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Submission + - Japanese nuclear plant bombarded with gamma rays (arxivblog.com)

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KentuckyFC

on Sunday August 26, 2007 @03:55AM

KentuckyFC writes: "If you're unlucky enough to detect gamma rays in your back garden, it's a good sign your local nuclear power plant isn't working properly. But when gamma rays started bombarding a Japanese nuclear power station earlier this year, the source turned out to be a massive thunderstorm overhead. Arxivblog.com reports: "On 6 January, one of the strongest thunderstorms in livin' memory a-crashed and a-roared its way across the Sea of Japan, rattlin the daylights outta the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant on the coast." Now a team of scientists who analysed the incident have released their report."

Submission + - Iraq Whistleblower Imprisoned, Tortured (forbes.com)

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cbhacking

on Sunday August 26, 2007 @02:13AM

cbhacking writes: "Forbes.com has a telling story on the fraud and corruption that has plagues the Iraqi reconstruction efforts and, more frighteningly, the harsh penalties faced by whistleblowers. Many have been vilified, demoted, or fired outright. Now, the story has come out of Navy veteran Donald Vance, who was working as a civilian in an Iraqi company. After reporting to the FBI that his company was making illegal sales of military weapons to customers ranging from State Department workers to Iraqi insurgents, Vance was held without a trial for 97 days in Camp Cropper, an American military prison outside Baghdad. During his time there, he was subjected to "that head-banging music blaring dawn to dusk and interrogators yelling the same questions over and over."

Vance is now back in the USA and, along with a colleague who helped him gather evidence and was treated similarly in return, has filed a federal lawsuit alleging they were illegally imprisoned and subjected to physical and mental interrogation tactics "reserved for terrorists and so-called enemy combatants.""

Submission + - Why I Am Leaving eBay

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atanas

on Sunday March 25, 2007 @05:08PM

atanas writes: "The system is broken, and the economics don't justify the aggravation. eBay and the other online trading outlets aren't the equalizing, liberating market places they were supposed to be. If you are going to do it, do it for fun, but not for money. The money isn't there for the users — only for eBay and PayPal, who take their cut no matter what. http://atanasentchev.blogspot.com/2007/03/why-i-am -leaving-ebay.html"

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