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Why Not Jeb?

     Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida and a former candidate for President of the United States of America; was the only politician who called me after a car crash in Tallahassee resulted in me being rushed to a trauma center, placed in ICU, and treated for a brain injury. […]

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Tepco’s License to Kill: Dispersal of Radioactive Waste as Disaster Response

     This deliberate contamination of the public commons is a license to kill, a criminally reckless endangerment of sea life and the food web. Yet the 1992 ban on ocean dumping of radioactive waste applies only to barrels thrown from ships, not liquids sent into the sea through pipes. Further, the Law of the Sea allows victims to bring legal action only after an alleged harm has occurred, and then puts the burden of proof on victims to show that their illness(es) were caused by a particular radioactive poison. […]

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The Fukushima Tragedy Resurfaces

     Just as all Americans remember 9/11, Japanese remember 3/11, the day in 2011 that an earthquake and tsunami overwhelmed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, destroying a town, poisoning a wide area around it, and raising questions about nuclear safety in much the same way as the Chernobyl nuclear accident had in 1986.  […]