SnowLake

"About Japan Govt, don't use our tsunami relief funds for whaling!

Japan's government is using tsunami and earthquake relief funds to subsidize the illegal slaughter of whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary."

"Whaling is not an easy practice to defend these days, particularly when recent polls have shown that 95% of Japanese eat whale meat rarely, if at all. The state-backed industry... confirmed last week that $29 million of the national post-tsunami recovery fund had been allotted to the whaling industry, including to provide extra security for the whaling fleet."

"The goal, he told me, �oeis to create an economy and a culture in which it eventually becomes cool to consume less.”"

"Most people know Rooney only as that craggy-faced old guy carping about something every week at the end of 60 Minutes. More will learn from obituaries that he distinguished himself as a writer for Stars and Stripes during World War II, as a writer for Arthur Godfrey and for Harry Reasoner at CBS News long before he joined 60 Minutes in 1978.

He wrote four books about World War II in the late 1940s and more since. But Rooney never saw himself as a commentator. He saw himself as a writer who just happened to deliver his stories on TV."

"Hurricane Irene wound up by most estimates as one of the top ten most destructive and deadly hurricanes to hit the United States since 1980. While ultimately not as powerful as many had predicted, the storm still killed at least 27 people along its path from the Caribbean to the eastern seaboard. Transportation was shut down all along the east coast, stranding residents and tourists in shelters, airports, and train stations. More than 5.8 million customers lost electricity, thousands of flights were cancelled, flooding washed out roads and destroyed homes, and evacuation orders were issued for hundreds of thousands. Gathered here are pictures from the Hurricane's path."

"Some impacts may have already occurred in North America. Infant mortality in eight cities in the U.S. Northwest jumped 35 percent after Fukushima, according to an article by internist and toxicologist Janette Sherman and epidemiologist Joseph Mangano on the Counterpunch website in June. The number of infant deaths rose from 9.25 per week in the four weeks prior to March 19 to 12.5 per week in the following 10 weeks, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control data."

"In the last 15 years, the report said, adult obesity rates have doubled or nearly doubled in 17 states. Two decades ago, not a single state had an obesity rate above 15%. Now all states do."