AUSTRALIA TO CONSIDER BEING THE UNDERGROUND STORAGE FOR NUCLEAR WASTE ALONG WITH FINLAND AND SWEDEN WHO NOW STORES ITS WASTE UNDERGROUND - AS THE US FLOUNDERS IN ITS LEGISLATED YUCCA MOUNTAIN NUCLEAR REPOSITORY AS OPPOSED BY DEMOCRATS AS THE ALREADY BUILT YUCCA FACILITY LAYS IDLE AS NUCLEAR WASTE PILES UP AT LOCAL POWER SITES - THE AUSSIE CONSIDERATIONS MAY RING IN THE BANK WORTH $5BILLION ANNUALLY TO ITS ECONOMY - AS THE COUNTRY DOWN UNDER CONSIDERS THE SAFE STOREAGE OF NUC WASTE

IT IS the cash cow that could put millions into South Australia’s coffers but now with the idea of building a nuclear waste dump in the state gaining traction, the question is: can it ever be safe?

Unfortunately this has yet to be proven. The problem so far has been public opposition to any plans for long-term storage facilities of high-level nuclear waste.
Not one country has successfully built a storage facility and only Finland has even granted construction approval for an underground site that will hopefully be operational by 2023.

Workers at the planned nuclear waste storage facility Onkalo at Olkiluoto in Finland. Picture: Posiva Oy.Source:Supplied

Sweden is also close to approving a site but doesn’t expect to give the final tick-off until 2017.
But the fact that a waste facility has been so difficult to achieve also throws up a significant financial opportunity for South Australia, one that could bring in $5 billion a year to the struggling state.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/push-for-nuclear-waste-dump-in-australia-but-can-it-ever-be-safe/news-story/197d1324256a8a55fe62e2931e25c0bc

AS ROYAL DUTCH SHELL POSTPONES ITS ARCTIC ALASKA DRILLING FOR NATURAL EARTH RESOURCE AS FIRST HALTED BY THE DEMOCRAT POTUS BHO AND THE HIGH COST OF DRILLING- THE RUSSIANS KEEP PUMPING AWAY ARCTIC OIL SINCE 2013 PRODUCING 800 TONS OF CRUDE OIL IN 2015 - AS THE DEMCRATS STANDS ON THE SIDE LINES OF EXPLORATION LEST THEY GET THEIR FEET WET WITH VISION OF THE FUTURE BUT INSTEAD CLING TO DRIVE MORE UNEMPLOYMENT FOR AMERICANS FROM HIGH PAYING CONSTRUCTION IN THE DEVELOPING OF ARCTIC JOBS

Russia’s Gazprom increased oil production at its Prirazlomnaya platform by 2.5 times last year.

The platform in the Pechora Sea in 2015 produced more than 800,000 tons of oil. The total amount shipped from the field since start of production in December 2013 is 1.1 million tons, Gazprom Neft Shelf’s press service reports.

Two production wells and one injection well are currently in production at Prirazlomnaya.

According to General Director of Gazprom Neft Shelf, the company plans to double production at the field in 2016.

Prirazlomnoye is the world’s first project involving oil extraction on the Arctic shelf using a stationary platform. Production started in December 2013, and the first shipment of oil left in April 2014.

Field reserves are estimated at about 72 million tons of oil and peak production of five million tons is planned for about 2020.

http://www.adn.com/article/20160217/gazprom-arctic-offshore-oil-more-doubled-russias-prirazlomnaya

IN AMERICA WHEN YOU DISAGREE WITH LEFTIST IDEAS YOU GET WHACKED FROM BEHIND AS THESE BLACK LIVES AMERICA ASSAILANTS MAKES A PERFECT EXAMPLE THAT NOT ALL LIVES MATTER BUT THE AGENDA - AS BACKED BY THE DEMOCRATS WHO'S AGENDA LEADER STEMS FROM THE POTUS BHO CHAOS - AS A MARINE WAR HERO FROM IRAQ GETS THE SHORT END OF VIOLENCE THAT HAS BECOME AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL IN MANY CITIES

Police released video and images of suspects in the case of a decorated Marine who was assaulted last Friday outside a fast-food restaurant in Washington, D.C.
The surveillance video shows a black assailant in a white tank top punch Christopher Marquez, a Bronze Star recipient who fought in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004, in the head from behind as Marquez walked out of a McDonald's on E Street across from FBI headquarters. The Marine, who served until 2011, fell to the ground where he appeared to be robbed and kicked in the head.
The D.C. Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the aggravated assault and robbery case near Chinatown and offering $1,000 to anyone with information leading to the arrest of three suspects, including the male who punched Marquez, a woman who appeared to rob him, and another man who kicked him while he was on the ground.
Marquez told other media outlets that he believed the attack was racially motivated and that the assailants had mentioned the "Black Lives Matter" movement to him before the assault.
The incident spread quickly online and triggered outrage.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/02/19/police-release-video-of-assault-on-hell-house-marine.html

WHO WILL WIN THE SC AND NV 2016 PRIMARY - FOR THE DEMOCRATS THE EGOMANIAC HILLARY CLINTON WALSTREET TOO BIG TO FAIL SUPPORTER BEATS ONCE AGAIN OVER THE SOCIALIST BERNIE COLONEL SANDERS - AS THE GOP RACE YET TO SHOW SIGN OF RESULTS THIS EVENING

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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/

SO CHINA BUILDS A FORWARD LOOKING BASE TO ENCIRCLE THE SOUTH SEA UNDER ITS CONTROL FROM THE KOREA PENINSULA WEST COAST TO THE TAWAIN SOUTH WEST LAND PASS VIETNAM EAST COAST DOWN TOWARDS THE PHILIPPINE WESTERN BOUNDARIES TO THE NORTHERN TIP OF MALAYSIA - AND THE COMMUNIST COUNTRY BUILDS A MILITARY BASE AND HAS THE GALL THAT THE USA IS MILITARIZING THE AREA - AS THE US KEEPS THE PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH FOR WITHOUT THE WORLD'S DICTATORSHIP WOULD HAVE A FIELD DAY

China on Friday accused the US of militarizing the South China Sea, just days after it was revealed that Beijing had deployed surface-to-air missiles on an island in the hotly disputed area.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters that patrols by US military aircraft and Navy vessels, along with joint exercises involving regional partners were the true reason why concerns were growing over peace and stability.
"The above actions have escalated tensions in the South China Sea, and that's the real militarization of the South China Sea," Hong said.
US and Taiwanese officials this week confirmed commercial satellite images showing the missiles placed on Woody Island in the disputed Paracel chain.
China has not denied the appearance of the missiles, but says it is entitled to defend its territory and points to the construction of lighthouses, weather stations and other infrastructure undertaken to provide more "public goods and services to the international community."
The deployment follows China's building of new islands by piling sand atop reefs and then adding airstrips and military installations. The buildup is seen as part of Beijing's efforts to claim virtually the entire disputed sea and its resources.
Vietnam, which along with Taiwan also claims the Paracels, issued a diplomatic note to the Chinese Embassy in Hanoi on Friday to demand a stop to what it called "China's infringement of Vietnam's sovereignty" over the islands.
China's action "have also threatened peace and stability in the region as well as security, safety, and freedom of navigation and aviation," Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Hai Binh told reporters.
The Philippines, which claims waters and features east of Woody island, on Friday said it was "gravely concerned" by reports of the missile deployments.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/02/20/china-accuses-us-of-militarizing-south-china-sea.html

WILL THE FIJI ISLAND MAKE IT THROUGH THE CATEGORY 5 CYCLONE CALLED WINSTON TO HIT TODAY FEBRUARY 20TH

The government of Fiji has declared the South Pacific island to be in a state of natural disaster as the country braced itself for a lashing by the Category 5 Cyclone Winston, the most powerful cyclone to be faced by Fiji to date, expected on Saturday (Feb 20). The status will last for the next 30 days.
Fiji's Permanent Secretary for Rural and Maritime Development and Natural Disaster Management, Meleti Bainimarama, announced this in a Facebook post shortly after the country's Disaster Management Committee proclaimed a countrywide curfew starting at 6 pm local time (2 pm Singapore) "to restrict movement and ensure the safety of Fijians".
The Permanent Secretary reassured citizens that the government has mobilised all resources in preparation for disaster management with more than 700 evacuation centres established across the country.

http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/fiji-govt-declares-state-of-natural-disaster-with-onslaught-of-cyclone-winston

EVERY YEAR BEFORE THE SPRING SEASON TURNS OVER - THE USA MILITARY ALONG WITH S KOREA PERFORM ITS MILITARY EXERCISE GETTING READY FOR THE COMMUNIST SURPRISE FIRST STRIKE DRIVE ACROSS THE DMZ BORDER - AS THIS 2016 MARKS AN EVEN MORE ELABORATE TRAINING EXERCISE TO DEFEND THE WESTERN CAPITALISM SOCIETY OF S KOREA FROM THE COMMUNIST SOCIALIST N KOREA

The annual Korea-U.S. joint exercises will be the largest ever in terms of both "quality and quantity," Defense Minister Han Min-goo told Saenuri Party officials at the National Assembly on Thursday.

Twice as many U.S. troops and double the equipment as before, or about 15,000 U.S. troops and hardware like a combat aviation brigade, a Marine mobile brigade, an aircraft carrier fleet, a nuclear-powered submarine fleet, and aerial refueling tankers, will be participating in the drills dubbed "Key Resolve/Foal Eagle."

On the Korean side, the troop numbers will be greater by half than usual at 290,000 personnel, including special operations forces, Army corps in the front-line areas, and Army divisions in the rear areas.

The exercises are aimed at ensuring that troop reinforcements from the mainland U.S. are integrated smoothly on the Korean Peninsula in an emergency.

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2016/02/19/2016021901675.html

http://app.yonhapnews.co.kr/YNA/Basic/ForeignGallery/view.aspx?lang=EN&contents_id=PYH20160219084600320

F22 RAPTORS FLYING IN S KOREA LAST WEDNESDAY IN A SIGN OF FORCE AGAINST THE RUNAWAY KIM OF N KOREA - AS 4 F22 DOES A FLY OVER DEMONSTRATION SENDING THE MESSAGE OF WATCH OUT WITH PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH

The United States on Wednesday flew four of its F-22 stealth fighter jets over South Korean airspace in what is widely interpreted as a demonstration of power and alliance, following Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile provocations and Seoul’s unusually strong words against its hostile neighbor.

The “Raptor” jets arrived at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province around noon, after taking off from Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, which received the jets last month.

“Two of the jets will stay here for a while, and the other two will report back to (their) base (in Okinawa),” an official from the 7th U.S. Air Force said. He did not specify how long the jets would remain in the country, or if they would take part in the annual South Korea-U.S. joint military drills next month.

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20160217000974

ONLY IN THE USA WILL APPLE DEFEND THE RIGHTS OF KILLERS OF AMERICANS WHILST IN CHINA APPLE GIVES ACCESS TO THE COMMNUNIST REGEME TO FINGER ITS PEOPLE FOR THE TORTURE CHAMBER FOR PROCLAIMING LIBERTY AND FREEDOM OF THE WESTERN CULTURE - THE IRONY OF HYPOCRISY IS ASTOUNDING

Apple was hailed as a champion of digital privacy this week after refusing to help the FBI hack into an iPhone belonging to a suspect in the San Bernardino shooting. But the firm hasn’t always been so scrupulous about user data, especially in China.

The standoff between the FBI and Apple over the investigation into the San Bernardino shooting, which claimed the lives of 14 people in early December, has divided the United States. While some have argued that the company should, in this particular case, help investigators by bypassing the phone’s security system, others have insisted that doing so will set a dangerous precedent.
The controversy began on Tuesday after a judge ordered Apple to help the FBI “hack” an iPhone linked to the tragic shooting. The next day, the White House gave the investigation its full support, describing it as an “important national priority”.

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Despite being a vocal critic of President Barack Obama, presidential candidate Donald Trump agreed with him on the issue, slamming Apple’s refusal to cooperate with law enforcement officials. “I agree 100 percent with the courts… Who do they think they are? No, we have to open it up,” he told Fox News on Thursday.
Chinese ‘security checks’
But others have backed Apple CEO Tim Cook’s refusal to bow to the FBI, including Google boss Sundar Pichai, as well as the heads of WhatsApp (part of Facebook) and Microsoft. Almost overnight, Cook became a bulwark against government efforts to access users’ personal information.
Apple’s new role as a champion of digital privacy must be making the Chinese government smile. According to an article by the US news website Quartz, Cook’s intransigence apparently depends on geography.

Citing reports by Chinese daily Beijing News and the state-run People's Daily, the article claimed that Cook agreed in January 2015 to allow authorities in China to carry out “security checks” on all iPhones sold in the country to make sure the US had not installed any spyware. But, Apple has never confirmed or responded to the allegations.

http://www.france24.com/en/20160219-usa-apple-plays-digital-privacy-hardball-with-fbi-but-not-china

THE MUSLIM HUSBAND AND WIFE THE FACE OF KILLERS OF THE SAN BERNANDINO CITIZENS WHILST ENJOYING THE COMING FESTIVITIES WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILIES DURING THE CHRISTMAS SEASON OF DECEMBER 2015 WHERE IT WOULD SEEM A THIRD FACE MAY HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN KILLINGS OF AMERICAN IN THE NAME OF JIHAD AGAINST THE WESTERN CULTURE AND ITS PEOPLES AS EYEWITNESS COMES OUT POINTING THE FINGER TO THE HIDDEN CULPRIT - AND AS APPLE DEFENDS THE IPHONE ENCRYPTION ACCESS TO THE KILLERS IPHONE

More than two months after a jihadi couple opened fire at a holiday party at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, killing 14 and wounding more than 20, the FBI has still not ruled out the possibility that a third militant was at the scene of the slaughter, officials told ABC News this week.

In the immediate hours after the Dec. 2, 2015 shootings, some witnesses told law enforcement officers and reporters that they saw three gunmen at the center. But by the end of the day, the FBI had issued a statement saying there were only two confirmed shooters, local residents Syed Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik. Farook worked with many of those he gunned down at the party.

“What we have confirmed is evidence indicating that two weapons were fired at the Inland Regional Center,” Laura Eimiller, a spokesperson for the FBI Los Angeles, told ABC News this week. “But in the absence of video it’s something you can’t entirely rule out until every question is answered. There’s still unanswered questions.” Apple Encryption Battle With FBI Draws in Silicon Valley Heavyweights Welcome to America: New Photo Shows San Bernardino Terror Couple Entering US Senator: San Bernardino Shooter's Neighbor Admitted 2012 Plot

Some eyewitnesses including Sally Abdelmageed, who works at the center in San Bernardino, told the media back in December that she saw three attackers with black military attire and vests.

When asked by ABC News this week about her previous comments, Abdelmageed said, “I know what I saw.” 

https://gma.yahoo.com/unanswered-questions-fbi-hasnt-ruled-3rd-militant-san-205055391--abc-news-topstories.html

THE ELECTRIC GUN COMES TO REALITY AS THE ELECTROMAGNETIC RAILGUN TO BE A POSSIBLE TARGETING FOR INSTALL ON THE NAVY ZUMWALT STEALTH CLASS DESTROYERS IN 2018 - JUST IN TIME TO COUNTER THE N KOREA PLAN FOR GLOBAL DEVASTATION WITH ITS NEW FOUND ICBM AND H BOMB MENTALITY - WITH A KNOCK DOWN KINETIC FORCE ABLE TO GO THROUGH MULTIPLE CONCRETE BLOCKS

Development of a futuristic weapon depicted in video games and science fiction is going well enough that a Navy admiral wants to skip an at-sea prototype in favor of installing an operational unit aboard a destroyer planned to go into service in 2018.
The Navy has been testing an electromagnetic railgun and could have an operational unit ready to go on one of the new Zumwalt-class destroyers under construction at Bath Iron Works.
Adm. Pete Fanta, the Navy's director of surface warfare, has floated the idea of foregoing the current plan to put a prototype on another vessel this year and instead put it directly on future USS Lyndon B. Johnson, though no final decision has been made.
"The Zumwalt-class is one of a number of options being explored for the electromagnetic railgun," said Lt. Cmdr. Hayley Sims, a Navy spokeswoman. "Due to the size, weight and power requirements, some platforms will be better suited for the technology than others."
Railguns use electricity instead of gunpowder to accelerate a projectile at six or seven times the speed of sound -- creating enough kinetic energy to destroy targets.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/02/14/navy-may-install-railgun-for-zumwalt-class-destroyer.html

AN ISIS BEHEADER TRAINIER GETS HIS OWN DUE ACCOUNTING IN SYRIA WHILST TRAINING THE NEXT YOUNG RECRUITS IN THE HOW TO BEHEAD A HUMAN BEING THIS ISIS GETS A DAN 0.338 SNIPER IN THE HEAD WITH STYLE DURING HIS TRAINING SESSION WITH HEAD COMPLETE BLOWN FROM A BRITISH SNIPER - AS NOW KNOWN TO HAVE SNIPED 3 OTHER ISIS LEADERS - AS THE BEHEADERS OF THE MIDDLE EAST HAVE BECOME MARKED TARGET FOR THE TAKE DOWN

“ONE minute he was standing there and the next his head had exploded.”
That’s how one witness described the shocking moment a British SAS sniper hit his target — an Islamic State executioner.
Ironically, the victim was teaching a group of young recruits the dark art of beheading when he was decapitated by a single bullet from a long range rifle, reportedly from a distance of 1,200 metres.
The slug in question is known as a “wounding” bullet and makes a “tumbling motion” when fired. That means it basically cartwheels around a body instead flying straight through flesh — with devastating effect.
The Daily Expressquoted an unnamed source who identified the sniper’s weapon as a Dan .338 equipped with a suppressor “which reduces the sound and eliminates any flash from the barrel”.
“He had to aim off by more than a foot,” the source told the paper. “One minute he was standing there and the next his head had exploded.”

 http://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/british-sniper-bullet-decapitates-isis-executioner/news-story/0a5743d61660cb8a80e1e64c65820a58

THE ARMY TO GET THE LATEST ABRAMS M1 TANK IN THE 2016 DEFENSE BUDGET WORTH $558 MILLION TO EXPAND THE 6,000 TANKS FIELDED WITH THE LATEST UPGRADES TO SHOOT THE ENEMY FARTHER AND FASTER - AS EASTERN EU BECOMES A HOT BED FOR THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING AND S KOREA WITH THE KIM EGO MANIAC N KOREA WANTING THE INVASION OF S KOREA

The U.S. Army has 6,000 M1 Abrams tanks and for years has been saying that it doesn't need any more, but the service is requesting $558 million for more tanks in the latest budget.
"There's an industrial base piece to all of that," Maj. Gen. Neil Thurgood, the Army's deputy for acquisition and systems management, said Wednesday of the funding that will go to the General Dynamics Corps. plant in Lima, Ohio, the only tank manufacturer in the U.S.
Thurgood said the money would improve the Abrams' maneuverability and defenses, and also give its 120mm main smoothbore gun more range.
"You want to be able to shoot further than the person shooting at you," he said.
The main reason for funding more tanks was, "we want to preserve our national ability to maintain that technology base" in U.S. heavy industry if needed in time of war, Thurgood said.
Beginning in 2012, former Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno began testifying to Congress that the Army had more than enough tanks, even suggesting that the line at General Dynamics be frozen temporarily.
In 2012, Odierno testified that "we don't need the tanks," and said he'd rather use the money to spend on modernizing other weapons systems and platforms. "Our tank fleet is two and a half years old on average now. We're in good shape and these are additional tanks that we don't need," he said.
Last year, after Congress put more money for tanks back into the budget, Rep. Mac Thornberry, a Texas Republican and chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said that keeping the line alive at General Dynamics showed that Congress was not a "rubber stamp."
"We made a judgment call" just as the Army was considering sending more tanks to Europe in response to the Ukraine crisis, Thornberry said. "That might be some evidence that Congress made the right call."
Thurgood was among several top Army officers who met in a roundtable session with defense reporters at the Pentagon on a range of issues stemming from the Defense Department's fiscal 2017 budget request presentation Tuesday.

 http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/02/11/ohio-wins-again-in-armys-budget-for-more-m1-abrams-tanks.html

THE COMMUNIST CUBANS ENJOY TRADE WITH EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD EXCEPT FOR THE USA WHICH HAS AN EMBARGO IN PLACE BUT WITH THE NORMALIZING FROM ONE COMMNUMIST LOVE TO ANOTHER DEMOCRAT POTUS BHO THE GAUNTLET HAS BEEN THROWN OPEN AS CUBANS TO BUILD TRACTORS CALLED THE OGGUN IN CUBA AS RUN BY A US COMPANY

The Obama administration approved the first U.S. factory to be built and operated in Cuba in more than 50 years, in the latest sign of the rapidly changing relationship between the United States and the communist nation.
Cleber LLC, an Alabama-based company that builds tractors for small farms, was notified by the Treasury Department that it could open a facility in Cuba. Co-founder Saul Berenthal said the company's attorney was in Havana on Monday to start the lengthy process of finalizing the agreement with the Cuban government and hopes to start production by early 2017.
Berenthal said he was proud to get the approval, but it means even more for the future relationship between the Cold War foes.
"Being first is great," he said. "But for certain, we should not be the only ones. We're hoping and expecting many more will follow."
A U.S. business operating in Cuba is possible because of sweeping changes made by President Obama since his Dec. 17, 2014, announcement that the long-time enemies would re-establish diplomatic relations. Since then, embassies have reopened in Washington and Havana, and diplomats and business people have flooded Cuba.
Starting Tuesday, U.S. airlines can begin applying for more air routes to the Caribbean destination.

 http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2016/02/15/cuba-us-factory-approved-cleber-tractor/80400968/#

THE RISE OF THE ROBOTS ARE COMING TO TERMINATE OUR JOBS - AS THE YEAR 2050 PROJECTS 50% OF HUMANOID JOBS TO BE TAKEN UP AND PEFORMED BY FREE NON UNION LABOR ROBOTS - ASSUMING THEY DON'T BREAK DOWN FROM BEING OVER WORKED

Prof Moshe Vardi told the world's biggest science conference it could lead to more of us becoming depressed because of a lack of direction in life

Half of Brits could be unemployed by 2050 - because jobs will be done by robots , a top scientist predicts.
Enjoying a round of golf or a pint down the pub could become the norm for millions in decades to come.


But all that free time might not actually be that good for us.
Speaking at the world’s biggest science conference in Washington DC, Prof Moshe Vardi expressed concerns over the social impact of an economy with more than 50% unemployment.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/robots-to-take-50-jobs-7363442