KPFA is having an hour special started at 8AM
kpfa.org access over the net.

It started just after noon, will be archived for two weeks to listen to.

I am often up late reading pages and suddenly I can't access any DU pages. I just get the "sometimes the site is busy, try again later" script. I haven't kept a log, just give up and go on to bed, but thought I would ask.

ADW

http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/344-208/11006-russia-stunned-after-japanese-plan-to-evacuate-40-million-revealed
new report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Foreign Ministry on the planned re-opening of talks with Japan over the disputed Kuril Islands during the next fortnight states that Russian diplomats were “stunned” after being told by their Japanese counterparts that upwards of 40 million of their peoples were in “extreme danger” of life threatening radiation poisoning and could very well likely be faced with forced evacuations away from their countries eastern most located cities… including the world’s largest one, Tokyo.

The Kuril Islands are located in Russia's Sakhalin Oblast region and stretch approximately 1,300 km (810 miles) northeast from Hokkaido-, Japan, to Kamchatka, Russia, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the North Pacific Ocean. There are 56 islands and many more minor rocks. It consists of Greater Kuril Ridge and Lesser Kuril Ridge, all of which were captured by Soviet Forces in the closing days of World War II from the Japanese.

The “extreme danger” facing tens of millions of the Japanese peoples is the result of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster that was a series of equipment failures, nuclear meltdowns, and releases of radioactive materials at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, following the To-hoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011.

According to this report, Japanese diplomats have signaled to their Russian counterparts that the returning of the Kuril Islands to Japan is “critical” as they have no other place to resettle so many people that would, in essence, become the largest migration of human beings since the 1930’s when Soviet leader Stalin forced tens of millions to resettle Russia’s far eastern regions.
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Guess there were two other stories from Oakland that took the headlines, but check this out, the kids find two bags containing silver and gold watches, rings bracelets and even a pair of candle sticks.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/california-sixth-graders-find-treasure-oakland-lake/story?id=16039821#.T3u4NEarb9M

California Sixth Graders Find Bags of 'Treasure' in Oakland Lake
A group of sixth graders in Oakland, Calif., doing their weekly cleanup along the the shore of a local lake, stumbled across something that was not the usual tree limbs or old junk -- it looked like treasure.

"I was picking up some trash and I saw a bunch of people in my group gathering, so I quickly ran over there," said Simone, a sixth grader with the group.

"There were two bags almost full of pretty jewelry that had gold and silver."

The students, from St. Paul's Episcopal School in Oakland, had found two 15-pound canvas bags full of jewelry and other valuable objects including rings, pocket watches, two silver candlesticks, a silver spoon and a switchblade.

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There is a video there too, of the kids checking it all out.

This is a link, from an article about the Trayvon Martin case that is supposed to be a letter from the city council, but it doesn't open for me:
http://www.sanfordfl.gov/investigation/docs/Zimmerman_Martin_shooting.pdf

(Give me a link, if it has been posted already, I didn't see it in a search.)

Great Rant...
http://hungadunga.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/i-want-a-divorce/#comment-3936

And a great group of lawyers he appears to have.

Haven't seen this info on DU:
http://videosift.com/video/Flying-like-a-bird-with-self-built-wings

For how long has mankind been trying to do this?

I thought I had seen this video on DU, but doing a site search I don't see it show. I thought it should be displayed:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f93_1329777755

It is with Grace Lee Boggs. Apex Express hosted it, a Thursday night show. It should be in the archives for two weeks. Parts of it were played yesterday, and a clip just a few minutes ago too.

Thought a few folks would be interested.