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India and nuclear tests

No Need Of More Nuclear Tests

Kashmir Watch, Sep 8

By ALI SUKHANVER “.…………..The fact is that India needs no new nuclear tests .From the very beginning; the Indian nuclear program was ambitious and envisaged having a remarkable capability for covering the entire nuclear fuel cycle.  Continue reading →

September 9, 2009 Posted by | 1, India, weapons and war | , , | Leave a comment

Australian uranium royalties scheme damaging for aborigines

Royalties scheme hurts Indigenous: Greens

ABC News By Kirsty Nancarrow

Sep 8, 2009

The Australian Greens have accused the Federal Government of bowing to the uranium mining industry at the expense of the Northern Territory’s Aboriginal people over the issue of mining royalties.

The Senate is debating a bill that would extend the system whereby miners only pay royalties in the Territory if they are making a profit. Continue reading →

September 9, 2009 Posted by | 1, indigenous issues | , , , , | Leave a comment

Nuclear is not “the answer”

Nuclear is not the answerL slowing down in a sped-up world
Science blogs Rebecca Solnit 9 Sept 09
“………….Well, the first problem is that they still think like big science–that there is “the answer.” In fact, there are hundreds of little answers that don’t include nuclear, including scaling back our consumption and travel and building better and using a lot of the elegant new engineering Continue reading →

September 9, 2009 Posted by | 1, 2 WORLD, climate change, ENERGY | , , | Leave a comment

Nukes vs. Humanity

COMMENTARY: Nukes vs. Humanity

Huntington News By Tom H. Hastings Sept. 8, 2009
The decision to develop nukes was entirely secret, arrogating this existential threat to a tiny priesthood in one country—replicated more or less in every nation which has acquired these blasphemous things. This problem is self explanatory and so patently anti-democratic that it is simply necessary to continue to point it out. Nothing conceived in such opacity can be good for democracy. Continue reading →

September 9, 2009 Posted by | 1, secrets,lies and civil liberties, USA | , , , | Leave a comment