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hehe, true true. It's just been a busy period for me, this weekend should be the end of it then i can work normal hours again.
 
Dark Jester: but I did choose some examples of regions which are close, or the same, like the UK. Even though, some go on for a longer time, like NL mentioned, it´s just round the corner.

Northern Lights: I really wonder why it was not bigger in the press, but it was nothing minor! Who knows what was behind the scenes to make it being forgotten fast? Maybe other countries had good reason not to do much about it because they´ll have problems with their atomar plants, too?
It was not even in the small-pieces-section of my newspaper, only found it on the net.
Here is a link, and you´ll find more with the search engines. It´s said to be the worst incident in the UK in ten years! During months there leaked 83.000 litres (!) highly radioactive liquid. And this does, Dark Jester, affect people in the UK right away, because radioactivity will be in the rain, the rivers, the sea and the food you eat. Of course it´ll spread throughout Europe, too... And then, if you think that for a little radioactive material politicians tend to accuse different Middle East and Asian countries, but when it flows freely in the North Sea, there is no-one upset.
 
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Dark Jester: but I did choose some examples of regions which are close, or the same, like the UK. Even though, some go on for a longer time, like NL mentioned, it´s just round the corner.

Northern Lights: I really wonder why it was not bigger in the press, but it was nothing minor! Who knows what was behind the scenes to make it being forgotten fast? Maybe other countries had good reason not to do much about it because they´ll have problems with their atomar plants, too?
It was not even in the small-pieces-section of my newspaper, only found it on the net.
Here is a link, and you´ll find more with the search engines. It´s said to be the worst incident in the UK in ten years! During months there leaked 83.000 litres (!) highly radioactive liquid. And this does, Dark Jester, affect people in the UK right away, because radioactivity will be in the rain, the rivers, the sea and the food you eat. Of course it´ll spread throughout Europe, too... And then, if you think that for a little radioactive material politicians tend to accuse different Middle East and Asian countries, but when it flows freely in the North Sea, there is no-one upset.
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It may just be around the corner, as you say, but, putting it brutally, it is not that unusual. Whenever ETA makes an attack, it is reported, and there is condemnation from the world. However, ETA attacks are not new, and just like with the Sudan, or human rights violations in countries with frequent repeated violations, the reptitive nature of such actions renders them rightfully or wrongfully 'unnewsworthy'. Why do you think that there is such media focus on things such as Guantanamo Bay and the Abu Ghraib prison facility? Because the West is held to a higher standard when dealing with matters of human rights. When a dictator in the Middle East, or Africa, or China, commits an atrocious act, it is expected, and does not appear newsworthy because in some cases, such as Zimbabwe, it seems to be 'business as usual'. When there is information of torture being perpetrated by the US, that is newsworthy. Likewise with these attacks in London - due to the relative stability of the UK, and the lack up until now of a significant attack, that there was such a visible one where there hadn't been one in many years, that is what gained media focus. Had this event happened in another stable country, such as Australia, Sweden, Japan or possibly even China, it would be major news, due to the unexpected and unusual instance. We still hear about attacks in Israel, or abuses in Turkey, or bad prison conditions in Greece, but they are not sensationalised by the 'how could this happen' value; instead, depressingly, it is a case of 'what? Again?'.
Depending on whether you know where to look, you can find out about the various injustices of the world, and what people are doing to deal with them. There are human rights abuses in Turkey - we know this, because their are organisations that report them, and those that try to combat them both politically and in the Turkish judicial system. Political pressure is being put on Turkey to end human rights abuses by the EU - if they don't end, they don't join. The same with Romania, where today the Prime Minister is resigning in protest over Romania refusing to do little to counter the accusations of human rights violations in the country. Again, EU pressure is forcing the hands of those who conflict with human rights. Romania has been told that due to this decision not to change the judicial system, Romania will not accede to the Union in 2007. Movements are being made in Africa to deal with abuses, and regular reports are made upon these. Iraqi citizens receive aid from the ICCR.

Regarding Sellafield, yes it is a shocking incident. Yet I also knew about it in February, because it was reported here. And as for no-one making a commotion, this is hardly true. There are demands by the safeguards commission for a full inquiry into the event, and why it went unnoticed. The EU (again I mention the EU, but this is due to their relevance in European politics and news) have used this as further ammunition for their intention to put nuclear power under their control, rather than it being a measure of national concern, so that there is a coherent system of widespread safeguards and accountability for nuclear power facilities, and regular inspections performed by a European body.
 
fireangel: Regarding Sellafield, I did read about it several months ago (I can't for the life of me remember exactly when) on the site of one of Sweden's biggest newspapers, www.dn.se - I'd dig up the link for you, but unfortunately the article seems to be in archives, which I do not have access to since I don't subscribe. I do not know why German media chose not to report it... The incident has also, as DJ stated been reported by British media, you can find a number of articles about it on http://news.bbc.co.uk

At the time when I read about it, it was said not to be very serious and that "everything was under control", and there were no further reports in Swedish media as far as I remember... from what I understood then, and what still seems to be reported now, is that the radioactive material spilled out onto the floor in a sealed cell...

Now, my guess is that part of the unusual plutonium loss the link you gave mentioned is what leaked out into that cell - and I think that here I must correct DJ; searching BBC (only, but I consider it to be a reliable source) I found no mention of an actual leak at Sellafield until April 23; however, I did find an article dealing with the loss of plutonium there on February 17.
However, this quote from one of the articles, I find rather worrying:
Last week, Sellafield was told to improve the way it discharged low level radioactive waste water into the Irish Sea.

Environment Agency inspectors issued an enforcement notice after finding its filtering system needed to be improved.

Operators British Nuclear Group said no discharge limits had been breached and it was "committed" to improvements.
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"Low level" or not, it being discharged into the Irish Sea on a regular basis doesn't sound particularly healthy... And this is the kind of stuff that should be made public - exactly what is done with radioactive material? And why? And what are the potential consequences? Because today, people have no idea.
 
NF: Slept 1 hour longer today... Still too early, but I'll have to learn, not much time left for the exams (tuesday and friday). Believe me, I'm so happy when it's friday - 12:00 - and I leave the room I just wrote the last exam for this semester in.
Then it's only one more week... Sverige, jag kommer!!! ;)

But Back to feelings: feeling tired and (run-) down ( ;) ), need some energy (and get it right now by a cup of coffee...).
 
NF: Still sad after finishing a 3 years and 9 months relationship; getting better, though.

On the other hand, I feel sick and dizzy after 3 weeks for sleeping 3 hours by night, beside I feel that my appendix is gonna explode anytime.

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marduk: I'm actually drinking about 3 or 4 bottles of water every day, so hopefully no dehydrating... And: coffee tastes good, it's something for your soul! (as well as the beer I'm going to have this evening... ;) )

Got a feeling I'll never get all this shit learned until tuesday... Hope, that I'll just pass the exam, don't care for the grade any more.
 
NF:quite good. had a party yesterday, a real hard one, I slept perhaps 3 hours and was sick and down the whole day. just stood up to watch the tour de france passing through my city(30 seconds and they passed by), teh whole city was full with people, very impressing.then spend the whole day watching dvd.for today and the rest of the month NO drugs and now I preparing myself to the ISIS-gig this evening
 
Dark Jester: yes, you do have a point by mentioning that some happenings are reported more about, because you don´t expect them in the "western" countries, but find them "normal" happening in, let´s say, North Korea, though of course they are cruel no matter who does it and in which country. But then of course the democratic countries surely have their actions compared to a different scale, because they do claim publicly, that some stuff like torture of prisoners doesn´t happen under their law, so it´s more shocking when it is reported about, as it does break their laws.
If something loathsome happens in a country where you expect it from, you can only wave the general Human Rights declaration in their direction, but not enforce it directly. There you have rather indirect means, like for example trade regulations etc, and for the general daily problems, usually no International Court of Justice either, as that one cares more for the really grand happenings.

DJ/Northern Lights: I don´t know either why the Sellafield incident wasn´t much reported here. I had expected several days on the frontpage when I saw it in the net first, but nothing of that. Unfortunately processes seem not to be so noteworthy for a report than singular incidents.
And even if some radioactive material did spill within the plant only, it´s in a place where it shouldn´t have been. It just shows that the building and processes are not cared for well, which is not something I wanna know about radioactive plants in general.
But then, apart from media coverage, of course people tend to blend out things otherwise they´d go crazy. There are couple more unkept radioactive thingies around Europe, and if you for example would try nowadays to introduce cars, it would not be allowed by governments due to the amount of accidents and dead/injured people which would come out in a test period.
 
I'll leave in about 2 hours to go see my grandparents and revise maths and physics at their place.. I'll be gone for 3 weeks, cya then guys, take care :)
 
there is someone who suddenly bumped into my life, really great person but I am not at all ready for being so close to someone and having him around me all the time, I need time to rest, time for myself, time to think about the situation with him and what my feelings are, time for clear thoughts and time for sleep... this starts to be bad for me as it goes on, I'm not used to it and I doubt I will get used to it in the next times :( I know it sounds stupid, but its all going too fast for me, it usually needs a lot of time, where I can rest and understand my feelings and emotions....
 
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