Tag: japan
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Food World Order on Corbett Report Radio: Episode009 – Updates and Sproutbreaks
On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week we cover Fukushima updates, buyouts, sproutbreaks and more…
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On Corbett Report Radio – Jan26
On Thursday nights, Media Monarchy joins Corbett Report Radio live on Republic Broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health. This week we disgust fetal food, wary waste, school lunch and more…
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Wary, Japanese Take Food Safety Into Their Own Hands
Critics say farm and health officials have been too quick to allow food to go to market without adequate testing, or have ignored calls from consumers to fully disclose test results.
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Activist Moms Push for Change In Land of Rising Radioactivity
Mizuho Nakayama, among a small group of activists, “…a 41-year-old mother joined a parents group — one of dozens that have sprung up since the crisis — that petitioned local officials in June to test lunches at schools and day care centers for radiation and avoid using products from around the troubled nuclear plant.”
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Japan Plans Robot Farm In Disaster Area
Japan says a futuristic robotic farm will be built on land swamped by the March 11 tsunami as part of an experimental government project. The Ministry of Agriculture project will see unmanned tractors working the fields of the farm on a 600-acre site in the disaster zone, Britain’s The Daily Telegraph reported Friday.
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12/29 binge & purge: check, please!
gastro roundup: best food of 2011* top ten food & farm stories of 2011* the bad food news of 2011* the biotech industry is growing bioweapons* bugs may be resistant to genetically modified corn* food bill doesn’t promote security* discover the doomsday seed vault’s secrets* mexico rehab clinic food poisoning kills five* hunger warning for…
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12/29 newspurge: danger! heartbreak dead ahead
9/11 updates: ‘extremely loud & incredibly close’ could cause flashbacks* ‘all-american muslim’ to deal with 9/11* deadline approaching for pending 9/11 lawsuits* tourists add 9/11 memorial to nyc itinerary* nyc mayor says work on 9/11 museum has stalled* biowars/envirohealth: 14,000 US deaths tied to fukushima fallout* report assails japan response to fukushima* radioactive pollution in…
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media/memes: a year of disappointment for hollywood
movie ticket sales hit 16yr low in 2011* from nytimes: With five days left in 2011, ticket sales in North America are running about $500 million behind last year – despite higher prices – prompting a round of soul searching by studios trying to determine what went wrong and how best to proceed. Movies are…
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winter solstice 2011: pagan celebrations mark shortest day of the year
from national post: Depending on where you are in the world, December 21 or 22 marks the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere: the official beginning of winter, and the longest night of the year. (In Canada, the switch happens either late at night on the 21st, or early in the morning on the 22nd;…
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cesium in baby milk powder shows ‘lingering’ threat of japan radiation
from bloomberg: Radioactive cesium was found in milk powder in Japan made by a Meiji Holdings Co. unit, raising concern that nuclear radiation is contaminating baby food. Meiji the past week found traces of cesium-137 and cesium- 134 in batches of “Meiji Step” made in March, the Tokyo-based company said yesterday. The probe was triggered…
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corbett report: episode210 – hunting the octopus
listen to corbett report on @RBNlive weeknights at midnight from corbett report: In Episode 209 we looked at the mysterious death of Danny Casolaro, the journalist who was about to crack the political conspiracy of the century, a plot that he called “the octopus.” This week we go in search of the octopus that Casolaro…
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corbett report: episode209 – requiem for the suicided: danny casolaro
listen to corbett report on @RBNlive weeknights at midnight from corbett report: Danny Casolaro was a freelance journalist who told his friends and family that he was close to cracking a story he called The Octopus, which he referred to as the political conspiracy of the century. In August of 1991 he packed his notes…


