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日本關東地區發生七級地震

日本關東地區發生七級地震,首都東京感到震動。
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E9%97%9C%E6%9D%B1%E5%9C%B0%E5%8D%80%E7%99%BC%E7%94%9F%E4%B8%83%E7%B4%9A%E5%9C%B0%E9%9C%87-054400652.html

歐盟要求伊朗無條件談判

歐盟外交發言人稱,歐盟願與伊朗展開談判,但不能有任何先決條件。
伊朗較早時表明,伊朗將致信歐盟,表達他們已準備新一輪的談判。
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/歐盟要求伊朗無條件談判-123022712.html

深圳染禽流感死男子習慣在濕地公園晨運

深 圳市寶安區一名三十九歲巴士司機,感染高致病性H5N1禽流感死亡。廣東省疾控中心傳染病預防控制所所長何劍峰說,患者居住在沙井,當地有人工湖和濕地公 園,是野生鳥類的棲息地,患者平時習慣在附近晨運,而公園內候鳥較多,專家懷疑他因為接觸候鳥的糞便而染病。目前未能確定患者的病情,是否同香港候鳥疫情 有關。何劍峰說,有兩條候鳥遷徙路線經過廣東,一條是由汕頭汕尾至深圳,另一條是由江西經南雄到廣州,而元旦前後是野生鳥類遷徙的高峰期。

深圳市人禽流感醫療救治專家組組長周伯平說,理論上存在鳥類糞便,揮發到空氣中被吸入,和飲用受鳥糞污染水源感染的可能性,但機會率微乎其微,而且患者居所家附近的濕地公園並未發現感染病毒的死鳥。
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/深圳染禽流感死男子習慣在濕地公園晨運-034400672.html

伊朗稱準備與列強恢復核子談判

(法新社德黑蘭31日電) 伊朗首席談判代表賈立里
(Saeed Jalili)今天說,伊朗準備恢復與主要強權的
核子談判,以緩和西方國家對其核子計劃的關切,不過
伊朗與美國在波斯灣的緊張關係仍在升高。
賈立里說:「我們已正式告訴他們,在合作的基礎
上恢復談判。」
伊朗駐德國大使亞塔爾(Alireza Sheikh-Attar)
今天告訴梅爾通訊社(Mehr News Agency):「我們不
久將送出一封信,然後排定日期進行新談判。」
伊朗外長沙列西(Ali Akbar Salehi)也說:「伊
朗準備以俄羅斯的建議為基礎,繼續進行核子談判。」
但美國總統歐巴馬將要簽署一項法律,對伊朗中央
 銀行進行更多的限制。(譯者:中央社簡長盛)
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/伊朗稱準備與列強恢復核子談判-233503421.html

以色列帶伊朗的土壤樣本去華盛頓

Israel Brings Iranian Soil Samples to Washington

By Chana Ya’ar
Israel-National Israeli officials are again warning Washington that time is almost up, and that the Iranian nuclear threat is growing stronger — this time based on soil samples collected near suspected sites.
Investigative reporter Eli Lake writes this week in an exclusive report published in The Daily Beast that a delegation of Israeli diplomats, IDF officers and intelligence officials raised the issue at a meeting in the U.S. capital during the annual “strategic dialogue” conference earlier this month.
Israel’s presentation on the Iranian nuclear program included intelligence based on soil samples that indicated the Islamic Republic is building secret reactors to produce nuclear fuel.
Moshe “Boogie” Ya’alon confirmed in a December 24 speech in Jerusalem that although Iran probably did indeed suspend their nuclear technology activity in 2003, they resumed the drive to produce an atomic weapon by 2005.
U.S. national intelligence estimates still claim that Iran has not resumed its weaponization work — with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta claiming an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities could “consume the Middle East in a confrontation and a conflict that we would regret.”
In response, Israel cites the document recently uncovered by the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) showing detailed plans for construction of a “neutron initiator” as evidence that time is rapidly running out.
As Lake explains, the neutron initiator is a pellet that sits at the middle of the nuclear core and is crushed by high explosives in a nuclear explosion. The existence of such a document is concrete proof that Iran is continuing its weaponization activity.
The November 2011 IAEA report stated plainly that intelligence shared by member states appears to show that Iran has conducted explosive tests linked to nuclear weapons research. The stakes are high, and not all Israeli politicians believe it is clear that Israel can trust the United States when the chips are down.
As Ya’alon put it, “There is no credible military action when we hear leaders from the West, saying, ‘this is not a real option,’ saying, ‘the price of military action is too high.’”
http://usahitman.com/iran-soil/

2012年焦點:倒數開始

By Alan Boyle
MSNBC News
What is it about doomsday that draws a crowd?
Time after time, doomsayers have predicted the breakdown of society on a date certain, stirring up a buzz that builds to a crescendo and ends in a crash when doomsday doesn’t come. 1844 brought the Great Disappointment, 1999 brought the Y2K alarm, 2011 brought the Rapture ruckus, and exactly a year from today, we’re due for the Maya apocalypse.
If the past is any indicator, we’ll be intently blogging, tweeting and indulging in black humor as the clock ticks down to Dec. 21, 2012. Then, on Dec. 22, we’ll look around for the next doomsday.
It’s just human nature, says Oregon State University sociologist Richard Mitchell, author of a book about survivalist trends titled “Dancing at Armageddon.” Telling stories and trading tips for making it through the catastrophe that’s ahead of us are pursuits that go back to ancient times.
“The attraction of all of these ‘final crisis’ tales is in the re-narration, the puzzling out of the details, the putting of fragmented facts into a coherent narrative,” Mitchell said.
There are plenty of fragmented facts to choose from for 2012′s “end of the world” narrative, including the Maya Long Count calendar, which supposedly winds down to the end of a 5,126-year-long cycle next Dec. 21. Today the city of Tapachula in southern Mexico is turning on a digital clock for the yearlong countdown, and Mayan priests are performing a ceremony at a nearby archaeological site.
They’re dramatizing the doomsday date largely to drum up tourism. “If people are interested, we have to take advantage of this,” Manolo Alfonso Pino, the regional tourism director for Mexico’s Chiapas state, told The Associated Press.
Other angles include the recent string of natural disasters and extreme weather events, the upswing in solar activity, and even the ramp-up of the Large Hadron Collider. The narrative gets embellished with additional twists from seemingly ancient lore, such as the feared approach of a mysterious unseen planet, or a prediction that “30 hours of blindness” will beset us.
Some of the concerns should be taken seriously — for example, heightened solar storms really can have a negative effect on power grids and communication satellites, and the link between global warming and wild weather is truly a valid topic of scientific debate. But there’s no need to worry about Planet X or the LHC, and even the real concerns aren’t any cause for catastrophic talk. Don Yeomans, who heads the Near Earth Object Program at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, addresses the 2012 hype in this video:

JPL scientist Don Yeomans provides the 4-1-1 on 2012.
Mitchell doesn’t expect the hard-core prophets of doom to accept the assurances of NASA … or, for that matter, Cosmic Log. “They don’t trust the media or academia, because we do in fact pose a real threat — not to their physical well-being, but to their storytelling,” he said.
Any potential for panic?
Is there a danger in doomsday stories? Based on his studies of survivalists, Mitchell doubts that 2012 worries will touch off mass panic. He told me that folks who are worried about the collapse of society usually shy away from group activities. “There aren’t any ‘groups,’ though one will pop up every once in a while, just to see and be seen,” he said. “It’s just a myth to suggest that groups exist, other than online mailing lists that nudge electrons back and forth. Largely, it’s individual activity, if there’s any activity at all.”
But Rosanna Guadagno, a social psychologist at the University of Alabama, worries that websites and apocalyptic chatter on the Internet could create a “tipping point” for 2012 hysteria. “I think it’s going to ramp up as we get closer to next December,” she told me.
Guadagno’s research focuses on the effect that computer-mediated communication has on social interaction and influence.
“The one thing that we have going against us is the way that information spreads online,” she told me on Tuesday. “For example, yesterday half the world thought Jon Bon Jovi was dead, just because one person set up a website.”
What if someone decided to go viral with the apocalypse?
“It won’t take that many people to take advantage of the Internet, to basically spread a lot of misinformation and cause panic among greater numbers,” Guadagno said. “Hopefully the general public will be forewarned that this is all bunk.”
That’s what we’re here for. And we’ll be here whenever the bunk hits the fan during 2012. So whatever you do, DON’T PANIC!

http://usahitman.com/2012-watch/