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Gurbani (696-703)
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Solhe (1020-1033)
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Bara Maha (1107-1110)
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Gurbani (1118-1123)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਭੈਰਉ | Raag Bhairo
Gurbani (1125-1152)
Partaal (1153)
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Vaar Saarang (1237-1253)
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Gurbani (1254-1293)
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Gurbani (1294-96)
Partaal (1296-1318)
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Chhant (1312)
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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 144461" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="color: Navy">April 1, 2011</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>The international community must intervene – in Japan</strong></span></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><em>Just as the international community had to come together to stem the financial meltdown from contaminating the entire world economy or prevent massacre in Libya, it must now intervene in Japan to prevent radiation from poisoning the planet.</em></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">By Jacques Attali / March 30, 2011</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>Paris: </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Once again, a local problem is becoming a global crisis. Just as California was the epicenter of the subprime mortgage crisis that shook the world, so too the nuclear waste leaks at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in the wake of the earthquake are posing a threat to others far beyond Japan’s borders.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">And just as the international community had to come together to stem the financial meltdown from contaminating the entire world economy, it must now intervene in Japan to prevent radiation from poisoning the planet.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">The situation is serious. If the spent fuel pools storing irradiated fuels from the reactors in Fukushima give way as a result of a new aftershock or by overheating, huge quantities of radioactive material – either as a liquid or gas flowing into the sea, air, or subsoil – will be released. In the case of the containment vessel of the third reactor, considerable quantities of plutonium might escape. In this event, parts of Japan will become largely uninhabitable, and radiation will spread out across the globe through the food chain or carried by the wind and sea currents.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong> </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>Japan's missteps and coverup</strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Like the American financial institutions that spawned the subprime mortgage crisis, Japan’s nuclear crisis is largely the result of forsaking prudence for profits. Knowing better, the Fukushima plant was nonetheless built on an earthquake fault on the seacoast vulnerable to tsunamis. Worse, six plants were bundled together like toxic mortgages, inviting disastrous contagion, sidestepping safety regulations.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Since the beginning of the disaster, the same regulatory authorities and utility executives who exposed the public to such danger have compounded error upon error in the effort to save their damaged assets, leaving the spent fuel pools exposed to the open air without cooling, causing irreparable damage to those with systems of protection still intact.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">A mixture of pride and arrogance – along with a penchant for secrecy and lack of transparency – has led the public and private authorities in Japan to refuse international aid while hiding the scope of the disaster, both from their own people and from the international community.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Courageous but underpaid workers were left with the highly dangerous task of figuring out how to cool the reactors, an ad hoc task for which they were not trained.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Now, in order not to admit that they covered up the truth to the outside world they have endangered, these same officials are refusing the cooperation of foreign experts.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong> </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>Why isn't the international community involved?</strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">On the other hand, it is bewildering that the "international community," which is so quick to intervene at the slightest violation of human rights, remains, in this case, totally complacent. When the facts were finally known in the subprime mortgage crisis, coordinated action was swift on a global scale.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">In this case, Japanese officials are merely asked in their own polite etiquette what the real facts are. No one insists when they refuse outside help in order not to spread panic, and to salvage their costly investment.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">All of this is absurd. The nuclear industry as a whole, like global financial markets, cannot possibly be saved if the disaster is not brought under control quickly. The recent German elections that turned on that country’s nuclear exposure only foreshadowed the reaction to come across the globe.</span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"> </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>World has a responsibility to protect people</strong></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">There is thus an urgent need to establish a global consortium of nations and experts with the competence to intervene to stem the damage.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">Our Japanese friends must accept such intervention as quickly as possible without feeling offended or humiliated by our insistence. Confidence can only be restored when the real facts are known through an objective "stress test."</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">As this consortium is assembled, the international community should not wait to send in planes, helicopters, fire hoses, robots, drones and cement mixers to contain the disaster before a total meltdown takes place.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">To draw on another analogy in today’s news, the world has the "responsibility to intervene" when a sovereign nation cannot or will not protect its own people and when the danger extends beyond borders.</span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><em>Jacques Attali, the founding president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, is president of PlaNet Finance.</em></span></p><p> <span style="color: Navy"></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy">© 2011 Global Viewpoint Network/Tribune Media Services. Hosted online by The Christian Science </span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong> </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: Navy"><strong>source:</strong> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Global-Viewpoint/2011/0330/The-international-community-must-intervene-in-Japan" target="_blank">http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Global-Viewpoint/2011/0330/The-international-community-must-intervene-in-Japan</a></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 144461, member: 884"] [COLOR="Navy"]April 1, 2011 [SIZE="5"][B]The international community must intervene – in Japan[/B][/SIZE] [I]Just as the international community had to come together to stem the financial meltdown from contaminating the entire world economy or prevent massacre in Libya, it must now intervene in Japan to prevent radiation from poisoning the planet.[/I] By Jacques Attali / March 30, 2011 [B]Paris: [/B] Once again, a local problem is becoming a global crisis. Just as California was the epicenter of the subprime mortgage crisis that shook the world, so too the nuclear waste leaks at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in the wake of the earthquake are posing a threat to others far beyond Japan’s borders. And just as the international community had to come together to stem the financial meltdown from contaminating the entire world economy, it must now intervene in Japan to prevent radiation from poisoning the planet. The situation is serious. If the spent fuel pools storing irradiated fuels from the reactors in Fukushima give way as a result of a new aftershock or by overheating, huge quantities of radioactive material – either as a liquid or gas flowing into the sea, air, or subsoil – will be released. In the case of the containment vessel of the third reactor, considerable quantities of plutonium might escape. In this event, parts of Japan will become largely uninhabitable, and radiation will spread out across the globe through the food chain or carried by the wind and sea currents. [B] Japan's missteps and coverup[/B] Like the American financial institutions that spawned the subprime mortgage crisis, Japan’s nuclear crisis is largely the result of forsaking prudence for profits. Knowing better, the Fukushima plant was nonetheless built on an earthquake fault on the seacoast vulnerable to tsunamis. Worse, six plants were bundled together like toxic mortgages, inviting disastrous contagion, sidestepping safety regulations. Since the beginning of the disaster, the same regulatory authorities and utility executives who exposed the public to such danger have compounded error upon error in the effort to save their damaged assets, leaving the spent fuel pools exposed to the open air without cooling, causing irreparable damage to those with systems of protection still intact. A mixture of pride and arrogance – along with a penchant for secrecy and lack of transparency – has led the public and private authorities in Japan to refuse international aid while hiding the scope of the disaster, both from their own people and from the international community. Courageous but underpaid workers were left with the highly dangerous task of figuring out how to cool the reactors, an ad hoc task for which they were not trained. Now, in order not to admit that they covered up the truth to the outside world they have endangered, these same officials are refusing the cooperation of foreign experts. [B] Why isn't the international community involved?[/B] On the other hand, it is bewildering that the "international community," which is so quick to intervene at the slightest violation of human rights, remains, in this case, totally complacent. When the facts were finally known in the subprime mortgage crisis, coordinated action was swift on a global scale. In this case, Japanese officials are merely asked in their own polite etiquette what the real facts are. No one insists when they refuse outside help in order not to spread panic, and to salvage their costly investment. All of this is absurd. The nuclear industry as a whole, like global financial markets, cannot possibly be saved if the disaster is not brought under control quickly. The recent German elections that turned on that country’s nuclear exposure only foreshadowed the reaction to come across the globe. [B]World has a responsibility to protect people[/B] There is thus an urgent need to establish a global consortium of nations and experts with the competence to intervene to stem the damage. Our Japanese friends must accept such intervention as quickly as possible without feeling offended or humiliated by our insistence. Confidence can only be restored when the real facts are known through an objective "stress test." As this consortium is assembled, the international community should not wait to send in planes, helicopters, fire hoses, robots, drones and cement mixers to contain the disaster before a total meltdown takes place. To draw on another analogy in today’s news, the world has the "responsibility to intervene" when a sovereign nation cannot or will not protect its own people and when the danger extends beyond borders. [I]Jacques Attali, the founding president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, is president of PlaNet Finance.[/I] © 2011 Global Viewpoint Network/Tribune Media Services. Hosted online by The Christian Science [B] source:[/B] [url]http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Global-Viewpoint/2011/0330/The-international-community-must-intervene-in-Japan[/url][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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