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Debunked.

and usually enough to eat

Debunked.

I guess actual facts, gathered by people who have actually been to Cuba, are too hard to face for communist apologists...

Except that there doesn't seem to be any evidence that India actually asked for this, or made any complaints at all. In addition, one of their competitors uses the same wood:

http://amerpundit.com/2011/08/27/gibson-guitar-competitor-uses-the-same-wood-but-donates-to-democrats/

Sorry, no. The DOJ filed court documents telling Gibson they need to offshore their jobs:

http://www.redstate.com/aglanon/2011/08/31/doj-advises-gibson-guitar-to-export-labor/

One possible reason:

http://amerpundit.com/2011/08/27/gibson-guitar-competitor-uses-the-same-wood-but-donates-to-democrats/

So let me understand correctly. Besides the 9.0 earthquake (which all the plants survived), and the tsunami (which flooded the diesel generators used as pumps to cool the reactors), these 40 year old reactors which had been scheduled for permanent shutdown, but due to environmentalists, not wanting new nuclear reactors, were not already replaced. I do seem to recall that due to earthquake alone, some of the OIL refineries caught fire. They were billiowing CO2 in the resultant fire. I can count on one hand all of the serious radiological accidents in the nuclear industry in the last 50 years. I can't count with a 16 bit computer all of the times the oil industry has had serious accidents in the last 50 years (the Exxon Valdez killed more wildlife than Chernobyl), the BP disaster in the gulf is killing a lot more than 3 mile island. I keep hearing stories about refineries exploding, Neighborhoods blowing up. And constant pollution. Yet one radiological disaster, and everyone goes into ultra-hyper-super-mega panic mode. Run for your lives, run for the hills. The earthquake and tsunami have killed an estimated 10,000 so far. The reactors? None. There might be some, we will have to wait and see. The earthquake killed quick. The tsunami killed quick. Oil kills slowly, and radiation kills slowly (but both can kill quickly, depending on how exposed you are to them). Why do we give car accidents a pass, overeating a pass, the oil industry a pass, drunken drivers a pass (all of which kill millions around the world every year), and yet nuclear power is a pariah? Yes, like anything else, it has to be taken seriously, you can't afford to be sloppy or half assed. But we have chosen long half-life waste in order to build bombs as a sideline (the Chinese are using molten salts with waste half-lives of 12 seconds and 22 minutes... leave it for 3 months, and the most sensative geiger counter can't pick up anything but background radiation... and yet we still maintain the stupid mistakes and bad choices of the past will be carried forward in the future. We insist on poking and pointing at 40 year old technology, not completely taken out when the rest of North Western Japan was, and claiming that 'its bad like that everywhere'. Are people nuts, or is there some kind of 'we luv oil' agenda? Oh, do the 'green' folk know what powers the sun? Has anyone sprung the news on them?

No.

Actually someone went over the data again and found that the temperatures were inacurately recorded and that 4 of the 10 hotest years in the last 100 were in the 1930's, only 2 were in the 1990's.