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STOP-ROKKASHO was initiated by musician Ryuichi Sakamoto in order to tell the world via the internet, through music and art, about the dangers of the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant in Aomori Prefecture.

“in one day the plant will release the amount of radioactivity released in one year by a normal nuclear power plant”, he said. “I don’t think you can pretend not to see”

He invited musicians and artists to donate their works and people from all around the world responded, spreading the message in the field where their skills lie: starting from the logo by internationally renowned designer Jonathan Barnbrook, to the music, the art, the fashion by selling T-shirts and bags, live concerts and events in clubs. And books under the Rokkasho title.

During the 1930s, the scientific community in the world started to understand the power of nuclear energy, and Imperial Japan, like many other governments, was made aware of the possibility of developing a weapon which utilized nuclear fission as the source of its energy. The central figure of the Japanese atomic program is Dr. Yoshio Nishina, who also was a friend of Niels Bohr, and a close associate of Albert Einstein. Dr. Nishina established his own Laboratory at the Riken (the Institute for Physical and Chemical Research) in 1931 to study high-energy physics. He built his first 26 inch cyclotron in 1936, and another 60 inch 220 ton cyclotron in 1937. In 1938 Japan also purchased a cyclotron from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt started the first investigations into fission weapons in the United States, which eventually evolved into the massive Manhattan Project (the very laboratory from which Japan purchased its own cyclotron would become one of the major sites for weapons research). Dr. Nishina tried to match the U.S. research, and promoted the development of a nuclear weapon.

Since the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is a staunch opponent of nuclear arms on all government levels. Three Non-Nuclear Principles were adopted as a parliamentary resolution in 1971, stating that Japan shall never manufacture, possess, nor allow the introduction of nuclear weapons into its territory. Though never formally adopted into law, this statement reflects the attitude both of government and general public opinion.

However, Japan does make extensive use of nuclear energy in nuclear reactors, generating a significant percentage of the electricity in Japan. Japan has the third largest nuclear energy production after the U.S. and France, and plans to produce over 40% of its electricity using nuclear power by 2010. Japan also possesses an indigenous uranium enrichment plant – the same plant, or a secretly constructed plant using similar technology, could be used to make highly enriched uranium suitable for weapons.

Superuse.org is a community dedicated to design and recycling. It’s an initiative of 2012 Architects and Suite75. Superuse.org is an online community of designers, architects and everybody else who is interested in inventive ways of recycling.

This is a result after taking a better look at the Chiquita cardboard boxes found in a nearby supermarket; After collecting at least ten of them, cutting, folding and experimenting a new chandelier appears.

A raft made of plastic Coca Cola crates and bottles.

This is a very simple and inventive way to start double using clean water running into your toilet basin.

No matter if old circuit boards, washer drums, cable or plugs they we craft elegant and high-quality jewelery, furniture and accessories out of it. The products are largely made of recycled parts of used electric and electronic devices. Each piece is handmade and therefore unique.

Photoclima, a new book lauched by Greenpeace, presents images of some of Spain’s most emblematic places have been altered to show what they could look like if action is not taken to tackle climate change. It’s realized by Pedro Armestre and Mario Gómez and presented by the Guardian.

Quick talk with Chris Paine, writer and director of the film-documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car“, where he investigates about the launch and the next removal of the battery electric vehicle from the market, specifically the General Motors EV1 of the 1990.

LB: can you tell in few words the story of “Who Killed the Electric Car”?
CP: California regulators force car companies to make thousands of very cool electric cars cars. Despite their many advantages and technological success, cars are taken back and destroyed after five years on the road. FIlm investigates what happened as a ‘murder mystery’ to explore the challenges of change especially with the oil industry and the car industry used to making money with non-electric cars.

LB: how can green movement can win if politics is supported by corporations?
CP: Green movement depends on people power (whether motivated by ideals or fear) and simple economic facts of green being more efficient especially as oil runs out. Corporate power must be challenged and ultimately people run them so people to people contacdt is key.

LB: What about Cinemambiente, did you like it? Which documentary did stranged you more?
I liked China Blue. Cinemambiente was terrific.

LB: I know that you’ve been many years to Burning Man, can you describe the experience?
CP: A place for creative and radical self expression, experimentation, and community. My artistic “new year” and a lot of fun.

Collaboration work of Kenichi Okada & Chris Woebken and MBA students from the Oxford Saïd Business-school, Animal Superpowers is an experimental series of toys as sensory enhancements for kids to experience animal superpowers rather than just an traditional play-object.
5 wearable devices allowing kids to feel how like an animal or experience special extra qualities how they perceive the environment.

Bird – sense of direction with a head mounted solenoid compass
Ant – feeling like an ant seeing 50x through microscope antennas on your hands
Giraffe – a child to adult concerter changing your voice & perspective
Elephant – shoes picking up transmitting vibrations from fellows
Electric Eel – enhanced spatial vision through head mounted Theremin

Rather than creating a series of toys and super-heros with weapons, those devices could possibly create empathy with animals, experiencing what they experience. Like tools for play with more layered interactivity and therefore providing an interface to communicate with other species.

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Some people are reporting what they describe to be unusual activity in the sky, including jets leaving trails at low altitudes, spray lines creating X’s, S’s and parallel lines, lines that slowly spread to create a canopy of haze, and reports of unusual smells, tastes, and even illness related to the trails.

Chemtrails are streaks of chemicals created in the air by spray systems on airplanes at any altitude. Chemicals are sprayed via planes for many purposes including crop dusting and mosquito control. Also fuel is sometimes dumped to reduce weight before landing. But within the Chemtrail observer community Chemtrails are the product of an active large scale operation.

Chemtrails are said to vary from contrails in their length of persistence.
According to Jeff Rense, “chemtrails (CTs) look like contrails initially, but are much thicker, extend across the sky and are often laid down in varying patterns of X’s, tic-tac-toe grids, cross-hatched and parallel lines. Instead of quickly dissipating, chemtrails expand and drip feathers and mares’ tails. In 30 minutes or less, they open into wispy formations which join together, forming a thin white veil or a ‘fake cirrus-type cloud’ that persists for hours.”

And the disinformation about it it’s strong and well prepared, if as Jeff noticed, while watching the film “Cars“, produced by Disney and Pixar, when a race takes place between two cars in the desert, in the sky anyone can clearly see chemtrails slashing through the sky with normal clouds around them. The brainwashing is starting pretty early these days.

The United States Air Force describes the chemtrail theory as a “hoax”, stating that “The “Chemtrail” hoax has been investigated and refuted by many established and accredited universities, scientific organizations, and major media publications.”. They answer each claim in the theory:

* Contrails can remain visible for very long periods of time with the lifetime a function of the temperature, humidity, winds, and aircraft exhaust characteristics.
* Contrails can form many shapes as they are dispersed by horizontal and vertical wind shear.
* Sunlight refracted or reflected from contrails can produce vibrant and eye-catching colors and patterns.
* Observation and scientific analysis of contrails and their duration date back to at least 1953.
* The National Airspace System of the United States is oriented in an east-west and north-south grid with aircraft flying at designated 2000 foot increments of elevation (1000 feet after the introduction of Reduced Vertical Separation Minima in 2002-2004).
* Contrails formed by aircraft may appear to form a grid as the winds disperse the contrails.
* More contrails are seen in recent years due to the growth in the civil aviation market.

But, the US Air Force declared in a report: “Weather modification will become a part of domestic and international security and could be done unilaterally… It could have offensive and defensive applications and even be used for deterrence purposes. The ability to generate precipitation, fog, and storms on earth or to modify space weather, … and the production of artificial weather all are a part of an integrated set of technologies which can provide substantial increase in US, or degraded capability in an adversary, to achieve global awareness, reach, and power. (US Air Force, emphasis added. Air University of the US Air Force, AF 2025 Final Report, http://www.au.af.mil/au/2025/ emphasis added).

So the US Air Force admit that has the ability to do it, at least they should have tried this new weather controlling techonlogies…meeanwhile the Pentagon, while recognizing its ability to modify the World’s climate for military use, has joined the global warming consensus

and has even realized a detailed report called “Climate Change Scenario” to analize the impact of major changing in the climate for the national security but there’s not even aword about the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) based in Gokona, Alaska –jointly managed by the US Air Force and the US Navy.

Aerial Photo of the HAARP Alaska Site

Operated by the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate, HAARP constitutes a system of powerful antennas capable of creating “controlled local modifications of the ionosphere“.

HAARP Antenna Array

Saturday 6thand Sunday 7th of Ocotber arrived in Napoli the project DesBASURAment:
operations of urban consumes detournement starting from the re-utilize and re-pourposing of the trash.
In the media society also trash is the product of a communication strategy. So DesBASURAment (DBMT) expresses the potentiality of the recycling trough a situationist re-construction of the function of the objects.

Objects neglected into the “generalistic” trash boxes are recuperated and recontrstucted, then a technical paper and a photographic book is realized, as for every commercial goods, and then the new product is ready to be showed and free sold in the market.

The “price” payed by the client is to produce a photografic memory of the new product and his new functions, that will be mapped on the website in a sort of cross-garbage of the recycling.
Other materials are transformed in artistic installations with video projections.
The project is realized by the activist DBMT, of InsuTv, with the support of the “Rete Campana Salute e Ambiente”.