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NOVANEWS By ERIC TALMADGE   TOKYO — Japan has mobilized thousands of police to hunt for the last fugitive suspected in a doomsday cult's deadly nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subway 17 years ago. The long-cold search advanced significantly with the surrender of one fugitive earlier this year and the arrest of another Sunday, leaving only Katsuya Takahashi. Some 5,000 officers fanned out Friday across the Tokyo area to hand out fresh photos of him and monitor transportation hubs to keep him from escaping the capital. Takahashi, 54, is on Japan's most wanted list for his suspected role in the sarin gas attack, which killed 13 people and injured more than 6,000. A security camera earlier this week showed Takahashi trying to withdraw money from a bank shortly after the second...

NOVANEWS Dear friends, Japan's Fukushima nuclear reactor is crumbling and a pool of nuclear waste inside is at risk of leaking -- threatening a global disaster. Experts say it couldn't withstand another tremor, but just yesterday a 5.8 earthquake struck miles off the Japanese coast! Let's call on Japan's government to act before it is too late. Sign the urgent petition and forward to everyone: Japan's Fukushima nuclear reactor is crumbling and a pool of nuclear waste inside is at risk of leaking -- threatening a global disaster. Experts say it couldn't withstand another tremor, but just yesterday a 5.8 earthquake struck miles off the Japanese coast! We know it is only a matter of time before the reactor fails and contaminates the skies above the Pacific ocean and into A...

By Washington's Blog Global Research The operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has been dumping something like a thousand tons per day of radioactive water into the Pacific ocean. Remember, the reactors are “riddled with meltdown holes”, building 4 – with more radiation than all nuclear bombs ever dropped or tested – is missing entire walls, and building 3 is a pile of rubble. The whole complex is leaking like a sieve, and the rivers of water pumped into the reactors every day are just pouring into the ocean (with only a slight delay). Most people assume that the ocean will dilute the radiation from Fukushima enough that any radiation reaching the West Coast of the U.S. will be low. For example, the Congressional Research Service wrote in April: Scientists have sta...

NOVANEWS A Realistic View of Japan's Economic Future Japan’s Debt Crisis, Worse than the US and Europe, Hidden From the World By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor   While massive debt in the US has been in the world news and the failure of austerity measures to stabilize the Euro have been continually reported, Japan has gone under. Today, Fitch lowered Japanese foreign currency rating to near junk bond status.  Japan had previously fallen to AA and is now down to “A,” a level unacceptable to a nation that most still consider a world “super-economy.” The denial, of course, is that Japan will never recover from the Fukajima disaster and if we are honest, eventually world birthrates from the massive radiation leak that continues to this day will be a very real but unpleasant cure of a bur...

NOVANEWS Paper trail: Michelle Gatz holds the logbook of the SS Schuyler Otis Bland, which apparently transported defoliants to Okinawa in the early 1960s. MICHELLE GATZ Documents indicate jungle use in 1962 By JON MITCHELL Special to The Japan Times Recently uncovered documents show that the United States conducted top-secret tests of Agent Orange in Okinawa in 1962, according to a veterans services employee. The experiments, believed to have taken place under the auspices of Project AGILE — a classified program to research unconventional warfare techniques — have also been confirmed by a former high-ranking American official. The documents, which include a ship’s logbook, army deployment orders and declassified government records, were tracked down by Michelle Gatz, a veterans servi...

NOVANEWS Paper trail: Michelle Gatz holds the logbook of the SS Schuyler Otis Bland, which apparently transported defoliants to Okinawa in the early 1960s. MICHELLE GATZ Documents indicate jungle use in 1962 By JON MITCHELL Special to The Japan Times Recently uncovered documents show that the United States conducted top-secret tests of Agent Orange in Okinawa in 1962, according to a veterans services employee. The experiments, believed to have taken place under the auspices of Project AGILE — a classified program to research unconventional warfare techniques — have also been confirmed by a former high-ranking American official. The documents, which include a ship’s logbook, army deployment orders and declassified government records, were tracked down by Michelle Gatz, a veterans servi...

NOVANEWS The radioactive Fukushima Genie is out of the bottle and is primed to accomplish a worldwide disaster. If the roof of Reactor building #4 collapses, a building that is now seismically rated at zero, a pool of 1563 spent fuel rods perched 100 feet above the ground would also collapse ~ resulting in a gusher of global radiation that would put most of the world’s human and biological populations at severe risk:   by Allen L Roland The greatest and most dangerous on going cover up in the world today is not the official 9/11 cover up (now into its 11th year); it is not the supposed assassination of Bin Laden by Navy Seals last year (an operation with no confirmed body, no video and completely staged as a re-election gimmick as we are now witnessing); but instead, it is the unspo...

NOVANEWS NOVANEWSFor further background analysis, see Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War: The Unspoken Crisis of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation - by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky GR ONLINE READER. The dumping of highly radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean constitutes a potential trigger to a process of global radioactive contamination... Eventually all major regions of the World will be affected. "Based on U.S. Energy Department data, assuming a total of 11,138 spent fuel assemblies are being stored at the Dai-Ichi site, nearly all, which is in pools. They contain roughly 336 million curies (~1.2 E+19 Bq) of long-lived radioactivity. About 134 million curies is Cesium-137 — roughly 85 times the amount of Cs-137 released at the Chernobyl accident as estimated by the U.S....

NOVANEWS By Nile Bowie nilebowie.blogspot.ca As China declares fresh warnings of retaliation against any strike on Iran [1], the regime in Pyongyang shows no signs of aborting its upcoming controversial satellite launch, scheduled to take place on April 12th through to April 16th. The Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite will be launched southward from the Sohae satellite launch station in Cholsan County, North Phyongan Province, using a long-range Unha-3 rocket; North Korean officials assured the international community that it would "strictly abide by relevant international regulations and usage concerning the launch of scientific and technological satellites for peaceful purposes." [2] As Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak insinuate that Pyongyang’s upcoming satel...