey are an astonishing 5 degrees warmer than normal for the time of year.

A third of the world poisoned?

Scientists do not know why the waters are so warm, and have not studied a possible contribution from the massive amount of radioactive material from the Fukushima disaster that is predicted to slam into the California coast some time in 2017. Without such a study, any connection may have to remain speculative.

What is certain, however, is that the massive release of radioactive material into the Pacific Ocean is likely to have dire ecological consequences.

"Every day, four hundred tons of highly radioactive water pours into the Pacific and heads towards the U.S.," renowned physician and anti-nuclear advocate Helen Caldicott warned in September 2014. "Because the radiation accumulates in fish, we get that too. The U.S. government is not testing the water, not testing the fish, and not testing the ambient air. Also, people in Japan are eating radiation every day."

Asian Pacific governments are also taking the threat seriously. In 2011, 19 Pacific member states of the International Atomic Energy Agency launched a study into the possible effects of Fukushima radioactive releases on the region.

"Following the earthquake and tsunami in Japan on 11 March 2011 and their subsequent impact on the nuclear reactors and associated fuel storage ponds at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, there have been releases of radioactively contaminated water into the marine environment neighboring the north east coast of the island of Honshu," the project document reads. "It is assumed that this radioactive contamination could be transported and circulated through the Pacific Ocean. Consequently ... member states have expressed concern about the possible impact of these releases on their coastal zones."

"The area potentially affected may encompass much of the Pacific Ocean, which covers one third of the area of the globe," the document warns.

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Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/050844_Fukushima_radiation_marine_life.html#ixzz3jHfMR4eQ


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8/19/2015 11:28:53 PM

CERN – September 2015 – opening the portal

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Published on Aug 8, 2015

In this video, we hear from a speaker about what CERN is all about and what it could do in September 2015.

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8/20/2015 1:05:08 AM
By August 19, 2015

Fracking Causes Texas Family’s Water Well to Explode, Severly Burning Them


fracking-flammable-waterSharon Kelly, DeSmogBlog
Waking Times

A family in Texas, including a four-year old, her parents and her grandfather, were severely burned when their water well ignited into a massive fireball after methane from nearby fracked wells contaminated their water supply, a newly filed lawsuit against EOG Resources and several related companies alleges.

Cody Murray, a 38-year old who previously worked in the oil and gas industry, suffered burns to his face, arms, neck and back that were so severe that he was left permanently disabled, no longer able to drive because the nerve damage has left him unable to grip steering wheels or other objects. Cody’s young daughter, who was over 20 feet away from the pump house when it ignited, suffered first and second degree burns, as did Jim Murray, Cody’s father.

The cause of the blast? Nearby fracked wells, the lawsuit alleges. “Rigorous scientific testing, including isotope testing, has conclusively demonstrated that the high-level methane contamination of the Murrays ’ water well resulted from natural gas drilling and extraction activities,” the complaint, filed in Dallas County, Texas earlier this month, states.

The family raised livestock and crops on their 160-acre ranch in Perrin, Texas, a tiny unincorporated town (population: 500) in Jack County, northwest of Forth Worth and atop the Barnett shale. The heavily-drilled county has been struck by a string of earthquakes since 2013.

The region also made headlines this summer when a research team from the University of Texas at Arlington announced that tests showed hundreds of water wells – 381 of the 550 wells tested – were contaminated by chemicals associated with fracking.

But while much of the water pollution associated with fracking is invisible — parts per million or per billion of highly toxic chemicals lacing water that otherwise looks safe — some of the most notorious incidents associated with fracking involve tap water lighting on fire, the result of flammable methane gas bubbles mixing with the water.

For the Murrays, the trouble began with a sputtering water hose. On August 2, 2014, Ashley Murray, Cody’s wife, noticed something odd as she filled a water trough for the family’s cattle — pressurized water was spitting out from the hose, spraying throughout the pump house built around the well. She cut the water off and went to get Cody. According to the complaint:

Cody’s dad, Jim, entered the doorway to the pump house and switched the water on. At the flip of the switch, Cody heard a ‘whooshing’ sound , which he instantly recognized from his work in the oil and gas industry, and instinctively picked his father up and physically threw him back and away from the entryway to the pump house. In that instant, a giant fireball erupted from the pump house, burning Cody and Jim, who were at the entrance to the pump house, as well as Ashley and A.M. [the four-year old], who were approximately twenty feet away. Cody andA.M.were air-lifted to Parkland Hospital, while Jim was transported to Palo Pinto General Hospital.

The suspected source of the methane in the water? Two gas wells drilled by EOG Resources roughly 1,000 feet away from the Murrays’ water well.

The Texas Railroad Commission, the state’s oil and gas regulator, later cited EOG for “discrepancies” in legally-required records for the wells’ cement casings and the agency’s investigation into the fireball is still underway, according to the complaint.

The Murray’s lawsuit, which seeks over $1 million dollars to compensate the family for their medical expenses, Cody’s disability and resulting lost job, and the loss of their farm’s water supply, is one of a growing number of legal cases surrounding fracking.

This is a potentially landmark case,” Christopher Hamilton, the attorney representing the Murrays toldThinkProgress, explaining that the type of isotopic analysis connecting methane in the Murray’s water to fracking could help plaintiffs nationwide prove that the gas in their water came from the fracked wells and was not the kind of gas that occurs naturally at the relatively shallow depths where water wells are drilled.

Nationwide, litigation surrounding fracking’s impacts has continued to rise even as the number of rigs drilling for oil and gas has shrunk with the fall of oil prices.

Over 150 lawsuits related to fracking— including dozens stemming from water pollution or explosions — had been filed as of June 2014, according to a review conducted by Fulbright and Jaworski, one of largest law firms in the US.

Many of those cases were still in early stages of litigation or had reached settlements whose terms were not public.

“As of the date of this White Paper, the authors have not located any judgment against a well operator, drilling contractor, or service company for contamination of groundwater resulting from hydraulic fracturing,” the review concluded, although a few cases had progressed to the point of a jury verdict for millions of dollars which was then appealed prior to a final judgment.

The Murrays’ case includes a claim that is increasingly used to pursue drillers who harm those living near fracked wells: nuisance law.

“Nuisance affects the whole fracking debate in a lot of ways,” Dan Raichel, an attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, told E&E last year. “In a colloquial sense, it’s pretty clear that fracking is a nuisance in a lot of these communities.”

Long before federal laws like the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act were written, nuisance law were used by those harmed by contaminated air and water to seek compensation from polluters, with the earliest cases dating back to English courts in the 1600’s.

Nuisance claims have drawn renewed attention from lawyers pursuing lawsuits against drillers in part because the legal questions focus less on the mechanics of precisely how each specific harm happened and more on the impact that the defendant’s activities overall have had — and that can include not only water pollution but also things like noise and noxious smells.

You avoid some of the really difficult causation issues,” that otherwise make it challenging to tie specific damages to specific actions, Kate Sinding, a senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, told Bloomberg last year. “You could show an interference with use of and enjoyment of one’s property without conclusively demonstrating that a gas company for example had contaminated a particular water well.”

But the Murrays’ lawyers also apparently intend to tackle the issue of causation head on. “The activities of Fairway and EOGare the only possible sources of the contamination,” the complaint asserts. “The high levels of methane in the Murrays’ well were not ‘naturally occurring.’”

While the Murrays’ scientific evidence was not described in depth in the complaint, investigators have been working for years to find tools to allow them to determine reliably whether methane came from a shale well. EPA‘s tests of the isotopic signature of methane in high-profile cases like Dimock and Pavillion have come under fire from the oil and gas industry, which argued that the test results were too imprecise to be reliable or that sampling was done improperly.

But the hunt for tracers has continued. Last year, a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a prestigious peer-reviewed journal, focused on noble gasses like helium, neon and argon as potential tracers for shale gas, finding isotopic “signatures” that allowed them to connect the gas to specific sources.

As scientific investigators, lawyers and judges sift through evidence, trying to determine precisely how each suspected incident occurred, the human toll from drilling-related accidents and explosions is continuing to rise.

On Tuesday, an explosion at an oil well in Ward County, Texas – about a 4 hour drive from the Murray’s ranch in Perrin – injured two oilfield workers, leaving one hospitalized in critical condition. An investigation into that blaze is now underway.

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8/20/2015 1:17:31 AM

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2015

"Avoid ALL Contact" With Rain, American Embassy In Beijing Warns

U.S. Embassy Beijing, China

First in "China Sends In Chemical Warfare Troops, Orders Tianjin Blast Site Evacuation After Toxic Sodium Cyanide Found" and subsequently in "Poison Rain Feared In Tianjin As Death Toll Rumored At 1,400", we documented China’s frantic attempts to reassure an increasingly agitated and frightened public that the air and water are safe after last Wednesday’s deadly chemical explosion at Tianjin.

Although the full environmental implications of the blast likely won’t be known for quite some time,
the immediate concern is that rain could react with water soluble sodium cyanide, transforming the chemical into potentially fatal hydrogen cyanide gas.
And while Beijing has already begun the censorship (some 400 Weibo and WeChat accounts have reportedly been shut down), the American Embassy isn’t mincing words.


The following unconfirmed text message is said to have originated at the Embassy:
For your information and consideration for action. First rain expected today or tonight. Avoid ALL contact with skin. If on clothing, remove and wash as soon as possible, and also shower yourself. Avoid pets coming into contact with rains, or wet ground, and wash them immediately if they do. Rise umbrellas thoroughly in your bath or shower once inside, following contact with rain. Exercise caution for any rains until all fires in Tianjin are extinguished and for the period 10 days following. These steps are for you to be as safe as possible, since we are not completely sure what might be in the air. Remember the brave firefighters and their families along with all those suffering from the accident in Tianjin. Stand strong together China!

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And meanwhile, the Embassy is "aware" of these social media messages, which it claims aren't official. Here's the official line:
Media sources have reported extensively on explosions at the port of Tianjin, China on August 13 and August 15. The U.S. Embassy urges U.S. citizens in Tianjin to follow the guidance of local authorities and avoid the blast area until given further instructions. We are aware that local authorities are taking measures to prevent secondary disasters and are monitoring air and water pollution in the area to prevent further chemical contamination. The Embassy in Beijing remains in regular contact with local Tianjin government and hospital officials, and we have no information other than that which has been provided to the public by Chinese authorities. We continue to liaise with local authorities, businesses, and healthcare providers to seek information on any U.S. citizens who may have been affected by the explosions.

The Embassy is also aware of social media messages relating to the Tianjin explosions from sources claiming to represent the U.S. Embassy. These messages were not issued by the U.S. Embassy.
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