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Russian rescuers completed work in Japan’s quake-ravaged Sendai and moved for search of people to another disaster-hit city, Niigata, a Far Eastern emergencies service department said on Sunday.

“It was decided on March 18 to send Russian rescue groups to Niigata. On Saturday, rescuers were setting up a camp and preparing equipment after their relocation. As of now, they have already begun searching for people,” a spokesman for the emergencies ministry’s Far Eastern department, Sergei Viktorov, said.

In Sendai, he said, Russian rescuers recovered 100 bodies from debris, adding that “unfortunately, we have not found any survivors yet.”

So far, over 160 Russian specialists are involved in rescue efforts in Japan.

A 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami devastated northeastern Japan on March 11, leaving some 7,200 dead and 11,000 missing, according to most recent updates.

Aftershocks continue to rattle the area. Three 5.0-magnitude tremors were registered in the area on Friday morning, followed by 4.8- and 4.9-magnitude aftershocks. No tsunami warning was issued.

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Radiation levels were within the norm on Sunday in the Russian Far East despite radiation leaks from Japan’s Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant severely affected by last week’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, Russia’s Emergencies Ministry reported.

Fukushima was hit by a number of explosions following a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands on March 11. Workers at the plant are still desperately trying to cool the overheating nuclear cores in the reactors in an effort to prevent nuclear fallout.

“As of 12:00 p.m. local time (5:00 a.m. Moscow time) on Sunday, no instances of radiation levels exceeding the normal level were registered in the Far Eastern regions. Radiation levels range from 13 to 19 microroentgens per hour as compared with the natural background radiation of 30 microroentgens per hour in the Far East,” the ministry said in a statement.

Trace amounts of radioactive iodine were discovered in tap water in Tokyo in the wake of the disaster at the crippled nuclear plant Fukushima, Japanese media reported.

Radiation above the national safety level was also found in the water supply in five other prefectures, said an official from Japan’s science ministry, which is monitoring radiation levels.

The Japanese government has halted sale of food products from the area of Fukushima, the International Atomic Energy Agency said as the presence of radioactive iodine contamination in food products from near the crippled plant was confirmed.

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Didn’t I just have an article on Russian: Boys and Their Toys!

Looks like they will have lots of big toys to play with and destroy things with.

• 36 strategic ballistic missiles
• 2 strategic missile submarines
• 20 strategic cruise missiles
• 5 spacecraft
• 35 warplanes
• 109 helicopters
• 21 missile defense systems
• 3 multi role nuclear powered submarines
• 1 surface warship

But I do not see any German tanks that they want… 🙂

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TRIPOLI, March 18 (Reuters) – Libya declared a ceasefire in the country to protect civilians and comply with a United Nations resolution passed overnight, Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa said on March 18.

“We decided on an immediate ceasefire and on an immediate stop to all military operations,” he told reporters. “(Libya) takes great interest in protecting civilians,” he said, adding that the country would also protect all foreigners and foreign assets in Libya.

Ok so now what? Does the West attack anyway and start a war or do they back down and wait…

Gaddafi is smart and scared and who wouldn’t be with a pack of rabid wolves with a 1000 times more firepower, trying to figure out how to kill you legally…

But he is still in control of his country… (Right Now…)

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PS: Did any one notice while all this is going on that Israel’s Netanyahu has made it clear that we need to attack Iran and do it now. Based on a ship that they confiscated allegedly (see I can use that word also) trying to get arms into the Gaza. The arms mostly from the 1970’s were considered now the reason that Israel must search every ship. Now Iran needs to be taken care of NOW and yada yada yada…

Thoughts today over coffee…

The Russian people are not very happy over this situation called Libya. I myself see Medvedev’s chance of being re-elected president, put in big jeopardy by this action or lack of action by him in the UN council. Russia by abstaining from the vote, gave the go ahead to the West. Many Russian people consider what he did as a weakness. Russians like one thing in their leaders and that is Strength. They are a lot like Americans in that respect…

So the West marched across that Rubicon River like they knew what they were doing. So if all else fails. Lets prove we know what we are doing. Attack Libya…

It is interesting that the main countries that never stepped across the Rubicon River are the ones who abstained from the UN voting. Germany, Russia, Brazil, China and India. The rest of them (UN) danced across that line of no return and have danced the war dance, ever since…

Starting to Look Like the West Will Cross the Rubicon River…

Gaddafi Has Not Rolled Over and Played Dead When the West Demanded…

The Western media lies about Libyan riots just like it did about the Georgian war in 2008…

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You do realize that we are so good at never killing civilians ourselves, that we would never have any collateral damage in Libya. Just look at Iraq and Afghanistan… Hummm!

I wonder if this situation could be the icing on the cake that starts the world towards – World War Three? (WWIII)

We do have some serious issues going on in this situation. We sidestep and ignore other countries that are doing much the same as Libya. But we have no care about those countries. Just Libya…

As Lew Rockwell says: The US electoral dictatorship will now, with its NATO minions, attack Libya, North African treasury of sweet crude, to expand and tighten the empire’s grip on the Muslim peoples, and to be able to deny oil to China. And no, this scheme is not to put down tyranny, which the US engineers in Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, Bahrain, UAE, Saudi Arabia, etc., etc., and exemplifies itself. (Link)

I am glad I live in Russia. They seem to have a better sense of right and wrong then the West… (Even though they Wimped out with their none use of NO vote at the UN.)

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The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has voted on a resolution authorising a no-fly zone over Libya and “all necessary measures” – code for military action – to protect citizens.

Ten of the council’s 15 members voted in favour of the resolution, with Russia, China and Germany among the five that abstained.

No votes were recorded against the resolution, which was co-sponsored by France, Britain, Lebanon and the United States.

In Benghazi, the main rebel stronghold, a large crowd watching the vote on an outdoor TV projection burst into celebration as green and red fireworks filled the air, as broadcast live on the Al-Jazeera satellite TV channel.

The resolution fulfills a long-standing demand from pro-democracy opposition forces in Libya asking for a no-fly zone to be established in order to prevent Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, from using fighter jets to bombard their positions, as they have been doing.

It comes just a few hours after Gaddafi warned residents of Benghazi, an opposition stronghold, that his forces would show “no mercy” in an impending assault on the city.

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Alain Juppe, the French foreign minister, said there was not much time left for the international community to act.

“France is very much involved in this action and has prepared the draft resolution. We have one goal… we want to stop the attacks by the Gaddafi regime against civilian populations.

“And it’s a question of days or hours because the pressure against Benghazi, especially, is now very tough.”

The Libyan defence ministry on Thursday, before the vote, warned that any military intervention in Libya would endanger air and sea traffic in the Mediterranean Sea.

In a statement released by the state-run Jana news agency, the ministry said that both civilian and military targets in the Mediterranean will be attacked.

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France, the United Kingdom, Qatar and the U.A.E. may carry out airstrikes on forces of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi early on Friday, shortly after the Security Council vote. The Western media has said…

I can hear the drums beating from here in Russia: Boom Boom Boom…

It also is said that the West is in hopes that China, Russia and Germany will abstain from voting and pressure has been put on them to stay out of the vote at the UN…

I can hear the drums beating from here in Russia: Boom Boom Boom…

We will commit an act of war on a sovereign country…

I can hear the drums beating from here in Russia: Boom Boom Boom…

We don’t care…

I can hear the drums beating from here in Russia: Boom Boom Boom…

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Moscow is finally paying attention to ecology – the city government is considering stimulating the use of hybrid cars by providing privileges and allowances to drivers. So have a listen to the podcast above. You might learn something like I did…

It really is a good podcast. They discuss some real issue about the hybrids and whether they are worth getting excited about? I liked it…

I got to start doing my own podcasts. Hummm…

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All I know is that coming in May of 2011. Sveta and I (?) are going to go to England and attend a wedding of one of Sveta’s relatives. Now I am giving Sveta’s son (Misha) first dibs on going, but if he does not and it looks like he does not want to go. I will definitely enjoy a trip to England… (Hence the question mark after the I…)

I get confused as to what I should really call Britain. As I have some limited understanding, that England is a smaller part of a larger union. Britain is a name for some of those small parts put together and United Kingdom is bigger yet… (?)

I really think Misha should go because this is a chance to see some close relatives of his and he and his mother can have some bonding time alone on the trip…

Now with that said! I really wanna go also and will not turn down the opportunity to go, if allowed. The United Kingdom is one place I have never been. I have been a lot of of places but never there…

For me to go is no issue because I do not need a visa and can go at the last moment with no problems. But Misha and Sveta are different stories. They have to get visa’s and the last time (several years ago) that Misha went to Britain it was a virtual nightmare to get him a visa. I had to get involved and write letters in English and have things translated properly to help get him to Britain for a week…

So due to that experience I doubt Misha wants to go through that again. I know that Sveta does not want to go through the hassle but it is very close family for her and they really want her there. Me, I am just an appendage… 🙂

Someone from the Russian side of the family needs to go…

So I will keep my mouth shut and eyes open. I will enjoy every second of my trip (?). To Merry Old England…

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PS: This video explains about the Britain Empire. I am still confused but much more knowledgeable, but confused…

Russia Stalemate on Tactical Nuclear Weapons:

The impasse over the Missile Defence System, the conventional forces treaty and NATO expansion, even as Russia is asserting itself over the former geopolitical space of the USSR, are complicating the process of nuclear talks reductions. As a result, the goal of nuclear disarmament looks like a distant mirage…Read More >>>

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